I use the word "best friend" for a lot of people, and I mean it every time I say it. I have plenty of best friends that I don't think I could ever live without. But then there is the best friend who is more than that. The best friend who is family. She's the person who without question is at every major family event, goes shopping with your mom without you, and who asks for updates on how your uncle is handling his separation. She is the person who you would never even question if the friendship will make it past high school or not because family can't leave you.
Your bond is something you can't even really explain. Even though you are both complete opposites in so many ways, you're the same person. And even though you moved away to school and you can't see her every day, she is always in your thoughts. She's the friend who you don't have to talk to every day or even every week because you have no insecurities on your status with each other. You both can appreciate that the other has things to do, and you both support one another in everything. She knows that even though you just gained 100 new friends in your sorority, that it will never replace the love you have for her. And you know that even though she spends every day with her other best friends, that you are her family.
This is the friend that wants to befriend all your other friends rather than envy them for spending every day with you. She adds them on Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat. Has their phone numbers and takes selfies with them when she comes to visit. She is not jealous or insecure with you. She always makes you feel supported and loved. She is the friend who you beg to come over because you miss her so much, and then you guys just lay in bed together in silence and take a nap. And you consider that one of the most fun times together, because doing what you'd do alone is just 100 times better with her. She is the friend who doesn't say what you want to hear but is real with you because she loves you too much to lie.
She is the person who will genuinely laugh at every stupid joke you make because you both think you're hilarious. She's the one who you can still talk about eighth-grade insiders with and die laughing even though they are such dead jokes. She is the person who you can be your complete, true self with and never feel an ounce of judgment. The one who you KNOW will be your maid of honor, child's aunt, and number one supporter through anything you do in life.
She is the friend who you literally cannot imagine your life without because you will not allow that thought to ever cross her mind. She is the friend who you might not get to tell enough how much you really love and need her, but when you do, you mean it more than anything.
She is the friend who became my family, the friend I need more than I think she knows, the friend that I am so grateful to have in my life.
