Dear Ex-Best Friend,

I thought you were my Day One. I thought that we would be the friends that would never separate. I loved you like family. You were my sister.

What I didn't realize is that you were against me. I'm sure that at one point you were my ride or die, you were the sister that I never had. But that all changed, I'm not sure when it changed, but it did. Your smile turned in to a frown and your voice became one that was not aimed at me, but aimed behind my back. You would make fun of me for my size and flirt with any boy I came into contact with, as a way to spite me. You made me feel like I wasn't good enough to be me. You made me skip meals to get thinner, in order for you to stop making fun of my stomach.

Toward the end of our friendship I would get people coming up to me every day asking if I had heard the things that you had been saying about me.

At the time, I didn't realize that you were doing those things because you were jealous of me. I have no idea why but you were jealous enough to throw away a friendship with someone who would have gone to the end of the Earth for you, because that's who I am. Maybe you weren't happy that you lacked that type of loyalty, or maybe you felt that you had to be more "popular" than me (which I wasn't popular to begin with). Your reasoning lies with you, and I honestly don't care enough to ask.

This isn't a letter just to tell you about all of the things you did to me, I also want to thank you. Because of you I learned to ignore what people say about me and I learned that it's their problem if they don't like me. I learned to love myself. I also got some of the best friends I could ask for after we stopped talking to each other. They love me and want me to do the best in life, which is more than I can say for you. So thank you.

Sincerely,

Ana Thompson