Dyeing our hair green, making togas the night before the date party, ordering $50 worth of Chinese food in a week, getting lost at the Refuge, learning all of Dear Evan Hansen, playing Ed Sheeran on repeat, frozen yogurt days, planning our summer to live together two years from now, sending eight text messages to you at once, having matching t-shirts, crying, screaming and mutually hating stupid boys, concerts, sharing an appreciation of the art of being extra, sharing a love of musical theatre and music, sharing a love of sushi, sharing a love of Red Samurai (deserves it's own shoutout), to encouraging each other to do really really dumb things that we shouldn't do at times, pushing me to be more like myself, helping each other forgive people so that we can move on, going to mass together, and, ultimately, becoming best friends.

I didn’t realize I needed someone like you until you literally moved into my life/across my hall. I have no idea what I did in another life to become so blessed with a best friend like you. I have never had someone understand me like you do. I have never been able to tell someone everything…..absolutely everything. I will never take a moment we spend together for granted, because without you, I don’t know who I would be because freshman year is rough. Luckily, I had someone beside me making sure I didn’t go insane.

You understand me in a way that I don’t understand myself. When I am angry or upset you are the first person I go running to and its not just because you live across the hall from me. It’s because no matter how petty or crazy I sound you are right there backing me up. You don’t even have to reply every time because I know sometimes you don’t have the words. Just know that your presence and your faith makes me feel okay.

You make me mad, you leave all of your stuff in my room (and you make roomie mad too with this one) and sometimes you take forever to answer my texts. You also make me mad when you don’t see your worth. I have never met anyone who deserves more love and kindness than you do. You show it to everyone around you. If I could take away all of the things that hurt you, I would. A person as wonderful as you deserves know pain.

You are my family away from home, we don’t have to be right next to each other for me not to feel alone. I can be with my entire family and be upset, all I have to do is text you and I'll be okay. Both of our families have welcomed the other with open arms. I claim yours and you claim mine. I love it. I don’t have to ever feel out of place because I can call you, my best friend, and immediately be rolling in laughter.

You are the best friend I have ever had. The laughter, the love, and the tears shared between us are memories that I will never forget. You challenge me to view the world differently and you challenge me to want to be a better me every day when I wake up. You challenge me to grow in my faith because whether you realize it or not there’s a sparkle of God that I see every time we are together. It’s a God thing that we didn’t live together. It’s a God thing that you live right across the hall from me. It’s a God thing that I had to wait eighteen years for someone like you to come into my life. It’s a God thing that someone like you and someone like me are as beautifully close as we are.

If we ever are apart I just want you to know I have never had someone change me for the better like you have. I have never had someone made me feel like I could do anything I wanted (other than my parents). I have never had a friend that I truly think was meant to be a family member in another life. If we are ever apart I want you to know that I will never find someone like you. Eighteen years without you I was lost, and now with having you in my life for less than a year, I don’t plan on losing you anytime soon or ever. We know one day we will be apart, but no matter the distance or the new people in both of our lives I can proudly say that you will always be my other half.