Hi. It’s been a while. Well it’s been about a day but it feels far longer. We studied together the other day, it was completely unproductive and on a certain level I appreciate that. We spend so much time together that I wonder what we will do if we end up moving to different states. It’s funny how we lived so long without each other, and now I doubt how we could ever function without each other. School is going to end soon and I don’t know what’s going to happen after we graduate. Careers have a way of sending people in different directions and while I have no doubts to your competency and ambition, I’m nervous that when we start a new chapter this one will be closed permanently. I suppose there’s nothing wrong with that, people constantly change and grow, sacrificing who they are now for who they will be and while I hope we will still be in each other’s lives sometimes fate has other plans. Just in case we aren’t, there are a few things that I should say before I miss my chance.

I will never cease to make fun of the way you seem to trip over thin air and can’t throw or catch anything to save your life. But I love how you’re always willing to try.

I will stop calling you out on your bad jokes, but I love how you make them anyway.

Puns are always funny and I wish you understood that, but I love how you roll your eyes at me.

I will never understand how you can bear to be so extroverted and friendly, but I love how you always make sure I’m comfortable.

Do you remember that time we were stranded a few hours from home and we were scared our parents would find out and of the punishment that would follow? Or the time we both thought it would be the greatest thing ever to steal volunteer badges at the fair and go around helping out where we could? Or when we tried to play badminton together and the other team got frustrated with us but we laughed until we cried?

Do you remember the argument about whether or not our school had a roundabout? It was so petty but we both got upset but refused to back down. And sometimes when you’re late to pick me up, do you remember how I get sulky and belligerent and you get defensive? Or when I need space and you need social interaction and we walk away bitter from each other?

Because I remember it all and I don’t regret a thing. Thank you for all the time we spent together, I wouldn’t change a thing. Not with you. Never with you.

Love Always,

Evelyn