As I sit sipping minty hot chocolate and listening to your sound cloud on full blast, I can't help but smile. I should be doing my homework, but instead I am enthralled by the laughter that is echoing throughout the room. Without you, I would most likely be stressing over all the tasks I have to complete by the end of the day in order to prepare for the upcoming week, but instead I am living in the moment and enjoying your company. We talk about silly things and watch people outside the window walking by. And while there is so much to be done, I do not feel the weight of my workload on my shoulders. As if, all of a sudden, I don't mind doing the two hour latin assignment, because it just means more time studying with my girls.

You help me with my physics when I am stuck on a problem, and in return I edit your english paper. You feed me mac and cheese because even though I never told you I was hungry, you knew it would really make my day. When one of us has to clean her room, we all take on the project, because nothing works better than team work. And really, who are we kidding, you did not make such a mess all by yourself. Your room is my room. We share clothes, paint one another's nails and talk candid pictures of one another when one of us is looking beautiful and happy. You even make me soup when I am sick and become my at-home nurse.

But you girls are so much more than that. You are the ones to reassure me after I get a bad test grade that it is not the end of the world. You boast my confidence when I am super nervous. You make me laugh after I have been crying for hours. And when I just need a good cry, you let me. You give me advice and even yell at me when I am being rude or selfish. Nothing compares to my girls, and without them, I don't know where I would be. Because, while of course my grades and sports performances are vital to my success in the future, they do not teach me to live in the moment and surround myself with people I love.

Dedicated to my bffs & sisters:

Soph, Hills, Ash, Christina, Grace and Stine