Dear guy best friends,

Let me start by apologizing for getting on your nerves with my antics. For that one time when I had a pen and I was bored and your first mistake was making me sit in the back seat. Or for demanding control of the radio even though I annoyingly change the station constantly. Thank you for putting up with me. I’m not sure there're many people who do. There actually aren’t that many people who even get to meet that side of me who feels perfectly safe and content to be herself. You two are probably the only people in the world who have dealt with every aspect of me in unflattering fluorescent light, where absolutely no shadows can hide.

I can’t imagine my life without the two of you in it. I’m not even sure how I survived up until I met you. Who did I vent to? Who cheered me up when I was weighed down by negativity? Was there even anyone who cared enough to ask if I was alright, and mean it? I don’t think anyone fully knew how to accept me, and granted I wasn’t willing to open up enough to let them. How different would my life have been without you guys? I remember the day I met you both so vividly. I thank God all the time for the teacher that pushed me to take that chance back then.

Because now I have you both. I don’t tell you guys enough but I love the two of you to Naboo and back. I’d march across Middle Earth to support you and I’d kill hundreds of giant spiders to protect you (that’s an exaggeration, I’d probably trip the both of you and run). I love that we can jam out to Fall Out Boy or the soundtrack from Shrek the Musical because we are that eccentric. I can be myself around you guys without judgement or fear or concern about what you think of me. You two accept the fact that I wholeheartedly love DC more than Marvel and at the same time you tolerate my fangirling over One Direction. You two will hold my hand when I cry, but will also punch me back when we play that slug bug game, without hesitation.

I know we get on each other’s nerves. Honestly, there are times where you push my buttons so incessantly that I literally don’t understand why we are friends in the first place… But then we spend three weeks apart and I fully comprehend that our friendship is something that is forever. You better believe I call dibs on a speech at both of your wedding receptions. I wonder if everyone is so lucky to have friends like you two (but at the same time they can’t have you, they can go out and find their own). You guys will probably never understand how thankful I am to have you in my life. You might not even understand how much of a difference you made for me. You know that saying, where God closes a door he opens a window? Well, you two were my window.

Sincerely,

Yarbette