I’m going to start this all of with sorry for being cheesy, and sorry for making you cry.

It all started in the month of May. We never really liked each other when we first met, but now people tend to question if we are secretly in a relationship. I have trusted you with everything. You are the person I tell all of my stuff to. I’m now with you pretty much all day every day and somehow that is completely okay with both of us. We have grown to be our own people but the same person at the same time.

Thank you for letting me spend all summer with you. I couldn’t thank you or your family enough for being so welcoming and taking me in. You were truly what I needed to find before I went to school. Not going to lie, when I first thought about moving in with you for the whole summer I wasn’t to sure about it, then I almost didn’t want to, but I’m glad I did.

Living with you all summer made me realize what college is going to be like having a roommate, but I never thought my first roommate would end up being my best friend. From memories that started our summer at your 21st birthday party, to every Sunday night, you were the best part of my summer. You turned into my partner in crime. You helped me get through so much and you taught me so much about myself. I couldn’t thank you enough for being you. You became my first true friend at my home away from home. I know you always have my back and you know I’ll always have yours.

Becoming your friend was great, but getting another best friend was greater. I found my new shoulder to lean on, and my new cheerleader to root me on with whatever I do. I found the person who believes in me when I can barely believe in myself. You have never let me down. Neither one of us are the best at giving advice, or the best at being “the shoulder to cry on,” but you do pick me up everytime I am down (sometimes that is literal). Thank you for a summer full of laughter, tears, pokemon hunting, nights out, days on the lake, and memories that probably shouldn’t be mentioned here.

I didn’t know what to do for a month when you were gone from school for certain circumstances, but I do know we texted each other everyday, and facetimed when we could, so on my bad days that got me through. As Henry David Thoreau once said, “Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have a friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and the longitudes” and that could have never been more true than that month or so that you were gone. That was the longest month ever, but when you came back it started off as if nothing had happened and you had never left.

I’m not going to sit here and make it seem like our relationship is perfect, but being your best friend is worth the fight. No matter how mad we get at each other we always fall right back into place. We have already been through alot in just the short amount of time that we’ve became best friends, yet we are still right be the other’s side. People tend to say “fight for what you want” and I believe that’s why even after the bad times we are still here, our friendship is worth the fight.

Thank you for being there for me no matter what. I really don’t know what I’d do without you. When I think about how you graduate next year I can’t help but wonder what I’m going to do every day without you here. I never imagined we would have became so close to each other. You are honestly the “unexpected friend” you are the “friend that came out of nowhere” and I couldn’t thank you enough for that. So, to my summertime roommate and lifetime best friend, I love you. Thank you for being my sister, and my home away from home.