People say that high school is the best years of our lives; this is false.

I barely talk to anyone I graduated high school with. That’s not because I didn’t get along with any of them, or that I didn’t enjoy the time I spent in school with them, I have just found my forever friends.

The friends that will come pick you up at 2 o’clock in the morning and drive around because you can’t sleep.

The people that you can always count on to help you with homework when they’ve taken the same classes.

The same people that will cuddle with you and watch scary movies even though they hate them.

The guys and girls that will stay in with you on a Friday night because you’ve had a shitty week, the same people that will force you to go out the next time to help you bounce back.

These are the people that care about you enough to tell you when you’re being an idiot instead of tiptoeing around your feelings.

These are the people you call when you need a shoulder to try on or someone to force a smile out of you.

These are not friends of convenience like the people you had class with every single day; these are the people that you miss after not seeing them since your 9:30 class.

The people willing to share their closet with you when you have 20 minutes to get ready and “nothing” to wear.

The same people that you will argue with over whose turn it is to clean the bathroom or who locked whom out on accident.

The people whose room you can burst into at any point of the day (whether they’re sleeping or naked) and tell them all about how you just ran into your ex walking to class.

These are the people you’ll share your best years with, the years in which you grow the most. Whether it’s as a person in general or in your pants size, these are the people you’ll share your best and worst days with.

Combine all of the late nights you stayed up talking about everything that happened that day with the late nights at the bars struggling to catch a cab home; these are the years you’re going to miss the most. Cherish the moments you share with your friends from college, once you become real adults and have to move away from each other, you’re going to ache to be able to run across the quad to see them.