Dear

You helped me through

My new-ness

Freshman year

You and your crazy hair

And I helped you date

And break up with

Jesse

Even though I

Liked him too

Ridiculous I know

But I wanted you to like me

Then new years

Hanging out with you

And Nick

Watching reruns of Naruto

Talking to Nick while you slept

Thinking how awesome it was

That we were already cool enough

With each other that

You acted normal

Well normal for you

Around me

Walking around your house

In baggy Pj's

And bed hair

That you always said

Looked like I'd been having sex

Sitting on your kitchen counter

Eating brownie mix out of the bowl

Outruling Nick with movie picking

And drinking so much orange soda

That we would get sick

Sleepovers are different now

We're all older

Nick is cuter

And he makes me feel uncomfortable

Sorry that kind of killed it

But sometimes

When Nick is at a friends

We revert

To the awesome old days

And have so much fun

That I wish that high school

Really wouldn't ever end

Because everything I know

Is centered around this school

This group of friends

I have friends other places

But never any that were as

Amazing as all of you

And you introduced them to me

You were there through everything

You and your

Seven hundred million hair colors

And your crazy clothes

That made me dare

To be different

And to try new things

All those theater trips

Eating sushi

At that tiny little restaraunt

And pining over the guys in my group

You have enhanced my life

Even when we fight

Which is becoming less frequent

Everything always works out in the end

And now

I'm scared

Because you won't be there

You'll be off making

Pastries

And decorating cakes

And I'll be off

Exploring the world

And I'm so scared that

I'll lose touch

Scared that

If I blink for one second

High School will have been

A meaningless waste of time

I'll blink just once

And everything

Summer mix

World War One Project

Hair Dye

Orange soda and cheese chips

Dream discussions

Crazy alien interferance phone calls

Homecoming

Prom

Improv Festival

Sister candles

Scarf lampshades

Harvey

And everything else

Will dissappear in a haze

Of work and future

And new lives

Families

Husbands

New friends

And I don't want that to happen

But even if it does

I want to thank you

For being you

For changing me for the better

And just for being

Please know

That

I

Love

You

And that right now

I'm summer mixing it up