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To My BFF Leaving for College, I'm Seriously Gonna Miss My Partner in Crime

Next fall, you will be hundreds and hundreds of miles away from me, your family, and everything you’ve ever known. I can imagine the overwhelming mix of excitement and fear you must feel, because I’m feeling it too, in my own way. 

Just like you are scared of leaving everything behind, sometimes I’m afraid of you leaving me behind. 

I will miss being able to see you every day. I’ll miss texting each other before we hang out to make sure the other is putting equal or lesser effort into getting ready as we are. 

I’ll miss making tedious errands a great adventure just by simply having you by my side. I’ll miss sitting in my car for an hour trying to figure out what we want to do before we actually do anything. 

I will miss personally knowing each and every person featured in your stories, and most of all, I will miss being in the most recent stories you tell your new friends.

But not everything will be all doom and gloom, there are things I’m looking forward to with excitement too! 

I’m excited to help you move into your dorm and decorate it. I’m excited to Facetime you whenever and wherever we both can. I’m excited to come visit you in the big city whenever I can scrounge up the money and time. 

I’m excited to interrogate your new guy and ask him what his intentions are when you bring him home for Christmas. I’m excited to hear about your new adventures in a new city with new people, who, let’s face it, will never be on my level. 

No matter what happens in the next year, know that you will always be part of me. 

Even if, for some reason, we grow apart, I know that you will always be my sister and the only person who makes me feel more like myself than when I’m alone. As long as we are both living on this planet, neither of us will ever be alone. 

I love you so much, and that’s why this is gonna hurt like a bitch.