Dear Best Friend,
In the last year, you've become everything to me.
No matter what happens,
I know you will be there.
If I fall, and we both know I fall often, you're there.
You laugh with me and pick me back up.
If I cry, you tease me to make me laugh and make sure I'm okay.
If someone is a ****, you make them stop, you protect me.
Even though we both know I could make them stop, or at least I think so.
If I need a hug I know you will hold me until everything is alright.
I know I'm not the easiest person to be friends with, believe me, I know.
I know sometimes you may want to run away screaming from me, but if you stay,
I will be your best friend,
and I will work to be the best, best friend ever.
How you stay? I can't say.
But you do, and I love you for that.
You're the best person I know, my favorite person.
I can't be more thankful to call you my friend, my best friend.
You understand me, so utterly, so completely.
From the odd music to the crazy books, to the weird people aversion.
No matter what insane things I dream up in my mind, my unique, crazy mind,
you listen to it and try to understand it.
You deal with my dancing,
my poke in the face that I call a greeting,
you deal with my awful jokes, my clumsiness, my poetry, my art,
my over-emotional self, my under emotional self.
You accept my quiet, but also my loud.
You read my books, you try my music,
you understand my clothing choices.
BLACK GOES WITH EVERYTHING!
You go on the craziest adventures.
You get into trouble with me, and for me so that I won't be alone.
You're always there when I need you.
We laugh over the people at school, the awful principal that HATES us both,
and share so many memories.
Great and terrible,  the good and the ugly, the large and the small.
Even though I annoy you, and don't deny it I know I do,
you always have a smile for my antics.
You find the best in me.
I am a better person, and partly because of you,
the rest is definitely my own doing.
I know you'll laugh at that.
You encourage me to keep going,
even when I want to accept defeat,
you aren't afraid to pull me up,
to push me back into the fight,
to keep me alive.
When I want to let myself succumb to the voices in my head,
to the darkness pressing in,
you stop it.
You make me laugh and smile.
No matter how scared of the world I am,
no matter how afraid I am to explore,
no matter how worried I am of what may happen,
no matter how anxious I am to grow up and to stay young at the same time,
no matter how terrified I am to lose you;
I know you'll be with me,
for years to come,
for everything to come.
I know there will be fights,
but I know we will laugh in the end.
I know there will be tears, mostly from me,
but I'll dry yours and I know you'll do the same for me.
I want you to be there for me like I want to be there for you;
for the good, the bad, and the ugly.
I want to be there.
To make new memories and to laugh at old ones.
Do you remember couples counseling?
Yeah, that crazy adventure.
What about the overnight?
insert vine reference here
insert tired, slightly crazy laughter from me
insert rolling of eyes while playing solitaire at IHOP at 2 am
We laugh and smile, cry and frown, and just be us.
The unstoppable us.
I feel like I could rule the entire universe,
all of the galaxies, stars, and planets,
with one hand,
as long as you were there to hold the other.
I feel like I could walk the whole earth,
as long as you walked with me.
I feel like I could soar to the highest heights,
travel to the deepest depths,
explore the farthest ends of the universe,
as long as you came with me.
With you, I am unstoppable.
With you, I am whole.
I am myself.
I am wholly, and completely, Elle, your best friend.
Words cannot describe everything you are,
everything you've done for me,
or anything you will be to me.
I've always found it cheesy when people say
"you complete me"
or something stupid like that.
Are you not fully yourself or anything without them?
Were you nothing before you had them?
The truth is, I don't know,
but I believe I'm starting to figure it out.
I am my own person,
but I don't know what I'd do without you,
and I know I cannot lose you.
I may not know what the future may hold,
but I do know I need my best friend there,
for every step I take.
So for now,
we can be us,
and stay us,
and I can deal with that.
I will stay your best friend, as long as you stay mine.
I am completely myself,
and you are completely you,
and we are completely and irrevocably us,
and I'm good with that.
It's all "Hip and cool" right?
Your best friend,
Elle