Dear ___,
We met in preschool. We were best friends from the start.
Then fourth grade came along, and you found out you would be home-schooled starting next year.
It was depressing. We did everything together. We even had the same favorite TV show- Meerkat Manor. The odds of finding someone as young as me who watched it? Yet, you were my best friend, and during the conversation at lunch we discovered we both loved that show.
You called me every night at 8, so we could chat while watching the show. We cried when Flower died, and I remember even calling you at 11 at night to tell you I found out there was going to be a fire that could destroy the mob.
Right. So we had fun while we could, but soon enough fourth grade ended as do all things in life. We hugged, and you swore you would call me every day. You promised you'd write to me all the time, and we would always talk every single day, no matter what.
I never heard from you again.
Why? What did I do wrong? I felt- and still do feel- betrayed. Months went by and I still never gave up hope that one day you'd contact me, saying "I'm sorry. I've been so busy. I missed you, Laura. How's life?"
I'm not quite sure if I tried to call you or not- I think I did. But I did want to write you a letter. I thought the whole thing out, writing it in my head as I walked through the store absentmindedly that day.
I never put the words down on paper.
Maybe we weren't destined to be best friends. Sure, we were in all our classes together, every single year, from preschool to fourth grade. Yeah, we were inseparable. We were so similar and had so much chemistry, nobody believed us when we said we weren't sisters.
But things change, right? Who knows. Maybe if you come back to public school- the same high school I'll be going to in two years- like you said you would, we'll hit it off again. Maybe I'll never see you again, and keeping that picture of you that you gave me is stupid. Maybe all the dreams I've had of meeting you again and going back to the way things were; maybe all the thinking I do of you is just idiotic and I should just move on. For all I know, you could be half way across the country.
Wherever- and whoever you are now, I want you to know that no matter how much pain you've put me through by setting me up and lying to me, I want you to know that I still love you. Three years later, 7th grade and I haven't forgotten you yet. You'll always be my friend in my heart, and I'll never forget you. Please come back, Maddie. Please. I miss you.
-arcticwolf