i'm sappy like this so like you get a little message before this book even starts.

thank you for giving me one of the best years of my life tbh.

last year was great, but getting to really know you this year has been amazing. we have grown so much as friends, and our bond is stronger than i could have ever imagined. if you told me back in '23 that we face-timed every weekend and had our futures planned together, i wouldn't believe it. two years ago, if you told me that i would find my best friend on a fucking fan-fiction app, i would have looked at you like you were literally batshit.

yes, you are my best friend. i don't like to use the phrase really, or rank my friendships because all of my friends mean the world to me, but you truthfully sit at the top of the list. i hate people who say that online friendships aren't real, because, even though i don't say it as much as you do, you are my best friend. my favorite person. my person. probably one of the best people i know?

you have never made me feel uncomfortable or judged ever. we've never gotten into a real argument over anything because we're just so understanding of each other. you've taken note of the smallest details about me, like how i hate when people use periods. as silly as it is, you care. you know me.

you're the funniest person i've ever met. seriously, you make me laugh every day without fail. you have the sweetest soul, and i know without a doubt you're always there to defend me, sarcastic comment or real insult from anyone. the world does not deserve you, kensie, but you deserve the whole entire freaking world and i wish i could give it to you.

you've been so refreshing to have in my life. you're one of the only friends who i can tell loves me and enjoys me just as much as i enjoy/love them. we both put effort into this friendship. we both needed each other without even knowing it, and i'll never not be thankful for finding you.

i'm so so so so grateful for you and the total joy you have brought to my life, even from over a fucking screen.

in my opinion, god just knew we'd be too powerful together.

thank you thank you thank you for the last two years we've had. it's been so much fun watching our friendship grow into something really fucking special. i never want to stop talking to you, but if something were to happen, i seriously don't even think i could hate you then because you have given me so much light in the last two years. you've given me more than i could ever want from miles and miles away.

so, thank you for letting me yap to you and spam you and be annoying and letting me be apart of your life. thank you for being there. thank you for loving me. thank you for letting me be your platonic soulmate, your best friend, your not-lesbian wife—whatever you wanna call us, thank you.

to be loved is to be changed and you have changed me for the better <3

sorry for making you cry with this, bitch to me later.

never stop talking to me, i love you, i love you, i love you.