excellent eight

everyone always talks about how you never stay friends with but one or two of your high school friends. my parents always talk about how they run into people from high school that they haven't seen in years at the grocery store. friendships are supposed to fade i guess. but then, why is my tight group of 8 friends from high school closer than ever? i just can't believe that we won't stay friends. there's no way i'll only be in touch with one or two of them in ten years. no way. i hope that ten years from now i can read this and that will still be true.
but it's true with every tight group of high school friends like ours that i see. they all stay close through their freshmen and sophomore years or so, then their college friends become their main friends. i just don't want that to happen to us, guys. i love you all way too much. and i know you all read this now cause alex spilled the beans. douche. LAWLZ.

click here before you read any further and play this song while you read, friends.

but fareallydoe,
i don't want to grow apart from you guys. y'all are the type of friends that i can just sit and talk with for hours. i love that. we don't have to do anything special. if you think about it, our special thing IS doing nothing. more like our specialty. i just want y'all to know how much you mean to me. i know this is sentimental and stuff, so please don't remember me that way. you know me. i'm not touchy-feely or sentimental or any of that crap. i wanted to write this because i want us to look back at it after we graduate and LOL FOREVER while watching jenna marbles videos and eating hokie smokies. when we do that, i'll write a whole new post on all our new inside jokes (you know the LOL****** word that i would write here. but i think it might offend people.).

Becks: thanks for letting us come over all the time. and for being co-best-section-leader-ever with me. couldn't have done it with out ya. oh, and thanks for my obsession with El Ro. WHAT THE CRAP is El Rods anyways? even if we do grow apart, i could never forget you. my little hoe. Rebecca Jo Ann Taylor Loft Susan Betty Kissin' Kate Barlow Winefielb, Sb.H. i'll never forget how much we laughed in band class, or on the field, or at your house. or really just how much we laughed AT YOU. sometimes when i'm at school with all these new people, i'd do anything to come have a bonfire at your house. even though you make retarded s'mores. dark chocolate and cinnamon? really? but seriously though, it makes me so happy to see all you're doing at BCM at tech. check this. read the last paragraph. i feel this way about you too. you can change the world. it makes me proud to call you my sister in Christ, even if you are a little SBH and you like Evanescence. you da best.

Aleeeeeeeeezzzzzzz: you were the best prom date ever. i tell everyone that i was so lucky to get to go with my best friend. i think this picture pretty well describes us and that night. sometimes you put yourself down and i just wanna shake you and say "you're my best friend! so you can't be a bad person!" i love that you gave Young Life a try for me senior year. i love that you are open with me. my first memory of you was in elementary school when i seriously didn't believe that you were a twin. but now i love that i know you well enough that you call me your best friend. you best wear that COCKS shirt with pride and tell people your best friend goes to USC. i'll do the same reppin' the Duke dog. you and i better still be friends in ten years. if we aren't, at least it won't be because we had a falling out. you and i are like peas and carrots. i like that we can be jerks to each other for fun but at the end of the day we're still friends. but who am i kidding? we definitely will be friends for a long time. all those great times in honaker's class and in the closet and band camp and prom didn't happen just so the good times could become distant memories. who knows? if everyone's predictions are right, we definitely won't grow apart because we'll be married! JKLOL. love ya broski, always will.

Kimmy Kat: remember that time i made you cry? i do. is it bad that i still take pride in that? yeah probs. we've been friends for so long, if ya think about it. remember 7th grade? we were in the same group of friends, but it's funny now cause we still are in the same group of friends, just a totally different group. actually if you think about it, all through the years you and i have been the same groups of friends, even though the group changed multiple times. good thing you were a flute freshman year and i was friends with the drill team or i couldn't say that. what can i say? you're great. i think its funny that you and i are the only 2 that have ever actually seriously fought. well, if middle school fights count as serious. probz not.


Emily (you need a nickname....): i'm pretty sure there are pics of us from dance and swim team when we were like 5 years old. i've definitely known you the longest. remember that fall weekend where we dyed our hair? and when you used to drive us all to club sophomore year and you had your learners? i seriously think i saw my life flash before my eyes once or twice. i always thought it was cool that you were a cheerleader and you were friends with us band geeks. in movies that would never happen. but we are the best obvi so you wanna be our friend. oh my gosh, please remember swimming in 6th grade. with ty and scott? weeeeird. anyways, i love you girlllll, keep being awesome at tech.

Manderz: how were we not friends before this year? seriously. you make me LOL more than anyone. KITTIES! ahhh i love it. i wish i had as many memories with you as i do these clowns. but i'm looking forward to having lots more good times with you, so i know that'll happen!

Zabby: same as mandy, how were we not friends until this year?! gahh that's the one thing i hate about our group - we didn't start hanging out til senior year! three wasted years that we all could've been friends. i hate that. but we'll hang out lots more i'm sure, on breaks and such, so like i said about mandy, we'll have lots of memories soon!

Mel: it kills me that we're rivals. GO COCKS! i think i've known you just as long as emily. it's so cool that we've known each other forever and now we go to rival schools two states away. carolina girls....best in the world, as they say. sometimes i'd give anything to have another one of those great nights at home football games where you're telling those crazy made up stories and doing you're psycho killer face. i could laugh for days. and your birthdays at Mac & Bobs, i won't forget that. it's funny that i'm going there tomorrow! i swear, you and alex and mandy made me wish i was a clarinet, band geeks fo lyfe (not really). and all those great days we spent lounging in the sun at Forest Hills, and dying in the heat at band camp. it was sophomore year when we roomed together right? yeah i loved that, but i'll never miss band camp.


so guys, here's to another year (and many more) of being friends. i wish we had been friends for all of high school, but i'm so glad for the year we did have together. and i look forward to more. i say we just convene at becky's house every time we're home until we're as old as her! is it 83 now?

love,
caroline

P.S. i'm never this mushy. it kind of makes me feel weird to be this mushy. so this is a one time thing, enjoy it. and don't think i'm weird. i just miss y'all sometimes is all. okay enough of the mush.