30 Letter Writting Challenge

Someone that's not in your state/country

Dear Courtney,

It has been so, so long since we've seen each other. You had to move away years ago and we all miss you so much. More importantly we remember you sister. People always say when someone moves away you try and try to keep in touch but eventually drift apart. Well, we have drifted. But we still have that chain linking us as sisters. You ARE my sister. More than blood. We have done so many stupid silly things together. Our famous handshake. This handshake was the King AND Queen of all handshakes. It was bad ass my sister!!! I think it literally took us 3-5 minutes every time to complete it. I don't know how we memorized even a forth of it. Come to think of it we never remembered all of it at the same time! You'd remember a part i'd forget and vice versa, or we'd both forget a part. We were ridiculous. We should have left it as a short little "Think Outside The Box" but nope! We kept adding on! Remember the day the handshake was born? We were in my room sitting on the floor watching Hannah Montana so we could make fun of it (so we said but secretly i think we both loved that show, common it was like grade 8 or something :) ) and someone, said "think outside the box" and did some gesture involving both arms and legs and we busted out laughing thinking this was the most freaking hilarious thing we had ever seen ever in our freaking lives, and we started mimicking it making fun of it...the handshake was then born :) it didn't end till the day you went away and every time we talk we still bring it up. It was really ridiculous but we were known for that handshake. I absolutely loved it. I felt proud to do that handshake with you. It brought us to a different level than anyone else. Only you and i had that handshake and it was something only between you and i. No one else could have done that handshake even if they wanted to or if we wanted to bring them in. But no one would have even tried, and we wouldn't have let them in anyways, that was our thing and it always will be. Outside that handshake, you were the only girl at the time that could relate to me. Miss Relationship, i was getting hurt constantly by Shane and everyone else didn't understand because they had either never had a boyfriend before or had like one and never been hurt, but not you. you understood the same pain and you had been there like i had, long relationships and all. You gave me advice and listened to me, not as some story or a drama like everyone else. You listened to me as a friend who needed help. You told me once that i was like a lost girl, unsure and afraid, settling for something small when i deserved the whole world. I  never really got what you were saying, until i broke up with him about 2 years later. I get what you were trying to tell me now. I understand your advice Baby-girl. Thank you for caring and knowing what i needed to hear before i could ever understand it. You were quite literally my saving grace. I love you so much Courtney. I don't know if you know this but you hit me so hard when you told me i was beautiful. I had been told that before but for some reason it rang true when i heard it from you. I felt like if someone as amazing and breathtakingly gorgeous and perfect as you saw me that way than it must really mean something. You were a perfect friend. Still are. You are my sister beautiful girl. I can't wait to see you again some day because i KNOW our paths will cross again. Keep true, stay happy, and ALWAYS, ALWAYS-

THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX!!!!

love always and forever,

Sydney