This list is for a specific person, but for anyone out there who would like to be my friend/ already is my friend, you must be able to tick atleast one of the following attributes.
1) The way you brushed your hair out of your eyes.
2) You never pretended to find my jokes funny…
3) …Unless you actually thought they were.
4) Your self conciousness.
5) The way you’d comfort me when I was down.
6) Your cooking skills were unparalleled.
7) Your favourite Smiths song is “Frankly Mr Shankly”
8) Your crush on the guy that lived across from us.
9) You weren’t afraid to say it how you saw it.
10) The way you’d avoid a fight like the plague.
11) You never raised your voice to me, not even when I deserved it.
12) That stupid “Eat, Sleep, Rave, Repeat” poster in your bedroom.
13) Your unhealthy obsession with archaeology.
14) New Years 2013.
15) The way our mutual friends would leave me to deal with you.
16) Your eyes when you cried.
17) Your awful gym kit.
18) Your awful post-gym hair.
19) Noticing how skinny your legs really are in those gym shorts.
20) Just everything about you going to the gym.
21) Your disgusting stories about your sexual history.
22) The drama studio story.
23) You got my name wrong when we first met.
24) You would challenge any claim I made.
25) Your charity shop clothes.
26) We could sit and just listen to music for hours.
27) You refused to call me your best friend…
28)… Even though you referred to me as your best friend to other people.
29) You refused to let go of stupid things I did.
30) Our meat related nicknames for each other.
31) Our other nicknames for each other.
32) The get well soon card you got for me.
33) You cried when I told you I was leaving.
34) The way you greeted me when I tried to sneak back in.
35) If I said I wasn’t having dinner, you’d cook for me.
36) If I said I’d already eaten, you’d cook for me.
37) If you didn’t approve of what I was eating, you’d cook for me.
38) Our matching glasses.
39) My matching glasses with your best friend from home.
40) That water fight in the summer.
41) The t-shirt you got me for my birthday.
42) Your 19th birthday.
43) You can drink like a muel.
44) You can eat like a prisoner of war.
45) The way you don’t like to eat in front of people.
46) Your cats, Rogue and Storm.
47) The mystery of your middle name.
48) Your mum is a lesbian. (The mind boggles)
49) My first Indian meal.
50) That morning where we just sat in town people watching.
51) The way you rolled up your jeans with those white socks underneath. Not cool.
52) The shirt you just gave to me.
53) Your music taste.
54) Your crazy friends.
55) You’d call me if you were bored.
56) I wasn’t allowed to call you if I was bored.
57) If I told you I hated you as a joke, you’d get really sad.
58) You never told me things would be okay when you knew they wouldn’t be.
59) Your new hair style.
60) Your poor choices in men.
61) The mystery of your estranged father.
62) Your face when I gave you your birthday present.
63) Your obsession with Star Trek.
64) Singing Meatloaf at 3am.
65) Smoking cigars and listening to The Eagles.
66) “Go Kev!” “Go where??”
67) I still ship Xandy. Whatever happened to him?
68) You quit smoking and never went back.
69) Your 20th birthday.
70) The fingering fiend.
71) Your unhealthy love of The Moomins.
72) Your nipple piercing.
73) The noise you made when you got your nipple pierced.
74) Gray the tattooist.
75) When Jamie nearly caught us.
76) You can’t throw a ball.
77) You can’t catch a ball.
78) You have no hand eye co-ordination whatsoever.
79) Your ability to not vomit on a night out.
80) That you actually thought you beat me at poker.
81) Your questionable ethics when it comes to relationships.
82) Your “girlfriend”.
83) Your Halloween costumes.
84) The fact that you were a dork when you were younger.
85) That picture of you as Harry Potter.
86) That picture of you with jet black hair.
87) That you thought you could hide that you were gay from us.
88) Fan Club.
89) The colour of your ears when it was cold.
90) The colour of your ears when you were embarrassed.
91) We still think Rhys is gay.
92) We were right about Harry being gay.
93) The way you’d hug me when you’d missed me.
94) Your smile.
95) Your skinny little body.
96) The fact that you never asked me to stay.
97) Your so very dry hands.
98) Dez’s birthday party.
99) The way you insisted we weren’t a power couple.
100) The way you minced.
101) You understood and protected me when no one else would.
If you ever read this, you’ll know that while I’m gone now, I never forgot our friendship. Not a day passed where I didn’t dwell on what I’d lost. What I could have done differently.
If you don’t pick up the phone soon, then one day you’ll be reading this.
I could have gone on for 1001 reasons or 1,000,001 reasons.
Just remember it wasn’t me who threw our friendship away.
3 comments
I’m so curious why your friendship ended and if it had something to do with her being gay (or she pretended to be, cause your wrote “girlfriend”) ?
– sorry I’m not helping in any way but its kinda cute
Not a she, a he.
This post hit me in the feels.