Gathering of the Figments

Shaye · Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 11:10 am Post subject: Letters

Okay, this is where you can write letters to people you miss, or people you love, people you want to thank, people you're mad at, or people in general.

This is said to be a healing thing to do. Write letters and never send them. And us writers would be great at that.

So... I'll begin.

This is an angry letter to Haylee, my "Friend"

Dear Haylee,

I don't think we're best friends anymore. In all actuality, you suck at being a good friend. You say you 'try really hard' to please everyone, but I doubt you try at all. There's one priority on your mind and it happens to be your boyfriend. I know you say that you try really hard to be a good friend, but sometimes trying isn't good enough. You've never really been a good friend - at least not to me.
Maybe Kimmy or Mary or one of your new friends would be better.
I never even thought that you would do this. I always talked about how people become bad friends when they have boyfriends, and I always assumed you wouldn't do that to me. Well, I was wrong, wasn't I?
Maybe you remember - maybe you don't (It was probably pushed out of your brain by a picture of you and Levi kissing) - but there was this time when we were best friends.
And you still call me that, don't you?
I disagree. You can't be a best friend if you don't even know how to be a friend. But this is just me, you know. Kimmy would never write you a letter like this. Mary wouldn't either. They wouldn't really care enough to write a letter.
And god damn it, Haylee, I'm not going to stand around and be your number two. You call me your best friend, but you never see me anymore. You never call me. We barely ever hang out. Yet, you see Levi every week. You go over to his house at least once a week. You talk to him between classes. You call him every night.
I'm not your best friend, Haylee.
Levi is.
And I don't think you get that. I don't think you understand that you've changed so much this year - and in a bad way. You're conceited. You arrogant. You're egotistical. You are everything I despise about girls.
Get this straight, Haylee. You aren't my best friend anymore. You're somebody else completely.

Sincerely,
Shaye

Your 'best friend.'
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~Shaye

Look. I don't understand half the things I say either.