I never want to forget the night we first met. I first saw you while dancing to the Just Dance game they had on, I noticed you standing with another girl off to the side. After that my memory skips to when we first talked to each other after you held the door for me. At the time I was just looking for new friends, and decided to introduce myself. I still remember not wanting to go to get pancakes, but once I heard you were going I decided to go, and I cherish the memory of you offering your half eaten pancake to me. We quickly became friends the next night on our walk across campus, and then very quickly became more than friends over the next two weeks.

Things went too fast for both of us that first month, and I didn't have much experience with communicating, so many days were stressful and confusing for me. We had our ups and downs, but every relationship does. You weren't perfect, but neither was I, and yet every single moment with you was bliss. I eventually figured out I loved you just as you loved me, and I was excited to see how things would go. Whether it was watching movies with you, or laying next to each other in bed just talking about life, there was never a single moment that I wish I hadn't experienced with you. I tried my best to be the best for you, and I know you did the same. I know we weren't 100% compatible, and we had some differing opinions on things, but that still didn't diminish you in any way in my eyes.

Now that things are over, I can't say that I love you as a partner anymore, but I can say that I hope to love you as a friend, and I hope that we can work through this just how we worked through previous problems in our relationship so that we both still have our best friend in the end. You told me you still loved me, and that maybe after some time we could try again, and I just want you to know that in order to move on I try so hard to pretend you never said those things, that what happened was permanent, so that I can move onto us being friends and nothing more. Maybe in time we will try again; maybe we met too soon, maybe we didn't.

While my emotions are still all mixed up, I just hope you know that you're a good person, and that you deserve good things. You've told me several times I was the best boyfriend you've ever had and that I helped you so much, and I won't tell you now as it's too soon, but some day I'll tell you to never accept anyone who doesn't recognize your worth.

I consider you to be my first real relationship, and you taught me so much about myself and how I could be a better person. I'm glad that things turned out the way they did, even if it is now over. I wouldn't trade my time with you for anything in the world.

We were best friends and I hope we continue to be best friends, no matter what happens next. Even if we split permanently, you deserve to be happy and I know I will always hope that you are.

To my best friend