The Post That Turned Into A Love Letter

If you don't know what it is like to  transfer to a new school in the middle of a year you are lucky. I did that often and more often than not it was the same every time. Being a kid who moved around a lot you have your first day of school down to a science. Mine was be observant, decide where you wanted to fit in (if you wanted to fit in at all) and who you wanted to fit in with. Until the move that changed my life.

Picture it, a large lunchroom full of well dressed impossibly attractive children, well mostly because let's face it there are mediocre looking people everywhere, from the south's upper middle class. As I walk into the lunch room, in my bargain jeans and no name t-shirt that my mom probably got at K-mart, I take the seat at the table my lunch attendant tells me is where my homeroom sits. I'm sitting silently as a few other students grab seats and start talking with their friends. I'm minding my own business trying to go unnoticed in order to avoid the dull and monotonous first day conversations. "What's your name? Where did you move from?" Jesus, fourteen year olds are so nosey. Before one of them even begins with the interrogation I hear someone a few seats down shout at me, "Hey! You're new. You are going to be my friend. Come sit next to me." At first I respond with a "no I'm good thanks." And this nameless, faceless, genderless person says to me "Alright cool." I continue not eating the lunch my mom didn't pack for me and stare around at all the people. Not a single one of the kids in my old school wore sixty dollar jeans or looked like they could be in a commercial. These kids kind of did, and I was freaking out about it. I get snapped out of my reverie by the same voice shouting at me "you know I really think you should come sit next to me". I rolled my eyeballs to the ceiling which was customary of me at the time being a sassy independent woman and all, slowly got up from my seat and trudged over to this mystery person. Enter Dawn. Probably the best and most life changing decision of my life was to get up and move about four seats to my right and sit next to the girl in the USC hoodie.

Ever since we have been very best friends. In fact if I were a boy I would flat out marry her and we would make each other equally miserable and blissfully happy. I mean she is a very attractive lady, naturally light brown hair with huge blue eyes and awesome freckles. I should say that her current hair color is a light auburn which I feel suits her nicely as well. She is on the short side and will Gibbs smack you (for those NCIS fans out there) if you mention it. She is a May baby, but she should probably have been born in the fall or winter  because she is as cool and collected as they come. She is simply put the coolest person I have ever met in the entirety of my short lived life; I seriously doubt that is going to change. Her interest in cool music, movies, video games, books, all the things I was secretly interested in but too worried about showing the outside world was what really drew me to her. How much she enjoyed the things she liked and did not give a damn what anyone else thought. I have very specific memories during those first few years of our friendship; the two of us hanging out listening to techno, editing our myspace pages, using html code because we were superior to the peons that downloaded their layouts, and constantly thinking that she was going to realize what a total dud I was. I just knew she would find someone more on her level to hang out with. She didn't. Not like people didn't try really hard to replace me as her bestie, in fact they still do.

Now she is a sound design major at a prestigious art college. Doing incredible things and learning all about sound and stuff. Ok, honestly I am not entirely sure what it is she does there. There are knobs and levels and stuff but I'm really not supposed to touch any of it. She scolds me if I try. However, I do know that she is dedicated to learning everything there is to know about sound design. That is one aspect of Dawn that I also really admire. Once she hones in on something and decides she wants to invite it into her realm of knowledge there isn't an aspect of that subject that escapes. Working on movies and short animations are just a few of the types of projects I know she works on. In fact she recently went to California for some really fancy cool sound awards. She was dressed all fancy and looked awesome, like Jennifer Lawrence, in the pictures I liked on facebook. I'm stoked to see what her career ends up becoming because that girl is going to do great things. I know, I'm her best friend, and I am so proud of her for all she has already accomplished.

This was supposed to be a short biography about my best friend, but it has turned into a strangely awesome love letter. I am not ashamed. My ode to you Dawn, may you forever grace my life with your presence, because frankly I would not survive without you.