ari#0481
recently i've reunited with a really good friend of mine. she's a real life friend, and we met in school when i was in 3rd grade and she was in 1st. i want to admit that sometimes she's lied to me and been mean to me and i didn't even try talking to her about it, and i unfortunately snapped at her and manipulated her sometimes. being the older one of both of us, i should have been more mature, and taught her what is right and what is wrong, but i didn't. i made so many mistakes in our friendship. we both stopped talking for a little over a year, but thankfully, i had the courage to one day message her again after literal years and ask if she wanted to hang out again. this was about a week ago, and today we both went to an arcade together, went out to lunch and hung out at her house for a few hours, and it felt so amazing to relate to her and laugh with her again. she hasn't changed even a bit since, and i know that since it's a two year age gap, she's too young to understand what i have been doing to her in the past and that she doesn't see why i should be forgiven, but i'm so incredibly grateful that she was still so excited to reconcile with me again. i am so extremely happy to have her as a best friend again, and also as a little sister figure (since i've never had a sibling of my own). i love you so much (platonically), j.t. <3