Call Me Babe

Chapter 1

Dear Abi,

I’m sure you’ve found some shiny new friends in the big city since you left town this summer, but I hope you’ll find room to keep around your small town friends too. I suppose this place is the same as it ever was. The boys are still annoying as hell, the popular girls are still too cool for people like us...and I still walk by your house every day, wishing you were still on the other side of the door. 

Tomorrow is the first day of our senior year of high school. Remember how we’d always walk through the door together on the first day? I can’t believe I’ll be doing it alone this year. What if I don’t make any other friends? I hope I don’t have to sit by myself every day for lunch.

With any luck, your new school will be less lame than this boring one has always been. I know Choir will be insufferable without you to make jokes with. And I’m sure you’ll get worse English grades without my papers to cheat off of. Speaking of English, I know this won’t be a surprise, but I made it into Honors English this year! Hopefully, they’ll assign us some books I haven’t already read, and it will be less annoying to sit through.

I know I’m supposed to be excited for you. We’ve spent our whole lives dreaming of getting away from here and doing something big, and you’re finally doing it. I know your dad’s new job was important, but being here without you still feels wrong. Don’t worry, I’m already working on convincing my mom to let me apply to all the colleges within a half hour of you, so I’ll be there as soon as I can. I miss you more than anything. My whole life feels upside down without my sidekick nearby. 

Love, Taylor