Love and Other Ways to Have Your Heart Broken (and healed)

2. Next Door Neighbor

For years, you spent every day after school playing with them.

Slowly, you both grew up, your schedules got busier, and daily play dates became weekly, then monthly, then almost never.

Talking everyday for hours turned into the occasional text asking about homework or signing to them from your bedroom window, making silly faces at each other while they were    trying to do homework and everyone else had gone to sleep.

Every time you saw them, you got a nostalgia from those days when you used to be close with them, closer than anyone in your whole family. You remember the days the two of you would go exploring every inch of the neighborhood, from end to end. You remember all the summer you spent, sunburnt from head to toe from being at the pool all day, but content when that night you got to roast s'mores with them by their outdoor firepit.

Every Fourth of July your families took a week long trip together to your house by the lake. You two used to be able to share a room, but now they don't even come anymore due to their summer programs and jobs. When you both left for college, you saw them maybe once during breaks. They stayed at school to finish early while you cherished time with your family at home.

Years later, they will come into your life again, and all those memories will come flooding back. Maybe you two will buy houses next to each other and continue the tradition of taking your kids on a summer vacation to the lake house. Maybe you two will share a house and kids. There's always been that thought in the back of your mind that there was something more than just a friendship between you and them.

But for now, you just enjoy the moments you do get to spend with them, because what the future holds... is endless.