"Hey! You're short!"
Everyday, I've never failed to remind you. We all know it, it's obvious. I just thought you needed an extra reminder.
"Hey! You're short!"
Two years, two years of this. I don't remember a time where I wouldn't stop any conversation I was in, grinned at you and-
"Hey! You're short!"
"I know!"
You always responded. You knew, you didn't need the extra reminder, but you didn't mind. You laughed every time.
"Hey! You're short!"
"I know!"
It wasn't always like this. I remember when I didn't even notice you. Very, very vaguely, but I do. I had just entered high school, didn't know you, didn't care. It wasn't always-
"Hey! You're short!"
"I know!"
I was singing a song in the lunch line and you very passionately continued. None of us knows how to sing, but somehow we harmonized. And after that we started talking. I was alone. I was sad. I didn't really have any friends. You didn't mind. You were open. You had room for more friends. So you put me next to you. You're little tail that is half a foot taller than you. I opened up to you, little by little, and you let me know I was doing a good job.
"You're one of the funniest people I know!"
"You make me smile!"
"You're smart!"
Before we had-
"Hey you're short!"
"I know!"
That's how you let me know you cared.
And I let you know I cared by being close to you. I was there for your AP interview, I was there for you after your Calculus tests, I was there for you when Infinity War came out. You gave me reassurance, I gave you reinforcement. And you kept giving and I kept taking and I made myself known to more people. To people that weren't you. I made friends, many of them. I need them like I needed you. They give me what you gave me. What I'll never be able to repay. You gave me the confidence, the reassurance in myself, to find my way around the school, around the people in my year, around myself.
That's why every time I see you I smile, I go-
"Hey! You're short!"
"I know!"
You deserve to see that you've made an impact on me. That you've helped me. That you've helped make me who I am today. That even though I watched Endgame with someone else, you'll still be the person I started this journey with. Even though I won't be there with you in New York, you'll always have a piece of me with you, no matter what. I am there in spirit, take all the reinforcement you need, I owe it to you.
And even though, this is it, I looked at you walking out of the school for the last time, and I blurted-
"Hey, you're short!"
"I know!"
You responded, the moment you did I saw tears leave your eyes and felt some leave mine too. We hugged and I thought, this might be the last time you'll hear me say this, in this way, this isn't the end.
You'll always be the person who showed me who I was and the value I have, and I hope I'll always be the girl waiting outside of Mrs. Daisy's room wondering how you did. Remember-
"Hey! You're short!"
Love,
your favorite sophomore
