“I’m not asking you to change your lives, I’m just saying I don’t know where I fit, and that’s hard. I don’t want to lose you. I don’t want us to drift away without knowing it until we’re too far to get back,” I say, my voice breaking. “Growing up, I didn’t have the true-friends thing, or the close-family thing, and then you came along and turned into both for me. And I’m sorry, I know it’s so much to take, but I need you all. I don’t want you to forget me if I move to Seattle and I don’t want to miss you the way I have for the past nine months, and I’m scared I’m the only one who feels that
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