I wrote this 2 years ago and posted it on a website that disappeared shortly after I posted. I thought it was lost but I recently found it again.
I have never done anything like this before, but the idea came out of nowhere and I wanted to share it.
Miranda has been my best friend for as long as anybody can remember, through grade school, high school and even college. Even though we went to different colleges in different states, we kept in touch and spent holidays and summers together. I dated a little in college but nothing ever worked out, I just didn’t find that connection with anybody. I assumed she did too but she never said anything about it and I never asked. When we graduated we both found jobs in town even though we weren’t doing what we studied for. After a few years we realized that we were unhappy in our careers and that we were holding each other back, so we decided we needed to go our separate ways and look for jobs elsewhere. She found a new position at the company she was already working for, but it was halfway across the country. She only had a week until she needed to be there. They were going to put her up in a company apartment so she didn’t need to find a place to live before she arrived. Since we were both still living with our parents, she didn’t have much to pack but her clothes.