Lyddia walked up the Owlery steps into the room filled with owl droppings and the owls themselves. She sat down in a corner and took out a piece of parchment and a quill. Then she began to write,
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Cody,
Listen, I know you probably don't want to hear from me right now, but I really don't care at the moment. The way I see it, you're still my best friend no matter what happened, and I'm going to talk to you like nothing did.
This boarding school is actually pretty nice. There's loads of people, not what I'm used to, as you very well know, but it's really nice.
I've met a few people, one of them more intriguing then others and I happen to have come by Carmela. It really was a shock when I saw her. I knew she would be going to a boarding school as well, I just didn't think it'd be mine.
Carmela's fine too by the way, in case you haven't spoken to her. Although, you probably have, it's not like anything happened between the two of you, why would you stop talking to her like you did with me?
I got a ferret. Name's Terref at the moment. I change it all the time because that's just how I am. It's actually a boy, but sometimes I say it's a girl. Also because I feel like it.
Admittedly I'm not really on top of my homework. But I mean come on, before, I had all the time I wanted to finish it considering Dad was barely ever home. He never really had deadlines for me. Ha, I remember that time I went over a month without doing anything and when Dad finally settled for my next lesson, he had completely forgotten about the homework he gave me.
If you've read this far without ripping up the letter, which I assume you would have done the second my Dad walked away after handing it over to you, then I really would like to apologize.
I never meant to throw away our friendship the way I did, especially considering what you had said only a couple days before. Do you remember that? The day we were all at the park playing in the sprinklers? Do you remember what you said to me? About what that boy had said to you about us? I guess, I should have taken that as a sign to back off, but I didn't and I probably won't ever be able to explain why.
I want you to know, though, that it was recent that I began to think about you that way. It's not like our whole friendship was me pining over you and you thinking of me as just a sister or best friend. I don't know exactly when it started, but I do know that it was that summer. I don't know what happened. Things just...changed.
I don't expect a letter back. I don't even expect you to read this. I just wanted to know that if our friendship really is lost, that I did try to get it back. And although you might never begin to think of me that way I also want you to know that I will never stop being there for you, and that I will never stop loving you as my brother, because you've always been that way to me.
So yeah, that was all I wanted to say.
Best of luck,
Lyddia
Lyddia finished her letter and rose to tie it onto a school owl's leg. When this was done, she carried the owl over to the window and let it fly away before she could regret her actions. She didn't stay to watch it carry her letter away, but instead headed to the exit as soon as the owl left her arm and returned to her dorm.