Sure, your uni friends and work mates are great, but everyone who is still best of pals with their childhood BFF will know that there's a special bond that comes with having known someone for your entire life. Yours is a friendship forged on rubbish school trips to North Wales, vintage Lindsay Lohan movies and knowing that she'll always lend you her ghd straighters...
1. You’ve stuck by each other through questionable fashion choices…
Remember when Avril Lavigne was your shared style icon?
2. And some of the worst atrocities ever committed by a hairdresser…
She supportively told you ‘you don’t look that bald, really’ after a disastrous experiment in layering.
3. All of which make for prime #ThrowbackThursday Instagram material
Not that you’d ever share the really bad ones. The ones in the folder marked ‘Insurance’ on your desktop…
4. You still know her home phone number off by heart…
Even though you can’t remember things that are actually a crucial part of your adult life, like your credit card PIN and National Insurance number.
5. Your friendship rituals are very uncool and a little bit weird, because you made them aged 8…
Not that you’d ever dream of changing them.
6. That means a lot of your get-togethers revolve around re-watching straight-to-video teen classics…
The Princess Diaries and The Parent Trap are basically the holy texts of your friendship.
7. And about 40% of your conversations involve quotes from said films.
You've definitely used a crucial scene from Matilda to illustrate a point to one another.
8. The other 60% involve in-jokes that no one else could ever understand...
Even though neither of you can quite remember how most of them started, because they're as old as time itself.
9. There’s one song or rap that you can perform together, word perfect...
One of you is Blu Cantrell, the other's Sean Paul...
10. And your co-ordinated dance routines are the stuff of dreams...
Because they have quite literally been years in the making.
11. Others came and went, but your BFF was a firm fixture in your Myspace Top Eight…
Although you definitely went through some serious crisis talks when one moved the other down in their ranking…
12. But you’re ever so keen for your best pal to delete their profile...
Mainly to destroy all remaining evidence of your medieval attempts at taking selfies.
13. Fast forward a couple of years and Facebook’s ‘On This Day’ feature is a treasure trove of friendship gems...
Remember when you used to write long, incoherent streams of consciousness on each other’s walls? Yep, everyone could see that.
14. And you're probably still cringily listed as 'sisters' on Facebook's 'family' section.
Because you basically are sisters.
15. You've featured in each other's family photo albums...
And their parents have jokily referred to you as 'their other daughter.'
16. Barely a day goes by where you don't send each other some form of electronic communication...
It all started when you put in all those hours on MSN Messenger.
17. But you'll still send her a postcard when you go on holiday.
Because that's what she used to do when she went away to Lanzarote for half term.
18. You've shared in each other's weird childhood obsessions...
She's the only person in the world who knows just how many times you voted for Gareth Gates in the Pop Idol final...
19. And you love to remind each other of your embarrassing first email addresses.
'Hey everyone, meet my friend HippyCandyDiva89!'
20. You're always slightly worried when you meet their 'new' friends...
'What if she likes them more than me? And what has she told them about me?!'
21. But deep down you know they can't really compete (and they're probably pretty nice too...)
To paraphrase Girls Aloud, you're talking about a whole lot of history.
22. Although you automatically hate anyone that they've ever taken a dislike to.
Loyalty is a beautiful thing.
23. After however many decades, you can basically read her mind.
You will know exactly what she's laughing about in any given scenario...
24. You've both covertly assumed that you'll be each other's bridesmaids, and the godparents to each other's kids...
I mean, who else would she pick?!
25. And you'll probably still be laughing at the same old stories when you've both got an Over 65 bus pass...
Because as your interlocking heart necklaces from Claire's Accessories said, 'friends forever.'
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