Congratulations on turning 22, my love! Here are a couple (or a lot) of words from the three of us, because we love you so very much:
happy twenty-second birthday to my beautiful best friend, gem!! my darling little sissy boo, i hope that you have such an incredible day. i love you & adore you so much. so i hope you get to spend your day in whatever way you’d like! whether that’s spending time with your family, going out and partying, or relaxing and watching movies/tv shows. whatever you do, i hope that you enjoy it & remember that you’re loved very much by me and loads of other people. ((warning - knowing me, this will get incredibly soppy. but ily.))ever since that night where you, emily & i stayed up all night, you’ve remained one of my best friends. i’m so thankful for that night because i was literally laughing so hard i cried. so many nicknames & inside jokes were made that night and it makes me smile even thinking about it. and to think that it was almost a year ago. a year!! how insane is that? it feels crazy that i’ve known you that long, but it’s been such a rad year. i’m so glad that our writing has brought us together, as well as our characters who always seem to have amazing chemistry without us even trying. talking to you everyday through that has been so great & filled with sobbing and all caps and screaming and flailing. thank you for putting up with my constant smashing of the keys & overall moments where i am a complete dork. you are such an incredible writer, and just being able to read your writing is amazing. i hope that you have fun while you write, because that is the point of it all. and if you have fun doing it, that you are able to accomplish amazing things with it! speaking of things that your talented at, one of my goals is for you to do my makeup. it’s going to happen. either you’re going to the states or i’m going to scotland, but i would love for you to work some of your magic. i love seeing the pictures you post & hearing you talk about it, because i really think that you’re so talented with it. i hope that this year, while you’re 22!, that you have so many opportunities to show that talent and grow as a makeup artist! besides being talented in so many areas, you’re such an amazing person. seriously. you, my lovely gem, are an incredible human being. you’re so strong and inspiring and loving and caring and sassy and hilarious and friendly. i could talk about all of the ways that you inspire me and make me laugh and everything else in between, & this letter would get too long. your friendship means so, so much to me, though. i’m extremely thankful and grateful for you and i want you to always know that!! you’re always there for me and i am most definitely always there for you. you’re 1/3 of my scottish castle babes, and one day we’ll be able to have our own little castle. that’s the dream, isn’t it? i’m so happy that the four of us have become friends this past year because i adore all of you. but just know that you’ve got this little support system behind you in whatever you do, okay? now that you’re twenty-two, i feel like we should be skyping more often. those two things might not really go together, but i just want to see your beautiful face & hear your lovely voice again! i seriously laugh out loud whenever i think of when we skyped. the accent confusion between everyone was golden. plus, we can’t forget my favorite word that has even been spoken in a scottish accent. tangerine. hahaha, i’m laughing right now because how amazing that was. thank you for being such a light & a very funny person in my life! i’m so, so, so, so insanely proud of everything that you’ve accomplished so far. especially with everything that you’ve been working towards recently!! you’re kickin’ anxieties butt one step at a time & i’m rooting for you during every little battle! plus, you’re truly an amazing aunt and i love hearing about how you take care of your nephew. i know that families can be tough sometimes & i love how you handle everything in your life. like i’ve sad before, you’re so strong and amazing. it’s your birthday!! and you’re twenty-two years old!!! i know that you were a bit anxious but i hope that this year is so great for you. you’ve got so much time to try to figure your life out but i hope that you enjoy this year a lot. as i’ve said before, you’re such a beautiful human being and a fantastic friend. so i hope that you know how much you’re worth & how much you deserve. i hope that this little letter can brighten your day a bit because you, my friend, brighten up my life. (: i love you so much!! xo - shelby
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Once upon a time, in a faraway land called Scotland, a beautiful princess named Gemma, apparently, lived in a giant stony castle by the sea. Gemma preferred to be called Princess Gem above all else, which fit her perfectly, because this princess was a jewel to be treasured. She was brilliant in every sense of the word. Intelligent and radiant, she shone brighter than the stars, casting a light on everyone who spoke to her. The only trouble was that the kingdom over which Princess Gem reigned was slowly being taken over by darkness. And even though her light was brighter than all the candles in Scotland, the darkness had found its way inside of her, as well. She stayed inside of the cold stony castle walls, trying to shut the darkness out by shutting her doors to the kingdom. So the castle was her whole world for a while, and she searched it, trying to find any source of light or happiness. She was wandering the endless rooms one day, in a place she’d looked many times before, but today her thoughts were different, and so she tumbled into a magical portal. The portal led to another realm, in which everyone was famous, and there was always bright, shining sunlight. There, she met two Princesses from other kingdoms (Princess Shelby of Tennessee and Princess Emily of Canada) who had been stumbling through the darkness as well, before they’d met her. Together, the three of them shared their light and stomped out most of each other’s darkness. They tumbled through the portal every day to talk to each other, and eventually met a fourth girl named Princess Cacee of Texas, who completed their group and stomped the remaining darkness from all of them. The four of them were an unstoppable force together, and everyone else in the portal wished to be as brilliant and powerful as they were. Slowly, the princesses began to notice that the light they acquired in the portal remained even after they left. In their everyday lives, they were slowly becoming their former brilliant selves. Princess Emily in particular had had trouble with the darkness. It had weakened her, and made her afraid, and she’d been stuck inside her castle, just like Princess Gem had been. But she and the other princesses working together to bring out each other’s light was starting to work its magic. She was never really able to explain to Princess Gem how much she appreciated her, and to thank her for helping her find her light again. But she tried all the time, and one year on Princess Gem’s birthday, she wrote a stupid little fairy tale about it, so all her cheesy thoughts could be expressed in the most Emily way possible. Hopefully, Princess Gem thought it was cute and they all lived happily ever after. The End Epilogue: Eventually all four Princesses moved into Gem’s scottish castle and had a million dogs and a fox and a diet coke room. The Actual End
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Happy 22nd, Mushy! So, I honestly have no idea how to start this ---- Idon’t even know where I’m gonna go with it, at this point. But I figure, I love you, so I’ll make sure to go somewhere good with this. It’s the least I can do after everything you’ve done for me, at least. So. Here goes. (I say so a lot, Jesus.) First off, I’d like to thank the universe or whatever fucking force drives people together. Because that’s what happened. Something drove us together. Something must have made both of us join tvrpg around the same time and stick by it despite the drama surrounding it at times and all the people who came and went. Somehow, something helped me suck up all of the anxious feelings I had concerning messaging new people (especially people as cool as you) and made me press your character’s ask button, and send you a message asking (more like begging) you to plot with me. And I’m so, so glad I did. Whatever it was, whatever made me do that, I’m so glad it did. Because thanks to that stupid message, we have developed a friendship that has spanned days without communication, crazy people trying to take over your life or something, and tense moments in our personal lives that we’ve opened up to each other about, in the end. Here’s a little fun fact for you: I don’t think I’m ever in a good place in my life. Honestly, it’s hard for me to ever sit down and say to myself, ‘yeah, okay. This is a good place in my life. I think I’m honestly okay’. Mostly because I’m negative as fuck, but also because I’m a little bit realistic with myself. Rare are the days where I can honestly say I’m happy, where I can honestly say I’ll stay happy. But, honestly? Sometimes I remind myself that you are literally out there, thousands of miles away, fighting through so much to just go to the store, and I think to myself, well, fuck. Okay. If she can do it ---- if Gem has been able to get through so much in her life, then why can’t I? Honestly, I don’t think you understand what I mean when I say “inspiration”; you have genuinely inspired me to keep going. Literally. Every single day you are present in my heart, Gem, and let me tell you why your birthday is so important to me: It’s another year you’re alive. It’s another year I get to call you my friend. And I am so, so thankful for that, and for you. Thank you for all of the times you’ve been there for me when I felt like I had no one else to turn to. You are such a light in this world, my love, and everyone is so aware of that that I don’t blame them for so desperately wanting your attention and your love. Because your love isn’t just a gift (even though that it is, my darling, that it is) but it’s also a privilege, and I am honored and humbled (as ridiculously cheesy as that sounds) that you’ve chosen to be friends with me. That you haven’t tired of me juuuuust yet. I mean, someone as talented and beautiful as you? That’s the lottery in and of itself. You’re honestly awe-inspiring, Gem, thank you so, so much for sharing your soul and your imagination with me. I thank the universe every day for bringing me you, Emily and Shelby. The three of you are so, so special to me, and I don’t think the past ---- what? Almost year? Whoa wtf ---- would have been the same without all of you. You have brought so much laughter and goodness to my life that is so prominent now it’s hard to think of my life without it. You are one of my best friends, and I hope with everything in me that that doesn’t change for a very, very long time. I will try my best to be here with you through the good times and the bad times, mark my words. You deserve all of the love and the happiness and the world itself, you beautiful creature. Thank you so much for being you, thank you so much for being here, and congratulations, Gem, on turning twenty-two. Here’s to twenty-two more, okay? And then another twenty, for good measure. ----Cacee, but you know my real name. P.S: I’m winning the lottery. That’s still in the plan. We’re still getting that castle. I lah you.
