Dearest Remus,

Maybe you feel like you can't trust anyone to know the real you. You refuse to love anyone because of those thick walls you've constructed like a fortress around your heart.

You're tired of people walking out on you. You are convinced that once people get to know you, they'll run in terror. And you will again be left picking up the pieces of yourself that have been carelessly thrown away. You secretly hate the people that are so happy together, because you're dead set in thinking that you'll never have that.You've been hurting for so long, and almost hoping that someone will see past the front you put up, and take time to get to know the real you. Hoping that maybe, someone will see your worth...

Maybe you feel like no one would want you anyway. You're so broken, you believe that no one could fix you-just another lost cause. You feel totally, completely, and utterly alone. I know what that feels like too, Remus. It's like a bruise in your chest that starts out small-you feel like maybe, you're ok with being alone. You don't need people that don't need you, right? Then, as time go on, and you keep things bottled up in fear, the hole gets bigger. It starts to suck the life out of you, like a black vacuum in space. It devours you from the inside, out. It sucks the air from your lungs, a literal oppression on your body, and you just want to fall to your knees from the crushing weight of it all. And you need something, anything, to just get you away from this reality you face every single day.

You are never alone, my dear Remus. Let friendships be the salvation that cools the distrust you carry for humanity because of the utter rejection they fed to you. It will completely alter the way you feel, and it gives you a way to get through your struggles…because even if no one else goes through exactly what you're dealing with, everyone knows what it's like to hurt.

I know the beautiful person you are.

If I can give someone just a small fraction of what my friends gave to me. If what I lived through and share with you, can help keep you from feeling that devastation of being alone, every moment I lived through was worth it. And as long as you can take something away from what I have to offer, then I will stand by your side.

Always.