MY DANGEROUS FRIEND

BY DAWN CRUMHORN

To my classmates and teacher

This letter wasn't intended for you.

This was to go out to my dearest Snuggles

Or my Dad.

Or older, darker, meaner me.

Being me is never easy.

But how much harder is it be him?

He's not the world's best kept secret.

He's not the world's wisest.

But he is the world's greatest.

That's what the narrator tells us each week.

That's what they would have those at home believe of him.

He is the world's greatest, but he has a secret all his own.

And I've been keeping it.

I wanted to save it for when I was older.

I don't think it's a secret any longer.

And I can be as old as I want to be.

Not much point in keeping quiet now.

So to all my classmates, and teacher, know this

I can be anyone.

But I stay this way, encased in amber, looking exactly the way dad last saw me

That way, when he comes back, he'll know he never missed a thing.

I never changed, even if I deeply wanted to.

We all make the effort to change in this world.

I think that's wise.

But he can't change unless I do.

He's a danger to me.

Everything I thought I could be as I am, something that could harm others, he put a stop to.

I put a lot of effort into my plans, he puts a lot of effort into spoiling them.

I thought I hated him for it.

Turns out I admire him for putting together a plan of his own

I don't think it's a secret that he's a bit dim, a bit arrogant, a bit full of himself, yet he gets results.

What else did you think I meant?

Something happened to us, out there, where it was coldest

The whole world melted away

How and why it did are secrets I'll never tell

I don't want that to change.

I also think that's wise.

We all need to keep a part of who we used to be, to inform what we become from here on out

As I write this, you don't know what you'll become under the current circumstances

So look to who you were, and maybe look to how dangerous you were too

Because what we face now has no idea what it's in for

I know what it's like to turn the danger off, and leave a friend standing in its place

He is my world's greatest secret, my dad would do worse than ground me if he were to find out, he is my most dangerous foe, and I could not think of anyone finer to love.

It may seem to everyone like he's been away for a long time now

But if you can put some effort in, you might come to realise he could have a plan.

And nothing is more dangerous than that.

Yours sincerely

-Dawn 'Princess' Crumhorn.