Sheena Marie Miles

Sheena and I met as roommates our freshman year in college, but we were never strangers.  From the instant we met, she became my best friend.  I have so many memories, so many stories that no one else will ever understand.  Sheena saw me through many of my "firsts." She helped me laugh through all the hard times and she made everything okay when I thought the world was ending.  There is no way for me to convey just how much Sheena means to me.  She was someone I could tell everything to- the good, the bad, and the ugly.  She wasn't afraid to hurt my feelings and tell me when I was being stupid. And I'm a better person because of that.  Sheena quickly became part of my family.  My mom and dad took her in as a daughter and my sister adopted Sheena as another sibling. 

Sheena - there will never be another Zebbers in my life.  Even Jay fell in love with you.  I will never eat Cheez-its without thinking of you.  I will forever remember driving in your car (scared for my life),  our days in Nunn hall, our ghost, making Derby pie, climbing through our dorm window, going to the airport to pick up Jay for the first time, kicking our other roommates out of our dorm, going to the SAE house, dancing with you, getting your car stuck in a ditch for hours with no cell phone service, listening to you tell me how innocent I was, watching you fall through chairs, our days with Tugger and our three turtles, Heaven Hill, our Christmas Eves, giving each other "makeovers," La Finca's, our excuses for calling off work (fish poisoning and an episode with a microwave), you and Nancy dressing like the Osbornes, cooking for my grandparents, your horrible back massages, scaring you during the movie "Signs," doing dishes in the bathtub, and laying on our beds talking and laughing all night.  I could write a novel detailing our memories.  But those are ours to share and not a day will go by that I don't remember that.  You knew all my secrets.  I want you to know that you are my best friend Sheena Marie.  I love you and I miss you.  Jay loved you too.  I would give anything to have you standing beside me on my wedding day.  I know you will be there though.  

I'll always be your Boo!

Ash 

Sheena, Isn't it wonderful to see the way people feel about you? Your death has really taught me a hard hard lesson and if I could take back one thing it would be to have told you how I felt about you through all the years, instead of how I felt about you in the last minute we spoke, or here now. I am sooo truly sorry, regretful more than you will ever know. Our breakup will surely go down in history as the worst break up of all time. Funny to wonder what might have been had we stayed together, all of us. Trouble, I'm sure. :)

Sheena, you have always been a lovely person, from the first time I met you way back in the day. You were Welcoming when others were not. Friendly to everyone. You gave everyone a good chance. More than anything you were a tie that bound us all together. You brought us down to earth when we really needed it the most, and I want to say thank you for that.

Sheena, not only were you a good friend to me for many years, but you were a wonderful friend to my friends as well. We are all shocked and brokenhearted that your time has come so soon, too soon for us to right our wrongs and re do it over again. I want to thank you for the years you stood beside me and them.

In closing, let me remind you of the last thing I ever told you- "Sheena the thing about our group of friends, the thing that made others wish they had a circle as strong as ours is in all of the years weve been together we never let a single thing come between us. It is so rare and precious to find friends like we found" and I want to take back the way I ended that- "I am hurting so bad inside that that changed. I am so sorry."

I always loved you. I will never forget that.

I will try to fix it with the others, Sheena.

Love, little Kristin

Sheena, I never thought the day would come that I would be saying goodbye to you, forever. I know the last year and some odd months we havent talked and now I realize how crazy that is. So crazy. We were great friends for a very long time. I dont have to think very hard to realize that some of my best memories were with you. It all began with cheerleading in 7th grade which eventually lead to cheerleading in high school. We were almost on the same dance team too, then you quit. Argh! We were so mad at you for that. :) We worked at Lake Manor together, and like Amanda said, it was the easiest job ever. I remember the night when we got off work and went to Amandas, of course we made a pit stop at Kroger for some Ben&Jerrys icecream first. And, if Amanda would have ever had a deer (wink wink) we would have met him that night. Im pretty sure after that we went back to my house and drank mikes hard lemonade and HOOCH because who likes the taste of beer at age 14 or 15? :) Yea, we were pretty bad then. It was the mikes hard lemonade and hooch that lead us to dye your hair that night. I still have the picture of you sitting in my bathroom smiling from ear to ear with black and brown spotted hair. I remember all of our christmas parties, birthday parties, fireworks and the times we went to church together. One of the last times we ever went out together I was forced, remember? I told you alllllll day that I was sick and didnt want to go but sure enough, you showed up at my house all dressed up and told me we were going anyway. We sat at Bar Louie and ate appetizers and I told you I still felt like crap and wanted to go home. I ended up going to the hospital that night by myself because I didnt want to wake you up. I will never forget the next morning you woke me up and said you were so sorry for making me go out and you didnt know I was really that sick! You were always so happy and cheerful and I will never forget the smile you always had on your face. Im so sorry things ended the way they did between us, it was so not worth it. Our friendship was very important to me although I may not have shown that to you in the last few years. I love you very much and I will never forget the memories we shared.

I was new to the Highschool my freshman year and Sheena was the first person to actually say Hi to me and to introduce herself. Always cheerful and always made a good a laugh ... Cheerleading was the greatest. Going to camp with the girls ... The seniors getting us to play the wet towel game hmm i wonder who thought of that one.. Seeing Sheena sing her heart out to Salt N Pepa. I can remember when sheena got her license for the first time she told her mom she had to go to the store but instead she came to my house and we joy ride over mt orab LOL just listening to Bush ( her fav).Brown county fair, school dances . So many memories and so little of time Sheena Marie Miles Im going to miss you forever and ever and one day i will see you again

Capricorn,

It's been a long time since we have spoken. Too long. I have been running through my head, what was the last thing we said to each other. I can't seem to remember. I do know it wasn't the right thing. So here is what I wish I would have said.

Do you remember how you didn't like me in the 6th grade because I dated someone you had the hots for? Well girl, you can have him....lol. He didn't turn out too good. I'm glad you got over him (I'm glad I got over him too), because we ended up with a friendship to last many years.

In 8^th grade home room- you always got us in trouble for talking. Of course it was never me talking ;) At least that's my side of the story. Let’s not forget about the clowns when we went to the circus. I wonder if there are clowns in heaven; I hope not.   We spent many weekends at your dad’s house, drinking mountain dew and eating pizza.  We used prank call people, and just laugh and laugh.

Then it got really interesting when we went to high school. Or was it when we meet Jenna (the red rebel shit club) that we became so mischievous? Either way we have some amazing memories...there are things I don't remember, but there are many pictures to help out. Like the time at Jenna's when you wore the sombrero and had 6 coronas in your hand. Or when we had to rush home, because we found out our moms were looking for us.  All of the sleepovers at Kristin’s and Scooter’s, after working at Lake Manor.  We used to complain about working so late (9 pm and honestly, it was probably the easiest job ever).  Unless you count Chucke Cheese’s. . . that may have been the easiest job ever.  You let us dye your hair – more than once, even after we left large brown spots.. Haha...us making bombs----I still think it's legal.
We went to the fireworks. You love the fireworks and the music. Everyone will always think of you when they hear Stairway to Heaven.

And what about all of our vacations?  Myrtle Beach. I always looked forward to going every year. Oh what was that guy's name from Bethel?  He was a nice guy. And thanks again for hanging out with the guy who wanted your picture by the giant bear.... so I could mingle with the lifeguard. What was I thinking? White water rafting. I wish we could have gone back. That was so much fun...and scary. The funniest part was when your dad accidentally saw your boob. haha. Still makes me laugh. And if it wasn't for the pictures, I'm not sure I would remember Panama at all. Those sleazy boys stealing our stuff and we thought they just wanted our address. Then we told the whole story to the police and they thought we were out of our minds. We must have lost a few brain cells there, because on the way home Tracy was making talking characters with her body parts. I still have those videos. No one has ever seen all of the craziness.

The year and a half we lived together we lived like rock stars. Hardly working or going to school. We had Christmas parties and Birthday parties and dinners. We danced on furniture and ate a lot of Penn Station. Sometimes we walked home from Rhino's, climbing fences and running across 32. Puking a peeing in public areas, but somehow we made it without ever getting arrested.

I think I'm starting to ramble now. But what I want you to know is I LOVE YOU. You have made me a better person and I'm so thankful for every moment you were in my life.  For you I'm going to love deeper. I know you are in heaven and we will meet again.

Love Always
Amanda
aka Jade Skylark