Letter to our Gorgeous Girl - From Lils

Dear Leoni, I have so much to say in so little time I got to spend with you. But lets go back to the very first day of Term 2, Year 9. This is the time that I met you and little did I know that these moments would be the most special. Your personality is something to be marvelled and be envied by everyone as you were the kindest, sweetest, generous, and peaceful soul that could walk this planet. You never ever spoke bad about anyone and saw the light in anyone that even also did evil. Your kindness also brought the best out of everyone even if you didn’t realise it. Your love was showing through your stunning artworks, baking, and knitting projects that you surprised us with that you were so so proud of. You brought literal sunshine to our friend group, classroom, and the school overall. Ever since you left us, the sky has been sobbing uncontrollably and dull without your sunshine to make everything better. Your voice was the sound of sweet symphonies and birds singing in the bright Sunday morning of December. Your laugh was always something to be cherished as I still hear your voice and your laughter among the memories that constantly run through my mind. Your smile is something to be admired by everyone as they saw your beautiful teeth and lips. As your smile widened when we were laughing about something stupid in science class last year, or some funny Instagram reel that we sent to each other, it always warmed my heart how much it lit my up my entire day seeing your beautiful face being smiley and happy. There are so many words that I cannot fit into one sentence how beautiful you were. Your smile, your nose, your eyes, your eyelashes, your hair, your fingers, your head, your skin and everything else that was beautifully modelled by the Lord himself so carefully. Your eyes are like brown dwarf planets that are so carefully blended with the gorgeous arrays of sunlights and sweet brownies. They shined ever so brightly, and had a beautiful twinkle among them that made you melt each time you looked inside them. Your eyelashes were something to be marvelled upon as you took such good care of them. They are such simple, sweet, and soft parts of your body that casted such perfect shadows among your cheekbones. Every tear that you’ve dropped from your sweet face has given your beautiful array of lashes a chance to grow just like how you want us all to grow and keep on living for you. As your hair always bounced in the wind, always swayed the direction that you wanted, and looked like a stunning array of curls that look almost too beautiful to touch or even admire. You’ve inspired many of us to use curls on our hair as you influenced us to have a positive mindset on how our hair swayed in the wind. Your luscious curls will be in a forever memory engraved into our hearts as the sweet, cherry-black shine blinded every person that was in your presence as you glowed with so much pride in your soft, sweet, and such pretty head of hair. As we looked into your beautiful soul for the last time on Friday afternoon, we saw a glowing, gorgeous skin that we know our girl took good care of. Your skin shined brighter than the brightest stars in the sky and had an eternal glow inside and out. Your olive, tanned, and Greek skin will forever be a visual memory in our minds as you took such pride in your heritage and your skin. You will forever eternally glow like your pretty soul that so many people loved. Your gorgeous face was so ever carefully modelled by the Gods. Your nose, you never felt insecure, you always loved your nose, as it was the most radiant part of your face that so perfectly structured it together. There will always be a part of your breathtaking face in our minds as we said goodbye and we didn’t realise how much it meant to us. Your talents always showed how passionate for your interests which makes everything that you’ve made for us a cherished memory in our hearts. Your hands and your fingers are like moulded pieces of artwork that royals in Ancient Greece would of marvelled and admired for generations to come. Your healthy nail beds, as you complained about that you really wanted to get acrylics, but they ended up always looking out of shape and would just crash out during class. Little did I know, that these moments ive shared with you is a forever grateful prayer that I will always hold. I would’ve taken a bullet for you, go through the highest mountains for you, and most of all die for you. As we tell our future children about your beautiful soul, face, body, and mind, we will forever cherish that visual memory that we will forever hold in your spirit. Everything about you should be admired, cherished, and talked about as you were such a healthy girl and should’ve lived way longer than any of us. you were the one that should’ve gone to our funerals, have children with the love of your life, have that pet you’ve always dreamed of, seen Europe with your girls, and most of all, spending your last high school days in classes, camps, and formal with us. all of us still cannot process how you won’t be here for classes that you hoped on pursuing in the non-too-distant future, the sea kayaking camp that you were looking ever so forward to and camping with your girls in September, and the most cherished thing that you were looking forward to the most, was the semi-formal at the end of the year. You had already planned your yellow styled frilled dress, orange flower shoes, hair, makeup, and your potential date that we will never know who it would’ve been. Semi-formal will not be the same without you, as we cannot bear to dance the night away without you by my side supporting every stupid decision that I make. You were looking forward to driving, getting a boyfriend, a pet, to see your family, to travel, and those opportunities were so tragically taken away from you. You bravely passed away trying to save your gorgeous mother, which proves that your innocent and sweet soul did not deserve this Earth the time you spent on it. 15 years was too short for such a healthy girl like you. Hearing the news that you had died shattered a piece of my heart because my best friend, my baby girl, had suffered so much pain without realising it. Your fish will be waiting for you to feed them, your uniform and clothes are waiting to be worn, your hairbrush, makeup, and hair products are waiting to be used, your perfume to be sprayed, and your music to be played, but unfortunately, will be held in a forever time capsule from 28/02/2025. I am so so forever grateful that I had met you Leoni Batovas, as you brought out the light in not only everyone, but me including. You told me to always keep my head high and to never ever give up on your dreams or anything else as I had so much more potential than I realised. You brought out my true smile, my true laugh, and my true personality which makes our memories so so special. So, to my Leoni, my best friend for life, my ride or die, my baby girl, and now my angel watching all of us and protecting us from anything evil, I am so forever happy that I saw your beautiful face, heard your radiant voice, and especially met your exquisite soul, that was too kind and too pure for this earth. Every day now, I will always look for you in cheetah print, in an animal, ocean, olive, sunset, lily and hibiscus flower as those were the things that you cherished the most in your heart. Especially your dear family and friends. So rest in peace, rest easy, and fly high my now angel in heaven. 

Long. Live. Leoni. Batovas.  -lils