Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle, the co-creators and stars of Hulu's "PEN15," may have met junior year at NYU's Tisch School of Arts, but reliving the middle-school era of their lives in the adult comedy has deepened the creases of their friendship like a carefully folded up — and doodled on — letter passed between BFFs during social studies class.

"I feel like we still have a conversation, at least once a month, where I am like: 'Tell me again what you were doing when this happened' or 'What did you think of this band?'" Erskine says.

"Yes," says Konkle, "I love hearing stories any time we get on Facebook together and she shows me of photos of like, 'Well, this is the guy who ...' or I'll be like, 'Wait, I thought that was the guy you kissed in ninth grade' and she's like 'No, no, no, this is fifth grade.'"

"We lived such different lives but we also have so many similarities," Erskine adds, addressing Konkle through a video conference screen.

"It's so weird. But there's no way to describe how doing something like this changes a friendship, because to relive moments — some that are really fun, some that are not, some that are so innocent and so fun to be naive and laugh while next to you — I don't even know how to really wrap my head around the fact that I get to relive these moments together. Having you experience a taste of what it was like with me then and vice versa.

Having a friend who wasn't there at the time to acknowledge what you're going through and to give you that rewrite that you didn't ever have or always wanted, of course it brings you so much closer and is such a gift.

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