When all I had to worry about was getting my homework done on time, and even then, I really didn’t care. Hanging out with my two best friends at the time, Natalie and Joseph, on those frozen January evenings, fucking around on the iced up river. We made up this Viking like deity named Tempo, mock sword fought one another with sticks in his honour, and found this graffiti of some dude with a beard on a bridge pillar, and that was our Tempo temple.
Playing Super Mario, Mortal Kombat or Megaman X all weekend during sleepovers, (Natalie even spent one Christmas with my dad and me, while her mom was off getting drunk or some shit, fucks if I know) played tag and various other games in the park on Summer, and caused drama in the ’‘attic’’, which was a big space under some stairs on the fifth floor of an apartment building. We’d hide in there and badmouth everyone we didn’t like lol. I drew on the walls with markers, usually scary faces, and Natalie hated them haha.
Joseph desperately wanted to take martial art courses, I think Ninjitsu or Jujitsu I forget, so we’d go on ’‘quests’’ downtown to find a dojo. We actually found one that seemed decent for him, but sadly, his dad didn’t have the cash. Just random stuff that kids do, for a good while.
That one year and a half or so I’ll always remember. Then I was taken to live in a group home, and everything sucked after that. I saw them both again from time to time, but life had broken our bonds. I was busy being a delinquent, Joseph (we always just called him Jo, even writing ’‘Joseph’’ feels funny) was doing pretty good, and Natalie hit a bit of a hard strike for some years, doing a bunch of drugs, but she straightened up when she got pregnant and had her son.
It sucks that the three of us never got back together, and now, after all this time, I have absolutely no idea what they’re up to. I hope they’re fine, and I’m sure they both remember the frozen river times, too. :D
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I’m nowhere near as happy now as back then, but also, I don’t have the same mindframe today as I did when I was 13. :/