Who did you hang with?

[Chad32]

I hanged with some people in my town. Two brothers next door. Usually it was me hanging out with the older brother, and the younger hanging around us. Sometimes we'd get into a fight, and I'd go home, but he'd always come back in a day or two wanting to play something. There were older brothers down the road that I visited. My older sister was friends with the older brother, and I would hang out with the younger, but even the younger was years older than me. Eventually he got a job, and we didn't hang out so much.

There was one weird kid I met at youth night who was homeschooled. Sometimes he'd come and say he had ten minutes to hang out, which really meant he snuck away when he wasn't supposed to. He and another guy that liked to say "cool, cool, very cool" would play war with me on his parent's land, which had a variety of different spots that made playing war interesting. Unfortunately we never bought paintball guns. He would bring the camo, and I had some lang ranged walkie talkies. There was also this military guy in town that we'd go to for advice. he didn't play with us, but I think he enjoyed talking about stuff with us. The weird kid eventually joined the military.

Those were my close friends. There were other people I hanged out with on occasion. Including one id I wasn't allowed to be around, and finally got my parents to admit it was because his brother did drugs. They were afraid I'd start doing stuff if I spent too much time around them. In highschool itself I never bothered making friends. My regular friends didn't go to that school, and I knew in four years I'd likely never see any classmate again. Though there was one cute girl that I had a crush on. She was friendly, but she was that way with every boy in school. She didn't get pregnant, though, so I believed her when she said she wasn't having sex. I got up the nerve to ask her to let me touch her boobs once, but she said no.

I think that may be one of the reason highschool sucked for me. I never really tried making friends to ease the stress of school life. Just friendly girl, and a guy who liked Animorphs as much as I did back then.