Monday, July 20, 2015 "Buddy."

Monday, July 20, 2015
Week: 49
Songs to Remember: Nothing - Smells and Reno

        As I talked about before, my buddy, the one who I consider my best buddy, is going to be going to a different school from now on. This is a post to talk about how it went so far.

        The first time I interacted with him was in 7th grade, middle school. I actually know him earlier than that, which was back in 6th grade. This was when I had just moved to where I am right now, so this was real different to me. The elementary school I had went to had grades K - 6, while other elementary schools have grades K - 5. It's weird, I don't really know any other schools that do this.

        Anyways, I was only at this elementary school for 6th grade. That was it. Surprisingly, for my buddy it was the same. He went from a different elementary school and came here at 6th grade. We weren't in the same class actually, but the class I was in was adjacent to the class that he was in. I saw him at times playing Wall-Ball (I've only ever seen this at these elementary schools here, not sure elsewhere). He made jokes and s*** with his buddies while playing.

        I never played with him in Wall-Ball, and first impressions, as a 12 year-old 6th grader, I found him kinda annoying. Even though he never ever spoke to me, I just didn't like him. It wasn't 'till 7th grade in middle school, on the first day, that we spoke to each other. I remember what he first said to me: "Hey Drew" and I was like "Hey Ec", heh. I knew him, I wasn't sure if he knew me, but he did. I decided to hang out at this tree and bench that my friends/people I knew before they became my real friends were at. He hung out here too.

        We had classes together, being 4th period P.E and 6th period Science. We were also on the same "team", which was this way that the school divide us into groups for pep rallies and teacher assigning. So let's say, you were team purple, you'd only have teachers who were part of team purple. Kinda weird explaining it like this, but makes more sense when I verbally explain it. Anyways, we, umm, hmm.

        I actually don't remember what we did, but I did know that he played League A LOT with our buddies. I specifically remember when I asked about him about League and what it's about. They said stuff about controlling armies or "minions" and kill the enemy nexus. I asked if there were any, uh, robot champions in League, and they said "Yeah, Blitzcrank". And that's the story about how I mainly play support 'till this day. Also, because I like the champion pool for supports and how it's so versatile.

        But that's not the point of this post. So uh, we had fun times in middle school, we met up on orientation day of High School, umm, High School came, this whole thing came, we still hung out. We didn't have any classes together. There was a period of time during freshman year where he didn't hang out me or any of our buddies, he was hanging out and having lunch with these 2 other girls. That went on for a couple weeks before he introduced me to his new friends (added on to the buddies we already had/have, he didn't replace anybody).

        He came up to me, I was happy to see him again after an absence (not the school thing, just in general), and led me to where him and his new friends were hanging out. He also invited another one of our buddies, soon everybody came over and that became our new hangout spot. There were some problems with him moving away to a different school district (still living relatively close though) during that year, but things got settled and this school district let him stay.

        And then came sophomore year, we still had fun. During freshman year, he was hyping up that the 3 of us, me, him, and a buddy of ours would go to the Winter Ball. It didn't happen though, heh. Things were cool, I sometimes did homework during lunch time, often getting help on Chinese homework because I'm not that great at Chinese., heh.

        As with all friendships, there's got to be a fight somewhere, and there was. The reason? Rage during a League game. I was calling someone out for not doing well, we lost, my buddy guess it wasn't that calling out someone bad even though they don't hear it is still bad, argued with me as to why I was calling that player out, all whilst in a Skype call with me, him, a buddy of ours, and her friend. We showed up to school the next day, he felt bad for getting worked up, I was still hanging onto a grudge.

        Things mended when he invited me to a League game and to forget about it all. I can't believe I worked s*** up that was impacting our friendship, over a video game. But hey, there's gotta be fights though, no matter what, to balance things out.

        I also invited him, as well as a couple of our buddies, the other Drew's, to go see a movie on Halloween night. Was it fun? Hell yeah. He came over to my house after school, I haven't had a buddy over in a while, he probably never came to a buddy's house in a while either. F***ing would do it again. And now, the school year's ended, a new one's gonna start soon, he receives a letter from our school district stating that they're kicking him from the district since his parents can't prove that they live in this city (which they aren't but still, he just needs 2 more years and he's done here).

        So, he's going to a new school, still relatively close here. And uh, yeah. years of playing League with him, years of chatting in our Skype chat where our buddies and us write dank memes all the time, it's f***ing amazing. It's gonna be really different without him around right now, but hey, makes more interesting content, and a new experience. And so I just wanted to say, Eric, if you are to ever read this, then thanks for being a cool buddy.

        His name's common enough that he probably won't be able to be identified. I mean, there are A LOT of Eric's. And umm, we just finished playing a couple of ranked League games, with me as Braum support and him being Sivir/Tristana ADC. Pretty fun. Also found a dude who likes hentai. Yeah, midnight games get weird.

        Anyways, it's 1:02 AM, still got the light on. I'll see you tomorrow.