Once, twice and endless times upon the endless time, there were teenagers, blissful teenagers, frustrated teenagers, gleesome teenagers & sorrowful ones; all living in one gathering planet, crying, laughing & sobbing at the very same moment.
And in one unimportant country, on the last night of August, another teenager was waiting outside a sport-club, waiting impatiently for his brother to pick him up as he could go back home and start texting his new friend. Let us call that teenager, Raymond?!
That Raymond dude had previously helped his friend Laiken break up with his girlfriend Noula after finding out that she was having a small crush on somebody else while dating him, and since then, Raymond and Laiken had been talking to each other more and more which leaded to very sweet two texts at night. “Bestfriends?” - “Forever.” And that’s how a cute friendship started. Please bookmark that ‘forever’ part, we’re going to use it later on.
As soon as that night ended beautifully, the sun shone bringing another bright day; the first of September, the first day of school and the start of a promising ‘Laimond’ friendship era. The morning started with immediate Whatsapp texting, as they were showing each other their school costumes, and a slight “Goodluck on your first day bro!” text made it even greater.
Raymond came back home exhausted, but that didn’t stop him from Whatsapp-texting his new friend Laiken, telling him how great the day was except the tiny bullying scene that he dealt with, but everything turned out okay after Laiken started advising Raymond; his sweet words made it fall better after all!
Days went past and the friendship had been going stronger & stronger, turning into bromance, sugary words – salty passion, overcoming struggles together and cooling down every negative occurrence with strong connection, a morning conversation starts each day and ends with a late-night ‘goodnight.’ It was huge, huger than you’d ever believe.
How fast was that? It’s already Christmas time y’all! Laiken’s going on a crazy Christmas holiday outside the country and Raymond’s preparing his vocals for a very long series of Christmas carols in different hotels. Behind the scenes, “Laimond” were on a little tension, a tension which started of disregard, disregard; the reason of all problems.
The tension grew and a fight took place, one left the country and the other washed his face to start singing his Christmas carols. One smiling around to the beautiful towers in Paris whereas the other smiles around to the crowd cheering and clapping of attachment, and so it went on.
After the blessing of the holidays, tears were slowly pouring down Raymond’s face! Him realizing that Laiken is so close yet so far wasn’t easy at all, Laiken was checking Raymond’s Facebook & Twitter accounts, trying to find some signs of care, yet nothing occurred. Laiken afterwards braved up and apologized to Raymond, after Raymond had completely lost hope in finding something to make him happy again, they finally made up and the conflict faded away greatly.
Days after that, the winter camp took off and they were happier than ever, everything went on really well without a single misunderstanding. The camp ended, and so were the memories which stayed there! The texts of longing didn’t stop at all and the perfect support wasn’t willing to end, the long pathway of love wasn’t anticipating to a limit as well as the eyes of joy weren’t desiring to tear.
How humorous is it that anything can happen behind the scenes?! I bet it’s really funny yet depressing at the same time. Something happened – something that nobody knows about – nobody but Laiken himself who showed the signs of disregard strangely once again, disregard, the reason of all problems.
This time, you can tell that things were very serious, the disregard grew into complete thingummy; Laiken doesn’t seem to give a single droplet of attention to Raymond and Raymond’s wondering what has happened, and no answer was there, except total denial. Raymond tried taking advices and encouragement from his girlfriend, Sherece, his cousin Dalena, his friends Nadette, Joanita, Aoudi, etc… Yet nothing seemed to be changing! Noula turned out as a very great girl, she wasn’t cheating, she actually truly loved Laiken the whole time, misjudging, hastiness…
It has finally come to an end now; remember that ‘forever’ word I told you to bookmark at the beginning of the story? Well here you are now, you can now replace it anywhere you want, it wouldn’t matter, everything has changed.
Yes, I am Raymond. I have dealt with this, it might not seem much but it took great part in my life, I’m here today, stronger than ever, happy for Laiken, for the choices he made and the desires he took, he will always be remembered, and these were my honest domesticities.
