Stupid Love

20th June

Fourteen years ago, I was five years old anxiously counting down the days until it was my turn to turn six like all the other kids in my class at school. However the most significant event that happened on this exact date fourteen years ago was that I met my best friend Nate, the way we met was strange; he'd just moved to my city and started the same primary school as I attended. Obviously being the new kid he had no friends at all, yes even though he was the cutest six year old anyone has ever seen; he still had zero friends.

I was always a very outgoing person who loved talking to everyone and everything so my five year old self approached this new face in my class and started talking to him. I remember it so clearly "Hi... I'm Alex and I'm six in twelve days". I guess at first Nate thought of me as an extremely forward, annoying and obnoxious child as he simply looked me straight in the eye and brushed his shoulder past me.

No other kid talked to Nate that day; so I decided that was my chance to approach him again. This time I simply just said "Hi"; he seemed a little more relaxed this time and replied with an awkward "Hello". Being an outgoing kid I wasn't used to awkward people and this kind of caught me off guard. However as the days passed none of the other kids in the class spoke to Nate and still to this day I don't understand why, but he seems to understand why.. But that's beside the point.

Six days before my sixth birthday which I was so excited about; mainly because I was allowed a bouncy castle for that one. I asked my parents if I could invite one more person to my party; I remember how reluctant they were to agreeing to this but now they think it was the best thing they've ever allowed me to do. So as my small, outgoing five year old self, I invited timid, shy and awkward six year old Nate to my party. Because he was so quiet my parents informed his about how I'd invited him and they couldn't have been happier. I guess he's always been the 'outsider' in life.

Anyway that's enough about the build up to my party and my first encounter with Nate. When it was finally the day of the party, everyone had showed up... apart from Nate, I didn't really mind though because I was so aware even at the age of 6 of how awkward he was, but just as I was ready to run off to play the door bell rang and of course it was Nate... he was late by fifteen minutes which is a long time to a young six year old. Although still to this day fourteen years later; he's still late by some amount of time every morning for school.

Throughout the party Nate joined in but only enough to still be able to keep himself to himself but I still did my best to try and involve him with everything that was going on. When my party was over Nate's parents were late coming to pick him up which give us time alone to play and get to know each other. This is when he actually started talking to me and told me where he'd moved from and when his birthday was etc. I vaguely remember him telling me his favourite TV show and movie was Ninja Turtles and he told me how he had all the figures or them. Looking back on this it make me laugh because of the amazing boy he's turned out to be, but I suppose that's why we are how we are.

Well that's enough about fourteen years ago and how I basically pressured Nate into being my friend by talking to him and inviting him to my party.

Nate's now twenty and I'm currently nineteen... Nate's only a couple months older than me but he loves to remind me of it almost every day of my life. Our friendship has had its hard times considering his dad got a new job which moved them around a lot of the time, but despite the distance and the time zones we always managed to find some way to contact one another, whether that meant I was extremely exhausted for school the next day or if he was face timing me whilst on the road home from his college.

The older I got the harder it was when Nate would tell me he'd be leaving for a couple of months. He was really my only friend and with my mum and step-dad having another baby, I was left to my own devices...

Sorry this part is extremely rubbish, I was very unsure of how to start the story off so any ideas will be greatly appreciated and I will try to make the next bit a little bit better!

Please comment what you think and any changes you think I should make!!

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