Mr Popular and The School President ©

Prologue - Beginning of Our Friendship

PROLOGUE 

I have always been in a world of my own. 

Surrounded but alone.  

Everyone around me yet no one with me.  

Ever since i can remember, people, both my peers and adults, have always placed me on a pedestal where I was worshipped and revered. yet, i was alone. i had only had two true friends whom i had known from  when i was a baby; Alice and Natasha. Even with them, though they didn't placed me on a pedestal like others did, they still placed me higher than themselves.

i was always the one that wasn't supposed to cry, the one who knew the answers to everything, the one who would have a word to solve their problems, the one they relied on. 

But Slade was the only one who treated me as if i wasn't unapproachable and i also needed a shoulder to lean on. 

Slade had always been in my class but I had never spoken to him. I always knew him as boy everyone loved to play with. It was at the beginning of 7th grade that Slade and I became friends. 

I remember it had been a free period and I had been sitting down on my seat in the middle of the class. I had been feeling a little feverish and woozy and all I wanted to do was rest but some of my class girls were asking me for advice and my opinion as always. If any of them had looked closely, they would have seen I wasn't well but I guess they thought I could never have issues of my own.  

As the time passed on by, I began to feel worse and excused myself so I could go to the infirmary. Next thing I knew, my eyes were closing and I was falling to the ground but I never quite hit the ground before I passed out. I had woken up later to see Slade sitting by my bedside in the infirmary. He had been the one  that carried me to the infirmary. I had never talked to him in my life and was surprised when he began to  ask random things about me.  

I was shocked because people only asked me things for politeness sake. They didn't really want to know. They always treated me as if I was better than them. 

We talked about everything and for the first time, I felt as if I was an equal; as if I wasn't alone. We were interrupted when the nurse told him to return to class but before he did, he told me words I could never forget; 

'You're not alone. From today, we are going to be friends forever.' 

I returned to school some days later and everyone was apologizing to me about how they didn't know I had been sick at that moment. I later found out Slade had been the one who told them and he had scolded them about it. The good thing that came out of that was that I was finally given some space to breathe without dealing with others problems 

Of course, that didn't last long; just a couple of days but it was good while it lasted.

Fast forward to twelfth grade and Slade and i are best friends. He is the best person anyone could want for a friend which doesn't make him less of a pest and a contributing factor to my stress and headache these days.

i'm the school student body president and Slade is no, not a quarterback but a tennis player... And a very prominent one at that. Our school is pretty funny 'cause both Slade and i are the most popular people in school yet he doesn't play football and i'm not a cheerleader.

people still place me on a pedestal but I am okay with it now. after all, Slade was here together with me. our bond was something i couldn't really explain as we were opposites in most things. he was more of an idealist while i was a hardcore realist. how we could  be so close yet different always amazed me. there are really no clear cut boundaries in our relationships; which always brings up rumours of us liking each other or secretly dating. But he and i know that we are simply best friends....

...Though the meaning of best-friendship is different according to different perspectives, right?