How good friendships turn awkward
It was 8th grade when I met him, we had homeroom together and we got to know each other well. He was the type of person who was fairly popular because he could blend into any group of people, he was really funny and outspoken. That summer we really didn't see each other, but when 9th grade started the bus I rode took a different path and he was now on my route. Their was alot of cool people that had that route so it wasn't that bad riding the bus, and our bus driver was a iffy gay, he wouldnt admit it but I swear he had to be, so we basically gave him hell. We became really good friends and along with several other of our closest friends were like a "unit" and the more time passed the better friends we became. Brunswick county wasn't exactly the party county and their weren't really places to go, so your option was house get togeters/parties, drive around (which for some reason we did alot of), or driving to Myrtle Beach which was about 30 minutes away or Wilmington on the other side of us which was 40 minutes away. Well it was around early 9th grade that he finally started dateing this girl that he had the biggest crush on forever, she was a grade higher than us, so now they were dating, but we still were close and I became good friends with her, before then I didn't really even know who she was. It was near the end of 9th grade that they broke up, but remained friends and still hung out. That summer he basically kind of ran away from home cause he was having problems at home, so he lived most of the time on the beach sleeping on porches of hotels and such in lounge chairs, or he stayed alot of times at my house also. Later in the summer I started dating her at the assurance is was cool from my friend. So now i'm dating her and it was wierd cause I didn't have a job and she did, so somehow she ended up being the "man" in the relationship and basically spending all the money. We dated for quite a while, my friend decides to drop out in 10th grade, but we are still super close, like more than ever. It was sometime through 10th grade that I broke up with her, which I felt really bad about later, someone told me they saw her with someone else (which was totally a lie), and rather than find out what it was all about i was getting kind of bored with her anyways so one day when she called my mon brought me the phone, I said hello and she said hi, i instantly hung up on her gave the phone back to my mom and said she will call back, and when she does tell her I dont want to talk to her. And I didn't for about 7 months. By this time since he didn't go to school anymore I didn't see him as much as I used to, aparantly he started dating her again, and just never talked to me about it when we did hang out. Fast forward to 11th grade I'm spending more time with alot of other people besides them anymore so periods of time would go that I wouldnt talk to him. One day I came home and their was a note on my car from her telling me a whole bunch of stuff, mind you this was the first contact i had with her in 7 months after out of the clear blue hanging up on her, so she had no idea what happened. We recogncile our differences and start dating again, and spend alot of time together over the summer between 11th and 12th grade, but again I got bored with her as I always tended to do with girls and broke up with her once more. Two months later I regret my decision but I find out that she is now engaged to my friend. Aparantly after all he had been through with all the partying and what not some how he descides to turn his life around he finds "jesus" all of a sudden, which I thought was odd for him. So suddenly we have practially nothing in common, and I am spending hardly any time with him anymore. Then after 12th grade I move to Tulsa, oh ya and they have a kid. So now everytime I go back to NC I am only their for like a week or two which is practically no time when you want to see all your old friends and what not. So I contact him now he is going to school to be a preacher, so even though I still consider him one of my best friends ever, we have NOTHING in common. So I contact him and of course he wants me to come stay with him and hang out, but its super awkward, cause all the stuff we used to do together he is now against, and on top of that he is married to the same girl that we both dated on and off forever, so its just a super awkward senario, and then on the other hand I can hang out with my other friends and party and drink and have fun and what not. I don't know why I really posted this other than I was looking through some old yearbooks yesterday and started to think back to highschool. It's crazy how people change and some don't.