{"id":3637,"date":"2018-08-29T14:21:35","date_gmt":"2018-08-29T19:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/?p=3637"},"modified":"2018-08-29T14:21:35","modified_gmt":"2018-08-29T19:21:35","slug":"my-old-school-part-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/2018\/08\/29\/my-old-school-part-two\/","title":{"rendered":"My old school (part two)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(This is a continuation of my last post, so if you want any of this to make sense, you might want to read that first.)<\/p>\n<p>As I have previously stated, I never really had a lot of friends growing up. I had some &#8220;acquaintances,&#8221; but looking back now, none of them were ever really my &#8220;friend&#8221; per se. I had one friend in second grade, but she moved away midway through the year, and it&#8217;s been a long time since I last had the chance to talk to her.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder what she&#8217;s doing these days?<\/p>\n<p>But that&#8217;s beside the point. I never really found my friends until around&#8230; ninth grade, I would say. I finally started to find a group of people like me: they had been ostracized by the rest of our grade, and they didn&#8217;t really have a lot of friends. That was when I finally found my good friends.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to make up names for them, so that they won&#8217;t be just known by everyone who reads this. There were Samantha, Gavin, Lorin, and Ray.<\/p>\n<p>Samantha was my best friend. We had been friends since sixth grade, and through time, our friendship grew stronger. I had defended her multiple times when people bullied her, and she did the same for me. We had each others backs, no matter the circumstance.<\/p>\n<p>Gavin was a pretty good friend; we started hanging out when he started dating Samantha. They broke up after a little while, but they stayed good friends. Gavin was kind of a know-it-all at times, but I didn&#8217;t have any problems with him. He was fun to be around, and he provided a lot of interesting discussions to our lunch table.<\/p>\n<p>Lorin. The only reason I hung out with him was because he was friends with Gavin, and I don&#8217;t think Gavin had it in him to just throw him out of the group. If I had gotten a say? I would have left him in the dust in a heartbeat. He was hardly ever nice to me. The only reason we were ever &#8220;friendly&#8221; was because we both liked Star Wars and the Harry Potter series. Other than that, we tolerated each other, at best.<\/p>\n<p>Ray was my other best friend; he actually also transferred to MSA, and he&#8217;s been a really good friend to me. We&#8217;ve both struggled with a lot of the same issues, both externally and internally. We have the same sense of strange humor, and I can usually count on him to make me laugh if I need to. I&#8217;ve only known him for four years, but the bond we&#8217;ve managed to grow is stronger than most of my other friendships.<\/p>\n<p>Honestly? I was sad when I had to say goodbye to Samantha and Gavin. It was a hard thing to adjust myself to, and I&#8217;m still adjusting to it. We used to be around each other every single day, and now I hardly ever see them. But honestly? I think that with time, we&#8217;ll be back in our same group as before.<\/p>\n<p>At least, I hope so, because I miss them. Every day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(This is a continuation of my last post, so if you want any of this to make sense, you might want to read that first.) As I have previously stated, I never really had a lot of friends growing up. I had some &#8220;acquaintances,&#8221; but looking back now, none of them were ever really my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/2018\/08\/29\/my-old-school-part-two\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;My old school (part two)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3637"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3637"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3676,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3637\/revisions\/3676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}