Hail to the King.
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Thread Topic: Hail to the King.
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I really dont understand why I am writing this. It's not for sympathy or for personal approval. I guess I started this thread for clearance. Here is where I will put my life lessons; the very things that shaped who I am.
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I guess I will start with the things that started me. I live with my grand parents. I have lived with them for as long as I can remember. I see my father about once a week, and I see my mother about once every 2 months. This fact has never bothered me. You dont miss what you never had and I have always grown up with things being that way.
My grand parents have always tried to do right for me what they never could do right for my parents. They try to take me places and get me to do things. They try to "culture" me like how they never could my parents. This may sound nice, but it has it's draw backs. While normal children were playing outside and learning to ride bikes and having fun, I was at the theatre, developing an appreciation for fine art. I learned how to ride a bike when I was 11. I had my first real friend that same year.
It wasnt that I was kept away from the outside world or home schooled or anything, I was just sheltered. Until 4th grade I went to a K - 8th Christian school. I felt like an outcast. I was the only child who didnt see the importance of going to church. While other kids were kneeling and praying with their hands to their foreheads like all the "good children" should, I was the only one pressing on my eyes so I could see the funny colors.
Religion has never really been a major part of my life. But it was the law for my grand mother. And she'd be damned if I wasnt brought up as a "good christian boy". My grand father, my dad, and my uncle were atheists, and my mother was a wichen. How the hell was I supposed to give a damn about god?
So that was my school life, I lived my own little life and enjoyed talking to myself, while my grand mother got to live her little fantasy that I was being raised properly. -
Next was the joke you could call a social life. Like I said, I had my first real friend at 11. It was my last year at that christian school and one day while I was being dragged to another musical play I glanced out my window as I was leaving and saw something that surprized me. Sitting in the tree of the house next to mine was another little boy staring back. The next day I sat at my window and waited for him to go back outside. I was shocked to see that two others had joined him. I told my grand mother that I wanted to go outside and she was shocked. She told me I wasnt aloud more than 3 houses away from my own and I wasnt aloud out of sight. At 11 years old I was being treated like a baby.
I stepped out and walked over to them. I was a fish out of water and they knew it. It turns out that the boy I saw in the tree the day before was named Keefry and he was in the same grade I was. The other two were named Andrew and Isaiah. Andrew was a year younger that us and Isaiah was a year younger than him.
That year my school shut down. It turns out that they had been lying about the amount of students they had. Out of 9 grades, we had less than 100 students. I was transfered to the local public school while most of the kids I knew were sent to other private schools around the county. I was sent to the same school as Keefry. -
We spent two years at that school. Keefry and I had different classes even though we were in the same grade. It turns out that Andrew didnt actually live near us, but he just visited his grand parents (my neighbors) on the weekends. After two years of seeing my friends on the weekends and making wonderful childhood memories with them, we headed to middle school. At the beginning of that year several things happened at once, I failed my first class, I had my first girlfriend, and I met Marvin.
They always say that middle school is a big change from grade school. They say taht its very difficult to adjust to. Considering that I was 13 with an intellectual capacity higher than most of my teachers, I found taking control of my situation very easy. I started by finding the most feared and hated teacher, and becoming friends with her. It wasnt hard. I learned from spending time in my "cultured life" that if you agree with someone and listen, but dont let the conversation go anywhere, that people will stop talking faster, but they will also feel like you cared and payed attention.
During the time I used to become an influential student, I was invited to go to our local zoo with Keefry. Little did I know that I wan not the only one being invited. Keefry had a younger sister, who's best friend had an older sister. That older sister's name, was Alayna. By the end of the zoo trip, her and I were laughing together and having a good time. Right before we left, she seemed like she wanted to ask me something, but she quickly changed her mind and acted like nothing happened. The next day, she called me and asked me out.
And lastly, I had Marvin. I had met Marvin at the end of the year field trip for 5th grade, right before middle school. He was the strangest person I had ever met. He was not only funny and random, but he was friendly and open. The first time him and I talked he spent a solid 2 minutes telling me about his squirrel AIDs and how a monkey with sun glasses had crashed his favorite blue bicycle. And he did it all in one breath. Marvin was awesome and he was my closest friend at middle school. -
xDDD I forgot how if you press on your eyes you see stuff. xDDD I haven't done that sense I was pretty little. lol good times. And cool story all around so far dude.
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Alayna left me after just a few months. There was no love loss. We never even really dated. She would come over to my house and we would sit in the basement and play mario cart. She forced me to go watch her perform in the local theater's kids performance. Normaly I wouldnt have had a problem with it, if it wasnt for the fact it was High School Musical. Afterwords I complimented her of course. Even though she didnt have a major part and was usually part of a crowd I still had to compliment her. It was the right thing to do. What was funny was that it actually peeked my interest. Keefry was now involved in sports and never showed up. Andrew still came on the weekends but things still got boring for 5 days out of the week. So the next time they had a kids performance her and I both signed up. During auditions, she got another crowd role, and I was immediatly bumped up to assistant manager. As luck would have it, my job consisted of me keeping the actors backstage quiet. I think part of the reason she left me was because of the hour and a half on both saturday and sunday I had to sit there and tell her to sit still and be quiet. I think the other reason that she left me was because she was uncomfortable even hugging me. I spent the rest of my middle school years single.
As I said before, Keefry got involved in football and baseball. I never saw him any more. I think my entire 6th grade year He had 7 weekends where he wasnt gone all day for practice or games. Andrew and I became alot closer over that time. Him and I hit a phase where he would come over as soon as I got home from school on friday and we would sit in the basement and play videogames until midnight, then watch a movie and pass out.
Isaiah had moved away.
At school, Marvin and I joined band. We both picked trumpets and were sitting right next to each other. He was better than me but I didnt care. I was with my friends and that is what mattered to me. We also sat together at lunch. Which is where he and I had fun exercising our random and incomprehesible blabber.
This is the way my 6th and 7th grade years went. Alayna and I stopped talking, Keefry was gone, Andrew became my best buddy, and Marvin kicked my ass at trumpet. -
8th grade was where things started to change. At the beginning of the year we had a new student. Casey Wheeler was smart, funny, friendly, and kind. We were friends before the end of her first day. She was my first real girl friend. Not dating girlfriend, but my first real friend who was a girl. I know I said that Alayna and I were more like friends but that was different. Casey and I hung out without the awkwardness of it being considered a date. She did what was expected at my school. She started dating a complete douche before she had a chance to realize he was a douche. Then she left him and moved to another douche. I think she went through 3 douches before she found Jake. I had known Jake since 6th grade. He sat on the other side of Marvin in band and was a friend, but not really a relevent part of my life until him and Casey got together. No one expected them to last, but they did. Things slowed back down as that settled and the rest of my life stayed the same except with two new faces.
Things picked back up after Christmas with the arrival of yet another new student. Jazmine sat right behind me in my 8th grade science class. Like Casey, her and I were immediate friends. Only one thing was different. Where Casey was calm and collected but willing to laugh a little, Jazmine was my twin. She was a spaz, she over exagerated everything and something about her brought out my happier side. Everyone expected us to go out and the thought had crossed my mind. The only problem was that I was scared. The last person I had been friends with and dated ended up hating me; I didnt want that to happen again. So I just became happy being her friend. We spent the rest of our 8th grade year as best friends. By the end of the year she was calling me her big brother and she was my little sister. Things were good. -
wow
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Ya, too much to read.
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that explains a lot..but why 'hail the king?'
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Wow Ork, I really relate to a lot of that. Plus good writing ^^
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