Friends Like These

Such friends, our Clapham Junction real estate is considered one of the worst places in southeastern England. Even if I return home from junior high school, my heart screams until my knees knock on the door and I safely enter the house. I have lived since I was born. Most of the children I attended school lived in the same place, so it seemed that the police always had troubles.

I did not have such a friend. In elementary and junior high school, I took a series of "best friends", most of them lasted one year, probably two years, then began with a drama before puberty, and the league moved. When I was a high school student, my best friend was a group of girls I was not convinced that she really likes me. It was even better. I always have a feeling of "marking", I hope one of them will pick the best I like.

Until I read Marlena, I remember a short story I wrote 10 years ago. This is the first person stories about a pair of high school best friends. Like Marlena, my best friend drowned. I tanned her, but in reality it is not taking himself to a reservoir, but this reservoir is based on my best friend in real life and I am driving on a wet summer night It was. Even then, I knew that the short story of finishing character's suicide is almost inevitable, and of course - everyone in the class said too much. My professor told the anecdote about the author who said that you encountered three suicide or murder on your writing career and you must use them wisely. "Of course I am 24 years old, I am remembering this story is not that good, but 100% of the value of these characters is one of them" I remember thinking at that time.