Hell, now that I think about it, I haven’t liked a guy as much as I did this one from my senior year in high school. The funny thing about him was that we never even dated. I’m not even sure if you could define us as real friends. We had random hallway conversations, and then I later tutored him after his math grade threatened to have him benched. Eli Brooks. He was the school’s it guy. Polite, charismatic, with a good sense of humor. A solid trifecta I haven’t been able to find since graduating a decade ago. Somewhere in between the late nights and textbooks, I grew really attached to his
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