Saturday, September 01, 1990
Part 11 : A new chapterNearly 1 year had passed since i had stopped liking Torrence . After the june holidays , we got shifted and did not sit beside each other anymore . Flow of fate perhaps . In this 1 year , many changes had taken place . I was wearing braces now . I had hoped for this ever since i began my dental treatment when i was 17 . I was on my way to a nicer smile and straighter teeth .
This past year also saw alot of changes in the company i kept , the friends i mixed with . I had a new best pal , and his name was Rayner , Rayner Cheng . How we 2 became close pals still remains a mystery to me .
I remembered the first time i spoke to Rayner in class soon escalated into a small arguement . I have forgotten the reason for that small conflict , but i knew i didn't talk to him much since that incident , till the following year . I had decided to leave my current group of friends . They were more interested in playing and piercing earholes then studying . Always staying out late and in bad company , i knew it would do me no good if i stayed on . Sure i would be in the cool group , but at an extravagent price . That was how i left my primary sch group of friends in Spirit High . At first i was lonely . Often eating alone during recess . But then i noticed how lonely Rayner was , or maybe he noticed how lonely i was , whichever the case , we started hanging out together . Maybe the biggest reason why we clicked was because of basketball - bb . Rayner was an ace sharpshooter , his jump shots were always leaving onlookers in awe , and opponent in tears and he shot in goal after goal after goal . We played bb after school almost everyday .
Even thou we hung out , Rayner and i didn't share much personal stuff , or rather he didn't . As a result , i thot maybe i wasn't as close as Rayner as i thought i was . Then 1 fine day , during a free period , as we were playing checkers , Rayner suddenly told me his mother was critically ill .
it was then did i realise we were close alright .
Soon we 2 were inseperable , often going everywhere together . And the strange thing was , Chuannie , Xiao Hei and many of my old group of friends tried coming close and being part of the group that me and Rayner had created . But we 2 didn't really like their kind of lifestyle , and so we left , and each time we did , it was only a matter of time before they came back .
Rayner and I are still good friends till this day .
End of part 11
x penned @ 11:50 AM