Old Friends

Bumped into some old school friends today... some of my closest intermediate school friends actually, Steven Ly and Brenda Hao. I'm not sure how we became friends, but I eventually got roped into Steven Ly's posse of friends and as he was he quintessential politico-nerd of the school (being a geek was cool back in those days because of all the gang affiliations) I got caught in a bit of crossfire with the rest of the school. But we were all kids and we were all stuck together so it didn't stop me from making friends at least superficially (it was my intention those days to not get too close to anybody back then). Brenda was... that really cute girl that sat in front of me during social studies. I don't remember much besides that (like what we talked about exactly because we did talk...), but for awhile I looked forward to class just because of her. Guess its not surprising she didn't remember (or recognize) who I was. It's been practically 8 years since I've seen these people anyways.