It's a Love-Hate relationship

CHAPTER 12: I'll twist your bones in such a way you won't recognize yourself

Association is a very important aspect of all our lives. Without it, you know we would be living like sociopaths and loners busy binge-watching Netflix TV shows and movies and burning a hole in our pockets from all the pizzas and other junk foods. As a kid at 6, I remember my first fight – yes my first fight, you heard it – with Landon Winchester. Just as fancy as his name is, his background consisted of diamonds and gold and fame – you name it. He was some big shot businessman's kid and I couldn't stand his ever arrogant and demanding attitude. All it took was one pull of my poor braided hair (courtesy of three panicking brothers and a confused dad) and that was enough to trigger my 'child' anger and punch him square on the face. I don't even know I could punch that hard. It was honestly just a mild punch, you know?

Okay fine. I put all my strength gained from daily doses of Weetabix and dad's cranberry juice, into that punch.

Needless to say, I landed in the principal's office with no care in the world with my flustered dad trying to handle the principal who was on the verge of bawling his eyes out in the fear of Landon's father.

And ever since then, all the stupid kids in my class were high-key scared of me hence that turned me into a complete and utter mess of a child who always glared at everyone who stared and ate her lunch alone on the stairs. I never minded all that honestly. It was tiring to see tiny little girls with nothing on their body to show off, batting their eyelashes off in front of stupid boys and even offering to do them their homework.

How puerile.

Then when I finally joined 4th grade, I met Maddie and Austin. Maddie seemed to be girly at first but I never saw her doing stupid stuff like flirting with boys. Goodness gracious, how did those small girls even have the knowledge of flirting?

If I try to flirt, my first question would be something along the lines of, "Do you like bread...?"

No, I saw her always fighting with Austin – something she still does – and for an unknown reason, always eyeing the teacher's belongings. Weird but okay.... And then one day she just came up to me and introduced herself as a deaf seal from the long lost planet of Arang-

Arang- what now?

Whatever.

I found her mentally unstable at that time – turns out she noticed my weird behavior so she thought that she was supposed to be equally or weirder in order to befriend me. Or at least that's what she told me. I immediately took a liking towards her obviously and we are best friends ever since then.

After that, it's just been a kind of a blur, with all the dad stuff happening and coping with teenage stuff and what not. My life's been a rollercoaster with downs only and I'm starting to wonder whether it is really a roller coaster or a drowning Titanic. Making friends was...awkward, to say the least. Suffice to say, Maddie was the one and only true friend and reliable shoulder I had all this time.

Of course, there were the few storms in my life – Austin Woods that came with Maddie and Blake Daniels.

I met Blake a short while after Maddie came, and boy he wrecked my life. I hated his guts the first time I met him mostly because he was always after my awesome limited edition bag of Avengers, which was technically a gift since you know I can't afford that shit. He did everything possible for me to give him that bag and sadly to admit, I was mean enough to let him do all that. From holding my lunch bag when I was lazy (so basically all the time) to doing my homework as well – he should thank me by the way; I made him smart – I made him do everything but I never ever let him touch my bag.

After a year or so, my aunt's new dog ripped that fucking bag to pieces. But strangely, all Blake did was frown for a minute and then immediately he wrapped me in a huge hug and started screaming "Best friends!" all over the playground we had.