Looking Back in Time (continued):
How about you just pick”. He pulled out some people. “Would you like some juice? I have got all the flavors!” “Yes, I will take, hmmmm, maybe apple….?” “Yes,” he said as he handed me a juice. “Now I will pick out some of your best friends, you know, just for memories!” I spat out my juice, “w–what?” I said, shaking. “I had friends?” “Oh, well of course! Why wouldn’t you have friends?” “Any– way, just, just read the names and where they are now!” I sat there in shock, I could not believe everyone, I did not have friends! What was everybody playing at? He started, “Ahem, the first friend that you ever had at this school was named: Trony Runts, Trony now works at Apple, he makes a good amount of money, the Apple location he works at is the one in Bay Street Mall; and what a fine man he is….
Any way the next- whatever are you doing, boy?” “Oh, I’m writing everything down, I feel that I remember things better if I write it down.” “Ah, okay, let us continue! “Wait, how do you know everything about these people, like how did you know that Trony makes a good amount of money and works at Apple?” “Well, I still do get a lot of mail from a lot of people in this file and Trony writes practically every week. Next we have Burke Wong, he was one of your dearest friends too! He works at the Peats Coffee, I think the Park Street location. Ok, those were your two friends, I mean you had other friends, but though we're your best. So, that must have been those boys that were on the playground bullying me into doing that trick… “Now here we have a very nice girl of the name: Sophie Joncalla, she was always nice to you I remember! She works at a nail salon! The next person…..” I sat there for many hours, listening to him tell me about some of my classmates when I was young. He droned on and on… I felt like he would never stop, but I needed to listen, I needed the truth.