Having male companions has its perks

  when you're sixteen.

Everybody had crushes on the group's only girl

  but it was usually ignored.

We could lend anything to each other:

  MTG decks, sci-fi comics

  fantasy novels and D20s

I was screwed if I ever needed

  a tampon, or a place to crash.

It doesn't really matter-

  we all stopped being there for each other

in the end.