Sharing Soda and Cigarettes

Once two strangers became two friends, over the course of summer’s night. Wonder of what the future might hold never crossed her young mind. Two friends were so different and yet always similar enough to favor the other’s company. She could conquer the world with him. Comic books shared, night spent with zombies on the tv screen. Horror from video games taken away with a shared mattress and shared rum. Stale memories stab at feelings that bring raw, cold tears. Numbing everything innocently still. Once two friends are now two strangers.