Weeks passed and turned into months. I finally made Tsubaki proud by branching out. Liz and Pati turned out to be cool—scratch that, awesome—friends, and we started hanging out more and more. BlackStar, though obnoxious, proved to be one of the most loyal guys I had ever met, and he treated Tsubaki very well. Kid, Liz and Pati's friend, was fairly calm and smart most of the time, and he was really fun to talk to, but he had occasional OCD attacks in which he madly tried to make everything he saw perfectly symmetrical.

And Soul became one of my very best friends. He never brought up that humiliating night when we first met, and for that I was grateful. He was super loyal to his friends, no matter how it might affect him later. For the most part, he was pretty nice, but, as he was a teenage boy, he still complained and spouted irritating quips sometimes. But he always made time for his friends, and he was really funny, so that made up for his less-than-amiable qualities.

When Prom came around, Soul and I went as friends with the others, and had a blast. Tsubaki got her first kiss from BlackStar, and Liz and Pati put the most dirty dancers to shame.

Then, at graduation, I finally realized something that surprised me. My senior year had been, without a doubt, the best damn year of my life. I couldn't wait to see what the rest of my life would be like, with friends like mine. Because with friends like mine, I had learned that anything at all was possible.

I took a huge leap of faith, trusting that many people, but I didn't for a moment regret it. Sometimes, the risk was worth it, and this time was no different. That risk helped me build amazing friendships that were sure to last a lifetime.

Alrighty, that's the end of this one, but I'm considering a Part II. What do you guys think? It'd be a few years later, from Soul's POV