Josh - The Day We Met (Part I)

I befriended a young author some years ago. We chatted briefly about a few things, and he submitted this at my request for an account of something special. It was a fascinating story, which sadly had not been shared until now. It will come rapid-fire in short parts over the next few days. Enjoy!!

E~

[ I wrote a book a while ago about us, but yeah, I'll write it out from scratch... =/ ]

 Umm.... I use to go skating ALOT, I was part of the hockey team and use to be able to do tricks and flips while on inline blades. For school sport we went to the skating rink, I was the only grade 10 allowed to go with the grade 7's because I knew the owners of the rink. lol I was there almost everyday of course. 

 While I was there this young boy named Guy saw me skate and thought it was awesome. So he begged me to teach him, I told him to come skating on a Friday night and I would. A few weeks later I saw Guy and his friends walking past me at school. He came up and high fived me, his friend Tully being the hypo kid he was starting telling me all these pointless facts I really didn't care about. And then there was his other friend. He had his head down the entire time... I felt sick around me, I didn't like him at all, he made me feel terrified and I had no idea why. He looked up at me and I felt that I was going to pass out. He quickly looked away and walked off. Guy then looked at me and said, sorry about him. Josh is in a weird mood... His name was Josh..... And the entire day that name stuck with me. I went back to school the next day and he passed me in the hallway, he very quickly turned his head away from me and quickly walked off. I don't know what it was about him, but I felt as though I HAD to get him to speak.

  After school one day I was talking with my mates when I saw Josh walk past, I called out his name and told him to come over and talk with us. He walked toward me and then straight past me, I heard him sniffly as he did. My friend Pedro looked at me and said, "Was he just crying." I chased after him and kept telling him to stop and talk to me. He ignored me and kept walking. Eventually I grabbed him a slammed him against the fence and said WHAT IS WRONG!!! He was crying silently, tears rolling down his face. He looked down to avoid eye contact and I noticed his scalp was red raw and bleeding. He muttered, "I was dragged." I was to stunned to have a tight grip on him and he ran off. I chased after until he got into his mother's car. She was on the phone while he cried in the back, I heard her scream at him to shut up and grow up. I formed a fist so hard my nails pierced my skin. I ran back into the school and found some grade 9's laughing about how the dragged him across the oval by his hair. I threw one of them against the wall and told him if he ever laid his hands on Josh again I would make sure I dragged them across the oval by their balls. They laughed at me thinking I was a joke. I don't know how I looked then, but I felt anger just build inside of me and it obviously showed. His eyes suddenly went from being tough to this scared child. I told him to fuck off and not to come within 2 yards of him and he just stood there in fear. 

 That afternoon I sat at home worried to death about Josh... I was getting dizzy with worry. I then picked up my phone with this feeling it would ring. I still can't explain it, but that was just one of our gifts I guess. A few second later an unknown number called, I don't know how he knew my number, or even how I knew it was him. 

 But I answered the phone with, "Hey Josh." He was as puzzled as I was that I knew, lol. He had called Guy who got a number off his older sister to call someone in my grade to yeah. You get the point. But he got it. He was still crying when he called me, and I told him I'd make him happy again. We talked for 7 hours, even while eating food and watching TV. Funniest part was that he was happy after the first 5 minutes. lol 

to be continued - 

CG