Friends

“We met in one very loud week and somehow managed to get it completely right. Years on, the house has changed hands twice and we have not changed at all.”

“We have not lived in the same house since those years and it changed nothing. The gaps between calls get longer every year and the calls pick up mid sentence.”

“No one made us family. We chose it, and we have chosen it every year since. You are the one I call first, with the good news and with the terrible news.”

“We were not born into the same family and it has never made any difference. You found the part of me that nobody else had even noticed was there.”

“Anybody can turn up for the parties. You turned up for the dull years too. The moves, the bad jobs, the weeks where nothing happened at all.”

“We are not related in any way that a form would ever accept as an answer. Every single person who has seen us in a room together has assumed it anyway.”

“Plenty of people will agree with me and most of them are doing it to be kind. You tell me when I am wrong and you do it without enjoying it at all.”