Used to beef with this guy in high school. We were both on the basketball team, we had bullied the same nerd. We even dated the same girl at different times. At some point, we drifted apart—me with the theater kids, him with the druggies. One time after a game, I went to Sonic with the team and caught him hitting a dab pen in the bathroom. I called him out, slammed the door, and told the guys. Someone snitched to the coach. Next day, Eugene was gone. Never saw him much after that.

Fast forward a few weeks ago—I’m visiting my hometown. Guess who I run into? Eugene ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Prime. Turns out he's helping his church and turning his life around. We exchanged numbers, started playing Counter-Strike, and reconnected. Looking back, we had a lot in common but never wanted to admit it. Funny how life works. I’m genuinely glad we crossed paths again. What a good guy.

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Back in college, me and some friends lived a house we rented for a bit. Every once in a while we'd throw house parties, and one time this guy (never learned his real name) showed up. No one knew him, but he seemed chill and he brought like 10 six-packs of Michelob Ultra Tuscan Orange Grapefruit so we were happy to have more alcohol. I didn't recognize him but he kept claiming to be in the same classes I was in and that he knew me, heven knew all the professors names. Later in the night when things died down I let him use my PC cuz he wanted to show me something and he deleted my NGU IDLE save. I think that was when he also added my steam profile? idk. I was raging but I didn't wanna seem like I was raging over a computer game, so I let him sleep on our couch. He was gone when I woke up, but we still had like 8 of the six-packs of Michelob Ultra Tuscan Orange Grapefruit, so that was pretty much all we drank for the next month. I also never saw him in any of the classes after that