The first I met through the gifted program in Middle school. We were put into groups and were asked to translate a bunch of Dutch <.< There were also kitkats given out. The point of the exercise was to do with Cognates and how you can get the rough meaning of a sentence if the language is similar to your own. This was about 7-8 years ago <.<
We were friendly rivals throughout school, Not like the asshats of pokemon rivals (gary) but friends in a competition <.< We were pretty evenly matched on a lot of things for quite a while, so there was always the drive to try and outdo each other heh <.< I have a lot of fond memories of simply playing or wandering and getting into mischief, typical childhood things >.>

One time we were supposed to be going back to his house for dinner after school and the asshole busdriver wouldn't stop at the bus stop for us. So we ended up getting off at the next one and having to walk a few miles through some fields and lanes that neither of us particularly knew well. We made it though, but it was good fun lol.

Then as Highschool began we started to show different aptitudes for different subjects, as you would expect <.< He excelled at things like Maths and Physics whilst I was better at things like Biology and History, but things continued to diverge along those lines and whilst he excelled at academics he wasn't the best at dealing with people. Such as irate teachers, malicious Neo Nazi Fuhrers (A story for another time) and classmates which became my specialty <.<

So essentially whilst we were both top tier for the academics, he went further ahead than I and I became better at dealing with people and leading the group. We also took up Japanese when it was offered to us in a Spanish lesson as it seemed like it could be quite interesting and different. It certainly was and we spent a few years going to another school after our school to attend the lessons <.<

By the time we reached sixth form, it was fairly clear that he was going to be dealing with hardcore maths and physics and I was going to be dealing with humans <.< My plan was to go into medicine buuuut then I fell ill and had to leave so that was that and now I'm going to be a Psychologist instead >.>

I don't see him much now that he's off to university, but when he returned home over the summer it was great to see him and even though it had been about 18 months since I'd last seen him it was if it was only yesterday hehe >.>

Bloody hell that's long and it's only one of them. .-.
Reminiscing is fun.

My other best friend I met in my last year of middle school, he transferred in from another one and we quickly became friends through a mutual love of violent games and films
I have a lot of fond memories of going to his house after school and playing GTA:SA, GTA 4, Prototype, if he ever reads this... even Far Cry 2 ;_; and watching all kinds of wonderful films, like one of my alltime favourites - American Psycho -

We also had a lot of fun at school, avoiding lessons like the plague and getting it all done in five minutes outside of it (In the library) to then spend the rest of the hour on Not Doppler lol. And this is where the story about the Neo Nazi fuhrer would be relevant <.< but the short version is that there was an unnecessary amount of trouble caused by one of the staff at the school and we managed to outplay them at their own game on numerous occasions eventually winning the war when the Headteacher sided with us e.e

He went to a different sixth form to myself so for a time we didn't see each other as much as in high school but then when he had finished and I'd left over poor health we now get to meet up once or twice a month to play games/watch films and chat haha.

We went to see The Raid 2 in the cinema when it was airing in bongistan, and that was just glorious. Two hours of the most wondeful carnage ever created to grace the screen, with a good story and none of the depraved shit that always ruins such wonderful violent films ;o;

It easily took on the first film and American Psycho for being in my favourite films ever category <.<