Note: All names have been changed for privacy purposes.Ethan moved here from New York City in the eighth grade, and it was then that I met him. I remember thinking that he had very nicely groomed hair for a thirteen year old. I didn't take any interest because he was preppy and polite and positively white-collar, and at that time I was going through my hippie phase and was looking for, well,...

Note: All names have been changed for privacy purposes.Dean and I met our freshman year of high school, but didn't really get to talking until around junior year when we became fast friends over a shared love of Neon Genesis Evangelion and King Krule. Our relationship became more complicated when, during finals week, Dean took me to the woods to smoke and confessed that he was suicidal. He then...