Chapter One: Best Friends are the Siblings God Forgot to Give Us.
We've all been friends since we were little: the six of us against the rest of the world, and we knew that we would make it as long as we stuck together. And so far, we have.
Lucas and I have known each other the longest. Our moms were friends before we were born, and we were practically stuck together at birth. Peyton and Brooke were the next to join our group when we were all six. They had lived across the street from each other and become friends during a Mommy-and-Me class. Jake and Nathan were the last to be included in the group when we were ten. They were best friends who played basketball together. Of course, Lucas and Nathan already knew each other. They were half-brothers, but had never really spent a lot of time together until we were all put in the same class in 4th grade.
We referred to ourselves as the younger versions of the cast of Friends. OK, so we were weird. Who cares? You don't know us, so you can't judge us. But we really were like them, in a way.
Nathan and I were like Chandler and Monica. We tolerated each other, and got along really well, but never thought of ourselves in a relationship-type way. That all changed when we all went on a camping trip together when we were sixteen. All of a sudden, we couldn't be apart from each other any longer and we haven't been since.
Brooke and Lucas DEFINITELY had the Ross and Rachel category taken. They broke up and got back together constantly from the time we were thirteen until about two weeks ago when they got back together "for good this time". One good thing, though, is they don't have any babies yet, or any on the way, either. But he is a Scott, so give it time.
Jake and Peyton are like Joey and Phoebe, if Joey and Phoebe had ever gotten together on the show. They're both crazy, and not the smartest people in the world, but you gotta love them. We never expected them to get together. Jake was a bit of a player, and Peyton had awful taste in guys. But when it happened, we wondered why we had never thought of it before.
So that's us. Best friends since what seems like forever, about to take the biggest leap of our lives. One of the scariest things we could imagine. We are about to ascend upon our final rite of passage into adulthood.
Going to the movies to see an R-rated movie without sneaking in.
Just kidding. Had you going there, didn't I? Nah, we've been able to do that for a while now. Almost all of us are eighteen now. The only one left in "Kidland" was Peyton, and she turning eighteen in two days. But tonight, age doesn't matter. Age is just a number tonight, and who cares about numbers anyways? So as we line up together, the six of us holding hands like a tour group at Disneyland, we realize that we've made it. We've done it, and we've done it together. No one expected us to make it this far, but we proved them all wrong. This was our final victory, and no one could take it away from us.
"Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the graduating class of 2006!"
Author's Note: OK, I just sat down and started writing this a couple of minutes ago, and it all came to me. I love the humor in it. Let me know if I should continue.