After playing a full night of Grand theft auto we finished up at about 10pm, deciding it was a good idea for sleep considering tomorrow is Friday and you know, sleep is somewhat essential to living. I turned off my computer and just sat on my bed for a while, thinking about random things that Dan and I did today. Best day of my life? Yeah, I'd say so. I have to admit that I'm surprised that I have a best friend, I thought I would face life by myself… Not anymore! That makes me think, I have never really had a friend of the male gender before, I guess guys are easier to get along with for me…

Ok this is ridiculous! I have been lying here for at least an hour! Why can't I sleep!

My phone went off a few minutes later "Who would be texting me at this time of night?" I picked up my phone and read what was on the screen, 'I CANT SLEEP!' Of course, who other than Dan would text me. 'Same, my brain won't let me… ' 'Thank god you're awake Ren! I was feeling a bit guilty, I didn't want to wake you up or anything… you might have punched me at school tomorrow or something!' 'Why are you afraid of me punching you? MAN UP DAN! :P' 'I can be a wuss if I want…' 'Not if my mothering skillz can help it! :D' 'You are so random when you're tired!' 'You're so girly when you're tired!' 'Shut it Ren.' 'Night Dan :]' 'Night Ren ' and with that I put my phone down and finally began to drift into deep sleep.

I stretched as I woke up in the morning, I was in a surprisingly good mood. I went down stairs to find mum had made me and Kate some toast, Kate was already eating hers. "Morning Lauren!" "Morning mum! Hey Kate!" "Hey Lozza!" "Thanks for breakfast mum" "No problem sweetie" I took one bite then realised I was starving, scoffed the rest of my toast, then headed back upstairs. I had a shower, got dressed, went downstairs and grabbed my bag from my desk saying goodbye as I went. I left my house to see none other but Dan waiting for me. "Hey Ren!" "Hi there stranger!" I replied after I closed the front gate. "Shall we?" "You act like we're going to something formal, its school Dan, Nothing formal.." "I can say what I want… and I thought you'd be one of the people to be happy to go to school…" "Not most days, but that was because the day would be full of evil stares instead of laughter…" "Well, now you have a reason to be happy right? Am I a good enough reason?" "I suppose you'll have to do…" I say sarcastically, he elbows me playfully as we continue to walk to school.

This went on for a few weeks, I would wake up, after getting ready for school I would head outside to find Dan waiting for me. During the day we would laugh about how many stares we had gotten. In the afternoon we would walk home, do homework then play some form of video game until about 10pm then we would go to sleep. I like this routine instead of the old one I had, the old one had a lot more foot dragging and A LOT less laughing. Looking back my life was a very depressing one until now. "Ren are you in there?" "Wha- oh right…" My thoughts were interrupted by Dan telling me to focus on science because we have a big exam coming up. "Now class, as well as having the exam coming up, I'm afraid I will have to give you all a partnered project, nothing too elaborate, you need to make a poster that show all that we have covered over the semester, just a little bit of everything. It will be due next Friday." As usual, the second he said 'partnered' a bunch of people looked around and did the whole point or hand signal thing that people always do. I felt Dan elbow me, I turned to see he had his bottom lip sticking out giving me the puppy face. I couldn't help but laugh at him. "Pwease?" "Ok Dan" I said giving him a fake sympathetic face "Yes!" I smiled at his enthusiasm. How does he always manage to make me smile? I guess best friends can do that? Meh, how would I know that anyway? Me of all people.

"So who's house we going to Ren?" We were about to head home after school and we were going to get our science project done. "Mine?" "Ok, let's go then!" I laughed as Dan acted over enthusiastic about heading home "What's so funny?" "You're enthusiasm" "Fine, I won't be enthusiastic about stuff anymore!" He crossed his arms and stamped his feet like a five year old, I laughed and pushed his arm playfully making him lose his balance and fall over. "Ow!" I was laughing uncontrollably, so much so that I ended up falling over too. We probably looked like freaks lying on the ground laughing like mad, but we obviously didn't care. After a few minutes we regained composure, Dan stood up and helped me up. We started walking to my house, but I stopped abruptly and sprinted over to a bush. "What on earth are you doing?" "I Found A Lizard!" I said as I held up a massive skink. "That's so cool!" Dan came closer and petted the skink that I had found. After I put back the lizard we continued walking, and got to my house after about 3 minutes. As we walked in I dumped my books on the dining room table and went into the kitchen to get some chips and a few cans of soft drink (Aussie for soda) I walk back to the table to find that Dan has been standing there just looking around. "Want me to give you a tour?" "Sure! Hey where are your family?" "Mum has to take Kate to dance, they won't be back until about five" "Ohhh, I was wondering about that." After a quick tour of downstairs I went upstairs "And finally this is my room" I opened the door and walked in. "Woah…. This is so much cleaner than my room…." "Oh god." We laughed and went back downstairs to do our project.

Mum came home and chatted to us for a while before venturing to the lounge room where Kate was being anti-social. "Looks like we're done here, what now Ren?" "Wanna go upstairs and play some form of video game?" "Ok" So we went up to my room and played Blur for the next two hours. "Hey I better go, mum just sent me a text" "Alright then" We walked out to the front gate "I guess I'll see you tomorrow Dan" "You guess correctly" He grinned at me, but not a regular grin… a kind of devilish grin. He pulled me into a tight hug lifting me up off the ground. "Hey! Put me down!" He put me down, we laughed for a few minutes "Bye Dan" "Cya Ren" He walked off, and I went back inside to see he left his hoodie on the table where we had been working all night. "Meh… too lazy to walk to his house… I'll take it to school tomorrow" I took it upstairs and put it next to my bed as I laid down, drifting off into a nice peaceful sleep.