SURPRISE! It's Kris! No one's surprised are they?
It was unavoidable considering how long he's been in my life. P.S. That pic is from when we saw Voltaire last January. VERY FUN night. Kris and Sarah got smashed and Voltaire is such a lovely person. So wonderful with his fans, he stayed and talked and hung out with everyone after the show.
So yes, Kris and I met on the bus when I was in seventh grade, he was in ninth. My best friend Jake and I had taken to commandeering the very back seats on the bus for ourselves, an yet, we never got the very last seat because a boy was always there. He didn't look mean but he certainly didn't look like he wanted to be bothered by our hooliganry so we let him be. Then one day Jake decides to turn around and introduce himself. The boy just sort of stared in reply, he didn't give us a name but he was friendly after a minute and we all started a tentative friendship that day.
For about two months we didn't know his name. It became a game, every day we'd try and guess and every day he'd say we were wrong. After a time we knew his name but pretended like we didn't just for fun.
A year later and we started dating. Not terribly interesting but that's how it happened.
Now it's nine years since those bus rides. Nine years, of laughter and nine years of tears. Of moving and pets, and cars and divorces.
Whoa.
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