Our friendship started out pretty wierd for me. In our first day in high school we sat next to each other in Science class. He walked up to me and said,"Hey Andre, good to see you, man. Isn't it great that we're in the same class."
Now I had no clue how he knew me which was really freaking me out because he seemed to know me pretty well. After a while though I stopped worrying about it and the two of us became friends. It took him a while to get used to me and my sense of humor but after he realized that I was just joking about things and that 90% of the time I'm full of sh*t, he mellowed out. Looking at him now it seems that my early attitude kind of rubbed off on him.
During our Freshmen year we raised as much hell as humanly possible. The two of us along with a girl named Molli Volk formed the Triangle Of Terror as we called it. We always talked, disrupted, or just plain and simply aggravated the class.
Manuel and I also ended up in US History together where we did the exact same but only with his Posse buddy, Kevin Davis, taking Molli's place.
After that year the two of us were never in the same class again. I guess the school learned from their mistakes. We continued to hang out all through high school and we continue to be friends even though he has moved out of the Wastelands of Texas.
His friendship is one of the longest and most appreciated ones that I've had in my entire life. Hopefully it will stay that way for years to come.