My Friends

My Friends By Ben Lykins 5th Period

Family

Megan Lykins

Her name is Megan, but I call her Meg. She’s my sister. She’s 24-ish. We have been hanging out a lot more lately than we used to. She is currently single, but relationships come easy to her, so she isn’t too worried about it. She was born on June 14, 1985. She was born in Pennsylvania, near Amish country. Her cat’s name is Jax. Currently, she lives in Huntersville. She works at Modern Hair Salon in Charlotte.

I call him Cabe. He is in his last semester at UNC-Chapel Hill, majoring in economics. He was born on May 6th, 1987, so that makes him 22. Guitar is his passion. He started playing at around fifteen. He is also single, and looking. He likes anything to do with music, outdoors, or the army. He is thinking about enlisting in the Navy, parents permitting. He was born in a small town in Oklahoma.

Thomas Caleb

Kaely Her real name is Mary Kaelyn, but everyone calls her Kaely. She is eighteen, turning nineteen in October. She was born in the year 1990. She is currently a Freshman at Meredith College in Raleigh. She is dating Clint Lowder, who goes to NC State University. They have been dating for about a year. Kaely loves anything to do with music, but especially singing. She and I both were born in Albemarle.

Church People

Adam Tucker Adam and I met at church. We hang out a lot now. He is 17. He lives in Millingport. He is a junior at North Stanly High School, where he plays varsity football. Adam is dating Caroline Kimrey, whom he also met at church. He likes to fish and hunt. He wants to be an engineer.

Caroline Kimrey Caroline dates Adam Tucker. They have been dating for almost two years. She is a senior at Albemarle High School. Caroline is seventeen. She cheerleads for the football and basketball teams. She goes to my church, First Baptist of Albemarle. She wants to be a choir teacher.

Nick Stiller

Nick and I have been friends since about ten years ago when we met in church, but we started hanging out a few years ago. He is sixteen, and is a Junior at North Stanly High School. His birthday is sometime in April. He doesn’t play any sports, but he likes to hunt and fish. He likes chicken in his belly. He is also fat.

Sarah Efird

Sarah is my ex-wife (another inside joke). She is sixteen, and will be 17 on December 16th. She was born in 1992. We met at the church youth group when I was in the 7th grade. She goes to South Stanly High School, where she is a cheerleader. Tyler Belk and she have been dating for around two years.

School People

Chase Mauldin

Chase goes to Gray Stone Day School. We met during freshman prep last year, and have been friends since. He is fifteen. He plays baseball. He’s funny and easy to talk to. We don’t have any classes together this year, so its hard to hang out, but we still manage.

Carl Wagner

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Carl, Chet, or Delilah, he goes by any of these. He goes to Gray Stone Day School. We became friends in 2nd period English during Freshman year. He is fifteen. We don’t have any classes together either, but hang out during lunch and basketball. He gave me a job over the summer helping on his dad’s farm.

Everybody calls him Ham or Ham diesel. He is sixteen. We met when he came to Richfield in the seventh grade, and we have been friends ever since. He plays basketball, and sports are his life, those and video games. He is a sophomore at Gray Stone Day School. The only music he listens to is rap, and he would rather be going to Albemarle than Gray Stone.

Hamilton Deese

Hunter Latimer

Hunter is fifteen. She doesn’t have any nicknames. She goes to Gray Stone Day School. She is a sophomore. We had all of our classes together last year, but this year we only have one. We became friends in Spanish 1, and she “helped with the classes assignments. She runs cross country and track, and is good at both of them.

Jake goes to Gray Stone Day School. He is fifteen. His birthday is February 12, 1994. We met at cross country during freshman year, although now he sucks and does soccer. We don’t have any classes together, which also sucks. His other sport is track, or maybe tennis, depending on whether or not we decide to run anymore. The potter couldn’t make any pots because the fisherman ate all the palm trees. And pines. Both inside jokes.

Jake Wally

James

James just turned fifteen on August 23rd. He was born in 1994. James goes to Gray Stone Day School, and does cross country and track. He and I met each other during cross country. He is dating Bristol Weekly, who goes to his church. We have a few classes together. Transform! Pines, cooo, and woooow are all inside jokes for us.

Janna Featherstone Janna, or Janna banana, is a sophomore at Gray Stone Day School. We actually met at SPEC camp in the eighth grade. She is fifteen, and her birthday is on January 13th. She loves to run for some strange reason that I still haven’t figured out. She runs year-round, doing cross country, then winter track, then track. I seriously think that’s all she does, and yet I can still beat her. :P

Jordan Hartsell Jordan and I have gone to school together since kindergarten. We became good friends in the 7th grade. Jordan is fifteen, going on sixteen on May 15th. He was born in 1994. He plays baseball for Gray Stone Day School, where he goes to school. He and I created RAD, RAW, RAM, and RAY, all of which are inside jokes. He likes the Dodgers.

Kacey Medlin

Kacey and I went to preschool together at my church, First Baptist of Albemarle. She will be sixteen in November, and she hates it that I’m older than her. She came to my middle school in the fifth grade, then went to North Stanly High School, for a year, then we both went to the same school, Gray Stone Day. She runs cross country and track.

Karlen Lambert Karlen and I have gone to school together since kindergarten. She is fifteen. She will turn sixteen on April 2nd. She is a sophomore at Gray Stone Day School. She and I have been friends since we met in kindergarten. She plays volleyball and soccer, and is on varsity for both teams.

Mary Bergstresser Mary –Beth and I met when she came to Richfield in the 3rd grade. She now goes to Grayst Stone Day School, where she runs cross country and winter and spring track. She just turned fifteen on September 10th. She has not yet learned her roles as a women, or that she is fat beyond all comparison.

Taylor Neal

Taylor and I met at basketball camp the summer of our freshman year. He has been sixteen since June 24th. He was born in 1993. He is a sophomore at Gray Stone Day School, were he plays cross country and basketball. He plays varsity for the basketball team. His nickname is Manbeard. Or Beardie, depending on if he makes me mad.