Eight Friends

I am beginning a story on eight friends. Here are the descriptions of four of them…

Friend #1

She is a high maintenance sista with a taciturn disposition. She hides behind paperbacks and sulky memories that have seeped deeply within her spirit. Her friend has become mundane speech about past relationships that have turned sour. The confessions she retorts are simply what she opts to reveal to her closest confidants. She strives to control what she fears the most. The music that fascinates her is heartrending love songs and morose jazz music. Her predilection in clothing is chic and tasteful hiding the pain she has endured over the years. The relationship she has with family is distant, yet frequent. The woman she calls a mother causes her more heartache than delight and her father is a rather aloof memory that rises every now and then beneath the ashes that are still burning within her. She is a woman that shuns those who help and embraces those who have ruined her cognitive faculties. Looking at her from the outside, one would think she has it all under control. Underneath the imminent body, the pair of sunglasses she recurrently wears and lip gloss, there is much to be desired.

Friend #2

He is caught between two personalities. There is no sign of disassociate identity disorder or schizophrenia, but he has mental problems. His self-esteem is rather low because he adopts the traits of his fellow peers, however, these peers are the bottom of the barrel. Behind the laughs and the smiles, there is nothing but a clone. His reflection is that of whatever happens to be around him at the time. He has no divergent behavior pattern of his own.

Friend #3

She appears to be kind, yet is rather narcissistic. The narcissicism is hidden behind a laid back attitude that she views as benevolent. Her fervor is for the next best conquest, but her desire is to sooth the solitude inside. She is savoir-faire and urbane, but extremely sly. Her enchantment is in the grief of others because of her conceit. She is a leech that sucks everything dry that will allow her to.

Friend #4

He is a conventional individual dealing with addictions to alcohol, smoking and pornography. Despair is beginning to set in because of his lack of tolerance to let relationships blossom. He walks around on top of the world, yet his world is crumbling everyday. He alleviates his tumultuous issues with a puff of a cigarette, a few rounds of shoddy liquor and some amateur sex flicks. The women find him lovable, yet discover he is more than they bargained for.

Life has many parts -

Last songs to play…
Groove Armada – Serve Chilled
G Trance Point – Kristall
The Surfers – Paradise Island
Brian Culbertson – Hookin Up
Pieces of A Dream – Night Vision
Massive Attack – Black Milk
Jeff Golub – Simple Pleasures
Greg Adams – The Crossing