Four Is Not a Crowd

Was chatting with my online friend G today, and suddenly remembered many things from high school.

For some reason, at different phases in my life, my friends always seem to come in threes, so I’m always a part of a group of four. Even in elementary school, this was the case. In college, too.

In high school, for a long time, my best friends were R, W, and T, who were also friends with each other. We were in many of the same classes together, and hung out all the time after school.

Sometimes, before homeroom or in between classes, the four of us would walk side by side in the hallway. Sometimes after school we would all go to R’s house to hang out.

The high point of our friendship was sophomore and junior year. W and I walked from the school to the library nearly every day. T and I had lunch together. R and I took gym and gossiped about everyone else.

Occasionally we would have fights too. R was sometimes mad at W or T for little things, but the friendship continued.

In junior year, even though we saw each other every day in school, R and I began spending a lot of time writing notes to each other. W and I soon began doing the same too. We wrote long, rambling letters every day. When there were snow days and no school we would fax the letters to each other.

We numbered those letters, and I still keep them all in a box. I think I have over 200 letters from R in the end. Still remember reading her notes during class.

And W – still remember her nice handwriting in Chinese, just like she herself, thin, neat, pretty.

Wonder what these friends are doing now. We all went to different colleges and gradually lost touch. I remember that T wanted to be a business woman, and W wanted to go to medical school. Are they following their dreams?

Recently, heard that R is now a devout Christian (she wasn’t in high school) and about to marry a minister. Heard that she is teaching part-time. I remember that she has always liked children.

Hope all of them are doing well – my friends who spent so much happy time with me!