Mikey (L)

Michel Catarina Romano . Mike ! My ultimate best friend . We met about a year and a half ago, at the skatepark . (Our "home") . He was always with Sidney, another guy that I usually talk to . Me and Mike started talking, well, obviously because of skateboarding, but there was something different about him . He was really kind and helped me whenever I needed some tips about a trick . One time, I went out with some friends of mine, and found Mike after he went to Prom with his girlfriend . (Un)-Fortunately, they broke up that night because he cheated on her . He was completely drunk and we started talking . It was that night that I found out his whole name, which I thought was hilarious because he has a girls' name . Catarina . He'd fall over while he was sitting down and would just make everybody laugh . As we were walking towards the Taxi rank at the end of the night, Mike wanted to prove that his shoes were too big my kicking them up into the air . He turned to us and shouted "Look at my shoe!" , and kicked it so high, that it ended up on top of a roof, which had a lot of bushes on it for some reason . He desperately tried to climb up to get it, even me and my friends tried after we got up from off the floor we had layed down after laughing so hard, along with the rest of the guys . After a long and failed attempt to get the shoe, we continued to walk towards the Taxi rank and explained the situation to some english guys that were there . Ruben, one of the guys that was with Mike, decided to tell his version of the story . The only problem was that his English wasn't too perfect, and managed to say "His, uh, Shoe, is in the, Jungle !" . I'll never forget that night .
When school started, I found out that Mike was also studying there, and we started hanging out (along with my usual group of friends) . Well, after that, we became inseperable . People started to think we were going out, which we weren't ... We just became really close friends . We were always together, we'd bunk off school to go hang out in the cafe or in the skatepark . We'd get drunk and high together, probably every day . But it was fun !
He was probably one of the prettiest guys in school . Tall, skinny but fit, skater-punk style . He'd usually let his little beard grow, which would always go a kind of auburn-ginger colour . His mom is portuguese, and his dad is Italian . Divorced . He has a younger brother and a younger sister, also very pretty like him, but with darker hair . You could kind of say I loved him, well I still do . As a friend . He is the most amazing person in the world . I can always count on him, no matter what . He even loves the same music as me . Wherever we went, we'd go together . My boyfriend at the time didn't find this too interesting, and Mike's psycho ex-girlfriend didn't either . We'd just laugh at the situation . Mike taught me how to live ! God, I miss him .



Best friend <3 (I wrote this last summer)