10k is a childhood friend of mine; we know each other existed but were not close until we were around twelve years old. Close, as in, close enough to know that we did not (and do not still) get along well. We could not stop bickering at each other and I remember his aunt once said that we will bring the house down if we live together. It is definitely an overstatement because we just happened to live together and the house we lived in was standing solid. By lived together, I mean we rented an apartment but occupied different bedrooms for a period of nine months.
It is in that particular nine months, our friendship had taken its toll. Till today, I do not know what had happened before and the next thing I knew was that 10k had taken a liking on me. 10k, being a normal adolescent with his hormone raged up, hinted to start a relationship over and over to which I rejected again and again. My only point to reject him was that we have clashed personality; we could not even agree over a tiny matter and we practiced a cold war every two or three days -please believe me- for pretty much the entire nine months period. To me, the nine months felt like ninety months; I was physically exhausted and mentally traumatized (due to an action which I shall not explain further). I guess he did not like this dampened situation better than I did, and to my euphoria he decided to relocate thousands of mile away. This is how we lost contact with each other, I swear it was an enlightenment moment.
Fast forward few years later, an episode of freaky occurrences start to spring up. One night, I suddenly dreamt of 10k. I thought it was weird because I have not talked or seen him and not even thought of him all these years and all of a sudden, he appeared in my dream. Imagine my shock when I received an email from him the next day. After five years of absence, he wrote one (nasty) sentence message the day after I dreamt of him. Well, he apologized the next day quoting he was drunk when sending the email; I simply ignored both emails for fear he might haunt me again. Few years later, I thought of him on a spur of moment. Still unprepared, imagine my shock when a mutual friend of ours called me the next day. Apparently, 10k told the mutual friend a staggering rumor about me and she wanted to confirm with me. Yesterday, I dreamt of 10k again! "it is Joseph, isn't it?" referring to whom I was attached to. Well I do not know what to expect tomorrow but, after going through them before, I think I will be in a less shocking state of mind.
I have the feeling that 10k is out there to ruin my reputation. I admit that I am slightly bias due to the latter dream, but I have an evidence of him circulating a false information about me involving a rich man.
