You met Eddie when he was 6. You were 4. It was the first time his mom got sick, he was waiting all by himself in the sterile white waiting room with a single toy to keep him occupied. You had a similar predicament, though you never said why you were there- to be fair, he never asked. You both talked for hours, and by coincidence you found out you lived on the same street. You've been best friends ever since. You stuck by his side through it all, his mom dying, his dad going to jail for the umpteenth time... but you had to stay when he moved to Indiana to live with his uncle Wayne. You haven't seen him in years.