ex and drugs were in the least fairly popular coversation topics during my junior high years

Yeah, conversation. And we had a couple knocked up girls too, but I figure a lot of it was just talk.

I dunno, this book was like one thing after the other after the other and felt a little like an after-school special. Like he coincidentally hung out with all the school screwups, only they were also cool.

was one of the reasons I started avoiding people I'd known prior.

That's more of what the more intelligent kids I knew did. I think I went to one party, because the college kids at my movie theater invited me, and I remember that it sucked really bad and left early. XD

~Cendri