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I am actually not going to do a list, even though if I was speaking out loud I would be. But the "Reasons" lists sound best when spoken, not read. I'll just explain, instead.

I met Steven towards the end of summer. One day I was driving around with Buddy and we decided to go to Sugar Brown's. Steven was sitting on the patio, and Buddy and Steven knew eachother to an extent, so we sat down with them.

I thought Steven was mean, but I vied for his attention.

Back up. I met Steven once before that, when I went to hang out with Nathan one night. Steven was recording and Nathan was just keeping him company, but he was very bored. I sat in my car with Nathan, then gave the two of them a ride to a gas station for drinks. Steven sat in the back, and, as I had Simon at the time (cries!), he made some comment about my back seat being hard to get a lay in. Nathan and I laughed.

Anyhow, a few weeks later when Buddy and I were hanging out with Steven, Buddy went inside to get a drink and Steven said something about the brief thing Nathan and I had had.

Immediately we were friends.

Nathan and Amy had multitudes of classes together, and he began to leech onto her. He used her for rides. It became far from uncommon to find the four of us, Steven because he was Nathan's best friend, me because I am Amy's, Nathan because he used Amy for rides, and Amy because she gave Nathan rides, at Sugar Brown's together.

If you look into my archives you can find something about a love triangle and how amused I was.

I'm not sure when it was, but sometime around there Steven and I became close friends. He dated Lyndsey. (Fuck Lyndsey, Idk what her problem is, but that's another story.) I still liked him. But I liked him with Lyndsey, too.

Then Dirk came onto the scene.
Dirk the Jerk.
Thank you Dirk, for ruining everyone's lives.
It can all be traced back to Dirk.

Dirk liked Lyndsey.
Dirk did all he could to steal Lyndsey away.
This upset Steven.
So Steven got high with us.
We, Amy, Katharine, and I, were not high. But he was.

That's when he started hitting on Katharine.

Two days later, Lyndsey broke up with Steven for Dirk. The Jerk. One letter off from Dick. Dirk the Dick. -ahem-

Steven was upset. But it was okay, we had a plan. A plan we had. The next week was Thanksgiving Break, and Katharine and Amy and I had planned on it being our sober action week. We invited Steven along on our quest for sober action. We decided to finish sober action week with a night of drunk action.

Steven would not be involved in the drunk action. He would be our designated driver. Steven used to be an alcoholic. We could not have that.

Then I decided I didn't want to drink, and he took advantage of that, and drank.

A lot.

What happens next doesn't really matter. All that matters is that he's changed. Now he drinks every weekend. And gets high. And I mean, whatever, more power to you, drink all you want, it's your choice, not mine.

Except it changes who he is when he's sober, too. Now all he can think about is where he's gonna get his next alcohol. Or when he's gonna get high again.

And how he can get Katharine.

Used to, he had the most amazing thoughts. Real thoughts, that were powerful, and provoking. They weren't about beer or liquer or weed. They were about life and the world and everything.

He told me once that he liked Katharine more than me because of her thought process. Because he and Katharine had a similar thought process.

Now he doesn't have much of a thought process at all.