At least I liked to think we didn’t. We were still best friends and spent a ton of time together, but high school pulled us in different directions. So it was different. I hung out with the swim team more and more, and while Katie came to every one of my meets, she didn’t share the same friendships that I did with my teammates. She was an extraordinary artist, and the artist types that she hung out with weren’t my friends. I don’t know; it didn’t feel strange. I guess we became comfortable in not having to constantly be near each other. It was fine until Jeremy Adkins asked Katie to the prom. He was a senior swimmer, so he was used to seeing her at the meets, but she was a sophomore. It just didn’t seem right to me. She said yes and suddenly Jeremy was buddies with me, even though I was JV, and the seniors had nothing to do with the JV team. I should have liked my newfound prestige, but I hated it. About a week before the prom, Katie had come to say goodbye to me after a meet and hung around a bit to talk to Jeremy.
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