Started When We Were Younger Novels & Stories

“We are.” The craving had only just begun.

my dad was saying nostalgically, and my mom gasped in excitement. "Yes, I remember! How did it start? It was… Be young…" she tried. "Be stylish, be young forever, be Josh Carter," Joshua said, and my parents also joined in by chanting an announcement from decades ago, and then the three of them laughed as if they were remembering that good time. "My God, you guys are a bunch of old people," I commented, since those things had happened before I was even born. "It was a good time, babe," Joshua replied, and my parents agreed.

We were determined to figure out what and of course, how to go about getting it. We had known one another since grade school although our deep friendship wasn't forged until our freshman year in high school. By the time we were seniors, were so wild and popular that we were dubbed the “Thrilling Three”. It caught on and stuck. There was never a dull moment. We missed that part of our lives. We weren't trying to relive or rekindle our untamed youth. We were simply trying to spark up our present lives.

I said and we entered into our new house together. It was the first chapter of our beginning or the start of a doom.

Our passionate fight Began.

I shook my head fondly and reached for one photo, Atlas and I were smiling there, we were barely six years old and it was someone’s birthday. “You know, when Papa and I were younger, we used to have festivals,” Leo scrunched his nose, “Festivals?” “Yes, birthday festivals! We held everyone’s birthday on the same day, once a year!” “Who’s everyone?” Lily pouted. I stopped, recalling my time at the orphanage with Atlas. With my chewy. “Me and Chewy—” “Have you already finished packing your bags? Or are you trying to brainwash my kids first?”

He still wanted me to give in. “It started when I was seven…”

You still look like a movie You still sound like a song My God, this reminds me Of when we were young Let me photograph you in this light In case it is the last time That we might be exactly like we were Before we realized We were sad of getting old It made us restless It was just like a movie It was just like a song When we were young When we were young When we were young When we were young We used to sing together, we had voices that sounded so good when combined. Our parents thought us to sing when we're locked inside the house, mainly, when there was a war between other families. Her mother, she's good at instruments, while mom, she's good at singing.

𝗲 𝗵𝗮𝘀𝗻'𝘁 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘆𝗲𝘁 𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝗜 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗹𝘆 𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝘁. 𝗪𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘆𝗲𝗱 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗮 𝘄𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗲, 𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗼𝗹𝗱 𝗺𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗿�

“We've known each other forever, since before I can remember. We went to the same daycare, the same schools, we all graduated from Manhattan High School for Girls just before… before it all started. In fact, though we never talked about it, this trip was going to be our last hurrah as a group before our lives tossed us in different directions.