trifecta of millennials.

a friend of mine and i go to SF to visit Anna. we stay with her and her roommate for five days. the first day it rained so hard that we stayed in. it was an awkward weekend. Anna had been having a rough few days with her ex and school and moving and seemed to be emotional, overwhelmed. i gave her shit, mostly about her ex because that is something she can easily take care of. tough love doesn't work on her. the following day or so, Anna, her roommate, my friend, and i get dolled up, smelling good and head out to the castro to see what the night has in store for us. Anna had been on her phone clearly having some kind of millennial text rage with her ex. i can't recall why my friend and i strayed and ended up at the lexington club. Anna asked us to meet he at the corner. she came in through the curb with three girls, none of which i knew but one looked familiar. Anna introduced me to Victoria. Victoria is tall, very pretty, and seemingly nice. i also remember Anna telling me she ...

Nicole and i still talked but i was much closer to Anna. one day Nicole asks if we could hang out and she comes to my house and we sit outside in her car getting high. we discuss Enrique's lack of movement in terms of him coming to visit her, his lack of commitment to the relationship, and his overall absence. and she reveals something about what she thinks is happening. my first reaction to this is that she's probably just super high and is being paranoid. i wasn't aware of how important that comment would be later in our lives. Nicole and i grow apart and Anna and me grow closer, continuing to hang out almost every weekend. Enrique developed a strong friendship; talking almost every day, some times all day. he had a few relationships and i would chat them up, unsuccessfully flirting. in 2012 or 2013 he met someone and his presence on facebook began decreasing. the next time i saw Anna, i asked about him and she mentioned Victoria for the first time. all Anna had said ...

at this anniversary party, Anna spent the night with Nicole, dancing and drinking the night away and taking pictures of everyone and of everything. everyone got massively drunk; Nicole won some contest and the winner got a bottle of vodka for our group. we all started taking chugs of cheap vodka that burned our throats and fucked with our brains and thinned our bloodstream like it was water. our group was one of the biggest of the night and definitely the wildest. fun was had, we all went home at 4am. almost immediately after this, Nicole, Anna, my best friend Ruben, and i begin a close friendship as a group. Anna and Nicole soon became roommates. all four of us began hanging out almost every weekend at their house, getting high and watching studio ghibli movies and katt williams. sometimes we would go out to the bar where Nicole was a bartender occasionally and where the owner would give us free drinks all while letting us listen to whatever we wanted to. the walls with decor Nicole...

how do you even begin writing about this? the names have been changed to protect the innocent or whatevs. it started with Enrique and Nicole. Enrique was a drifter; traveler of the world. he was tattooed, aries, a beautiful writer, a loner wolf. Nicole was a bright spirit; a photographer former law school student, libra. they met on myspace and rapidly developed a relationship online. things became intense fast and soon enough they were professing their love for eachother; planning weddings and having kids; they hadn't met eachother personally. Nicole and Anna met through Enrique. Enrique being a close friend of Anna he invited Anna and Nicole to hang out with eachother while he was away. they decided to meet up on the anniversary of a popular bar in Tijuana. this is also where i met Anna.