Born a Crime

always together. They were one
grade below me, but in terms of
popularity they were three grades
above me. Still I got to hang out
with them because I knew Johanna
and we had this thing from being in
different schools together. Dating
girls may have been out of the
question for me, but talking to
them was not, because I could make
them laugh. Human beings like to
laugh, and lucky for me pretty girls
are human beings. So I could relate
to them in that way, but never in
the other way. I knew this because
whenever they stopped laughing at
my jokes and stories they’d say, “So