My Young Best-friend Ed

Ed and I always used to meet after school. First of all we would do our homework, so we have that out of the way and have time for the really important stuff. We would play the newest computer games; occasionally we would rock the Wii or Playstation. Both of us loved books and science fiction super hero comics, buy them trade them and see who would finish them first. Both of us wanted to become some kind of doctor, we would do operation together and cure all bad diseases. We would go to a nice college in England to study medicine and also some kind of aeronautical engineering, just in case we changed our mind and wanted to construct rocket planes. Both of us had slightly different dreams but we always combined them. I was to be one of those light saber dudes from StarWars just slaying off druids from the far future and he would be a knight of the white tree from Gondor killing dirty Orks all day long from the past. Our actor idol was Will Smith coolest guy ever: Bad Boys, I am Legend, The Fresh Prince of Bell Air must I name any more of his awesome movies. Pizza, yeah we always used to order tons of it when parents were out. Both of us wore jeans and some random t-shirt most of the time. We did more than just hanging around inside the house; we would go on the trampoline or play soccer or hockey without goals, most of the time it was me beating him though. I think he was making me the fool and letting me win most of the time.

Ed is generally speaking quite average size for a 15 year old young man. He has blue eyes and light brown hair, which he never combs. He never really wears any kinds of hats and he actually should be wearing glasses but he never really does. Ed is an only child and lives with his mother, Adriana and his father, Peter in a town called Wiesbaden about 35 minutes away from his school. The city he lives in has many shops and old churches and he always tells me that the Romans used to live there and that it has the best water in Germany. There are fairly many parks and forests near his house. He goes there often with his parents.

He rides his bus to school and has to get up at 6:45 every morning which really kills him during the week. He likes physical education but also says that it is a great waste of time, instead he could be learning about more important school things. Apart from that he likes all of his teachers and subjects. His favorite subject is history and probably maths “know about your past and challenge your brain” is what he always says about this. In school he talks to most of his friends about Movies, books and obviously video games. He actually used to do some school sports but has dropped them now because either he needs more time for his academics or more time for his video games.

Studying medicine is one of his greatest dreams alongside with going to a college in London, England. His greatest achievement would be living in an old English style mansion with and infinite number of books and an eternal life. I don’t really think that he even just might achieve this, but however he seems quite sure of himself.

In fact Ed knows quite a lot about space and our universe which never really comes into use and he knows quite a lot of useless facts. He has no posters in his room because as he says “it makes my room look like an advertisement on television”. He loves the Simpsons, so do I by the way and his favorite character is Abe Simpson because he thinks that his confusedness and randomness is just hilarious. He likes to play Super Smash Bros. Melee and Brawl, in melee he plays as Link or Kirby and in Brawl he plays as the newcomer Meta Knight most of the time or occasionally Pit. He isn’t bad at the game but I would not say that he is extraordinarily good, most of the things he does is based on talent rather than practice.

He has an ever changing set of vocabulary but there are few words that he constantly keeps on using like random, epic and indeed. He keeps on saying things like “that was epic” or just plain statements like “pretty cool”. “Did you know that there are theories that our universe is constantly expanding” or “the worlds termites outweigh the worlds humans 10:1” are just a few facts which he always tells me, my response is almost the same every time: “why, would anyone want to know that, use your memory for other things ”. He says that his favorite smell is the smell of old wood and paper which is like the smell of any old library.

Now, let me tell you one thing about Ed, he is a really lucky guy and when I say really I mean like insanely lucky. I remember this one time when his house was being built and I came with him to check out some of the stuff the builders had left behind and we were running around the place losing energy and there was a wooden plank with a nail hit through it facing upward. Of course it came the time when one of use stepped on it and it happened to be him and he stepped right one the nail and it went through the sole of his shoe and between his toes and right through the top. He pulled his shoe off and the only thing that was hurt was his shoe. I will just call that invincible if I may.