Ah yes, I remember the neighborhood kids well. The first set were my best friends who lived across the street from me. I swear back when we were kids, we had the best times a kid could ever have. Playing video games, watching cartoons/Snick, pretending to be our favorite superheroes, etc. But truth of the matter is that eventually we all had to go our separate ways, turns out most of their parents were assholes and eventually the kids followed in their footsteps.

The other set were up the block, they were my other friends from school. Long story short one of them ended up in rehab and the other two moved away.

...I know there were some unpleasant memories associated with the neighborhood kids. And that towards the end, we really left on a bad note. But I'll always remember the good times we had growing up and I know somewhere deep inside of them, they're doing the same thing. Because those were some of the best times of our lives.

I know exactly what you mean. Middle school especially really changes kids. I knew a lot of kids that were really nice that turned into total assholes later on. I think a lot of it has to do with them getting around the wrong group of kids. I saw kids lives get destroyed because they got around the wrong crowd. The more innocent kids tend to fall prey the worst as they tend to be more easily influenced. I got a lot of harassment from the neighborhood kids later on because I wouldn't follow them. I knew the path they were going down and I didn't want to go there. So many of them are in jail to this day and even couple of them are dead.