Jake Randolph in "Bourbon On The Rocks" Pt. 107

He just looked at me and smiled.

"To old friends," he said as he held up his glass flask.

"To old friends," I said, clinking my glass against it.

My mind went back to a time when Milton and I were skipping school to go to the pictures to see a Laurel & Hardy movie. We sat in the dark theater, hearts pounding as we scanned the blackness for the iron fist of the truant officer. We clinked our Coca-Cola bottles together and said, "To best buds!"

Time had made me forget just how close Milton and I were...