Today...

I caught up with an old face.

An old part of the history that makes Captain Pugwash,

Ben Collins Jones.



I met Grace in two of my classes on the first day of my As Taster day at the extremely popular Sussex Downs College

Intially French where we just smiled, then immediately after i met this "Grace" in my drama class.

within weeks we became the go to couple to demonstrate the various tasks our by all means eccentric teacher set us, including a sexual tension, arguement, loved up, and out of love tasks.

There was once a time when i was in love with girl, it is incredible complicated the story but one of the best moments we had was when we had to complete an onstage kiss during our final piece.

(in hindsight i realise our teacher had inteneded to get us together from the outset)

during a full reheasral of our play for the first time she said right then Ben, Grace time for that kiss, have you done it before together? and we both looked a little sheepish. the started the scene and when the kiss came we went for it. and when it was finished we both became very aware that 35 other students had all stopped their plays to watch us. we both laughed and gracie patted me on the face and said "not bad."

three months later things escalated. a week after that me and grace didnt talk.

two years passed and i made a phone call to try and make the amends grace had tried so many times to do.

and she let me.

im thanful for that because i was told by a wise old dear that over your life you meet many great people but only 5 do you bond with to such a way that you love them. but not necessarily in love with them.

Grace is one of those people to me.

she has never recieved a proper serious blog before from me so this is it. an old friend.

a best friend.