Wonder Gal and Super Webkinz
It's funny to think about now, but I wrote my first stories with him.
We called them "The Adventures of Wonder Gal and Super Webkinz". We wrote them in our daily journals, despite our teacher's protest over how we drew more than we wrote. "Wonder Gal" was a character of my creation--an all-powerful masked superheroine with a talking pet wolf. My first crush made "Super Webkinz", who was, as one could guess, a cat character from the Webkinz franchise. They were best friends. SW would get in all kinds of trouble, and WG would save him, and things would be great. By the end of the year, we'd filled twelve composition notebooks with comics.
At recess, he'd play Mario, and I'd play Peach at his request. We did this for two years, even after we weren't in the same classes. A cool friend group formed around us (full of people who, ironically, I can barely stand now).
We both obviously liked each other. He blew me a kiss once at recess, but that's as far as things went.
In fourth grade, he had family troubles, so he wasn't in school much. I only ever saw him occasionally on Club Penguin. Our crushes/friendship died during those months, and resilient nine-year-old me moved on to the next kid. Still, I read through our old comics all the time. It was cool that we made them together.
He came back the next year, but I never saw him, because we were in a new school with no playground. He moved away to Arizona a while later.
It's funny. I actually reconnected him a while ago, and we're completely different people. He's still Mario-obsessed, but he's also a huge Brony and Christian Rock fan, and he's into goth girls.
Ha, life's gotten messy.