Some friends are like leeches, absorbing your life and all the things you care for away. Some friends are ruthless, mean and inconsiderate. Some friends are shameless, and are like parasites. Some “friends” shouldn’t even be called “friends”.
Here let me explain: (Long so bare with me)

When I was in my 4x (around 42), I met this “friend” (whom I’ll name George, so there’s no confusion). Actually I’ll even explain the circumstances in which we met:

I was in Perion, heading towards the Burning Zone, when I pass the storage guy and a group of other maplers just hanging out. Leaving the area, I found that one of the maplers there was following me. So I stopped and just “goofed” off. This guy…around level 44 at the time, a cleric wearing CS clothes, became “George”. So, after F5ing for a while, we decide to party up and go to the Drakes (the ones in the dungeon).
But after being there for 10 minutes I had to go…but also didn’t want to ruin this “chance of friendship”. So, I said something on the lines of, “I need more friends like you…to train with…” George got my hint and buddied me.

That was my first experience with George. Afterwards you can say we became fast friends. Every time he gets on, he’ll come to my channel and stalk me. Whenever I see the notice, “Blahblah is in your channel”…I know that he’ll be where I was in a matter of minutes. And to me, that’s a good thing. Training at Lupins/Z. Lupins, with a cleric around helps.

We partied and he helped me with that Cursed Doll quest. It was around this time when he started his Assassin. I can still remember when his assassin was level 9…I helped him train and he wanted to pay me for my efforts. But hey, what are friends for right?

He sorta quit on this cleric and played more on his assassin, that’s when I deleted his cleric from my BL and added his assassin. We were still really good friends, I even met some of his friends that he knows in RL. Whenever he whispered me, I would come, usually to just hang out. He would make me laugh and I would have a good time, forgetting about training for a while.

Well, all was good. We continue helping out each other and when I reached 5x, I lend him my Adamantium Avarice.

And here we begin the downfall of this story:

It was shortly after I lend him my avarice that I finally got myself a set of steely. And yes, being me (unfunded) I had to show off. He was happy for me but then later on, he asked to borrow it. I was reluctant, and his replied was that, if I could trust him with the avarice, I should be able to trust him with steely. But in my mind, I was like…avarice = 450k; Steely = 7.50M. Those two shouldn’t even compare. But nevertheless I let him borrow for 5 minutes. And yes true to his word, he gave it back to me. Then I was glad, and was happy thinking he could be trusted since he gave me back an item that was obviously important to me.

After that, every few days or so, he would ask to borrow them again, sometimes keeping it over night. But the following day I would have the steely safely back in my inventory.

It was during this time when his birthday came up. Since I notice he only had kumbis or icicles, I brought him a set of tobi. After he got it, he stopped asking to borrow my steely.

Then one day, I was at El Nath, getting ready to go to Coolies. Now…at this time I was around 5x. He called me asking to borrow my steely. I was like, sure. Well, I let him the steely and I went off to the Coolies. After reaching there, he whispered me again, telling me to get the steely back since he was done with them. But at that time I was at the Coolies and didn’t want to waste the time going there just to scroll back. So, I told him to wait and I shall be there shortly.

When I was done, I whispered him but got no response. After a few minutes he logged off. I wasn’t worry, the steely had stayed with him before. The following day, I notice he wasn’t on. The day after that, he wasn’t on again. That time I thought it was quite weird since he usually get on every day or so. So out of curiously, I tracked him. What I found out was, he deleted me from his BL. So I whispered him. And whispered him. I even tracked him down and went to Florina Beach to find him. Yea, I saw him, he was training. But once he saw me, he stopped and logged off.

After a few days of this, he finally talked to me again. He told me the reason he didn’t talk to me was because of the fact that he sold my steely, for 6.5M. He then told me a “sob” story about how he was having a pissed off day, and sold them and then made a guild with that money. Yeah…guild, emblem and everything.

But he retaliates and said he’ll pay me back. After apologizing for a while, I accepted and thus he returned on my BL. I guess I wasn’t ready to lose a “friend” and believed his “story”.

George and I remain friends. He even tries to “pay” me back, with some of the items he found and that he’ll pay the rest soon.
Though when he reached 5x, he never return my avarice, but I thought nothing of it. We still trained together, ksed together, I even joined that “guild” for a while before leaving for a friends’.

When I reached 6x, a friend <3, gave me a Dark ID. He generously gave me one because I had wanted one but couldn’t afford it.

(You sure you want to hear/read the rest of this? This is basically my stupidity working overdrive here… So don’t fret when you start feeling anger towards ME.)

This is recent…in the past week >>>
And now I’m 65. George is 60…well he just turned 60. A few days ago, he asked me to come to the FM. I saw him and congratulated him since he got to 60.

But he told me he wanted to see my ID just for a few minutes. I was reluctant but I did it anyways. I traded him…but before I accepted, I told him I wanted to see HIS Silver ID. He agreed and we made the trade. After wearing his silver ID for a few seconds, I asked for MY Dark ID back. His reply was “afk”.
I waited but got d/ced. I came back and tracked him…and saw he was in Ludi. Then I found out he once again deleted me from his BL. I whispered him, asking for it back.

He ignored me. I even begged him. I even offer to pay him. All he did was ignored me or stay in the Cash Shop. Wait no…George did say something to me, he said I was stupid, and should have learn my lesson the first time.
I guess I’m way too trusting and nice.

It was that time I finally understand what a fool I had been. He fooled me once, shame on him. He fooled me again, its shame on me. I really must, must get back the Dark ID. It’s not because of the item but what the item actually means.
It was a gift from a wonderful friend, and I can’t believe I just basically “threw” away our friendship.

Now I know really how much some things are meant to me. I guess you can see I have “grown” up a bit.

Oh yes, I’m not here to “incriminate” George…so I wouldn’t tell you his IGN. I’m just here to tell about this misfortune and stupidity of mine since this is a blog. And also…don’t always trust everyone you meet.

This experience has made me sorta biased on some other friends I have met, but I do know not everyone is like that.

But what I truly feel is remorse. I’m ashamed because I threw away something important to me…something that friend <3 had given me. And I’m sorry for that. That friend is right to be pissed off at me. I would be too.

I will get my Dark ID back, even if I have to give George everything I own.

I’m willing to post this…because I have learn from my mistake.

Flame if you must. I do need a smack in the face.

-cough- Don’t flame TOO hard?