Rumblefish!

Two best friends met few years after finishing school. They were very different but always helped each other. Steve was mature, liked reading, was cautious and worried about things. Now was studying to become a teacher. Rusty instead loved fighting (what his brother had told him to stop doing). He also was at a reformatory for a few years because his memory was screwed up and couldn't remember things unless somebody said something to him. He didn't know why he wasn't glad to see Steve, until he saw him staring at a scar he got on a fight...that made Rusty remembered all about it. To change subject Steve invited him for dinner to talk and remember good old days, something Rusty didn't want to do plus didn't remember much about either. Steve mentioned who he thought he was when first saw him, and that got him very mad because knew he was talking about his brother nicknamed Motorcycle Boy because used to steal or borrow cycles and leave without telling the owners. Rusty remembered everything...hanging out at Benny's, fighting with gang, Biff wanting to kill him, etc. He loved fighting andwasn't scared of it, he was just scared of being alone. The day of the fight his friends reminded him about how that could end and about what his brother had said about gang, that made him very upset because his brother had been gone for two weeks and didn't know if he was ever going to be back. In that moment he just wanted to think about the fight that was sure was going to win. When he and his friends arrived at the empty lot his best friend was not there, but Biff and gang were there waiting for him. When they started fighting Biff got a knife, something Rusty didn't have and when asked for one to equal things up he just got a bike chain that was enough to put Biff down and make him loosen the knife. He was bleeding and swollen. Suddenly the Motorcycle Boy was back and everybody was quiet. He thought he had "signed a treaty" and they were going to stop with that crap, at that moment Biff did slide Rusty's side with the knife. Rusty's brother stopped the fight and they knew what he had said about being over with gang fighting. Steve was next to his best friend like he said was going to be. Then they went back home, and on the way Rusty asked his brother where he had been, California he said, but actually never went past the bridge where he used to go because would have been homesick. At home he helped his brother with the deep cut. He was different, had no expression, said strange things, saw things different, maybe because of concussions he had in motorcycle wrecks. It was hard to understand him. He looked older and since young could get all he wanted, Rusty thought it would be the same for him in life but it wasn't. They just looked alike but when you looked at Rusty you knew what he was thinking about, and looking at his brother you would never know. Rusty loved his brother and even if he wasn't his brother he just wanted to be like him.