The Loyal Friend
393 Words
Jonas and Jerome
Once upon many moons,
there were two best friends from New Orleans
who came from a poor background
and were going to the Big Apple
to make something out of their lives.
Little did they know
that life would never be the same afterwards.
They were on their way to New York via Greyhound bus.
They were talking their plans out on how many jobs
they were going to apply for,
and hopefully get their big break in the long run.
Jonas and Jeremy had been friends
since elementary school.
They had the same dreams of being one day
very successful in whatever they set their minds to accomplish.
They were both nineteen.
They graduated high school,
and felt that New Orleans had nothing more to offer them.
As they did not have any aspiration to go to college or to be musicians.
Their minds were set on the big apple to become actors.
Migration
Here they arrived, they were in NYC, with no money, no jobs.
Just back packs with another set of changing clothes.
But Jeremy also had a notebook with him throughout the whole trip.
From time to time, he would write something in it
and place the notebook back in his backpack as secretly as he could.
They stayed in a couple of subways
in Manhattan hidden from the cops.
Since they could not find any acting jobs
or any paying jobs for that matter.
They were homeless.
Jonas, the most inspired one,
decided to create a character
telling folk tales to sell to one of those big TV networks.
Hereon, one of their lives started to change for the better
or worse depending on the way you see life.
The old man
Jonas created this character
based on the life of an old man
he knew from growing up in New Orleans.
He never really took this old man seriously
when he used to tell him tales of Witchcraft,
Sorcery, Loup-Garou and Vampires.
Nonetheless, he figured there was something financially relevant
that could come out of these stories.
He brought the old man’s stories to life.
He wrote a playwright based off his stories,
and he even designed the old man’s portrait,
which resulted in millions of doll versions of this old man
being mass-produced and sold worldwide.
This old man’s name was Tonton Marcel...
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