Go!’ Senior Casden Washko and Aidan Richards hear from behind the camera as they record one of their many YouTube videos together. Washko and Richards recall spending time at the park making videos as their favorite childhood memory together.
“We used to make skits on [our YouTube channel],” Richards said. “I remember one specifically where it was an assassination plot. [Washko] was a major figure, and I was out to kill him.”
Their constant time together has kept them close, even today. “We hang out every single day,” Washko said. “We hang out outside of school and play Steam games together.”
As they have grown up together, they express that their friendship is very similar at its core; however, they are now more open to talking about vulnerable things, and they have different inside jokes that age with them.
Washko and Richards’ friend group has gotten smaller due to fallouts over the years, but that has just brought their entire group closer, and they continue to support each other by sticking together.
Among the crowd, two friends, Freshman Melina Duran and Payton Hall, sit side by side on the grass savoring their favorite Otter Pops. They admire the annual Spring Picnic, which was the highlight of their year and took place so close to them.
Little did they know, these simple moments would become cherished as they embarked on their high school journey together.
Another memorable moment of the two is fifth grade graduation. “[For] our fifth-grade graduation, we have this really embarrassing picture of us,” Duran said. “We’re all hugging together, and it’s like ‘whoa, we have changed.’”
Duran and Hall weren’t as close as they are now. It was in middle school, specifically eighth grade, that they started getting closer to one another.
“In elementary school, nothing really came of a friendship,” Duran said. “As middle school went on, we just came together, like fate.”
This also led to a difference in their friendship from elementary school to now. Since their friend group has gotten smaller, Duran and Hall stay together and now have the same hobbies, like cheerleading.
