Reply #128: "I was messing around with someone I thought I knew."

[ghostsofgiants]

Even if they weren't the closest of friends, they seem to have at least been casual acquaintances, this is being blown way out of proportion. I don't for one second get the impression of malicious intent or "strong preying on the weak" as you like to put it. It was just a copuple of kids dicking around. (And yes, 15 is still a kid. You said you're in your 40s, so maybe you forget what 15 years old was like, but it was only a few years ago for me, so I remember it quite well, and my maturity level was nowhere near where it is now at 20.)

And just because the kid's mom said they weren't friends, doesn't mean they weren't. I had and have plenty of friends that my parents don't know about. It's not that unthinkable. (Shit, watch the movie Dazed and Confused, a whole lot of mingling age groups, so I'm guessing it's a little more common than you'd like to think.)

Also, as I mentioned already, just because they were diferent ages doesn't mean they weren't friends, either.