I've started working on a novel about four close friends who in their early college days made a promise while smoking pot. They were not in their conscious minds so they all had forgotten that they have a promise to keep except for the main protagonist whose name is Benji. But then he never talked about it. Years passed and finally they were graduates. On their farewell night ben and ashanti(one of the four whom ben secretly admires) had an altercation and things between the two soured afterwhich they both parted ways. That was the last ben saw ashanti. The city bore a lot of their memories. So ben decided to stay in the same city even after his college and got himself a mediocre job. After three years the other two (love birds, alva and lenny) visited ben and rekindled. Ben had been writing an article about his friends out of his personal interest which alva came across and was reading it discreetly. She saw ben mentioned something about a promise. It was then she remembered about the promise they had long made but forgotten. So she had in mind that this promise would bring back the four again. So she discusses about it to lenny and ben. They readily agreed to keep the promise. But first they needed to go to ashanti's hometown and find her. The struggle, the hardship that unfolds before them in their search for ashanti whom they never heard from for almost four years forms the crux of the story..the pursuit of that promise was very important especially to ben who loves ashanti but never had the courage to tell her..
So that was just the sum-up of how the story would go. So far I have written the prologue and two chapters but i'm still juggling over the name of the novel. So if anyone can help in that area, I would be pleased.
