The banter was a childish dance and all the more elevating for it.
Banter was bonding, it was friendship maintenance 101, so we got our daily fix.
The banter was our favourite form of tennis, it was how we showed we'd won each other's love.
Chatting with him was a sort of verbal dance, one beautifully chaotic, one that makes you laugh out loud feel your heart switching on. It was banter, I guess, but I lived for it, looked forward to it, and would have spent any amount of time in his company that I could have. We were funny together, not so much with others...we just brought that sense of playfulness out of one another.