When can I get to being retired and automatically having money and free time? >__>

I was assuming they probably met in elementary school, putting them around 7-8 when they met? I think we could have there be a dramatic club which they met in after school? Or are you thinking they would meet in high school and have been friends for more like 2-3 years instead? I'm already hunting a few possible images for my characters, I think anime would be the medium to go by, that okay?