Well I've never posted in this club but here it goes,
The street was dark and wet. Perfect for my mood. But maybe she will take pity on me if she sees me the way I am. Head down, soaked, and depressed. I knocked. My fiancé answered the door.
I guess I was wrong, because the moment I told her she pushed me away from her door and that she needed to do some thinking. My stocks crashed so I had to postpone the wedding. Also, my mother grew ill and I have to go visit her before she can no longer embrace life.
Lost in thought, I came to my front door. I reached into the broken lamp outside for my keys to get inside and was awaited by a cold and almost empty living room. It's where I spend most of my time. So I sat down to take a nap and take my mind off things.
But I just couldn't sleep. I kept asking myself, why am I here? Why am I in such a disposition? Maybe it started back in grade school? No, no. Nobody learned much of importance there. Most learned it at home.
I had to be high school. It's when I stopped caring for school. It's when I started to stay home and mope around feeling sorry for myself. But more specifically it was because of my incompetence. Or rather, my self-discipline.
I could never make myself run a step farther then my feet wanted to carry me. I could never do homework because I was too tired. I couldn't do anything that involved something that I didn't want to do.
It was my fault, and now I'm lying in the bed I made. I didn't care for school so I didn't go to collage. Now my job possibilities are limited. I used to shop-lift (and still occasionally do) and got arrested. I now have a record. I had good health but I drank it away.
Then I was out of high school and getting a job. But what was that job?
Apparently I spoke that aloud for I got a reply, "A garbage boy, of course! How could you forget?"
My heart jumped. I was standing right in front of myself! I saw me, only it wasn't me. Or... Maybe it was. But regardless, I was scared. But the fear left my heart only an instant later. It's not like he'll do anything if he really is me. I know; I am me.
"Ah. How did I forget? I guess my mind just blocked it out. It was a bad time after all. Worse than others," was my reply. I felt a chill so I poked the fire around in my fireplace and the flames roared once again.
"Was it that? Or was it the other incident going on at the time?" I guess he saw my expression and said, "You really don't remember anything. It was your dad. When he turned into a drunk. That's how you started drinking, stealing from his stash."
Once again, my heart sank. It was just a month later when my fathers habit of drinking got out of hand. He didn't hit my mom, like in most drunk father stories, but that was because she left. I'm sure she would've shared turns with me.
"And do you remember when you were about to quit your job but your dad fainted and you had to continue to work for money for the hospital?" It was too much. Just the one memory. I had enough floating around in my head.
We stayed up, talking about all sorts of mishaps and screw-up's I've been in, all of the relationships where I was used for the little I had, the times when I tried my hardest in an event and the guy who just started beat you at it. I don't know why I kept talking of those sorts of things, but it was all I could think of to talk about. It was comforting in a way.
The morning crept upon us, lighting up the dust in the air, showing me just how much I neglect my housekeeping duties. I didn't even feel tired at all. Just depression. And only talking about it more would fill the hole.
I heard quick and small footsteps at the door and then they stopped. I begged my pardon to myself and went to the door to see if they were till there. I looked around but I guess they ran out of sight before I got to the door.
Right before I turned to shut the door I glimpsed an envelope on the ground in front of the door. I knew whose it was and I was afraid to know what the letter contained. I sat back down by the fireplace and opened the letter.
I felt like I had no point in living. I just wish I didn't open the letter. "So she dumped you, I see," I didn't notice myself walk behind me. I assumed he read it because of the words he spoke.
Even though I knew he read it I had to tell him why. As he walked back to his usual spot i said between sobs, "It's because I can't support a family! Because I can't get a decent job! I'm a bloody waiter! She said that my personality was amazing to her, but she had to balance the decision using her heart along with her brain.
"Well I could've told you that without even reading the letter! I know your past. I am your past! You need to become a man! Go back to school! Pursue your dreams. You're not good enough for her."
I snapped. All in one fluid motion a lunged at him with my fire poker to try and stab him. I fell through him and stabbed myself in the ribs. After seeing his smile my vision faded...
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I awoke in a white hospital bed. I knew because to my right was the doctor himself. I grunted for I could make no other noise. "Awake? Well let me just finish mixing the shot fluid and I'll be right over. It truly is amazing, though, that you had the energy to call here even with that wound."
I nodded my head as if he saw me and lay back down. "Here. This should put you right to sleep."
I opened my eyes to see who the doctor who was healing me was and for maybe the hundredth time telling you, my heart jumped. I was staring into my own face. And where the doctor should've been holding the needle, he clutched a knife...
this story is not finished but I plan on finishing it real soon. Sorry about the length