"Hey, this is Alex. You know what to do."

Alex was actually being productive today. After seeing that his mom was doing halfway decently at home, he'd gone into town to the local library. See, Alex was getting bored. He'd thought after leaving high school, he'd be too busy taking care of his mom and getting by to ever be bored but he'd been proven wrong ( Read more... )

Alex had gotten to the point where he was bored of doing nothing. Sure, after high school, he thought that just bumming around would be the most awesome thing in the world. But, he quickly found out it wasn't. He was bored and he missed his friends and he missed the bar and he missed Effy and he just missed things. Stupid Iowa wasn't the same ( Read more... )

A few hours earlier, Alex had watched his mother disappear. She'd gone outside the house, talking about storm clouds and wanting to smell the rain. He hadn't paid much attention to it but he could still hear here, pacing the porch and talking to herself ( Read more... )

It took Alex awhile to actually surface after the latest round of shit that had gone on for him. He'd taken to ignoring his phone (sorry, Emma) and concentrating on what was right in front of him so he wouldn't go fucking insane. It had...sort of worked. Things had gotten rougher (of course), his mom had pinballed from one extreme to another and ( Read more... )

Job applications were a fucking awful thing. They were long, they were tedious and Alex hated that he actually needed a fucking job to be able to help out now that he was home. There were state programs that his mom qualified for but it wasn't enough and he felt like a lazy ass just sitting around the house. Of course, he didn't know what sort ( Read more... )

It had been a stupid thing to do but, for one night, Alex had felt better. He'd felt more alive and less like there was a giant weight on his chest, suffocating him. He'd felt like he wasn't sinking under the burdens he was carrying ( Read more... )

For some reason, Alex was filling out a college application. The house was quiet today due mostly to his mom being at the doctor (yet again) and he'd found the application while going through the mail to get the bills paid. It had gotten to the point that he welcomed the tedious process of filling out the college app after stressing himself to a ( Read more... )

Alex hadn't even been back for two weeks and he was already feeling antsy. He'd forgotten about what a black hole of fun this place could be. And telling himself that he wasn't there to have fun didn't help because he was used to Fandom and it letting him have fun whenever he wanted ( Read more... )

Alex wasn't sad about leaving. Sure, there were things and people he'd miss but he'd done his duty and now it was time to get back home to take care of his mom and try and help out his brother and sister as best he knew how. Most of this things had been packed and sent back to Iowa already so now it was just a few bags of clothes that were coming ( Read more... )