Tangled Youth

Chapter 23

“As you know, we’ve been reading a lot of books about family lately,” Boone’s American Literature teacher, Mrs. Davies announced on Friday. About half of the teachers at St. Gabriel’s were nuns, this one, thankfully wasn’t. In fact, she was probably one of the cooler teachers he had ever had in his high school career. “ ( Read more... )

A Different Kind of Nightmare

Boone woke to the mattress moving, his sheet lifted, and suddenly Shannon's warm body was pressed against his.  It took him a few moments to reacquaint himself with his surroundings - the darkness around him, the cool sheets stuffed at the foot of his bed... the body against his chest. He peered at Shannon in the ( Read more... )

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Tangled Youth

Chapter 22

Boone sat on the couch, lazily flipping channels on the wide-screen plasma television that no one ever watched.  It was Friday night, but Erin was at a weekend long tennis tournament, Shannon was out, and Sabrina was, predictably, at a business dinner with Adam, so ( Read more... )

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Tangled Youth

Chapter 20

Erin’s house was a creamy yellow, and didn’t sprawl halfway across the block. The front yard was covered in grass, but it wasn’t the kind of grass that looked like it had been manicured to ( Read more... )

The Truth about the Truth

“How is your relationship with your family?”

“Fine,” he responded sheepishly.

Boone’s parents got divorced when he was four, and his determined, merciless mother gained full custody after a vicious, high- profile battle.  As he grew up, though, he often wondered why his mother had bothered at all.  She worked all day ( Read more... )

 
Tangled Youth

Chapter 16

Over the next few months, Boone put all of his energy into schoolwork. Somehow, he managed to fill his mind with formulas, historical battles, classic literature, and names of chemicals containing ridiculous amounts of syllables. With no girlfriend, barely any friends, and his family barely ever present, it was easy to ( Read more... )

Tangled Youth

Chapter 15

Boone stood in the kitchen the next morning, not remembering why he was there. He and Shannon had only kissed for a few minutes, and he had woken up alone, but the few moments he had shared with her loomed over his head in a thick cloud that refused to disappear. And it was all he could think about.

“Good morning, ( Read more... )

Category: Lost
Title: Cigarettes and Regrets
Genre: General/Angst
Rating: Fiction Rated: T
Summary: A typical night in Sawyer's life after another failed con. 
Written for an LJ quote challenge Where there's smoke, there's fire.

Cigarettes and Regrets (written for an LJ quote challenge "Where there's smoke, there's fire")

Sawyer pulled up to a run- ( Read more... )

Tangled Youth

Chapter 13

It was late - probably around ten or eleven, Boone thought, as he sat on the couch in his father’s living room, Shannon half-asleep on his shoulder, her fine blonde hair fanned out over his chest. On the other side of the room, his father was sitting next to Susannah, speaking quietly to her. Boone watched his ( Read more... )

Tangled Youth

Chapter 12

“Boone,” Shannon laughed comfortingly, “It’s going to be fine. Seriously.” But Boone wasn’t so sure, he was practically shaking as they sat in park in the driveway of his father’s apartment building. “It’s okay,” she said quietly, touching his thigh to comfort him. But like every physical contact they had, there was a ( Read more... )