Share
Chapter 15: Fuck the Talent Show
Related chapters
High school, Heartbreak and Hitbacks Chapter 16: I Feel Good You Know
Chapter 16: I Feel Good You Know“Nice going Barrison.”“Yeah, that was actually a pretty dope idea.”“Pretty sure you’ll want in too… at some point.” Nigga went from ground zero, to the top of the world then back to the bottom and rose to the top…again. Couldn’t help but feel like he had some ulterior motive behind this ‘plan’ thing though. But who knows, maybe I’m wrong. P.S. I’m never wrong.“That was a pretty ballsy move” Devon complimented as they made their way back to their class.“Yeah well necessity is the mother of invention Dev. Can’t be wallowing doing the same thing over and over and expect us not to get tired of it. That’s madness.”“Mhmn. I don’t buy that explanation M” Devon replied rather skeptically. “I feel like you’re just using any and every opportunity to be able to hang out with Vane—”“Vanessa and I are not a thing Dev.” He stopped in his tracks, really looking into Devon’s eyes to make sure he understood the message. “It was just… you know, one of those thin
High school, Heartbreak and Hitbacks Chapter 17: The Front Seat
Chapter 17: The Front Seat“Yo, could you move a little faster man? I’ve got places to be” Ryan said, bellowing from the car. The horn supporting his tired voice.“Yeah sure” Marcus muttered under his breath, gradually increasing his ‘trotting’ towards the car until he accidentally bumped into someone. “Oh sorry. Didn’t see you there” he said as politely as he could.“Is that so?” the character turned back to face Marcus. “Well I’m gonna make sure that you never—Oh it’s you” the familiar voice shrieked all of a sudden.“Mitch.”“Marcus.” They both knew the consequences of getting out of line. Better to call it a truce and live to fight another day. Marcus steadily breezed past him (wouldn’t have ended the same way just a couple days ago) and got into the car. “Need to appeal to mom this time” he changed gears. “I’m tired of this—” as soon as he put his foot on the accelerator, a figure just walked past the front of the car, completely unaware of the situation. Although he didn’t bum
High school, Heartbreak and Hitbacks Chapter 18: Screw It
Chapter 18: Screw It“I am never driving you home again.” He said, walking into the house. “Mom, I’m never driving him home again.”“Hi mom. Bye mom” he continued his usual routine of spending limited time with his mother once he came back from school.“God, I do not get enough rest time to handle you two” Mrs. Boaz said, sitting up on the couch as soon as her sons got in. “What’d he do this time?” she asked, slowly massaging her head.“Marcus is so burdensome mom. And to be honest, I know we all already know that. But I knew for sure today when I picked…guess. Just guess.”“Guess what?”“Guess who I picked up?”“Baby I don’t know, and I’m having the worst headache right now, so if you could just—”“Alicia. I picked up Alicia today.”“What? She’s still at Phoenix High?” she raised her head up a little and her weary eyes met Ryan’s enthusiastic ones. That was how it appeared at first glance. A second look at it wouldn’t have seen Mrs. Boaz’s eyes as weary ones. She looked sick, burden
High school, Heartbreak and Hitbacks Chapter 19: 911
Chapter 19: 911Ryan Rolland Boaz. A number of years in and out of therapy definitely did a lot to soften up the 6’3. When he was younger, he was a fucking hothead. He still is to be honest, he just finds his way around it. Just walk out of the room, keep quiet and just don’t engage, the sun’s getting real low big guy. You know, that type of shit. He wasn’t always that way though. You see, no one’s ever born with a mental or an emotional problem. No disrespect to anyone. I’m not a doctor or anything, I’m just saying more often than not, certain mental and emotional issues are products of the environment you grow up in, not the genes you were born with. What made Ryan really need therapy, wasn’t all accrued to the pain he felt with the whole Vanessa situation. What really hurt him, what he kept bottled up all this time, the one memory that actually made this maniac tick, happened sixteen years ago. About four days from today would be the anniversary. The day dad left. Never came back
High school, Heartbreak and Hitbacks Chapter 20: Cold Enough to Chill My Bones
Chapter 20: Cold Enough to Chill My BonesMrs. Boaz never really envisioned her life like this. And no, not being rushed into the hospital seconds from death. Nobody envisioned their life like that. I mean, she just never really saw herself going to college, falling in love, having kids. Handsome boys at that too, at least that was the way she saw them. Looked way better than her when she was their age as far as she was concerned. You know how high schools have the ‘most likely to succeed’, ‘class clown’, all that shit. Hers, though nobody actually cared enough to literally give her an actual alias, was ‘screw up’. Most likely to be a screw up. No literally. That was it. Freckles, pimples, basically all the ‘les’, and that includes Les. Back then though, wasn’t as easy to outrightly say it like it is now. So… she suppressed it and suppressed it and suppressed it, till she just became this quiet, quirky, nerdy ‘loser’. Yeah that was the only Alias people who gave enough fucks called h
High school, Heartbreak and Hitbacks Chapter 21: Acrimony
Chapter 21: Acrimony“Come on. Don’t keep quiet now, answer” he said, pestering Marcus. “Come on—”“Don’t push me man…okay? You know how that ended last time” he said, not in the mood. “I don’t hate you.”Ryan stopped pushing, but still had the same pestering mindset. “Stop lying” he looked away from Marcus but didn’t look towards anything in particular. “If you got a problem with me, at least say it, don’t start lying to my face” he said.Uncomfortable silence once again wrapped its arms around the brothers, till Ryan piped up. “It was the first day I left, wasn’t it?”“Huh?”“The first time? First time I left home in the series of visits to Rehab, right?”“Why would you think it was that?”“Because I remember that day” he looked back at his brother. “Very vividly.”THREE YEARS AND THREE MONTHS AGO“Get the fuck up off me mom. Don’t act like you weren’t the one who sent me there. Like ‘why don’t you tell me how you’re feeling Ryan’” He mocked, shouting as soon as he came out of the c
High school, Heartbreak and Hitbacks Chapter 22: Christopher
Chapter 22: Christopher“…and the day after that. And the one after that, and the one after that. You kept coming back and mom kept believing in you. Believing you could change. Believing you had changed. Kept on giving you more than enough attention. Everything you wanted, she got you. Just so you could feel like you again. Feel loved. Feel complete. But nothing was ever enough for you, was it Ryan?” he said, undaunted in his glare at his older brother. The day you left, I lost a brother, and I was completely fine with that. Not like I hadn’t been pulling my weight around pretty well anyway. But the day you came back, I lost my mother. And that hurt like hell. And then you kept leaving and coming back and leaving and coming back. And I kept losing over and over and over. Until I just grew numb to that shit. It didn’t surprise me anymore. Don’t think I have any fucks left to give” he paused for a second then continued. “The only reason I’m here… is ‘cause I don’t want my last words wi
High school, Heartbreak and Hitbacks Chapter 23
Chapter 23: Nurse Pamela There really was no better way to put it. He had to swallow his pride and get over the fact that she ‘used’ him just a couple days ago. If there was anybody who could conjure such an amount, it was her parents. And if there was anyone who could talk to her parents, it was her. “It’s for mom. It’s for mom. It’s for mom” he kept repeating, just to convince himself to actually dial up her number. After almost backing out a number of times, he hit the call button and her phone started ringing. He hoped she wouldn’t pick. At least then he would have an even bigger reason to fuel his beef with her. And if mom recovered in time, carry out his masterplan. But she picked up the phone in a thrice. “Hello? Who Is this?” she asked, sounding a little busy and tired herself. “Did she delete my number?” he thought to himself. “No, focus—” “Hellllooooooo. Who’s this?” “Um. Hi Vanessa. It’s… It’s Marcus.” “Marcus? Marcus, Marcus?” “Yeah. Yeah Marcus, Marcus.” “Why are
Latest chapter
- High school, Heartbreak and Hitbacks Chapter 40
- High school, Heartbreak and Hitbacks Chapter 39
- High school, Heartbreak and Hitbacks Chapter 38
- High school, Heartbreak and Hitbacks Chapter 37
- High school, Heartbreak and Hitbacks Chapter 36
- High school, Heartbreak and Hitbacks Chapter 35
- High school, Heartbreak and Hitbacks Chapter 34
- High school, Heartbreak and Hitbacks Chapter 33
- High school, Heartbreak and Hitbacks Chapter 32
