Saturday, April 13th 2013.
Amy was going to be at the bus stop at 3:30.
*sigh* Rewind back to about 2009 or was it 2010. It's all rather foggy these days...
I went to a coffee shop, Common Grounds, in cleveland [I'm sure it's been mentioned before in my journal here]. I was a regular at this shop.
One day I'm up there and my friend Mike is too. There's construction being done outside [all down Lorain st] to take away the red bricks they had for a sidewalk [it was unknown to us why or what it was being replaced with... and well no one really seemed to care anyway].
There was this girl on her laptop with Red hair. I thought she was cute and Mike and I wanted to play Hackey sack and he thought she was cute too. We didn't have one, so we asked her if she did. She didn't either, but I asked her if she had paper and tape. I mean she WAS doing homework. She had paper, but no tape. However the bartender [coffee barista I guess] had tape. So I folded the paper into a box, then used the dirt outside near the construction to fill that box, then used the tape I got from the bartender at the time to seal it closed. Mike and I played hacky sack and then this redhead comes outside and plays with us for a little while and tells us her name is Amy and she goes back inside and does her homework.
She was pretty cool, but I was feeling really shy at the moment. Eventually she left and went home. She wasn't a regular and I figured I'd never see her again... oh well.
A few months passed and I ran into her while she was with her friends. They were about to drive through the metro parks and smoke green things. I had ran into them down the street from the coffee shop at the Basken Robins/dunken' Doughnuts. All of them were girls and they offered for me to ride with them. So I did and I was sitting next to Amy in the car and was too shy to do anything other than simply be friendly and polite. I felt a bit nervous too. They dropped me off at Common Grounds and I played video games with my friends and they were hula hooping out back. I watched for a moment then just went back in to play more video games. And off they went... again I figured I'd never see her again and oh well...
As time passed on [more than a year] I lost my job, my sister kicked me out of my house. I wandered alone and homeless throughout Cleveland looking for a place to rest my head, food, and a job to get me out of this whole mess. I ran into Amy once or twice while I was on the run trying to get shit together... And, well I didn't bother to talk for too long. I had more important things on my mind.
At some point My friend Jeff and I ran into this guy, "Skelly" [Real name: Joshua Stafford a member of the "Cleveland 5" who,
Allegedly, attempted to blow up a bridge with fake C4 they bought off an under cover FBI agent at the Occupy Cleveland movement in 2012... Maybe I'll mention why I don't entirely buy everything the news says about it and why that all seems rather shifty and suspicious to me another time. Right now this isn't what the stories about]. Jeff and I were both homeless and Skelly offered us both a place to "crash".
We cleaned up his house. We ended up staying for quite a while. At some point I went out and got food stamps, kept up my search for a job [which is REALLY FUCKING HARD WHEN YOU'RE HOMELESS!!!], and helped maintain peace in his house [Kicking people out who're disrespecting skelly or trying to eat up all our food or causing problems, while introducing him to people who I knew would pay rent and clean just like me].
At one point Skelly started fucking this girl Christin, Amy's best friend. One day when she came over I remembered her and she remembered me. I mentioned that I liked Amy but had always been way too shy to say anything. She told me Amy was single. Yet still I didn't bother going out of my way to seek Amy out... I had more pressing concerns... like getting a job. I mean I was donating plasma twice a week back then.
One day Skelly snapped on me. I knew he was on SSI for a mental disorder. Never knew what disorder... still don't. I knew he was a bit nihilistic about the system and how everything works. I knew a lot about him. I knew he might flip out some day too. I just never really thought it would be an issue if he did. But the day he snapped it was because one of his friends was wearing too much cologne. And I tried to be civil and tell it to the guy politely. The guy got angry and Skelly said "shut up before I make you shut up." I laughed and said "There's nothing you can do to make me shut up, Skelly." I was laying down at the time and Skelly jumped on top of me and started punching me in the face [Guy doesn't follow throw much with those punches... A little more follow through and they might sting a little.]. I flipped him over and got behind him and put him in a sleeper and said "Either you calm down or I'll make you calm down. After you calm down I'm packing my things and I'm leaving. I wont call the cops. I wont even tell others what happened. I'll be gone and that will be the end of it."
He calmed down and I started packing my things when he hit me in the face with a 1x2 [like a 2x4, only smaller]. Smelly kid with too much Cologne grabbed the piece of wood from him and skelly grabbed a curtain rod and swung that at me. I blocked it with my arm [still fucking hurt], then disarmed him and threw the rod into the kitchen and left while saying "Whatever bitch, hope you have fun getting pounded in jail!" or something along those lines to which he responded "That's sexual harassment there, you might go to jail." I laughed hysterically and said Calmly "Slut I didn't put any marks on your faggoty ass face. You look like you're in tip top condition to suck all cock you can to your hearts content and take it straight in the ass just how your faggoty ass dad used to when you were little. Oh, and you're a slutwhorefaggotcocksuckingdiseased piece of shit. When the cops see my face and then see yours they wont give two fucks if I've been 'sexually' harassing you or not. By the way, fuck you slore, I'm out. Have fun getting pounded in the ass when you're in prison."
And so I went and called the cops. They showed up saw my face and found Skelly and knew him by name. He told them I tried to break into his house and they said "You're on record for lying to the police on more than 9 occasions, we don't believe you."
I stayed at a Neon light shop for a while. While living there with Dana [the owner of the shop, who I'd met a few years back] I met this guy Ed. Me and Ed kept bumping into each other everywhere. He worked at Walgreens. I'd see him there and crack a joke and he'd say one back and it was usually pretty funny. Then I saw him at the Library getting comic books as I was getting them. We exchanged facebooks at some point. While I was living at the shop Ed told me that he didn't really know anyone in the area and apparently I was his only friend.
I took him to common grounds one day and introduced him to a bunch of people. I'd go to his place and hang out all the time and when I got money we'd go out and he'd show me places to pick up chicks and such. And we'd do pretty well as far as meeting them went. I was generally happier then.
And then my friend Aaron offered for me to stay at his place when he heard about what happened with Skelly. I said, sure. Aaron and me are like Oil and Vinegar. We go great together and actually are really good friends. We just don't mix very well. He's mock my monotone voice sometimes. I mean at first everything was really cool, but well, sometimes he's too verbally abusive and irrational about things. But I'll get to that later. For now, let's just say the main issue was that I didn't have a key to his house and he didn't want to leave it unlocked so I had to make sure I was home at certain times.
The voice of sorrow... I guess that's what I can call my normal tone of voice these days. Well, most of my life. I never put much thought about it. How when I'm happy and cheery my voice my change but it still has underlying tones of sadness and apathy. I speak monotone and find it difficult to speak any other way.
I ran into Amy one day. I don't remember where. But when I saw her I asked for her phone number and we hung out and chatted for a while. Then I was on my way to the gym one day when I asked if she wanted to hang out [fucking finally]. She said yes and told me where she lived and what time to come over.
I was really really happy about this! I ran into Ed and told him about this girl and how happy I was cause I really really liked her. He said he was happy for me and all that jazz and me and him hung out then I went home to Aaron's house. The next day I went over to Amy's.
At Amy's house we watched a movie and her Younger brother came home and was bummed out cause he wanted alcohol and the guy who was buying it for him was MIA. So I got him some booze and he gave me some money for it. Then him and his friends left and me and Amy were watching some movie downstairs.
We got really trashed and I kissed her for the first time [which made me really fucking happy]. And we're making out and then I asked her out and she said yes. We went up to her room. I took her shirt off and she took off mine... but then she started getting all insecure about how her breasts looked. I told her they were fine and I thought she was sexy and then gently rubbed them. She said she was feeling uncomfortable and that her ex had told her they looked weird. I wasn't really sure what to do to get what I wanted [to not just fuck her, but have her feeling batter and WANT to fuck me too] in this situation. I didn't want to pressure her into doing anything she didn't want to, especially not when we're both drunk so I helped her get dressed and we laid there and cuddled for a bit.
Then it was time for me to go home. When I got home Aaron wasn't there so I was playing Megaman 9 on the X-Box. Aaron, my gay room mate [well I guess we weren't really room mates he was just letting me stay on the couch till I got shit settled] came home and I cherrily said "Hello, how're you. How was your day, Aaron?" and he looked at me confused as hell and said "What the fuck happened to your voice? You're not monotone anymore? Where's Nick?" I was a bit confused too and said "Really? I don't have a monotone voice anymore?" and he said "No. You sound... normal. Happy too. You get laid or something?" and I said "No. I didn't get laid, but I have a girlfriend, she's awesome

. Wanna play smash brothers?" And he sat down and played smash brothers with me. He didn't win a single match that day and said "What the fuck dude? You're so much better at this game when you're happy."
The next day I hung out with Amy and we went to the Metro Parks. We wondered around, climbed trees, laughed and told jokes and acted like little kids. It was loads of fun. We went up to common grounds that day and then I walked her home. We didn't have sex and I didn't really care either. I was happy either way. Every kept telling me that I was different. They weren't really sure if I was the same person.
Me and her hung out the day after that and we ran into Ed. I introduced Amy to Ed. Somewhere along this day Amy told me she felt like we jumped into this relationship kinda fast and we were both drunk. She broke up with me and said "Let's just take everything slow and see where things go while we're friends." Noticeably that day she kissed me a lot less and less. Till at one point I went in for a kiss and she turned her head away from me and said no.... Whatever. Me her and Ed kept hanging out. We'd go out to the woods or wherever.
Back then I hung out with either Amy or Ed or both [usually both] when I left the house. I stopped going to commons cause most people there were pretty... eh... stupid. Well, not non-intelligent. But just assholes. Petty, selfish, insecure, blah blah blah.
One day Aaron had given me his keys and asked me to come back at a certain time for him. I told him I'm not sure if I can or want to come back at said time and I'd rather he hold on to the keys and if it's too late I'll find somewhere else to go for the night. But he insisted I take the keys. Then he said "Um... just come back whenever" [well, that's what I remember, maybe he said something else and I wasn't paying attention... I don't know].
I was with Amy and my friend Dillan at common grounds that night. I get a text from Aaron, an angry text. He says I'm kicked out. So I respond "Alright, I'll be over to drop off the keys and pick up my stuff, thanks for letting me stay as long as you did." he responds back rather angry at me again. Dillan drives me there. Dillan is a corrections officer. When I get there I give Aaron the keys and he starts screaming and yelling at me and telling me how horrible I am. I just ignore it all and pack up my things into my back pack. Then when I went to grab this huge bag of rice [which was mine that I bought and pretty much the only food I had to eat at the moment] he screams "NOW YOU'RE TAKING THE FOOD!!! YOU CAN'T LEAVE ANYTHING FOR GRATITUDE YOU'RE A PIECE OF SHIT BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH!!!" But, I wasn't eating his food and I had no money on my food stamp card and this was pretty much all I had at the moment for food while he had an abundance of food. So I ignore him and take the bag of rice anyway and then he slams me on a chair.
He starts pounding away at my face, but I have my hands up to guard the blows. I feel the fight or flight reaction all throughout my body, but I don't want to fight and I don't want to run either. I just want this to be over. Eventually he stops and gets off of me and I get up to leave and Amy and Dillan have my stuff. We walk out of the house and Dillan says we should file a police report. Amy is cuddled up next to me asking if I'm alright and if I want cigarettes or something to drink and blah blah blah. I tell her rather shakily [cause that fight or flight thing is giving me the jitters at this moment since I didn't use the energy] "I'm-m, finnne. I jusssst need sugar to rrrrrplensh what was lost..." We stop at a store and I get an Arizona Sweet tea and down it in one swift chug.
I stop shaking so much and I'm more calm now and she's asking if I want her to buy me cigarettes. I say "if you're going to buy cigs, buy the kind you want. I wont say no if you offer me some, but don't buy me a whole pack." She buys a pack of cigs and we're at the police station and Dylans talking to one of the officers [btw, yeah, it's Dylan, not dillan.... but, fuck editing...]. The officer talks to me and asks me a few questions and then I stop and say "You know... I don't really care now that I think about it."
We leave, I don't press charges. Amy's asking why and mentioned how I put Skelly in jail. I say "Well, I don't agree entirely with how much the law fucks people over. Aaron's done a lot of good for a lot of people and doesn't regularly go around attacking people. It's not very likely he will again either. I guess the situation is different. Skelly regularly robs houses when he doesn't need to and is usually looking for a fight. He doesn't learn from being put away either. I just want to go to my sisters and see if she'll let me stay over."
And so Dylan dropped me off at my sisters house. They told her what happened and Celia stopped being so mad at me and let me stay the night. Amy gave me a big hug and a kiss that night and said she hoped I felt better.
I was at my sister's for only a week. She told me in the morning that I had to leave in a week and she was only letting me stay cause I'd been attacked. It was only just to recover. I wasn't so sad though, I still had amy. And I'd eventually find a job and get out of this mess.
I ended up moving in with Ed. We went, with amy, to go look for a job. Ed had left one of his jobs and wanted a new one and knew I needed one. I got two interviews set up. I had spent the night somewhere else, other than Ed's, that night. But Ed was going to give me a ride since he had an interview that direction also. So I didn't need to ride the bus or do what I'd planned for anyway, Walk. I told him I was just going to walk there and he said not to worry about it and he'll give me a ride.
Well, he never showed up. I called him and he said he was asleep [later that day]. So I called Lowes [where I had the interview]. It was about an hour before my interview and it was going to take me an hour and a half to walk. I asked if I could reschedule. They said no, I can't and that if I don't show up on time I wont be able to reapply for 6 months [and seriously. Fucking seriously.... grrrrrr I was fucking homeless and NEEDED a job]. So I started jogging, but kept getting tired and walking. I made it there 15 mins late and was extra sweaty from jogging while wearing a dress shirt in the middle of fucking summer.
And so I was back at Ed's later and we were hanging out with Amy and kept doing so for a while. Other people he'd met from Commons were coming over and hanging out too. Everyone he was hanging out with were people I'd introduced him too.
And when one day when I went to go home the door was locked and he wouldn't answer his phone [which I could hear ringing.] I also heard people talking inside the house. That night I didn't sleep. I wandered aimlessly through the night.
I was in the Library later looking on my facebook and saw that Ed was in a Relationship now. But it didn't say with whom. I knew Amy didn't have Facebook. I tried calling Ed to see what he was up to, no answer. I went to commons and while there I ran into Remi and Remi Called Ed up to go hang out. So I figured I'd give it a try too. Ed didn't answer when I called.... I'm not stupid.
I texted Amy "Don't ever talk to me again."
And the same thing to Ed. Ed responded "Dude, you had your chance with her, but she's into me, not you. And if you try to attack me I'll get johnny law on your ass." I texted back "Go choke on a pretzel and die." and he responded, but I never read any of the responses. This was a prepaid phone I was using with money I got from donating plasma that I NEEDED to find work. Amy's response to my text was "Okay."
People from commons, except for a few, told me I was a horrible person for being angry at Ed and Amy. I told them to fuck off and that they didn't know the situation. But these were people who didn't like me anyway. I stopped hanging out up there and eventually found a job working at the winkin lizard while I lived ina Neon Light shop [which had no shower, but had a sink]. While there I kept getting written up for my hygiene. One day I stopped at my sisters house [cause she wasn't home], snuck in and used her shower and wore clean clothes and road the bus to work. When I got there one of the managers came up to me and asked where my shirt was [my work shirt] I said it was dirty and I didn't have anything clean except what I was wearing. He also told me I smelled [which I fucking didn't. Not that day]. He was making a big deal about it too and gave me some XXX work shirt to wear and had this horrible smirk on his face. I threw the shirt in his face and said "fuck you. I'm HOMELESS struggling to save fucking money and move into an apartment that has basic shit people like YOU take for fucking granted. Like a shower. And today I went way out of my way to find clean clothes, shower, and spent a little extra money riding the bus here to make sure I smell fresh. FUCK YOU!!!" I gave him the finger and walked off. I wanted to punch him in the face... but I refuse to attack someone who hasn't attacked me first... and even then I usually don't hit them.
I walked back to the Library and got a newspaper and called a few places and found a job working as a telemarketer. The thing was I worked till about 10pm on Monday-Wednesday, and I started work at 8am [and it took me an hour to get to work] on Thursday-Saturday. and the Neon light shop guy would lock the place up and not return till about 1am or 2am. So I was getting really worn out. The shop was across the street from commons. Everyday after work if it was a late shift I'd sit in the shop with headphones on, drinking a juice, and draw. I'd try to ignore everyone who was there. I didn't want to speak to anyone. "Trust" wasn't something that existed in my head anymore. People sucked. I didn't want "friends" anymore. I didn't want to feel anything for anyone anymore. I just wanted to stop being homeless.
I had saved up about $500.00 dollars and my dad gave me $500 more so I could find my own apartment. I looked and found a place near my job. It was about a 2min walk to work if I lived there. My dad Co-Signed for the apartment. The plan was I was going to pay him back in installments of $50 a month. Remi was going to be my roommate, but I made sure I didn't NEED him as a room mate. I made sure all I needed was me. I was so so close to getting this worked out. I was so close to having my own place. When we went there my dad signed something and Me, my sister, my dad, Remi, all asked at least 4 times a piece. To a point where this guy got annoyed we were asking. We asked if I needed my dad's signature on the day I pay up and move in. "No." he says. He said we're fine cause we have the signature now. We don't need it later.
And so the day came for me to move it. I went there and I had the money with me, ready to make it a money order. I was ready to to have my own place. When I say the little fucker he tells me I need my dad's signature. I said "Right now my dad is in Egypt. You told us multiple times we wouldn't need his signature today." and he said "No I told you we need him to sign today." I said "Okay, I can get him to fax a signature." and he said "that's not good enough he has to be here and sign it physically." I looked it up on my phone [no longer prepaid]. I looked up the legality of signatures and found that you can do an E-Signature and I went to show it to the manager and said "Well we can do an E-signature actually." and he said "I don't know what that is, NO, you dad needs to be here." I said "Well that's not what you said before. Before you said I didn't need it. I'm here to move into my house." and he started to tell me he didn't say that and I interrupted and screamed at the top of my lungs as loud as I could in this mans face "
DON'T FUCKING LIE TO ME. I'M FUCKING HOMELESS YOU ROTTEN PIECE OF SHIT. I'VE BEEN BUSTING MY ASS WHILE HOMELESS!!!! I GOT A FUCKING JOB AND SAVED UP $500 DOLLARS AND WENT OUT LOOKING FOR SOMEWHERE TO LIVE!!! DON'T YOU FUCKING LIE TO ME. IF YOU DO AGAIN I AIN'T GOT NOTHING TO LOSE RIGHT NOW AND I'M GOING TO FUCK YOU THE FUCK UP YOU ROTTEN HORRIBLE PIECE OF SHIT. EITHER LET ME IN HERE OR DO NOT SAY ANOTHER WORD TO ME. IF YOU SPEAK ONE MORE FUCKING WORD I'M BREAKING YOUR MOTHER FUCKING RIBS YOU PIECE OF SHIT." I don't remember verbatim what I said, but I'm sure it was something along those lines. I remember telling him not to speak to me anymore and that I had nothing to lose and I'll fuck him up if I hear a peep out of him. I remember that part. Needless to say, he didn't say another word to me and I didn't move in there.
I went walking around that day looking for other places to move into. I talked to lots and lots of differently people and had a few houses to check out during the week.
All of them needed me to have a co-signer or more money than I already had for a down payment. I was having a lot of trouble getting up for work and was getting really tired running around, on foot, looking for apartments and walking back and forth to work, and not having much time to sleep at the neon light shop. I asked my sister if I could stay at her place till either I saved up enough for a deposit or dad came back and could co-sign for me. She said no. I asked again and again and told her I really really needed somewhere where I could sleep and save money so I could make sure I wasn't showing up late to work and smelly and could keep my job. She said no. She just kept saying no.
A week later I got fired for my third week in a row not making enough sales. I was fine on sales when I was wide awake and well rested [mon-wed's] but my sales started to plummet on days I wasn't getting enough sleep and sometimes I'd over sleep and have to call in late. And the job was based on commision.
Still I went looking for more work. I looked for a month and couldn't find anything, and then I heard that Steak n' Shake was hiring so I went to check that out. But a bunch of people who worked there hated me cause I don't like my brother and they'd heard shit from Ed and Amy about me. And some worked with me at the winking lizard and told the boss I was smelly and lazy. I didn't get hired. I kept looking and two months passed and I couldn't find a fucking job.
I ran into Amy and just avoided talking to her. I ran into her a few times and Ed too. I'd heard they broke up... I still didn't want much to do with them, or anyone really. I started drinking a lot. Me and the light shop owner were getting trashed all the time and I got to a really low point. I couldn't find a fucking job. When everything was about to work out for me for once and I just need a little bit of help no one helped me. I hated my sister for that. I didn't think I had friends. Girls... fuck women. I hated them.
One night I was down to my last $50 and I bought NyQuil, 50g Aspirin, and some Arizona tea and Cheetos. I downed the bottle of nyquil and then downed 50g of aspirin and started deleting numbers out of my phone. Earlier that day I had texted this girl. I'd met her at a club and she was all about me when I wasn't talking to her so much. I was flirty and we'd chat back and forth and then one day when I was upset about something I was talking to her and mentioned that I liked her and she said she wasn't trying to date me and instantly stopped texting me and then told me she'd found a new boyfriend. I had this really low opinion of women [that actually hasn't completely left... they only like superficial values about a guy].
So I'm drifting away hidden in the back of this neon light shop. I figure no one is going to give a fuck anyway if I'm gone. I my stomache hurts like shit. My ears are ringing. My vision is blurry. I have little energy. And then I think of Zach, my little brother and realize he might be pretty upset by all of this. Maybe even traumatized. He's the only person I actually give a shit about back then.
So... I can't do this to him. Fall back time. I eat a very large amount of Cheetos. Stuff my face full of them. Then I wander outside behind the shop while eating more and more of them. I drink a massive amount of the Arizona tea. Then I shove two fingers down my throat and force myself to vomit. I inspect my puke and see it's got green from the nyquil, and white specs from the aspirin. I repeat the process a few more times. Then at some point I'm puking out just cheetos and arizona tea without the green from the nyquil and the white specs from the Aspirin. I stand up and still feel woozy. I rinse out my mouth and then drink all of the arizona and eat all of the cheetos. I feel better but still I feel sick. I'd looked up how much aspirin it takes to kill a person and it said 25-35grams and I'd taken 50grams [granted I puked a lot of it out].
I still felt sick.... fuck. I didn't have the resources to look up what to do if I want to live. No internet. Nor did I have the energy or time to find a place that did. I never planned to live that day. So I left the shop and called 911 and walked towards the hospital. I told them what I was wearing and that I was trying to walk to the hospital and that I needed help and I felt sick. I got picked up by an ambulance. They took me to the hospital.
Day 1.
The Dr. who saw me kept asking me a list of questions to try and figure out why I tried to kill myself [I mean it was too obvious to lie about it. And I never intended to go to the hospital, so I hadn't thought of any back up lies in case that happened. My plan was that whenever I was discovered I'd already be dead... goes to show, one can't plan too much...]. I realize he doesn't care why I did it as much as he's an angry pragmatic bastard who can't empathize and imagine what someone else feels. He doesn't understand. His speech has a lot of judgment and condescending phrases in it I remembered. So I gave him only the most basic answers to his questions.
One of them was "how many women have you slept with?" my answer was "23."
He asked me again and I said "23" again.
He stressed that he was trying to figure out why someone would want to kill their self and why I tried to kill myself and said I needed to answer honestly and asked me a third time and I said "I've already answered that question. If you keep asking I'll keep giving the same answer. If you really want to hear a different answer ask me again. Later. Much later. I'm sure the answer will no longer be 23." He asked me again and I didn't respond.
I was taken upstairs and they put an IV of saline solution in me. I thought . o O (Really.... That's it? I could've gotten gatorade and let all of this sweat out of me while I laid about doing nothing?)
Day 2. I ended up talking to the Psychiatrist. She asked me a bunch of questions and then at some point asked "Are you just giving me the right answers so you can get out of here?" and I said "If I wasn't I would say no. If I was I would say no. by the way, no I am not." and she scowled at me and said she'd have to clear me for release whenever I was down recovering.
The nurse that day was different than the previous one. The previous nurse was rather judgmental and told me I'm a quitter and said my life can't be too hard and blah blah blah. I ignored her and said very little to her.
The nurse for today was really nice to me. After chatting for a while she asked me why I was in there. I knew what she meant and I told her. well I told her some of it.... But what I told her was true and wasn't bullshit. I told her how I don't trust people anymore cause all throughout my life people have shown me no one is trustworthy and no one gives a shit about me either. That I was just tired of people and wanted to go away. She asked why I stopped and I told her cause I realized I'd be upsetting the only person I did care about.
Day 3. The nicer nurse told me in the afternoon that I was good to go finally. And so I left the hospital.
I walked over by commons and was waiting outside of it so I could go back into the neon light shop. Remi saw I had on a wrist band from the hospital and got concerned and asked what I did. I made something up, I don't remember. But he didn't buy it. He knew I tried to kill myself and said he was worried about me.
Anyhow... He told my sister, who told my dad.... thinking my dad would give me money and set me up in an apartment and blah blah blah if he heard that. I told her "Dad doesn't care about me. He never really did. He wont give me money for this. He'd give Zach money. Or You. Or Ben. He gives you guys cars and money and makes sure your rents paid. He doesn't care about me. In the past 20 years when I was homeless he wouldn't even acknowledge that. That $500 he gave me? That was cause Rene' told him he should."
My dad didn't give me squat. He did, however, try to lecture me on how killing yourself isn't an option. I cut him off and said "It's an option for everyone. Everyone can physically do this if they chose, but some refuse to acknowledge this option is there to such an extreme they can't relate to those who might chose to use that option or why someone would."
Celia let me stay at her house though. I told her "You know, I really wish you'd've done this when I had a job and was trying to move into my own fucking place." and she seemed to understand why I was so bitter and resentful about it all and didn't really get angry about me saying that.
While I lived with Celia I didn't bother talking to Ed or Amy, apparently Ed was now married to some girl named Kim. I just kept looking for work, trying to rebuild and get shit together again. Eventually I stopped being angry with Amy and she wanted to hang out with me again. I did for a while we were hanging out and then one day I told her I can't do this anymore. I can't be her friend. I feel like shit when I'm around her. I said I could forgive but it was really hard to forget.
As time passed on I eventually wound up living in Detroit [again] with my dad this time. While there my sister wanted me to help her move into a new apartment and mentioned a bunch of people were coming. I said "No, I don't want to help you. Amy might be there and I don't ever want to see her again." She said Amy might not be there and said she really needed the help. I came down to help and Amy was there.... and, like usual, I had a fucking fun time hanging out with her, but still felt kinda shitty about myself and girls in general. I figured I could just get over this.
We exchanged phone numbers and were hanging out most of the summer of 2012. And Occasionally we'd kiss. I'd go down to cleveland to see her and hang out. I asked her out and she said I lived too far away and it's not going to work. I told her I was in love with her and she said she wasn't sure how to feel about that. I really didn't want to be in love with her. I felt like life is just one sick joke. Nothing matters. There is no reason. Fate isn't real. Nihilism. There is nothing, the chips just fall where they will. Morals, fate, etc. are simply the constructs of human minds. Sometimes shit sucks. Sometimes shit's awesome. But it is what you make of it. In the end it never mattered anyway, cause everything will come to an end. Life is a joke. The punchline is that everyone and everything dies in the end.
We keep hanging out anyway. Eventually I get a bit depressed about her.
Random note: my fuck buddy hated it that I liked Amy and would tell me random shit about redheads like how they don't do well in the sun and they're usually pale and blah blah blah, which I found really childish and irritating.
When I get really depressed I stop talking to her. I feel like killing myself sorta deal. I tell her I need to take a break. I just can't do this.
So, we don't talk for a long while. And then we start talking here and there once in a while and out of the blue a few weeks ago she tells me she wants to come and visit me in Detroit. I say, sure.
She says that there's a show on the 13th [saturday] that she wanted to go to and asked if she could stay at my place. I, at this point, don't really have the energy to care. I say "sure".
So, Saturday April 13th
I'm going to meet Amy at the bus stop around 3:30...
But I'm tired of typing at the moment.