Ch. 1: The Reveal
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This is a bit of a 3-shot.
It's also a way I'm dealing with my dad's death on 12/30/11, so it's from 1st person experience & my feelings.
If you're sympathetic, thanks. If you're not, go screw yourself!
I meant to post it a few months ago, but I kept forgetting to finish it.
Here we go...
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It was in the afternoon, Austin was a bit bummed. He just entered the store.
"Hey, Austin. Whoa, what's wrong?"
He just sat behind the drums & sighing, drifting off into space.
Dez & Trish came into the store.
"Guess who got a job at..." she started to say, before seeing Austin sitting there, "What's up with him?"
"I don't know, I've been trying to figure that out, but so far he's unresponsive."
"Dez, do you know what's wrong with him?"
"Hmmm, I've never seen him this upset before."
"You wanna know what's wrong!" Austin yelled at them. "My dad died yesterday. There, now ya know."
"Oh, man. I'm so sorry, Austin," Ally said. "How'd it happen?"
"Leukemia. Every 3 weeks, he went to the hospital to get chemo for it. He was doing really good the last few weeks until like a few days before he went in for his recent chemo treatment. Something happened where the virus was too strong for the radiation & it got passed it & went to his brain. I mean, I haven't seen him since a few days before his most recent treatment, & that was like a week before he went in & even then, he wasn't looking so great. He couldn't stand for that long before he had to sit down & he couldn't really talk at all with his voice, he'd just nod at what I asked and said."
"Oh, man," Dez said.
"Yeah, I can't imagine what that's like."
Austin rose from his seat.
"If ya wanna know, picture on of the most important people in your life & imagine that you'll never be able to talk to, or hear their voice again. That's the pain I'm feeling."
"Look, Austin, you don't need to be angry, we understand & we will help ya get through this," Ally said with a hug. Austin hugged her back, but being a few inches shorter than him, he had to slouch a bit.
"Yeah, man. Look, if you ever need a bro to hang out with, I'm just a text away," Dez said.
"Yeah, & if you ever need time off from music, music videos, & stuff like that, I'll reschedule it for ya for you to finish grieving, if ya want."
"Yeah, & I'm always here if ya wanna talk, maybe turn your feelings into a song if ya want with my musical writing genius, or just to hang out, or blow off some steam."
"Gotcha, thanks, guys. It's nice to know that I've got good friends like you guys to help me through this."
"You've got it, man," Dez said, patting him on the back.
"Same here," Trish said, with a quick hug.
"Not even a question," Ally said, with a 5-10 second hug.
"Great," he said, backing up a little. "I'll text you guys on when the funeral is," then he turned around & walked out of the store.
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I'll post Ch 2 in the next few days cause I don't wanna keep you guys waiting for too long. I promise I'll deliver on my promise of the M rated stuff in Ch 3, just hang with me people, also if someone reads this a day or 2 after I post it with the 1st chapter, either favorite or follow or review it so I'll know someone's viewed this before I get ahead of myself with the chapter adding, or I won't add another chapter for a week, & I have them pre-typed, so I definitely have theme.
PEACE...