A/N: Hi all, so this is just a short story about Alex, Joshua and a made up character. The story takes place in Josh's POV ( for now) and I guess I will see where it goes and whether I shall make a second chapter or not (depending on the feedback). I hope you all enjoy the story and if you have any comments or constructive feedback it would be greatly appreciated.

NOTE: although Joshua is only eight years of age I have made his narration sound somewhat more formal and sophisticated than a childs for the sake of the reader, however I will make his actual dialogue more age appropriate. I have a plot planned out for this that will take more chapters to uncover however I want to know what your opinons of it are before i make anymore chapters. I may change the story's POV from Joshua to Alex in the next chapter. Thanks for your time!

*I DO NOT OWN ANY OF THE SILENT HILLS, THIS STORY IS PURELY FAN BASED*

Change Your Life

I had never seen Alex this way before.

He was smiling, infact, he was beyond smiling...he was grinning, his pearly white teeth showing for the first time in what had felt like years to me. His eyes were sparkling, revealing the true light within the chocolate brown orbs. He was the happiest I had ever seen him, yet in my eight year old mind I could not comprehend how a female could unleash such euphoric emotions from an individual. Her name was Carmen. She was seventeen years old (the same age as Alex) and had been dating Alex for around eight months now.

It was safe to say Alex was entirely love sick for this girl. She brought out the best in him, the sides myself and our parents never got to see because before Carmen came along Alex had been a miserable shadow that was used to being the receiver of distain from Lillian and Adam. As much as I wanted and at times tried to stick up for my older sibling, I would more often than not be shut down and told to 'stay out of it' or that I simply 'didn't understand' why they treated Alex that way. However, I agree with my parents, as I don't undertand why they are so cruel to Alex, he never deserved any of their ill treatment. My parents didn't seem to approve of Alex being in a relationship with Carmen, however Alex refused to let them spoil it.

I watched my older brother with curious eyes as he sat with Carmen on the step of the backyard porch, his hand placed gently atop of her's. Alex didn't really have time to hang around with me anymore now that he had a girlfriend. I wasn't upset about it but I did miss his company at times since he wasn't at home nearly as much as he used to be, which often meant I had to find games to play alone around the house. Being only eight years old I wasn't familiar with the concept of love, although Alex had told me a few times that he was inlove with Carmen, I didn't quite get it. Perhaps love was something you feel and understand with a certain coming of age...

The two of them laughed and played outside together, all the while the weather was gradually beginning to turn south as winds rushed and blew Carmens softly curled golden brown locks in wild directions. I understood why Alex chose her, she was very pretty, she harnessed a certain glow to her that made her appear almost angelic. Carmen was very much a lady, which was refreshing for a girl her age. My brother treated her very well, which I knew he would, because despite all of the negative treatment he recieved from our parents Alex was deep down a very gentle boy.

I turned at the sound of the front door opening. I watched as my father walked in, taking his black leather boots as he did so, placing them neatly next to the door frame.
"Hello Josh." He said with a smile and a ruffle of my choppy brown hair.
I brushed the stray hair out of my eyes. "Hi Dad."
If it were any other day I would be worried about how Adam would treat Alex, however my stress was placed at ease since Carmen was over and Adam never treated Alex poorly infront of Carmen because her father was also sheriff at the local police station where my father worked.
"Wheres your mother?" Adam asked idly while fetching himself a glass of water.
I shrugged my shoulders gently. "She went to the store for a little while, so Alex and Carmen stayed with me."
Adam didn't respond, instead he just glanced out the window at the happy couple. He seemed very pensive, as if there was something heavy weighing on his mind at the sight of them. I stared at him quizzically.

"Are you okay Dad?"
Adam seemed asthough in this train of thought he had almost forgotten I was even here, until now. "Yes, I'm fine son."
I nodded and turned away to exit the kicthen.
"Actually, Joshua, I would like to ask you something." Adam said, stopping me in my tracks.
I looked at him and nodded, giving him que to go ahead and ask.
"How attached do you feel Alex is to his girlfriend?"
I was slightly dumbfounded by the question; it was such a bizarre thing to ask.

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A/N: So thats all for this chapter, this was more of a means for me to introduce general ideas of the story and such...as you may notice with later chapters some characters and ideas may be changed or missing from what is shown or expressed in the game, however this is intentional and not a mistake or due to lack of knowledge of the homecoming plot ( just for clarification!) well anyway please review, and thankyou for reading!