AN: Okay I was mapping out this story and I have decided that it is going to take place during seaon 2. I am going to follow along with the story lines as close as possible while adding Sid and Holly in. So I can't follow season 2 exactly. The ideas I have just fit better in the Season 2 time frame.
To say I had an unconventional upbringing is the understatement of the year. Growing up my family was something straight out of a bad sitcom. My mom had me when she was eighteen, I never knew who my dad was and considering how my Mom was back then I would be surprised if she knew. Well anyway my Mom and her best friend and my godmother Holly moved in together, and worked their way through college. After school Holly decided to move on and find a job teaching somewhere (Holly was never one to stay in the same place very long). My Mom started singing for a cover band right out of college, and the band became our family. During the week I would go to school like the other kids, and my Mom would give piano, guitar, and singing lessons. Then on the weekends my Mom would pack me up and we would take off with the band to whatever gigs they may have. On holidays the band would come over to our house and celebrate with us, we were a strange family but I never said my Mom or I were normal.
My Mother was a super Mom, I always got good grades, and we went to temple on Fridays, and Saturdays, if mom's gigs were late enough. I always had food, and a roof over my head and I couldn't ask for more. Then with other things my Mom was very lax about. I got my nose pierced at fifteen, I got my first tattoo and tried my first cigarette at sixteen. Things like that she said weren't important, they were rights of passage. I loved my life, and I never thought about a "normal" life because for me this was normal. Was being the operative word, two months ago my life was changed drastically.
It was the first Saturday of my summer vacation and I was hanging out with my best friend Scottie. I remember it so vividly. We were in his basement playing some music and just hanging out. It was at 10:13 PM when my phone rang.
It was a police officer, Officer Williams was his name. He told me that there had been an accident, a head on collision, and that my Mom was dead. I didn't know what to do I was stunned, I dropped my phone and just collapsed. Scottie picked up the phone and talked to the officer for me. I stayed with him that night. The next morning Holly drove in and helped me make all the arrangements. At the funeral Holly told me that in my Mothers will she wanted Holly to take me if anything happened to her. I found out that Holly was living with her boyfriend Will, and that she had already discussed it with him and he would be more than happy for me to move in with them. So it was decided that I would stay in Cleveland with Scottie and his Mom until time for school to start then I would move in with Holly and Will.
So here I am sitting in my 1969 camaro, on the side of the road staring at the "Welcome to Lima" sign. I will be starting back to school in a week. I sent all my belongings down last week so Holly could get my room set up. I am not nervous, I just don't know if I am ready for this big change, new house, new friends, new school, new life. I reached over the my cell on the passengers seat, and texted Holly to let her know I was almost there, I threw my phone back on the seat, lit up a cigarette and pulled back into traffic. I turned on my radio and a familiar song came on, "This has got to be an omen." I mumbled to myself. I cranked up Highway to Hell and drove into Lima and my new life.
