I love mornings in my house because my mom is always playing music and the other day I heard this song by Ronnie Dunn which would make for an amazing song-fic. Hope you like it =)

Song: Cost of Livin'

Artist: Ronnie Dunn

Disclaimer: I don't own this song or BTR obviously.


Everything to know about me

Is written on this page

The number you can reach me

My social and my age

Yes I served in the army

It's where I learned to shoot

Eighteen months in the desert

Pourin' sand out of my boots

No I've never been convicted of a crime

I could start this job at any time.

Kendall Knight, age 34, was sitting at his kitchen table, in his small house filling out a piece of paper. He had spent months looking for a job and desperately needed one to keep a roof over his wife and kids' heads. 2028 hadn't been a good year for the Knight family.

Kendall looked over his paper. "Social, age, served in the army for eighteen months," memories of Iraq sent chills up Kendall's spine "never guilty of a crime, ready to start as soon as possible." It looked good to him so far.

I got a strong back

Steel toes

I rarely call in sick

A good truck

What I don't know

I catch on real quick

I work weekends

If I have to

Nights and holidays

Give you 40

And then some

Whatever it takes

Three dollars and change at the pump

Cost of livin's high and goin' up.

"Strong, rarely call in sick, a good truck, I catch on quickly, will work weekends, nights, and holidays if that's what it takes," Kendall was hoping that after writing the same information down for the hundredth time, he might land a job to get his family through another year.

I put Robert down as a reference

He's known me all my life

We attend the same church

He introduced me to my wife

Gave my last job everything

Before it headed south

Took the shoes off of my children's feet

The food out of their mouths

Yesterday my folks offered to help

But they're barely getting by themselves

Kendall made sure he put Logan down as a reference. They'd been friends for life and were lucky enough to have jobs close enough to see each other and their families at church every Sunday morning. It was good to see an old band mate often. He still talked to Carlos over the phone once in a while. He had a job as an engineer in Georgia and James, well they hadn't heard from him since the band broke up.

He sighed. He desperately needed the job since his old job went out of business in mid-2027. After about seven months of saving were gone the Knight family had to move into a smaller house and had to preserve their food to make it last two weeks after Jo went to the grocery store. Bo and Jessie's clothes were getting small on them, but they just didn't have the money for monthly shopping sprees. Kendall's mom kept offering them money but Kendall turned it down. His mom was elderly and had to get by herself.

I got a strong back

Steel toes

I rarely call in sick

A good truck

What I don't know

I catch on real quick

I work weekends

If I have to

Nights and holidays

Give you 40

And then some

Whatever it takes

Three dollars and change at the pump

Cost of livin's high and goin' up.

I'm sure a hundred others have applied

Rumor has it you're only takin' five

Kendall looked over the paper one more time and checked for errors. He felt almost confident. Even though it seemed he wouldn't ever get a job, Kendall Knight was never one to give up. He heard rumors that they were only taking five people for the job and probably hundreds have applied. It was a long shot but that wasn't stopping him.

I got a strong back

Steel toes

I'm handy with a wrench

There's nothing I can't drive

Nothing I can't fix

I work sun-up to sun-down

Ain't too proud to sweep the floors

Bank has started calling

And the wolves are at my door

Three dollars and change at the pump

Cost of livin's high and goin' up.

He'd take any job in order to get his family through and off the streets. Kendall made sure he put down how good he was at fixing things, worked hard from sun-up to sun-down. He wasn't too proud to just be a janitor.

The banks had started calling and warning him that he had to start paying off his loans. He couldn't even count how many loan sharks had been offering to con him. Luckily he was too smart to actually take money from a loan shark He knew the cost of living was high and still going up.


A/N: So, what'd you think? I loved this. Writing song-fics are fun cuz they prevent writer's block and now I feel like I can write forever without stopping. So now I'm off to finish the next chapter of "Return of an Enemy" and then thinking of a plot for "Puzzle" =)