Prompt # 2: Calendar
Pairing: None really
Rating: K+


Calendar

Reid stared at the hanging calendar and pursed his lips together, the date that was circled in red permanent marker jumped out at him. The black x's that marked only a few days away from the bright red circle made him cringe.

It was going to hurt; he licked his lips carefully and stared at the evil reminder.

He was going to turn eighteen; the number stared out at him like a sore thumb. It was begging him to look at it, begging him to dwell on the fact that he was going to be ascending. Caleb and Pogue both talked about how painful it was, did he really want to go through that?

Of course he did.

He was determined.

He was going to ascend and he was going to live a long, healthy, almost-normal life.

Not like his father, his stomach turned in knots. The day circled in bright red made his stomach ache. It wasn't only his birthday. His blonde hair fell in to his eyes as he stared at the day as if it was Satan himself.

It was also the day that he lost his father.

Two years ago, his father had used what was left of his body. He had killed himself for his own selfish needs. To ease the urge that he was feeling that day more than any other. It hadn't made the blonde mad, he barely knew the man that called himself his father.

Joseph Garwin was just a name associated with a face he barely knew, a face that he wouldn't recognize if thrusted upon him. He sighed heavily and picked up his black marker, crossing out the yesterday and looking at the days left until he reached the large red circle.

Only three more days.

Three more damned days until he felt the most excruciating pain of his life. Three more days until he was finally rewarded on his eighteenth birthday with his full powers.

He stared at the red circle once again and felt his insides wrench together. He was deep in though, so deep in thought he hadn't heard the door to his dorm room open.

"Reid,"

The blonde glanced back at the door and saw the three members of his family standing there with grins on their equally handsome faces. The blonde's gaze shifted back at the calendar and tossed his marker on his bed. He grabbed the black hoodie at the edge of his bed, pulling it over his lean frame.

"What took you so long man?" His hazel eyed friend questioned a smirk on his face.

"Nothing man," Reid answered glancing over at the youngest member of their group, the only one that had yet to feel the pain he would endure in three days.

"Three more days…" Caleb whispered to him, clutching the younger boy's shoulder under his strong hand.

Reid glanced at his dark haired friend, a ghost of a smile on his lips as he nodded his head.

He took one last glance at the calendar before Tyler shut the dorm room door and the four Sons walked out of the dorm room together to enjoy a night out at Nicky's.


This one was just senseless drabble... :)