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Together we went every Thursday afternoon to a home for children with disabilities. We did volunteer work there which gave us a feeling that we meant something. We were both good with computers and we wrote a computer program for those kids so that they could enjoy learning to read, write and mathematics, that we gave the director . He sold it to a company and gave us the profits, so began our little company named ´Almes '."
I looked into John's eyes and saw that he recognized the name. No surprise really. Almes is almost as well known as Tracy industry.
"We were nominated for a Nobel Prize for the volunteer. I had the invitations and tickets sent home and together with James, Sandy and Iris (back then James girlfriend), I took the plane to America. We rented a sports car and drove from Miami to NY for the ceremony. We had a road trip of three weeks because we got a few weeks off from school. You don´t know half how excited I was when I read at the gossip site's bachelors Scott and Virgil Tracy were together in NY. They weren´t there in the evening when I was on stage to receive the prize, and I found out that they only had come to NY for business. Not for me. The Christmas break, I went home and nobody brought it up so I found it unnecessary to tell. You realize I've spent spring break back at school and the whole summer vacation I heard that if I wanted to be a Thunderbird I really had try better to do my best and had to grow up.
According to Scott, and I quote, "You're just a kid, grow up, get your grades up and take responsibility for your actions for once." Those words haunted through my head. Even though I had only A´s and followed the program for highly gifted kids, while doing volunteering in my free time, I had my own company I earned thousands of dollars a year and had a steady girlfriend. It was not good enough for them so I promised to do better my best and drew me back into my room where I concentrated on the latest programs for Almes. Dad had me grounded because I behaved like a toddler during dinner. Those plus the weeks that I got for my bad grades made sure that I could spend the vacation in my room.
James and I talked daily by video phone and that helped me through the summer. At the end of the summer we had one of the best selling educational games to our name. And a few less educational games.
Anyway. Still, I felt like I had to prove myself to you and by the age of seventeen James and I participated in the English championship Athletics, which I ended first and James second, at the Olympic games where I just a few weeks before had become seventeen for, I got twice a bronze medal, James had once bronze and got fourth place, twice.
With the money we had won by the games, we earned with Almes and some other things, we took flying lessons and got in record time almost every license there is to get. James is even a stunt pilot. By the time I was eighteen we had designed cars and flew around the world.
A month after my nineteenth birthday, to be exact early November so actually one and a half month, I began to feel worse and worse. James was worried about me and had me after a few weeks dragged to the hospital. Marcus quickly discovered what was wrong with me. Diabetes. Two weeks, I spent in the hospital. James not once left the hospital while I was there. Not even for school or when Iris threatened to break up with him. James then broke up with her because he felt that true love has no ultimatum.
Believe me, I've honestly tried to reach home. Even you, while I knew you were in five. I needed you, I had a chronic disease that I had to learn to live with and needed my older brothers and father. Gordon laughed at me when I told them I was in the hospital and told that I had to pay attention during sports, and he would call me back, he never did by the way. Virgil just didn´t answerd the phone. Scott told me that he was flying in TB1 and would call after the mission, never did. Dad said he was busy and whatever it was, I just had to resolve it myself and you, John, you remember that I called you and told that it was important? Do you remember what you said?"
John nodded. "I told you to shut up and only come back when you're less selfish and had grown up. Then I threw the phone down. Alan I didn´t know, Gordon was doing something stupid during the mission and I could do nothing to help him. I felt so helpless, scared, angry, all at once. I shouldn´t react that to you. I'm sorry. "
"I've already forgiven you a long time. At least you called me back to apologize but by that time I was already out of the hospital, with James on his vacation home in Hawaii. I didn´t know how I had to explain what happened. You felt so guilty already. Should I say, "John I forgive you, I have a chronic disease and was in the hospital with only my best friend and girlfriend and needed one of my older brothers to tell me that everything will be alright?" I didn´t blame you so I couldn´t hurt your feelings. I couldn´t help it, but on the other hand that was the moment I had enough of you and shut down.
We enjoyed our Christmas vacation in Hawaii where I felt fine to my surprise. At first I thought it would be difficult, spending the holidays without you but I had my gifts sent and received from you and New Year on a surf board was so worth it. I had decided not to go home because I felt that you didn´t want to know that I was sick and I was still experimenting with medications, food and sports.
Back at school, the problems started with home. You found out that I began to separate and tried to withdraw from you. James told me again and again how lucky I was with that. My family wanted me back, his parents hadn´t even called him at Christmas just transferred money with the message, "buy something nice for yourself." Yet I was thinking if I still wanted to go back where we once were. You had me let down and I needed time to think about how I wanted to continue.
Meanwhile we, beside athletics, also created a passion for car racing. We had both designed a fast sports car. I assume that Gordon has show het to you? and raced for fun. A scout had persuaded me to fall in for one year after a crash of my predecessor and I said yes. Eventually I drove a few months before I destroyed the car. Have you ever heard of the accident of the white Lucan?"
I´ll update soon! pinky promise!
^thanks to Nargil for correcting an awkward mistake XD
