"I thought you weren't coming home tonight?" Shadow question not taking his eyes off the book he was reading as Randy walked through the front door.
"Fuck you!" Randy yelled while slamming the door and stomping off to the room his was renting from his ex-brother-in-law. The 30-year-old squirrel had made it through his rooms doorway before turning around and heading back out to confront his landlord once again. "I'm sorry." Randy apologized, yet still sternly, and getting Shadow to finally glance up from his book and take his reading glasses off.
"He's not going to show up is he?" Shadow questioned as he was well aware of the two men's dirty secret.
"No." Randy sighed trying to keep up his anger so his sorrow didn't push through again. "He had ta go back home ta his wife... again." Randy spat under his breath with hatred, but the disappointment pushed though as he stood in front of the couch, Shadow sat on, as the squirrel shook with an overwhelmed sense of emotion.
"Again." Shadow reaffirmed with a tired breath. The hedgehog was more than sick of his knowledge of Randy's affair with his ex-wife's current father-in-law. Still, he couldn't help but feel sorry for the slightly younger man, as he'd known love before as well, and the seemingly never-ending torment that comes with it. But even more so the inability to let go. "Hmm." Shadow hummed nodding his head in understanding as he gave Randy a light scolding look as if saying the young man should know better by this point.
"Just... sorry." Randy let out after nearly chocking on his own spit, while feeling like a dumb ass, and taking a large gulp of it. "I shouldn't have taken it out on ya. Yer an ass, but not enough dat I should disrespect ya like dat." Randy hung his head down and then slowly walked off to his room while mumbling back to his landlord again, with far more emotion than usual. "Sorry."
Over an hour had passed since Randy had stripped off his clothing and cuddled into his small bed, in the extra small bedroom he was renting. Part of him found comfort in this, but a larger part found distress as he was alone. "No one wants me." The thought kept coming up in his mind time and time again. "I'm worthless..." he continued to dwell as his thoughts got darker. "Everyone in my life would be better off if I was dead. I'm nothing but a burden. They only feel sorry for me... I make their lives worse." Randy cried silently into his pillow feeling all the rejection in his life coming back on him. All his failures. Everything... his whole life was nothing but upsetting others. Again. The thought of pulling out his Glock 9MM, and ending it all, creeped up yet again. "The world would be better. Your family would be better. No one would miss you..." echoed through his mind as he sat up and turned on the lamp on his bedside and looked down at the pathetic lockbox holding his loaded handgun away. "I can't..." He whimpered as he stared putting in the code, before being startled at the last digit as Shadow opened the door to his room.
"What are you doing?" The hedgehog asked as he glared at Randy seemingly causing the squirrel to set his small gun safe down.
"Dis is my space." Randy argued very sober, but overwhelmed as his mind was spent just by the days non-stop upsetting force.
"I want that." Shadow demanded as he walked in without being welcomed in. "Now!" He pressed with a hiss as he pointed to the small gun safe.
"Fuck you!" Randy shot back now feeling betrayed by his landlord. "Ya got no right ta-"
"No!" Shadow yelled well cutting Randy off. "This is my house and I am not about to clean up your depressed mess!" The larger man continued to look down with power on his house guest.
"Fine... I'll go somewhere e-" Randy tried to start while keeping his firearm case from being taken away but was shocked to see Shadow lash out and jump on top of him to take it away.
"Your sister would never forgive me!" Shadow spat as he took the case holding the firearm and then pushing himself up again to look down at Randy with anger. "What happened to that annoyingly confidant cowboy that didn't let anything, or anyone, get him down? Are you really going to let some old rich man lead you to your death?" Shadow scoffed while starting to shut his tenets door. "That isn't the Randy I know."