~December 19, 2009

Today, after two weeks of being gone, Roxie encouraged me to get back to school. She thought it would be good for me to take my mind off things for a little while and get back to work. I thought it wasn't a bad idea (since I probably had loads of make-up work). We sailed on over together to the Royal Academy that morning and when we got to the dorm, everyone was sitting there like they were waiting for me or something.

"Hey, Rusty," Travis said, walking over to give me a hug, "Roxie told us what happened, bro. You have my sympathy." I wish I could talk, but I couldn't. I didn't really feel like breaking down in front of the others, especially Chaz. Liberty and Summer walked over and each gave me a hug. Then Liberty spoke up, "I know your pain, love. My mum died when I was 10 years old from drowning in the ocean too."

"Lib, it wasn't just his Mom! His Dad died too!" Summer whispered loudly in her ear. It sure didn't make me feel any better. "Summer, stop it! You're making it worse for him!" Liberty cried. They ended up getting into a little argument that lasted for, like, 15 minutes. But then I turned to Chaz. He was just sitting there with his arms folded on the couch acting like a douche again.

Travis looked quite irritated at him. "Chaz, everyone has expressed their sympathies but you. Don't you have something you'd like to say to Rusty?" He leaned back in his chair, looked around, then closed his eyes. "Mmm, I guess. Sorry your parents drowned in the ocean, Rusty. Quite a shame. Just don't keep using the excuse that you're parent-less to get out of doing your work."

That little fuck, I thought. I stormed right over to him, picked him up by the shirt, and looked him straight in the eye. "Look, you little fuckface, if yer gonna be a little bitch about the fact that I don't got mah parents around anymore, I will beat you so hard yer gonna wish ya never fucked with me." I shook him hard. "Ya hear?"

Despite the fact I nearly shook Chaz to death and his glasses were falling off his face, he managed to keep his cool and actually not try to start a fight with me about it. "Heh, 'kay. You wanna be like that? You go right ahead." He broke free from my grip and opened the door, but then looked back. "At least my parents are still alive."

"That's it!" I screamed and I pounced right onto Chaz. He fell backwards out the door and struggled to get back up no matter how hard he tried. "Chaz! You idiot!" I heard Travis yell as he ran outside. He stood there and watched as I threw punch after punch into the douchebag's face. I got up and picked Chaz up by the shirt again and kept kicking him where it hurts until I saw tears. It was actually pretty amusing! After that, I threw him back on the ground and watch him roll around holding his groin and moaning in pain. The girls ran outside shortly after.

"Guys! Stop! Break it up before Ms. Rosa-" Summer was cut off and she looked up in surprise. Ms. Rosalyn was standing in front of us with her arms crossed and I'll say, she didn't look too happy. She looked at Chaz and then to me. I was breathing heavily and my fists were still up while Chaz was bleeding excessively from his nose, holding his groin, breathing heavily, and crying in pain at the same time. Me? Well, I didn't have a scratch.

"Uh-oh…" Liberty said, holding onto Roxie's arm. "Gentlemen," Ms. Rosalyn started, "both of you to my office. Now." Chaz got up and walked past me, pushing me into Travis. Travis held onto my wrist to restrain me from throwing another punch. "Let it go, man," he said softly, "just let it go. You did well. I've wanted to do that to Chaz ever since school started. Now go on, get to her office before you get into more trouble." He patted my back and I walked away.

Well, needless to say we both ended up getting suspended me for beating the shit out of Chaz and Chaz for his attitude towards my tragedy. Over the years Chaz and I got into more fights which lead to many more suspensions but it was totally worth it. Travis became my best guy friend and might I say he really is the best friend a guy could ask for! We're still friends to this day, actually…

When Roxie turned 18, her family moved out and built a new farm somewhere else. Her family farm now belongs to her. Believe it or not, she was so excited to be running the farm without her family and she asked me if it wanted to be our farm. I, of course, said yes. Roxie and I to this day still live together on Cowboy Junction and Liberty, Summer, and Travis actually come over to visit almost every weekend. I'm just happy Roxie found new girl friends to be with instead of Ginny.

Speaking of her, once she turned 18 her family had a newly built police department built elsewhere to so now she's the sheriff! Woo, boy. It sure is interesting. She sure loves bein' the sheriff, I'll tell ya that much. And Matthew: well, I've heard some stuff. Stuff like how he slaughtered tons of people in Spookane and has been in the insane asylum since he was 16. I think he just escaped a few weeks ago…

Gino's mom, dad, and brother moved away. His brother, Charlie, started a cake business in another town and his parents moved back to Italy. Ol' Gabby's still here doin' what he does best.

As for me? Well I've been graduated from the Royal Academy for almost two months. Now, I'm just kickin' back and enjoyin' what life brings to me. That's what life is about anyway.

~July 20, 2012 (Present day): Age 18

Welp, that's my story in a nutshell. A pretty large nutshell, I'd say. But now that you know my story, I'm pretty sure ya understand where I'm comin' from. I've gone through hardship that I'm sure either lots or not so many people have ever gone through. It's sad, I know, but ya get used to it. Get used to it, get over it is what I always say. I'm just happy to be alive and enjoyin' it too.

But for now I'm just sitting at Gino's café smoking a cigarette and thinking about absolutely nothing at all. But I was caught off-guard by a couple of weird lookin' fellas. One girl with really, really spiky black hair and fangs and the other boy with black and red hair and dark purple goth clothes. They just sat down at the table in front of me and the chef gave them water. The guy just turned around and he's lookin' at me.

"Hey, can I bum a smoke?"

~The end~