True Winter

By:  Bob-0

     It’s that kind of thing that makes you hate everything!  I can’t stand people very much anymore…I just had to get that out in the open.  Anyway, my name is Jeremy, and I live in Hann Harbor, Michigan.  Sure, it’s a rip off of Ann Arbor, that’s probably the only thing I like about this damn town.  I don’t have many friends here, pretty much everyone’s an idiot anyway, and I don’t need anyone.  Like this one time about a year ago, I accidentally took this kid Adam’s seat so I could talk to my friend Miriam.  So this Adam kid flips on me and punches me in the face, well he actually just told me to get up, but it’s the principal of the thing.

      Well I guess you got most of the boring info out of me, and a poorly told story about that Adam kid, it’s mostly made up, I do that a lot.  I also go off on irrelevant rants quite often.  For instance, this girl that I went to the prom with, well I didn’t go with her per-se; I really just wanted to ask her to go.  But boring old me couldn’t get the nerve to ask her, be she was acting really awkwardly to me, what an awful girl.  There I go again, see what I mean?  All in all I think I’m a pretty nice guy, I just get angry over pretty much nothing, and that’s another thing that pisses off me.

       But all my anger and negativity is sort of getting to me, mentally.  I just sit around doing nothing, I haven’t gone to school for a long time, I’ve lost count of how long, but that’s one thing about which I can’t complain; faking sick.  I bet everyone’s glad I’m missing though, I sort of bring down everyone else I suppose, I don’t mean to do it.  But I mean if they didn’t want to be depressed they wouldn’t listen to me, right?

     I have lain here and thought, I have thought about my life and all the brilliant characters in it.  Well I guess I just twisted my own arm to tell you about my friends, though I only have 2, so I barely make friend plural.  My two friends are a guy named Lisa and a girl named Miriam.  Yeah, the guy’s name is Lisa, or at least that’s what I call him, his real name pissed me off, so I changed it.  He’s an alright guy, he’s too happy all the time and he’s really good at sports, I guess opposites attract, but not like that you pervert.

     Then there is Miriam, she deserves her own damn paragraph.  Everyone makes fun of her because of her short hair, baggy pants, her stupid name, and her obsession with safety pins.  I like her though; I think she’s very individualistic.  I wouldn’t necessarily call her my girlfriend, just kind of a friend that’s a girl.  I know that’s a lousy, “teeny bopper” thing to say, but it’s true.  But I can tell that Lisa wants show Miriam how much he thinks about her, but he can never tell her for some reason.  I just can’t stand it when people have no nerve; I mean what’s the worst that could happen?

Chapter 2