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I booked it back home there's no way any of that actually just happened i'm just drunk, high, and or finally going insane. Plus I have way too many things to focus on already first my junior year of high school is starting tomorrow already that means i have my volleyball try-outs in less than a month and yes I am their best player already but I have not been working enough to stay in shape I need to get a decent amount of practice in.
i also have a social life to maintain to make sure i can cruise through this school year.
Most importantly I have my mom
without me she would have no one I have to take care of her and i'm the only part of my dad she has left and there's no shot my dad is a God he was just a wine addict who got scared and dipped.
Who could blame him?
I couldn't
honestly I'm happy he saved himself but sometimes I can't help but wonder how things could've been with him or what kind of person he is like I said I don't know much about the dude if I even dared ask my mom though she would probably just get all mad and start throwing things at me like last time so I don't really want to risk asking again.
That's irrelevant though the point is I can't just leave I have way too many people relying on me I have my mom, my team, and i have my awesome friends who have never left me or let me down and I sure as hell won't let our friendship dwindle. The whole camp thing probably wasn't even real anyways I don't even know why i'm putting so much thought into it.
I finally made it back home honestly i needed that run it felt great plus it was a nice reminder that i'm not bent out of shape completely i did thankfully walk and run all summer sorry that's a bit off topic but hey I care about my sports okay.
I reached down for my keys and go to unlock the door but it was already unlocked which honestly isn't really rare I guess my mom was well enough to go out on her own probably ran out of something.
I walk in and everything seems normal just the regular beer cans lying around some food wrappers and clothes just about everywhere. I look around for my mom and she's gone but like i said it's not a strange thing so I head to my room.
ugh I have to do my laundry I have genuinely no clean clothes and unfortunately i have school tomorrow eh I'll do it later i took out the walkman, put on my headphones, and click play. Moments like these are so amazing just sitting on my floor leaning back on my bed's leg just messing around with the carpet floor it feels funny when you just rub your palm on it really fast i really just needed this peace.
I should probably call eric and see how he's doing though he's got to have the most horrible hangover ever Its only like 9 am though he usually doesn't wake up til eleven or even one I would call aria but she's probably busy with her parents. I would typically go for a nice walk right about now but i just came home and now that i think about it sleep doesn't sound so bad right about now i didn't really get any sleep.
i took a pillow from my bed and set it up on the floor my bed is way too messy to sleep in and honestly i couldn't be bothered i drifted off before my head even hit my pillow.
I swear I can't even sleep in peace anymore dude either it's the worst quality sleep ever and i don't feel like i slept at all, i wake up constantly and hardly sleep, or i get the most insane lucid nightmares ever.
Honestly this could definitely be the reason i'm going insane. I dreamt of the party from last night everything was normal eric had gone to get another beer i think and well aria was probably off with some dude i'm pushing through people to be able to walk around and everything feels normal I mean it's the exact thing the house smells the same, music is the same vibe, but I can't help but shake off this weird feeling like something's wrong
i look at the people closer they all have the same face it's the girl or well the dracnae from last night they all have her face none of them are trying to attack me then i turn to look at the stairs and i see her the actual her. we make eye contact and suddenly everyone in the room is looking at me, i look around through the crowd and she got aria and eric too they have her face.
no this isn't right, it's not real, this isn't happening i look at the dracnae again and we make eye contact again suddenly every single voice in the room is in sync
" Hi maverick, did ya miss me?"
"what?"
" nevermind I don't even know why i bother"
"what do you want now?"
"oh maverick you know what i want"
"uhh no I really don't otherwise i wouldn't be asking you"
"i want my revenge"
"Revenge for what? oh wait yeah I'm sorry about that but you know you did kinda try to kill me first"
" you're lucky i can't kill you here but believe me when i say I will get my revenge soon It's such a shame you'll die before knowing your godly parent"
" again with this bullshit my dad is not a God and how would you possibly know who my father is?"
" oh Maverick it's painfully obvious who your father is I know you're aware of your godly side I heard of your visit to camp half-blood"
" camp wasn't and isn't real"
"You did that didn't you? You're trying to make me think i'm crazy aren't you?"
" I fear that I wouldn't even have to try to make you crazy it seems like you're doing that just fine with that on your own"
suddenly i heard a door slam shut i looked around no door nearby could've done that there was one near a door that could've slammed it that fast everyone was under some sort of trance so i used my common sense and pinched my arm. I quickly realized i'm in a dream suddenly this makes more sense but scarier since the sound didn't come from the dream it must've come from real life
that could mean either camp is real and set a bounty for my head and i'm about to get caught or worse my mom's home and angry either way i have to wake up and fast sooo i told her to
"get out"
"excuse me?"
"get out"
"get out of what exactly"
"get out of my head"
she was actually driving me insane and wouldn't get out of my head looking at me all dumb founded
So I did the only thing i knew i could do, I drove her to madness, I try to use this the least i can believe me after that incident i gained a fear of myself if it wasn't for my mom I doubt i would still be breathing right now she needs me to take care of her and i needed her to keep going I have no other purpose really. I had to get her out so i could wake up
honestly i should've stayed asleep because I woke up and suddenly my mom is standing above me looking pissed
"you worthless piece of shit"
"you thought you could just leave for the whole night and not come back until gods know what time?"
" And for what? to go out with your little faggot boyfriend and that other whore?"
" mom don't say that please and you know i'm not dating eric ma please get off I'm sorry I lost track of time I made sure to leave everything stocked though and I promise it won't ever happen again ma"
" i'm sorry
"too late for that now don't you think?"
"you're lucky i don't leave you up for foster care"
"you're lucky your father is who he is if it wasn't for him I would've never kept you"
"ma come on you don't mean that"
"says who?"
"what other reason would I have possibly kept you for?"
"please stop i'm sorry i won't leave like that ever again"
"No you know what I don't even want to see you right now go ahead and leave nothing is stopping you"
"you can't possibly mean that where would I even go?"
" i start school tomorrow"
" i couldn't care less where you went maybe if you leave your father could come back now go on and leave"
I quickly managed to get up and pack about four days worth of clothes and an emergency backpack i had hidden deep in my closet which had two flasks, another altoid tin with joints and a lighter, a secret flip phone my mom knows nothing about, 300 in cash i have stocked away thank to deals i’ve made, and a couple other things.
I take one last look at my mom and she's sitting on the couch not even bothering to look at me or acknowledge so i walk out the door i decided to just walk around and contemplate what the hell just happened
How could she just do that? how could she just kick me out the house like that? her only son, her only child, her only source of income. I should've seen this coming but how could i? She needs me she can't live on her own, not in her condition
Where could I even go?