It looked like he had a promising future until the tenth grade. I was a decent student, B’s and C’s, but Gene would always get A’s, and it seemed to just come naturally to him. Gene was always the smart one in the family. I don’t really keep tabs on her or my brother, Gene, anymore. I believe she’s living in Wisconsin now, happily married, but sure as hell she won’t try to support mother in anyway. But Janet was always bitter about it, and her and mom got into really cutthroat arguments over it. Father met somebody else who he simply loved more. Janet didn’t like our mother because she blames her for father’s departure. According to the stories, they had the same relationship that I had with my mother. My sister, Janet, was 15 when this happened. My dad walked out when I was 5, so I never really knew him very well. Sadly, my siblings never really felt the same way. If I was going through a rough time, she was always there. It just seemed like she understood me better than anyone else in the world. Even in my adolescence, where you aren’t supposed to even acknowledge your mom, I was always by her side. After 3 solid years of doing this, my mother suddenly fell ill. Most of the time, I was lounging off my unemployment with a bowl of cereal and watching TV in my mother’s house. And, of course, that’s only when I did work.
Before now, most of my jobs included a frying pan and a silly little hat. It amazed me that I finally had a safe job. My new life here was already beginning quite smoothly, and with my new job waiting for me, I was beginning to feel the dawn of a new era.
I felt a feeling of joy I have never experienced, and I felt I could do anything I wanted. The weather here was nothing like the icy northern cold of Seattle, where I come from.
The warm air of the Sunshine State took me by surprise, sending ironic shivers down my spine.
I stepped out of the bustling airport, and for the first time in months I felt heat. It was dusk when my flight finally landed in Tampa, Florida.
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