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I cover my mouth as I pull into my sisters driveway. Lia runs out and waves at us.
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Kristie opens her door as I shut the car off and Lia comes running out to give Kristie a hug. She picks her up and holds Lia in her arms as they walk back inside. I follow behind, shoving my keys in my pocket.
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"Hi brother!" Devin yells from the kitchen. I walk over and sit at one of the bar stools she has at her counter. I rest my head down on the cold counter top.
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"How are you?" Devin asks.
"I'm great, you?"
"I'm doing my best, Adian has been hard to handle lately"
"Why so?" I ask.
"He's been coming home, stinking like weed, alcohol, cigarettes. Staying out all night, phone bill coming in with multiple unknown numbers on it, calling his phone at one, two in the morning. I have no idea how to sit him down and tell him I've had enough"
"Really?" I sit up and look at her.
"Yeah, I've already signed him up for a boot camp in Texas, I just need to decide and pay"
"Wow, I'm sorry sis"
We all sat down for lunch and talked. I stayed pretty quiet as the girls chatted about future plans and memories from our past. I was thinking about Aidan.
No father, no brother, no grandfather. He has me for an uncle and I haven't been around either to guide him through life and give him a direction to go. All he's seen of me is a spoiled man-whore that doesn't do shit but get drunk and forget about his family.
It was around 5pm when we were packing up to leave for rollerskating. Me and Kristie got in our car and followed my sister down to the roller rink.
As we all were getting our skates on, my phone rang.
"James?" A young voice says frantically.
"Yeah who is this?" I ask.
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"Adian, I have no one else to call and my mom will freak out. I'm drunk and these kids are trying to beat the shit outta me for fucking one of there girls, I need you to come get me"
"Where are you Aidan" I change back into my shoes as fast as possible, whisper to Kristie that it's an emergency and book it out of the rollerskating building.
I get a message from Aidan telling me his location. He's hidden behind a dumpster somewhere so I jump in the car and drive. It's starting to get dark and the streets become more and more empty.
As I'm cruising around looking for Aidan, I spot an alley with a couple dumpsters in the way back. I park my car on the side next to some closed breakfast place and walk down to see if he's down there.
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Laying on the ground behind the dumpster, is Aidan, covered in puke and what looks like cum. He rolls over from his side to his back, whining at me a little and then sighing in relief. I grab his arm to pull him up and he pukes everywhere. We sit there behind those dumpsters for awhile, waiting for him to get to the point where he can get home in the car without vomiting his brains out.
"Fuck" Aidan says.
"Feelin better?" I ask.
"Yeah"
"I'll take you to my place so you can take a shower and have a night to stay away from your mom because she's got plans for you and this would be your end" I say, yanking him up so I can help walk him to my car.
"Man, what a guy puts up with for a little pussy am I right?" Aidan laughs, still drunk off his ass.
I shake my head and help him into the front seat. The ride back is me listening to him babble about his life and how he resents his parents. He wishes his sister would understand how nasty the world really is, how he's been so deep in drug addictions since he was 12 and no one ever noticed.
Itch Itch
I listen and listen and the more he talks, the more I resent myself for not being who he needed. I also see myself. Alone, no way to go, road to follow, just so deep in drugs and alcohol that nothing really matters. Losing yourself to demons you feel like you cant see but they are right in front of you.
I walk him inside my house and show him where the shower is. He takes about 10 minutes to wash himself while I put his clothes in the washer. I set the couch up real comfy for Aidan but when he comes out, he just changes and sits there, motionless.
"I'm a fuck up" he says.
"Me too" I say.
"I know"
Itch itch
"You know your mom is worried about you. She's really thinking about sending you away to some boot camp"
"Send me away? Get rid of me. Perfect, because that would solve all of her problems, just send me away. Bitch"
"Don't talk about your mom like that. she wants the best for you"
"Nah man, she wants to get rid of me because I embarrass her. Because she doesn't know how to be there for me. She's not good at being a mom, to me and she'd rather erase her mistakes then fucking try to fix them" he stops.
"You know what I see? I see a fucking punk with a big ass mouth and no logical view of the world. You don't know anything about life yet. Your a youngin. You need to learn to respect the people that care for you, they are the only ones that stick around. I see me in you. I made these mistakes. I did drugs, fuck man I still do drugs. I'm a fucking loser. Drunk passed out on the couch, or at least I did that stuff until recently, when one woman changed me. But I had to learn to listen. You need to learn too or else you'll end up like that one uncle who never shows up to any family get togethers, that sits alone and dies behind a dumpster from an OD or alcohol poisoning, alone"
I stop and look him in the eyes and he looks back at me.
Itch itch
"Well your here now, and I'm willing to forgive you for all those years. I'll do better J, I'll do better for my mom"
I smile a little and nod at him. He lays back on his bed so I get up and go to turn the light off.
"James?"
"Yeah Aidan"
"Thanks"
"Of course, it's what you do for the people you care about" I say and shut the light off.
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