You're Weird, I Like It - Rarl

That Inner Monologue -Part 1-

Ron Anderson never claimed to be the most normal boy around. Hell, before the Apocalypse he could count on one hand the number of times from Middle school into the High school that he had told someone he liked them, only to be laughed at like he'd told a hilarious joke and called weird; They would walk away claiming they wouldn't be caught dating a weirdo. Out of that handful of before people, one had said yes...it lasted all of the entire school day before they decided the gossip about his apparent weirdness was more important than him as a person; so he didn't count that one yes as any kind of positive. It was a fond memory if anything, and it would always be at the back of his mind as that one moment that would never happen again as long as he was alive.

When things with his family got complicated he just distanced himself entirely, which only added on to the facts of his weirdness in the eyes of his peers. He stopped trying when it came to these people, and they would later wonder why, when he ended up fighting a kid who had called his mother a cock-sucking whore, they hadn't realized before how cool he actually was. He had won in a fight induced by rage against the school bad boy. It was too late for them, though, he wanted nothing to do with people who treated individuality as a weirdness, as something to be shunned. They had dug their own graves in his mind, rejected his personality when he wanted them. No longer. He would then, rather easily at that, step into the role of the very kid he had fought over his mother's virtue. He would become the bad boy, the loner...and he didn't mind.
When the Apocalypse hit he would admit with a smile that he was glad for it, his peers got what they deserved and he couldn't be happier. After awhile, though, it got lonely and immensely boring without other kids his age around; there weren't very many left at least. He realized he'd have to once more try to make friends. That's when Mikey came in.

Mikey was an interesting kid; in his opinion anyway. He was attractive but not in the way Ron personally liked so it was easy for him to try being his normal quirky self around the dark haired boy; Mikey himself personally found Ron a riot to be around and bonded to him in a friendly manner like glue. They were near inseparable best friends who liked to game hardcore and sometimes cuddle; the cuddling was Mikey putting up with Ron's clingy periods, and sometimes Ron would wonder if closing himself off years ago was the right thing. Sometimes he wished he had met Mikey sooner; when the world was still normal.
Enid was like a breath of fresh air when she came along. She had piqued Ron's interest, leaving him to feel conflicted as memories from a time no longer made themselves known. He had recounted the times of his rejections; the handful that they were, to Mikey when he'd asked Ron what was wrong. It took a week for Mikey to convince Ron it was okay to be his weird and quirky self around Enid.

They were going out the next week and Ron couldn't even remember the last time he was happy; moments with his dear best friend aside. Still, things with Enid weren't easy. Ron often found himself wondering if Enid merely puts up with him and only agreed to date him due to limited choice, but then she really didn't seem like the type to do that and she could have just as easily said no and chose Mikey instead.
Since the beginning, things with his family seemed to run on a day-to-day basis when it came to the general mood of the household; even now during the Apocalypse. There would be a good day but it would generally be between several bad, especially when his father decided Ron was the target; a rare occurrence when his mother wasn't home to receive the brunt of the alcohol-induced anger, the drink Ron had come to hate the most. These bad days made worse sometimes seemed the only days Enid was even concerned with him, the only time she looked his way lately, most often she was gone. He knew she cared, she wasn't heartless, he just wasn't her priority, hadn't been even when they got together. So when the breeze blew in a new set of people Ron was both anxious and excited...and if he was honest with himself completely terrified.