medicine ~fransykes~

Chapter 1

On the south side of town all the houses were detached, with perfectly trimmed gardens and flawless interior designs. Everyone in the neighbourhood was friendly towards one another, sharing polite conversation each Sunday after church. The south side was a perfect gated community, full of generally well mannered people.

The north side of town had a particularly bad reputation. Crime was far from uncommon, all the houses were small and cramped together and illegal drugs were easily passed around in the shady, dark alleyways that infested the area.

Josh Franceschi lived on the south side. He lived with his parents and his younger sister Elissa, they were the perfect example of a poster family. They attended church every week, donated to charity and lived in one of the biggest houses in town. Josh was in year 11, in his last of secondary school, and was the kind of person that everyone aspire to be. He was bubbly and energetic, seeing the good within everyone he met and always making light of bad situations.

Oliver Sykes lived on the north side in a small, rundown house with his mum and little brother Tom. Oli's mum spent her days wasting away in her bedroom, only leaving the house to either see her new boyfriend or go to work. Oli was cold and quite, rarely talking to anyone but Tom and occasionally his mother. Everyone at school was afraid of Oli, they made this well known to him when they hid from him in the hallways and shrunk beneath his gaze. Oli didn't mind, most people annoyed him anyway. Oliver's dad was infamous within the entire town, well known for the mass murder he committed 5 years ago, when Oli was only 12 and Tom was just a baby.

No one knows what truly drove Oli's father to kill 8 innocent people that night, although many speculated that the entire family was just as insane as him.

Oli sometimes wonders if this speculation is true or not, at least in his case.