Ways Through Life

Chapter 1- Choices

Eugene.
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I wake up to the roaring of cars and garbage trucks in the alleyway outside my apartment through a slit in my curtains I could tell the suns about to rise. So I decide to get dressed very hurriedly and with a pencil and a book in my hand I head up to the roof to watch the sunrise before work.

I've finally made my way to the top of the roof by this time the sky had already turned a pretty shade of orange. I often take myself up on the roof just to watch the sunrise or sketch the buildings that tower of my apartment complex. I look at my phone and realised that It was 6 o'clock and I have three hours until I have to go to work. I have a office job for some large corporation it doesn't pay well but its enough to keep me alive.

So I head downstairs and back to my apartment and as soon as I'm in I head to the apartment and I go to get a coffee I notice the jug is empty so I head to the sink to go fill It up so flick the tap and noticed my water has been cut.

"SHIT!" I yell I guess I'm kinda exaggerating but I don't understand I paid the bill it should be fine.

Feeling slightly irritated I walk to my room to get ready for work I get my grubby old suit that my dad left me in his will when he died. I have recently started saving up a lot of money because to be quite frank I'm kinda shit at my job and well the people i work for are replacing old employers with young better and more enthusiastic.

Its 8:30 now I spent the last half an hour playing on my game console. I decide to start heading to my car which is just across the street cause some dick parked in my usual spot last night. I drive a crappy car my dad left me when he died. My dad was a good man he was my only friend at one time my mum on the other hand well dad had told me she left me at the age of three so I never really knew her.

It's 9 o'clock and I'm at work I have already started working. Everything went smoothly until about 10 what happened was I saw my only friend Noah carrying a box in his hands with a bunch of stuff in It.

"Dude whats going on?" I say.

Noah looks at me it looks like he's been crying and he never cries so something very serious is wrong.

"I've been fired." He says.

"Shit I'm so sorry dude. What are you gonna do?" I ask

"Well I was thinking I might be able to move in with you what do you say?"

"Dude I'm struggling I don't know if I can. The bills are getting harder and harder to play especially with the..." I was cut off there.

"Eugene may I speak to you in my office as soon as you can. Thank you." It was my boss and as soon as I heard this I knew exactly what was going to happen

"Fuck..." I say as I put my head in my hands.

"Dude its all gonna be ok just go get it over and done with."

"Thanks." I say feeling a weird feeling in my stomach. And so I slowly make my way across the room and knock on the door. I wait until I hear a come in.

"Eugene is It?"

"Uhhh yeah." Sounding kinda bashful.

"Ok. Listen I'm really not in the mood to give you some sappy shit so I'm just gonna be up front to you I am firing you." To be honest It sounded like he didn't even care not even the slightest bit. So as I walk out I turn around and stick both rude fingers up at him which I know was incredibly childish but I do not care but he looked incredibly taken a back which at least made me feel a tiny bit better. So I make my way back to my desk but when I get there I see what seems to be a teenager sitting at my desk all my stuff on the floor I wasn't fine with this but I wasn't mad either thats until i got a little closer and saw the picture I had of my dad was laying on the floor broken.

"Hey what the fuck did you do to my stuff?" He turns around and you can tell he almost shat himself.

"I-I-I'm sorry. I was told I needed to start straight away and all this stuff was here and..." he started panicking but I cut him off before he could say anymore. I pick up the picture and show him.

"You just knocked this down and didn't even bother to see if It was ok. This is the only picture of my dad and you just broke It." Which was a lie just i wanted to give this guy a guilt trip for taking my job. Which again I admit was childish I was just in a state. People started staring at me I felt awkward so I was happy when noah got a box put my stuff in it and dragged me away. as were heading down the elevator.

"Can we got to the pub?" noah asks

"Sure." I say.

It wasn't until about 3 o'clock where we went back to my apartment except we didn't head to my apartment we went to the roof top and just sat down. We were both drunk as all hell. The only time me and noah talked was either at work or the local pub so we don't really know that much about him. So here we are talking about our childhood and It pretty much goes smoothly until I get up to a bit where I talk about my childhood home.

"What happened to the house?" He says slightly slurring.

"My old house?" I ask

"Yeah." It looks like he's gonna pass out any second now.

"Well my dad left It to me when he died It's out in Oklahoma though." I say

"Well lets go then I mean unless you want to stay here and live a shit life with no one no matter what your answer is I'm moving away from here." I was kind of taken aback by this remark mainly because he is practically blackmailing me to go. So there was a long pause before I actually said something.

"I'll think about." It I mumble.

"Fine but can I sleep here I'm pissed."

"Sure." I say and thats the end of the conversation. No one said anything for the rest of the night and If we did then we didn't say much.

A lot of time passed by and the whole time I was just debating with myself whether I should go back to where my childhood home was. The reason why I'm so hesitant is because my life back then really wasn't the best I'm scared of my history coming back to me I mean I was a fucked up kid to say the least.

The only thing I'm certain of right now is I have a big choice ahead of me.