Just Like You

Ch. 1 | Family Isn't Everything

I've got a bad case of ADD
I've been this way since seventeen
I got a fucked up brain and a really bad attitude
So you don't wanna be too close to me
'Cause you might see my broken heart
I am aware that I am an asshole
I really don't care about all of that though
I'm living my life the way that I want to
And you can't deny that honestly I'm just like you

Falling in Reverse - Just Like You

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When Lucy was growing up she had always wanted to travel the world. New York was on her list of places to see just like every other sixteen year old that was born and raised in the same town. Born and raised in Arizona, she had only left the state a couple of times while growing up and it was usually because her Grandma was dragging her to the funeral of some distant cousin she had met once and didn't know. She always pictured after graduating high school she'd spend some time traveling abroad with her close friends before coming home and going to college. How often do things work out like we imagined they would though?

She always had a very 'out of sight out of mind' view when it comes to things like fate, destiny, and religion. However, looking back, she can't help but wonder if the opportunity that fell into her lap was some sort of weird twist of fate. Everything that happened was too convenient and the timing was too perfect. There was no way for her to know the course of her life would change forever simply because she refused to turn her back on a family member. One of the only family members she actually considered family.

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Lucy had never been close with her mother growing up and her father was never in the picture. She only knew his name and that he refused to acknowledge her as his own. Needless to say her childhood was nowhere near perfect. Her mother Laura, liked to brag about being a hardworking single mother but that was far from the truth. The older Lucy got the more distance she put between her and her mother.

Her mom had a knack for choosing men over her most of her life, whether she realized it or not, which only made Lucy resent her more. For example, when Lucy was fifteen Laura decided she didn't want to work anymore. Instead of working to support her only daughter, she left Lucy with her grandma, quit her job, and did god knows what for money. Now as an adult, Laura did her best to try and get into Lucy's good graces. She was doing her best to be the mom Lucy needed her to be when she was younger. She doesn't need a relationship with her mother now, nor did she want one. She did her best to hide her irritation around her mom for her grandma's sake alone, but she rarely succeeded.

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"Baby this is the guy I'm seeing, his name is Rick. I want you to meet him soon," Laura said with a smile as she turned her laptop towards Lucy. The man's Facebook page was nothing special and looked like every other unemployed middle aged white man's profile page, complete with Walmart memes and Confederate Flags. Not to mention all the "Repost this within the next 5 minutes or you'll have bad luck" bullshit.

His profile picture was of a "Freedom isn't Free" meme instead of a photo of himself which indicated to her that the dude was probably not easy on the eyes. Lucy's suspicions were confirmed when she browsed through his pictures until she finally found one of him. It looked like he had taken it with the kind of flip phone she had when she was younger. Ya know the kind that had a black and white screen and the snake game? It was blurry and hard to make out. She found his tagged photo's folder and finally found a picture of him. Dude was overweight, had graying hair cut military style, and a lazy eye.