Blue Horse

Chapter 1

Fax walked into his parents tattered old raised ranch house. The brownish gray shingles looked like they were falling off the house and the roof was scratched all over. The windows paint was peeling off on all four of them in the front. It was a plain looking house, like a real house that you would see in the suburbs of Boston. The clouds were a very dark gray and it was obvious that it was about to rain. 

Inside the house, Fax found his mother on the living room floor next to the couch with the TV blaring General Hospital. She was obviously drunk. The red and yellow shag carpets were stained with beer and little morsels of cocaine were spread throughout the floor. Fax went to the left down the short brown walled hallway to the small yellow bedroom where his baby brother Luca was sleeping. The crib used to be Fax's when he was little. His mother couldn't afford another crib because all she spends her money on is cocaine and bourbon. His father occasionally came home to beat up his mother and scream at her.

Fax picked up the infant who was wrapped in a little yellow wool blanket with the name Halifax embroidered onto the bottom side of it. It used to be Fax's also. Fax went into the small kitchen and opened up the door to the 1960's refrigerator and the door immediately fell on the ground. The noise scared Luca and he started to wail. He tried to calm him down as much as he could until the baby fell silent. Fax took out the baby formula and let it sit out to warm. Once it was room temperature, he fed it to the small green eyed infant. When Luca was finished, he went fast asleep and Fax put him right back into the crib. 

"John!" Fax's mother yelled.

"My names not John!" Fax yelled back. Every day after school when Fax comes home, he does one hundred push ups and sit ups and then lifts weights for an hour. Every morning he runs two miles. This is all to calm him down.

"Whatever. Get your ass in here!" she screamed. Fax walked into the kitchen. He was out of breath. His short dark blond hair was drenched in sweat and he had to keep wiping the sweat out of his big blue eyes. His cheeks were also completely flushed.

"I forgot," she said. Her brown hair was all over the place and her brown eyes were completely blood shot. She was dressed in a long white gown that was wrinkled all the way down to the cuffs and edges. 

She grabbed Fax by the arm and tried to crash her lips onto his.

"NO mom!" I shouted as he tugged his hand away.

"But you're so handsome and stro-" she started. She passed out on the ground. Fax rolled his eyes and picked her up slowly and carefully and walked her into the shag floored living room. He put her on the couch and turned off the 1990s Sony. The couch was ripping at the seams and you could see little parts of yellow material sticking out. 

Fax went into my room to work on my homework. His room was adjacent to Lucas and he kept the door open so he could peer up from his desk to check on him every once in a while. There were posters all over the wall of different bands that he liked like All Time Low and The Main. His bed was a small twin ith springs coming out the sides. There were no sheets because he couldn't afford them. 

After Fax was done with his homework, he puled out his phone and started to text his best friend.

Fax:

Hey bro can I have dinner at your house tonight? I don't want to be with my mom tonight.

Danny:

Yeah sure. My moms making scallops.

Fax:

K thanks a lot.

He put his phone on his desk and hopped into the shower. The bathroom was next to Luca's room and looked like the 70s spat all over it. The toilet was green and the floor tiles were a bright pink. The mirror looked like it was slowly coming off of the wall and the fan was broken. There was no shower curtain so Fax put his clothes on the ground to stop the water. After taking a long shower, Fax slipped on baggy jeans and a red short sleeve t-shirt. He heard a beep from outside and he knew it was Danny coming to pick him up.