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We (my family and I) left Wednesday at exactly 12:17 a.m/p.m, bound for Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, and South Carolina. I crashed out within the first few hours of the ten hour trip to Fort Jackson for my step-brother's graduation from basic army training. We were in Kentucky last I remember, then Lindsay and everyone else is trying to get my lazy a** up to see the Smoky Mountains. As sad as this may or may not sound, I didn't really care for them much. I mean it could've been because it was seven in the morning and we still had almost five hours to go. Anyway, then we stopped at this guy's ranch who offered horse backriding. He was also breeding Arabians for racing, breeding mustangs, about to put a bullet in the head of his favorite horse (she was bitten by a rattlesnake and dying painfully), and about a million other things. In the end, Mark said that he didn't really trust me going with that guy alone so I didn't go at all. X.x

Then I crashed out again and woke up in South Carolina, about three hours from the base. Mark left his sister, Lisa's, cell phone number at the house so we had no idea of knowing if they were at Fort Jackson already with Tony or what. Now comes the suck-a** parts. Be prepared to be extremely pissed. We got there, no Tony. Lisa and Mark's father weren't there either. We checked with his commanding officer and he said that he was at the PX (a Walmart and local hang-out for soldiers only) and that he would try and get Tony back as soon as possible. Three hours passed and still no Tony. Mom was just about in tears because her stomach was killing her, Lindsay was being..well, Lindsay, Mark was pissed and sad because he wanted to spend time with his son and he wasn't there, and I, surprisingly, was holding everything together. I assumed it would be me so miserable but it was EVERYONE else.

We found a cheap motel and spent the night there. At about eight, Tony called and said he'd been with Lisa and his grandfather all day. Lisa got on the phone and tried to blame Tony for not wanting to go back to the base and yelled at Mark for losing the phone number. That stupid b***h didn't even try to see if we made it here alright. For all she knew, we could've died on the way there! And Grandpa was no better! I couldn't believe the way they tried to cover up their own asses and blame Tony. Then we find out that Tammy (Mark's ex-wife and local attitude problem) was going to hang out with us tomorrow with Tony when it was supposed to be just us (Lindsay, Mom, Mark, and myself) and him after the graduation. I swear they didn't give a flying ******** about what we..no, what Mark, Tony's father, wanted.

Tomorrow came and we got up at six to get ready. Tony's head officer said that if we wanted a seat, we'd better be there by seven at the latest. So, we got ready and left. We got there and sat for about three and a half hours. (The damn thing didn't even start until ten!) Aside from the whole 'America the Beautiful' s**t, it was actually really cool. Afterward, we tried to get down to see Tony and stood there for almost an hour. Finally, we see Tammy (oh joy, rapture, and pleasure). Mark asks if she's seen him and she's all, "I can't believe you didn't see him. I would've recognised him from miles away." I already hated her but that made it worse. Oh yes, rub in the fact that he lived with you for eight years, you lazy b***h. Just go ahead. Well, I got to meet her new husband, Whatshisface, and her daughter, Nina, who was actually nice. Then Lisa and Grandpa show up with Tony and Lisas already trying to say where we should go, what we should do. Honey, I am sorry if we are not millionaires and can't afford all the stupid s**t you had planned (before anyone else knew about it).

I'm just going to stop right here...this is really pissing me off. I'll probably finish it later.

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