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 Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2017 6:24 pm
He leaned over and popped a little plastic tab. "Liquid detergent goes in this one. Bleach goes in this one. So pour right here. It will dispense it out once it's ready." He said. "For colors, get these. All you do is toss one of them in and it does all the work." He said, showing the bag of laundry detergent pods. "I add fabric softener because I like my clothes soft." He said, showing him the other bottle. "This bottle is where you spray it on a bad stain and wait a few minutes, then toss it in the wash to help it get it out. So whine. Blood. That kind of stuff."
Once Al was done, he closed it and leaned over to turn it on. "There, now you're done with the load until it beeps that it's ready. Then it's dryer and we're done. We can go back to your room if you are more comfortable there, but it's usually quiet in here for now." He said, taking another drink from his cup.
"So around 15 you started breaking things? What did you parents do?"
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Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2017 6:33 pm
Al poured the cup out where Melvin indicated. s**t. Wrong cup. Nope right cup. He confirmed he still had his whisky with a relieved sigh and a sip.
"My mom was scared but tried to pretend she wasn't. Dad was scared and didn't care if everyone knew. I..." he looked a little dazed. "I overheard them. They were going to send me away."
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Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2017 6:54 pm
He looked over at him, about to take a sip but stopping. "So....what happened?"
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Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2017 6:58 pm
He gave Melvin a confused look as he took another sip and then frowned, "I ran away. I joined Deus and well.. the rest is history."
He looked down. at the contents of his cup, "Why did you join?"
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Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2017 7:09 pm
"I grew up and went to school to see if I could prove that what I was seeing was real. I wanted to make other people see it, get answers, and if it really was all in my head, then I wanted to at least try curing people of parasites that devastated people's lives. When I was offered to join Deus, I debated what my life would be if I left it all behind. I knew in the end I would drive myself crazy passing up the answers to everything I wanted to know and be curious about since I was a kid. It wasn't like my family was dependent on me to live, and I had no children. I didn't have a fiance anymore. I wanted this." He said, taking another drink.
"And not I have to live with myself knowing I lied to my entire family and brought them heartache at the expense of my selfish need for answers. But, if I went crazy with regret, then I probably would have done myself in anyways or just been depressed till the point that I should be gone." He finished his drink, feeling that soft, warm heat from the whiskey finally starting to settle.
"What you wanna do now with life?"
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Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2017 3:15 pm
"I dunno, get stronger? Enjoy the journey? Have as much fun as I can while I'm alive? Maybe uh.. maybe marry Noah?" That last bit was really hard to hear and he cleared his voice really loudly after stating it. "Anyway, you? What are your plans?"
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Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2017 8:50 am
"What was that one part? You trailed off." He said, hearing the water start in the machines.
"My plans are to build a house."
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Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2017 2:12 pm
"Hmm? Having as much fun as I can?" Yeah he wasn't repeating that, Melvin. It would be admitting on some level that you were right and Al wasn't fully prepared for that.
"A house? What kind of house?"
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Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2017 4:25 pm
"Just a house. In town. For me." He said, staring out and taking another sip of his drink.
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Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2017 4:40 pm
"Well. I mean like. Small - big? Stories? Yard? If it's your dream, there's gotta be more to it right?" Al missed the point at first and then blinked with slow dawning realization at the finality of it. "Oh... s**t. You... you okay?"
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Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2017 5:07 pm
"Uh...small? Yard too." He really couldn't picture it well and his art skills hand't been the best when he made rough outlines of just...blocks. He was sure it would just somehow work into whatever it was that was going to happen. It didn't seem right to plan it more than just - doing it. He had planned the other house. Had hopes for the other house. He couldn't bring himself to do it too much with this one.
When Al asked, he stared back at him, confused, and looked at himself, looked into his cup, and looked back. "....what?" He wasn't sure what he meant, and he was also drinking so the whiskey was slowly working it's way into his system after all this time.
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Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2017 5:12 pm
"The... house...?" He gave Melvin a confused look. "...Being just for you?" And not the house he'd built with Lawr. A house without Lawr. But wait. Was there someone else? "Like by yourself?"
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Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2017 5:34 pm
"Gotta have a home...right?" He said, giving a quick, forced smile before it dropped before he swirled the contents of his cup and finished it.
He held it out for Al to fill.
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Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2017 5:41 pm
Al sighed and topped Melvin off obediently. "Yeah, I guess." He decided Melvin must not have wanted to talk about that part of the concept, " I sorta thought about building a house but they're so expensive and hard to keep up.." He topped up his own cup and took a swig before also staring at nothing. A different nothing. "I can barely manage laundry - and that's with help."
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Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2017 5:44 pm
"Laundry you can learn. Laundry doesn't change. Same routine with expected reward. Effort. Outcome. You'll get it. You're not that stupid." He said, reaching out blindly to nudge him before taking another drink.
"It's relationships that are hard, and you're managing that."
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