Hi. I’m Mark. Mark Phanelley. I’m a 16 year old kid who’s pretty happy with life. I’m turning 17 at the end of this year, the last day of school. I’m a sophomore in Greene High School. I live with my parents, I don’t have any siblings. It’s just me and them. I don’t mind, I hear all the time how everyone fights with theirs, so maybe it’s a plus? Tomorrow is the first day of sophomore year, I’m pretty excited. Mostly because I’ll finally get to see my best friend Alex after about a month. We had hung out a bunch at the beginning of summer but it slowly got to where we didn’t even text. It was probably just something to do with his family.. He doesn’t live in a great environment. His mother doesn’t care for him, when she does it’s not helpful, while his father beats her and him every night when he gets home from the bar.
But that’s not really the case I suppose. He’s my friend, I’m his. I’m there for him when he needs it, I try not to complain much. He’s basically a loser in our school though, that’s why it’s important for me to be there for him. But that changes ya know? It changed.
And it costed something.
Many things actually.
But oh well…. He just had enough I guess.
I get it though, I forgive you…
~I'll point out that this book might be quite triggering to those whose experienced this, so please, be careful and read at your own risk~
Also, wanted to point out that my book is obviously still in progress. I've just decided to post it each chapter I do because I deleted the last one due to some of it being gone and me not remembering what I wrote. So I deleted the whole thing and rewrote. :)
Thank you!
