She usually got up late. So he could sneak out early and be back by 10:30. She wouldn’t be up until at least 11:30 so this would give him time. 

It was stupid to not go at the time he saw her yesterday. He remembers she used to talk to...

He couldn’t sleep. Or he was sleeping between two worlds. He heard trickling water. Then a rush of noise like thousands of bearings hitting the ground. Swelling then dying. Then he saw snow or something else hail. 

He hadn’t seen that in years. All the round white pieces.

When he woke...

He was laying in bed now. His usual method of playing his favorite show on all his monitors wasn’t working. Which he was surprised as they were set to orange light. 

He guessed it was the coffee it had been, almost a year since he’d had a coffee been just...

They didn’t have  Spacecity sweatshirts he thought now city in his chair. Not that he would have gotten one, but that’s probably the closest thing he would have bought a sweatshirt for. He did t go to college, and his high schools wasn’t like that. Maybe the teachers had a...

A small part of him felt like he was in a video game. He felt freed by this but frightened at the intensity. That if he got hit by a car nothing would happen. But he had to make it home. 

He did make it home. Unscathed it was only...

He kept wanting to stare at her. Fuck he didn’t even look at her name tag. The line got longer. As more people with college sweatshirts came in. A class or something had ended. He left outside felt darker, he knew they shouldn’t really be so close to each. They...

The square was empty aside from a smoothie place, a Starbucks and a McDonald’s. There were some college kids milling about. Or were they younger he didn’t know. They all had nice phones different than how he grew up and they had headphones on sort of looked like celebrities it...

He felt weird moving around. It made him angry at first. He was tired. Slightly sweaty and confused. The outside world seemed brighter than he remembered. Also colder just harder to move though. He wanted go like his video games flying through the air landing perfectly. But he realized now...

He thought also about going to that bar. And then maybe he could go play disc golf finally. He thought about texting his friend. He was overwhelmed he felt his heart beating faster than he had in awhile.

A six pack from his youth was now covered up with layers of...

He still remembers some of the other guys. Derek, and Sal.

It was short for Salvatorre, or something. He had said his family was Italian. He wasn't he insisted American through and through. 

He always said he could really use a cigarette. That was one of the only ways Pete could...