Belonging

I sat on the couch of my parents’ home, my eyes focused on the television while it flashed between shows to commercials and back again. The look in my eyes read that I was bored, and with my chin resting in my hand, fingers curled against my cheek, Ilet out a huff of a noise. What was I going to do? I was getting to the age that she’d need to get a job eventually, I couldn't live with my parents forever. No child ...

There are some that say the biggest gift one can bring into this world is Life and for Klaus's parents, this was exactly their perspective of it. His mom's parents, his living grandparents,  had struggled to bring her into the world with bad luck seemingly cursing them at every corner, and they too had this cursed spell of loss and failiure before finally bringing a small, premature and quite sickly baby girl into the world, and while they where still too sick to l...

Seth wasn't sure where he really belonged for lack of a better sense. From the moment he and his twin brother where born to an already fruitful family, he felt like he had to hit the ground running to earn any form of recognition among the masses he found himself fighting in. Even from the moment he was crawling, somehow his brother crawled just a bit faster, somehow when he count count his ABCs, his brother did so just a bit better and this cycle continued through ...

Sometimes he was given dirty looks when he walked the streets, other times there were appreciative glances. Every so often, he would get praise from a person, or a scoff in his direction. None of these mattered, yes being recognized and appreciated felt good. But there was a deeper sense of justice that he felt in his core. His lips curled into a smile, and his pokemon partner, Knight walked by his side. He hummed a little as he did so, stopping once in a while ...

Everyone starts somewhere in their life, whether they be a rich person who gained their fame easily, or they are a struggling beggar who just barely scraped by to afford the cost of living. But all is for sure, everyone has their struggles, even if money and fame is handed to you, even if you’re sitting on the streets, hungry and alone. For Ahimoth, he had the middle life, in between poverty and wealth, a middle class citizen with simple parents and a simple house. His father was a f...