Paying the Bills (TW + Dahaka)

[TheWanderer]

Andrew was 18 years old and finishing Public High School. He knew his future wasn't bright at all and that he wasn't going to college. He wasn't an A-Student and his family was dirt poor. His mother bought food using coupons and foodstamps. He often went to bed hungry and the meals provided at school tended to be about the only meals he knew he'd have on a daily basis. Not that his mother didn't try, but still, the kids at school always made fun of him. He wore the same 3 outfits to school each week but he didn't have any other clothes.

Even so, he was tall for 18 but lean, almost skinny. He'd never had a girlfriend - who wanted to date a guy that you had to pay for afterall? - and had hardly been kissed over his years at school. He was always the outcast, the one no one wanted to be seen around.

Now, he was sitting in the Kitchen, flipping through the newspaper, looking for jobs that some one with a GED could get. His prospects weren't looking good and he was just about willing to do anything.

 

[Dahaka]

It had been tough for both Alice and her son Andrew. They were a very poor family barely surviving on coupons and food stamps. Alice was working as a door to door sales person but lost that job because she didn't make enough sales in the month she was working. Sitting in the kitchen she began opening the mail to find they owed two months worth of rent now. "Oh no! How are we going to pay all these bills? We both don't have jobs and the bills keep piling up." Alice really didn't know what to do and hoped maybe her son might have an idea.