Post by zerog07 on Sept 26, 2010 14:13:01 GMT -5
NEIL JAMES SMITH
TWENTY-FOUR | LOCAL | CHRIS PINE
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hey, what's up? name is neil smith. just neil,really. i was born and raised here in cape may which is.... eh. summers around here are fun, but the city kinda dies out during the rest of the year. it can be pretty boring. oh, well, at least the waves are good. anyway, maybe something changed? i'm just getting back, actually.
my parents are from here too, my dad owns a big hotel in town. he does okay. i guess i grew up a little spoiled, what can you do? i was used to have everything i wanted as a kid. my dad says i'm just lazy. he's always on me about how a man has to pay his own way, about how he got his first job at fourteen, blahblahblah... unlike my perfect responsible sister, i'm just a bum. i get along better with my mom, she's always trying to fix things between me and my dad. she an artist, paints some really nice things.. i still have no idea how they can get along with each other, they're completely different.
high school was alright, i had ton of fun. didn't do much studying, but the parties were great. not that i'm not smart, just.. why wasting my time getting good grades? one day i'll get my share of the hotel and just be fine without really working, why would i wanna change that? i really just wanted out of the town, to be honest. when high school was over, dad sent me to college in ny, he'd always wanted me to be a lawyer. not likely, haha. college was just a big party... but again, i wasn't really made for studying, you know? eventually i dropped out, got some jobs here and there, but couldn't really keep them... my dad got tired of sending me money and cut me off, so i eventually i just decided to come back, since he'd at least give me a job.
so i was back to cape may, that was just half an year ago. my dad put me working at his hotel, as a bartender, since i did a little of that in back ny. i've had worse gigs, but he's still always on me about going back to college and getting a "real job". i don't see that happening. anyway, as soon as i got back, a ran into scarlet. we used to date in high school. i told her we'd keep in touch when i left, but really, i was just saying that. imagine my surprise when i find out she has a kid... and it's my kid! a kid i never even knew about and he's five, already.... she's a piece of work, right? i can't believe she didn't tell me. i mean, not that i'm ready to be a father, or anything, but... i don't know. honestly, the more i think about it, more surreal it sounds. me, with a kid? i'm still not sure how i feel about that exactly, it was a huge shock...
since my dad wouldn't give me any money and this whole thing with the kid happened... i decided to stick around, for now. so i guess i'm back. who says you can't go back home? i just wish things were as simple as before, you know? i guess i still have a lot of figuring out to do. wish me luck. not that i need any...
leo, utc-3,pm me!