V3r4's Epic Blog

Chapter 1: its hot and it rots

August 1st, 2024

I forgot to close the blinds last night, so I woke up to the room filled with heat and dust. I'm more frustrated than I should be but I just hate being hot. You can only get so naked and we don't got an AC or anything. I haven't changed my clock in a while so i don't know the time but the sun is halfway up the sky and the house is empty. Usually I wake up at 6:00 am to hear my brother loudly playing video games outside of my room but somehow I slept in and Cody disappeared. He's been doing that a lot more recently, disappearing. Well, it's not like I don't know where he is. I have his location on Snapchat. But he will just leave. Get on his dirt bike and go to one of his friends' houses. We have a truce about that. I don't tell anyone that he left the house and he doesn't tell anyone that I don't leave my room. He's cool like that. Cody is the only person I talk to most days, and even then it's just a quick good morning as I pass him on my way to the bathroom. I haven't really been talking to my parents since summer started. They're both at work early in the morning. My dads a welder and my mom does childcare. My mom gets home at around 5:30 everyday and she's too exhausted to do much more than throw some fries in the air fryer and lay on the couch to watch raunchy period dramas. And my dad technically gets off work at 5:00 but he helps run a lot of the local jr. sports teams so he gets home by 9:00. I don't mind too much really. Every time we talk it just turns into an interrogation or a fight. My mom’s fine. She doesn't get mad, or sad, or anything really. She's just… there i guess. And my Dad, he's difficult. It's like he has all of the tiny rules and I'm always snapping them. He doesn't get mad at Cody very often, probably because he's a boy or whatever. But I'm not a boy and he's never been good with women. I hate the summer.