Adrian was a naughty, mischievous boy. Her dad was really fond of him but never had much time to spend with him since young. Like many other families, He had a sibling, an older brother and of course, a mum.
For the pass few years, things weren’t going too well back at home, the parents are having wars. Brother-Dad war, Brother-Adrain war. And somehow, Adrian was always caught in between and he really hated how he is always somehow blamed for every other thing.
He went through a phase where he was abused physically at the age of 18+. That incident left his psychologically scarred. Where many a times, certain events that seem pretty much normal to every other teen of that age, to Adrian, are events that haunt him of how the whole scene happened.
He’s feeling weary of everything. Emotionally drained. Psychologically Scarred. Physically Abused.
For a 18 year old, it was surely quite a bit of thing for him to handle.
As days went by, he dreaded home more. Started joining his friends. Talking to them, trying to use that form of love, and concern, to replace what he didn’t have back at home. Everything was always about his brother, just so cause he does better in studies, is more domineering, louder, more vulgar, and more violent. Well, that is at least his real self behind all the facade he puts up.
He hated his brother. He hated how his mum always unknowingly stood up for him. Adrian’s mum always deny that by adding that she also lectures brother when he does something wrong.
But something cracked him recently, for 3 years, he’s been thrown from room to room within the house. Moving his stuffs out of his brother’s room, to his dad’s work room, then back to brother’s room, and to work room again, and it continues. He voiced out about how absurd is it that he’s doing everything to cater to everyone, but was shunned off by his dad saying that “You should be glad you’ve got a place to stay”. To Adrian, that wasn’t the point at all, its not about having a place to stay, or home. Or just for the fact that he should feel comfortable in whichever corner there is at home. He was so bothered cause he felt so unwanted. He felt so left out. He felt that, why is it that he’s the only one being pushed around. It hurts no matter what the reason was.
After supposedly finally managing to settle down in his brother’s room recently, the brother told him to Fuck Out of His Room. Which was indeed absurd especially over the reason which the brother gave. In fact, the whole incident happened but it wasn’t Adrian’s fault. He was just doing something to cater to the brother once again. But something screwed up in between. Something that Adrian wasn’t able to determine or choose. And to top it all up, his mum stood up for his brother. Using the same old reason that the brother is stressed with school and all. Which Adrian thinks, are reasons, but pretty absurd ones as an explanation to his actions.
Now, Adrian finally knew, he is all alone settling this. He knew he had to be independent already. If not, the only person getting hurt would be himself, no thanks to how oblivious his family are to his feelings.
For now, he found a new place back at home to settle down in. The sofa in the hall. He’s been a liability to his family, and what was that again? Family? I think, Adrian kinda forgot how is it like to have one. Wait, in fact, he remembered it so well of how it is like, that he refuse to even acknowledge that word ever again.
And Adrian, really made everything sounded simple. It really is so “simple”.