American Contemporary Fiction

Well, there was a knock on the door and little did we know it was a landlord, and he said we had to move right away, and actually we were very happy about that. So we all packed our bags and left the place that had given us so much doom and gloom, although there were happy times and excitable times we just felt like we were fish out of water in that area, the people walking by our house would complain about us being there or if we revved up our motors on our bikes, they would all complain and No one. Just a couple of you, friendly. People around the neighborhood would talk to us, but we kept on. This was the third year we were living there and but although we had nowhere to go, we knew our mental health programs would find us a new house. We just had to look. Maybe we would be separate this time and maybe that would be better because, although we had been in this long. Friendship/relationship. Me and my boyfriend were sort of falling apart at the seams since. Our personality types are totally different. I want to be crazy in public. And he wants to be normal, and then he wants to talk to all the girls and I can't stand that so I just leave and he wonders why when we're out, but so I just plus I don't know what happened and he's gone for long periods of time and doesn't say where he is and clues come around that he's with different girls and He supposes that this is alright. I guess but I just wanna be friends and I haven't said that yet to him but anyway, so now that we have to find a new house and it's gonna be separate because we won't be able to find 2 apartments free in one building again, especially 1 with 3 Bay, garage and we. Owned all 3 garages somehow from the landlord, which used to be tied up with glasses and cases. Glasses cases cause there must have been a glasses business here in the 1900s, 1950 or something. There were lots of old relics some. We say very interesting colorful clothing. In the bins in the garage, when we cleaned it out, we fixed the roof got a new refrigerator got new stove and we really helped each other out and stuck by each other and also gave each other space when needed. And we went on long bike rides went to the store, sometimes and bus rides to back to our previous residence, which was at his house in a different town, but to visit his family and relatives or we would go out places with my family to a restaurant with him. And You know?\n Just our differences of background or our personality types or signs. Were not compatible. I don't know, but for his sign, I hear it they like, short, but sweet relationships so right now, I feel like I'm just hanging on for no reason and so, although we would hate to lose what we had had worked so hard to complete a nice home and we made it nice over the years and we'd have to let that go. The landlord was very adamant that we would have to be out in 30 days. So We started looking for places separately in our program. Talked to us about what the move would entail? We had different programs, they were sister programs, but I was more the one type of program person and he was the other type like his was more cooler. But mine was more kind of like nicer and prissy, kind of that's just how our personalities mesh with the different programs that we were in, but Like\nI'm not cool enough to be in his program.And he can't stand their attitude like cause they don't get him.So anyway, we have our prospective programs, and they helped us, our workers find a new place and mine was turned out to be way across town where I wanted near the river.And hisWell, there was a knock on the door and little did we know it was a landlord, and he said we had to move right away, and actually we were very happy about that. So we all packed our bags and left the place that had given us so much doom and gloom, although there were happy times and excitable times we just felt like we were fish out of water in that area, the people walking by our house would complain about us being there or if we revved up our motors on our bikes, they would all complain and No one. Just a couple of you, friendly. People around the neighborhood would talk to us, but we kept on. This was the third year we were living there and but although we had nowhere to go, we knew our mental health programs would find us a new house. We just had to look. Maybe we would be separate this time and maybe that would be better because, although we had been in this long. Friendship/ relationship. Me and my boyfriend were sort of falling apart at the seams since. Our personality types are totally different. I want to be crazy in public. And he wants to be normal, and then he wants to talk to all the girls and I can't stand that so I just leave and he wonders why when we're out, but so I just plus I don't know what happened and he's gone for long periods of time and doesn't say where he is and clues come around that he's with different girls and He supposes that this is alright. I guess but I just wanna be friends and I haven't said that yet to him but anyway, so now that we have to find a new house and it's gonna be separate because we won't be able to find 2 apartments free in one building again, especially 1 with 3 Bay, garage and we. Owned all 3 garages somehow from the landlord, which used to be tied up with glasses and cases. Glasses cases cause there must have been a glasses business here in the 1900s, 1950 or something. There were lots of old relics some. We say very interesting colorful clothing. In the bins in the garage, when we cleaned it out, we fixed the roof got a new refrigerator got new stove and we really helped each other out and stuck by each other and also gave each other space when needed. And we went on long bike rides went to the store, sometimes and bus rides to back to our previous residence, which was at his house in a different town, but to visit his family and relatives or we would go out places with my family to a restaurant with him. And You know?\n Just our differences of background or our personality types or signs. Were not compatible. I don't know, but for his sign, I hear it they like, short, but sweet relationships so right now, I feel like I'm just hanging on for no reason and so, although we would hate to lose what we had had worked so hard to complete a nice home and we made it nice over the years and we'd have to let that go. The landlord was very adamant that we would have to be out in 30 days. So We started looking for places separately and our program. Talked to us about what the move would entail? We had different programs, they were sister programs, but I was more the one type of program person and he was the other type like his was more cooler. But mine was more kind of like nicer and prissy, kind of that's just how our personalities mesh with the different programs that we were in, but Like\n I'm not cool enough to be in his program. And he can't stand their attitude like cause they don't get him. So anyway, we have our prospective programs and they helped us our workers find a new place. And mine was turned out to be way across town where I wanted near the river, and his was back in his home.

Posted Oct 14, 2025
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