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Someone, Somewhere

Chapter 17: No Longer Cool, but a Boy In a Stitch Unprepared For a Life Full of Lies and Failing Rel

(Third person since it's easier): It's been three months and Ezra hasn't even tried going home, and that's really worrying Ryder and the kids. He quit his job and took all his stuff. One day Flynn was seeing his birth mom Karen and he sees Ezra. And he's in bad shape
"Oh c'mon yah douche! I payed for more than this!" He yells at a guy that is walking away
"Dad?" Flynn questions
"Oh it's you twiny! Haha! No I don't share my fix. Now you can scoot along" Ezra tells Flynn
"I didn't come for your coke. I was at my mother's house. And we want you to come home. Dad.... We need you. Ryder needs you" Flynn tells him
"Fuck him, fuck you! I don't need you guys! You just miss my sexiness." Ezra laughs and Flynn picks up his high father and Ezra screams at him. But not like anyone cares in this shady neighborhood... He drives home with Ezra screaming at him. They get to the Eckes residence and Flynn slings Ezra over his shoulder and walks him in. Flynn had given the family a fore-warning so it was no surprise. Flynn walks in with Ezra and then throws him on the couch and Ryder sobs from Ezra's terrible condition. His pupils are constricted, he seems very twitchy, and he keeps rubbing his nose.
"Ezra, dear god what have you done to yourself?" Ryder sobs
"Oh Ryder dear, you've really let yourself go. You seem even more pathetic than the last time I saw you three months ago" Ezra snaps and smirks evilly an Ryder sobs and Ezra can't even sit still
"Do you have a dollar bill or something Anatome?" Ezra asks
"No you dumbass I don't. Even if I did I wouldn't give it to you. I know how a coke head acts. I lived with one for 13 years" She snaps
"Fine then little bitch. Ryder. I'll be going now. K." Ezra says
"NO EZRA! YOU WILL NOT WALK AWAY! YOU WILL STAY AND LISTEN TO YOUR FAMILY! I WANT TO HELP YOU AND I WANT MY HUSBAND BACK!" Ryder screams and Ezra sits down
"Ok what is there to say. I'm an addict, an asshole baby. There's nothing really else to say. I don't have money to clean up my act and it makes me feel better. As the song "Product of a Murderer" By Of Mice & Men says "It consumes me, controls me, leaves me with nothing, But you know that I love how it tastes, fear and the fate, I'll change face, to get what I crave. Fill my veins..." It's sad. But true" Ezra tells them
"We'll get you help dad" Callisto says
"Yeah dad. We'll help you through it all" Calypso tells him
"I just want our Ezra back" Ryder sobs
"Okay. I'll get help. Drive me there stat" Ezra tells us and Ryder, Ezra, Callisto, Anatome, and Auggie get into the car and drive off

Ryder's p.o.v: I'm driving Ezra to a Rehab center in Salem and we just sit there listening to "Acid" by Ghost Town with out saying a word. Still got an hour and 18 minutes left, well that's what my GPS says anyways.
"Ryder. How has the family been for these last three months?" Ezra asks
"Hurt and broken because of you dumb fuck" Auggie snaps
"Augustus Cyrus! You will not use that language to your father!" I snaps back
"We have every right to Pops! He hurt this family! He hurt you! Pull up your sleeves and show him! Show him what you've done because of him!" Anatome yells and I pull over. I can't drive with people yelling. I pull down my sleeves more and glare at Anatome.
"Ryder...." Ezra says and I just drive again ignoring the kids. I pull up to a little diner on Route 223 and we get out and walk in an order.
"So Ryder. Show me your arms" Ezra tells me
"No. I don't have to. I wanna eat in piece DeMarco." I seethe and he grabs my arms and I seethe in pain as he pulls my sleeves up showing my cuts. He kisses me and my scars and then we eat and then drive off. We drop off Ezra and then go home. And continue being my miserable self