Rewind.

The year is 1986* and two people, Suzzette and Manuel have just met and are falling in love with each other. They are currently in college and are, for a time, happy. After a few years together they decide to move in together and due to rather unfortunate circumstances, wind up living in Manuels fraternitys basement. To make a bit more money Manuel begins to sell cocaine to other students. Suzzette is unaware of this for a time and after the realization that things are pretty bad and might not get better, they both develop a slight cocaine addiction.

Fast forward

Years later in their on-again-off-again relationship, Suzzette and Manuel have decided to take a break. Manuel begins to see a woman he is related to named Yvonne. After several months together, Manuel and Yvonne decide to get married on News Years Day 1990. Suzzette hears of this through friends and decides that she wants to come to the wedding. Calling up Yvonne, she blackmails her into getting an invitation. Manuel hears of Suzzettes blackmailing and confronts her. They realize they truly are in love and that same night, December 23, 1989, the couple conceive their first child, a boy to be named A. Months later they wed while Suzzette is visibly pregnant.

Fast forward

A is two years old when the couple decides to split up for good. They do not get a divorce. A lives back and forth between his parents until about the age of five when he decides to live permanently, with his father. His mother will always resent him for the decision. Both parents meet new people, Manuel meets Cyndi, and Suzzette meets Rick. Manuel suffers from an injury at work as a furniture salesman which causes him great pain and eventually need to be operated on. This, however, leaves him unable to do most things with his son other than watch TV so A develops a deeper bond with Cyndi. In 1997 when A is 7 years old, on December 1st, his mother gives birth to a boy and A's half brother named Jared. In 1999 she gets pregnant again with a girl named Lauren. Unfortunately, after heavy lifting from a recent move into a new apartment building, Suzzette suffers a miscarriage. In 2001 she gets pregnant with a boy named Matthew.

A is in middle school when Cyndi and Manuel begin to notice A developing strange behavior. His sudden mood swings and other symptoms lead them to believe he might be bipolar. Over the next few years the relationship between A and his parents deteriorates. A begins to stay out all night to come home home at 3 or 4 in the morning , then wake up to go to school. His extreme partying plus his recent coming out lead his parents to believe that they do not know who he is anymore and decide to throw him out of their house. They pack up his things and leave it all on the front porch with a note next to it. When he comes home that night and without reading the note, he takes his things and leaves his key. For the last few months of school, he lives with a good friend who let him crash with him, named Stephan.

Present

A is currently in high school. A lives with Stephan and another friend named Aiden while they go to

college. Manuel and Cyndi pay for his meds, but other than that, there has been no contact between either of them in the past 4 years. After an attempted and failed relationship with his mother, he does see her out of love for his brothers who see him a few times a year.

End

*Everything in this post is the truth except possibly this date