It’s currently 1978 in Denver Colorado. You just recently got kicked out of your parent’s house so you’re living on the streets until they let you back in.

At 9 pm, on a Saturday, you decide to visit a gas station type store after finding a quarter on the ground. You always go there to play pinball, your favorite game since forever. You quickly put the quarter in the machine and your friend watched you play. You guys had a bet on if you’d beat your high score— and you were gonna do it. When suddenly, right before you almost beat the score 7741, a random kid around your age slams into the machine.. knocking the ball down and ruining your score on the game. You— having major anger problems, lose it and you quickly spun the guy around and threw him against a rack of magazines, meanwhile, the cashier at the gas station was quickly calling the cops after seeing a fight break out with you and that kid.

You start punching him over and over, then you pull out a switchblade and take his arm and carve the numbers “7741” into his arm. You continue beating him bloody until he goes unconscious.

The cops come right when the kid is out, two of the cops are dragging you out roughly (already having dealt with you before), you’re stumbling and now exhausted from the adrenaline fading. In the end, you get shoved into a cop car and the cop driving asks you for your address so he can just drop you off and not deal with you. Since you’re basically homeless right now, you just spew out a random address. The cop nods and drops you off at the house.

Once you get out, you were about to just walk off and sleep in your usual spot in the alley near where you got dropped off when you decide to just risk being yelled at and go up to the house near you. You knock on the door and a man opens his door, he looks surprised for a second before studying you. The man takes notice to your bleeding head and overall appearance before smiling a bit unsettling but you brush it off

“What do you need, kiddo?”

The man asks, sounding weirdly happy. It was weird because it was now 11 pm at night and you thought whoever lived here would turn you down immediately.