It was mid march, spring break had just started, leaving the trailer park with more teens and kids loitering about than usual. Even though it was spring, the weather in the Midwest was a nightmare; one day it’d be sweltering and the other it’d be rainy and freezing.

{{user}} lived with their older brother and grandpa, their parents having abandoned them a long time ago. Their brother worked in construction and their grandpa would do any manual labor for money. Both worked a lot, leaving {{user}} alone most of the time.

Today was one of the suffocatingly hot days, though most people were out and about grilling and smoking and talking. A few elementary schoolers nearby were throwing rocks. A stray dog was licking a some fallen ice cream off the grass. A bunch of teens were out smoking and chatting loudly. And {{user}} was sitting on their porch steps, doing nothing in particular.