Will Freeman’s diary.

Katie
2 min readDec 12, 2020

Dear diary, recently my life has changed a lot.

I don’t know how to explain my feelings… I’m used to living alone, not having any strong feelings to any woman. This is my life style: dating just for sex. That’s why I became a member of a Single Parents Alone Together — I wanted to find a woman for dating. But I’ve found something else.

I met Fiona and her twelve-year-old son Marcus. A weird family: the mother tried to top herself, the son is introvert-outsider. I’ve never thought I will care about about anyone like I do now… I think Markus needs me. We went out to eat, but it was terrible and awkward. We even sang songs, I thought it lasted forever.

Then I decided that I didn’t need them in my life, but suddenly Marcus started to hang out near my house. He said he was bulled by his classmates. Why they hated such a smart and quiet child? Well, he was just different, and children act like savages with such people. I offered him to change his clothes and hairstyle to become modern. Fiona is quite old-fashioned, actually, she didn’t even think about fashion. So strange. I didn’t really like her, she did’t like me in response. I felt I had to help Marcus. I remember how it was to be a teen whose parents didn’t really care about. We came to the shop and I bought him a pair of Adidas basketball boots. He was almost OK, exept all the rest things on him. But it was at least something.

To be honest, I started to like Marcus, and it’s something new for me. We’ll see how things are going to be next time.

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