162I'd lived most of my life in Leeds. Only vague memories of the places before were left. I'd grown up in one of the harder parts of town. My friends and I were all "hard" too. We had tattoos, piercings, dyed hair. to sum up we were the rough ones that nobody liked in high school because we were different. Adults generally tended not to like us either and stayed clear of our destructive paths. I'd shut myself off from most people though. My barriers had gone up and it took a lot to get them to go down just long enough for me to let someone through. It was quite a recent change in me though. It happened a couple of years ago maybe. It happened. it happened just after the. the accident.
When I was 16 I lost my parents in a terrible car crash. Some drunk drove into the side of their car. The force of his car hitting theirs made my parents car fly off the road and land upside down in a ditch. My mum died on impact. dad died on the way to the hospital. They told us that there was nothing they could have done. And even if they had saved them there would probably have been lasting damage. It was what had forced me closer to one of my friends than was friendly possible. And our friendship did change as a consequence. We became a couple. And to my eyes at least, our couple was one that would last forever, no matter what came our way, we could over come it.
But as with everything, a cruel monster called ill fortune, or fate rather, played a role in our relationship. A role I was blind to until it popped up in front of me. It changed every factor of our relationship and when it left, it left taking everything with it. And I changed as a consequence. I froze over becoming hard and icy. I shut myself off from the world and blamed him for everything I was missing. But thankfully I had siblings to help me through it all. and her.