Chapter4

Jul 16, 2024 @ 15:18 -0500

When we last left our characters, they were not in a good place. To be fair, they still aren’t. Yet, Nick and Alex still live, they love, and they exist.

Nick, is a wreck. On the brightside, he took the first steps to work on his mental health. He looked into the resources his employeer offered, and found and assistance program that he started working on. Alex, is holding together very well, but sending mixed signals.

With most authors only being able to read the mind of one character I’ll focus on Nick today. He’s currently hating himself. He has treated Alex poorly over the weekend. At least, he finally started to understand why she’s upset. He doesn’t have any idea on how to fix their relationship but he knows it will be fixed. How does he know? Because he is an author and his Higher Power told him that Alex and him would spend the rest of their lives together. To be fair his higher power is his own writing. I know that may not make sense but when he writes, he doesn’t use his brain. He grabs pen and paper, and just starts to trace the words he sees on the paper. In his insanity, that is enough for him to know that the words don’t flow from him but from something higher!

He’s hating himself for so much more than just how the weekend went though.

How he’s treated her
How he’s been most of their relationship
Though he loved her he didn’t show her
Though not the only one he’s had his abusive moments
He doesn’t communicate well
He’s having very selfish thoughts

I’m quite sure there is more bothering this poor fellow, but not even the author always has complete insight into their characters. Sometimes it’s almost like those characters are real people who just convay their stories to someone who does their best to put them into a print medium.