All in one day

10:00am

I woke up this morning to my 10:00am alarm. I had chips and dip for breakfast. Every payday I get a small container of 6 layer dip as a little treat. I feast off it as my hyper-fixation food until its gone.

12:00 noon

My mom is frustrated. 

A week ago my step father went to the eye doctor for check-up. While he was there the eye doctor told him to go straight to the hospital because his blood pressure was too high. 

Today, a week later, my mom gets off the phone with my step father, she doesn't know whether or not he's coming home today. The doctors and nurses keep giving him different answers.

2:00pm

I start getting ready for work. I can hear my step fathers voice, he must've been discharged anyways.

4:00pm

I started my shift at work. When I got there my step Dad was in the pharmacy part of the grocery store getting his prescription, he stopped by the bakery department to say hi to me.

7:00pm

I finish work early so I get a little wrap to eat for my break. I don't normally take my break because I only work 4 hours and I'm usually pretty busy.

8:00pm

I get off work. I can't remember if I punched out or not, it's gonna bother me until I can find out. When I get out of work my friend G is waiting for me in the parking lot. The plan is to play video games at his house. We stop at Tim Hortons first to get a pack of 20 Timbits. Originally I was gonna pay but could only afford a 10 pack. Last minute G ordered a 20 pack.

"hey!" I said, I couldn't afford a 20 pack.

"I'm paying" he reassured. 

"fine" I grumble

We drive off the same way that the bus usually goes when I go home. Then we keep driving. Past the intersection I thought we were gonna turn into and further down the main road. Past even more streets. I begin to wonder how far G lives? We get to a crossroads and in front of us stands a sign. Left to the beach, Right back to the city. We head left. 

Under any other circumstances, I should really be scared. A coworker who've I recently befriended invites me to his house after work, and then drives me out into the middle of no where. But I'm not scared, I trust G. Moreover, I know where we are even in the dark. In a suburban neighbourhood I would be all turned around and confused but here in the wilderness I'm in my element. 

We're getting close to the beach and I mention how I wanna run on the beach

"But it's winter" he said.

"I know" I said

"It's cold"

"I know, me and my grandparent's used to go to the beach in the winter all the time when I was younger" I explained

"Okay fine we'll go to the beach"

"really?!"

We go pull into the beach. It's a rocky beach. I know this beach. Me and my friends drove to this beach last summer to watch the sunrise after a night of drinking and partying. It's also night when we pull into the beach this time. We walk up the little boardwalk, it's covered in snow from the snowfall earlier today. G thought it was sand which made more sense when I remembered he lived in Dubai for a while.

We walk on the beach for a little bit and look for cool rocks. I pick out a rock that looks like two rock stuck together. I look over at G who's shivering.

"you wanna go back in the car?"

"yes" he says.

9:00pm

We get to G's house. It's so nice. There's so many trees! I've missed being around nature. I put my cool rock in his garden with all the other cool rock's he's discovered on the beach. We go inside, I take off my shoes and my coat. We go further into the house to the kitchen.

"make yourself comfortable"

I'm autistic and unfamiliar with this space and my boundaries within it. What do you mean "make yourself comfortable"?

I put my bag and jacket on the counter. We talk for a little bit, feasting on the Timbits as we talk. He makes me tea. It's mint tea, which I don't mind, but my comfort tea is orange pekoe. He goes out for smoke and I come out with him. My dab pen kept getting clogged so he gave me his. While he smoked his cigarette and I my weed vape, we talked about having a campfire. We both agreed that tonight would be a good night for a campfire. It's been -0 C lately, and the sudden 5 C was appreciated. 

After he put out his cigarette we collected wood from the wood pile and went to the place where he splits the woods.

Now hold on a sec because I'm gonna address the elephant in the room. This looks bad right? me here for the first time, and him holding an ax. But I don't care. I want me a campfire. I'm in my freakin element right now and I'm loving it. 

We collect wood for the fire and I bring it back to the pit while G looks for a lighter. The sky is gorgeous, I can see so many stars without the light pollution. 

10:00

We play Minecraft for a little bit until I look at my phone to check the time to see that my mom has sent me messages.

>Mom: Your sister is having contractions

>Me: Already?

>Mom: Yeah and she's 50% effaced

I look up from my phone at G, "my sister's having contractions"

"shit! she's in labour?"

"I don't know? I don't know what effaced means"

G looks it up on his phone and shows me a picture of what it looks like. 

"we should go" I say.

11:00pm

We get to my house, I wait a moment before I go in. Back into the craziness. There's gonna be a baby in the house soon. I look back at G.

"hey if you ever need some time away from the baby and all that you can always hang out with me again"

"I'll probably take you up on that offer" I say.

We say our goodbyes and I go into my house. D is downstairs in the basement, S is in the living room asleep, and my mom and sister are on their way home from the hospital my sister needs to wait a little longer until the baby arrives.

I log onto discord and join call with my friends. I talk about my day, I try to stay up with them all but I can't keep my head up. 

"Go to sleep Bria" says P. 

I don't need to be told twice

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