A Shit Day (Pt. 1)
Barty – 02.33
Evan, I'm really sorry, but can you come pick me up by any chance?
I really need a ride
Evan – 02.34
Is everything okay?
Barty – 02.34
Everything is fine
No need to stress
Evan – 02.34
Barty, you just apologised to me
That shit aint normal
Barty – 02.34
Evan, can you please just come pick me up?
Evan – 02.35
Where are you?
*Barty shared his location*
Evan – 02.35
I'll be there as fast as possible
Now tell me what's wrong
Barty – 02.35
Evan, I already told you everything is fine
Evan – 02.36
And I just pinpointed that you apologised to me
Do I need to elaborate?
Barty – 02.36
I’m just tired, okay?
Had a shit day
Evan – 02.36
You're fooling absolutely no one with that shit
Please call me
Barty – 02.36
No
I’m fine
*incoming call from Evan*
*declined by Barty*
Evan – 02.37
Barty, pick up
Barty – 02.37
No
It’s not necessary
Evan – 02.37
It is though
I need to know you're okay
*incoming call from Evan*
*declined by barty*
Evan – 02.37
If everything is fine, then PICK UP
Barty – 02.38
No
Evan – 02.38
So, everything's not fine?
Barty – 02.38
Everything is fine
Evan – 02.38
You're such a bad liar
Barty – 02.38
Fuck you
I’ll call an uber
Evan – 02.38
I fucking dare you
Not only am I already halfway
But I’ll be there before any uber shows up
Barty – 02.39
You're coming to get me?
Evan – 02.39
Of course, I am
I care for you
Which is why you need to pick up your fucking phone and tell why everything isn't okay
*incoming call from Evan*
*declined by Barty*
Evan – 02.39
Oh for fuck's sake, Barty
Barty – 02.40
I don’t want to start crying
Evan – 02.40
What?
Barty – 02.40
I’ll start crying if I have to speak right now
You know that feeling of choking on your words and there's just this lump in your throat that won't go away no matter how much you swallow?
Evan – 02.41
Yeah, you're not calling an uber
You're going to stand on the pavement and wait for me to show up and then you're going to tell me everything.
Do you hear me Barty?
Barty – 02.41
I’d rather tell you over text if that's okay?
Don't feel like talking
Evan – 02.41
You sure?
I can be there in five if you can wait for that?
Barty – 02.42
No it’s really not about that
I’d rather just text
Please
Evan – 02.42
Okay then
Tell me what’s wrong?
Barty – 02.42
Honestly
It’s just been a shit day
Evan – 02.43
Yeah, you mentioned
Wanna elaborate?
Barty – 02.43
No
Evan – 02.43
Barty
Barty – 02.43
Can’t you just forget about it all???
I shouldn’t have texted you at all
I keep on bothering you all the fucking time
Must be annoying as fuck
Evan – 02.44
The only annoying part about this is that you’re wasting my time
Those last five minutes I’ve spent texting you, could’ve been used to drive to you
So if I were you, I’d consider not trying to waste my time, because it’s only a matter of seconds before I stop texting so I can drive instead
Barty – 02.44
But I’ve barely started trying to waste your time???
Evan – 02.44
Exactly
Now talk
Or I’ll come find you
Barty – 02.45
That sounds like a threat
Evan – 02.45
It is a threat
Barty – 02.45
Oh lovely
Evan – 02.45
Talk
Barty – 02.45
You know
In theory
I can’t really talk when we’re texting…
Evan – 02.45
I’m putting my phone down so I can drive
Barty – 02.45
NO
Hold on
Fine
Fuck you
I’m fine
Evan – 02.46
Barty, I’m serious
Tell me what’s wrong
It’s your dad, isn’t it?
Barty – 02.46
Fuck
How do you always know?
Evan – 02.46
Because it’s honestly not that hard to know
What did he do?
Barty – 02.46
Nothing
Evan – 02.47
Barty
Barty – 02.47
I mean it
He did nothing
And that’s the issue
He fucking ignores me
And it hurts
I fucking hate him and somehow it still hurts, Evan
I nail my fucking exams
Get an outstanding
And he’s just unbothered
Didn’t even criticize me
Nothing, Evan
He gave me fucking nothing
Barty – 02.48
But the second I went out to get hammered and forget about it all, he suddenly cares, texting and telling me to come home
I just don’t fucking get him
And now I don’t want to go home
But I don’t have anywhere else to go
So now I’m stuck in the back of alley, contemplating whether I can sleep in the dingy cardboard boxes or if I’m going to have to return home, which I really really don’t want to
so yeah
I’m having a shitty day
And a shitty night
A shitty fucking life
And I don’t know what to do about it
Evan – 02.49
I know it’s not my opinion that matters to you right now
but you are exceptional
Not because you get outstanding grades on every fucking test, which is honestly infuriating
You’re grades are cool too, but that’s not why this whole thing is a problem
Because even if you came home with failed tests every day your family should still care
They should always care no matter what
Barty – 02.49
But he doesn’t Evan
He doesn’t fucking care
Evan – 02.50
Not he, Barty
Barty – 02.50
What
Evan – 02.50
Family
Not your father, specifically
Your family will always care for you
If they don’t, they simply aren’t your family
He’s not your family, Barty
Evan – 02.51
Sure, the two of you are blood related, but if he doesn’t care, then he doesn’t deserve a reaction
I’m aware that you want his approval because you feel like you deserve it and you do, but you shouldn’t need it
If he doesn’t care about you, you have to let go and leave him behind
Remember, you have family elsewhere
In Reg, who’ll let you steal his candy even though he says he doesn’t share
In Dorcas, who will insist on telling you every detail about the Mckinnon girl while she gives you a makeover or something
In Pan, who makes far too many small gadgets to all of us
Barty – 02.52
She doesn’t make too many
Evan – 02.52
And in me too
We’re all your family
Barty – 02.52
And what do you do?
Evan – 02.52
Sorry, what?
Barty – 02.52
You described something about each of the others that makes them family
What makes you family?
Evan – 02.53
I don’t know
This perhaps
The fact that I’m willing to pick you up from a random alley in the middle of the night, perhaps?
It could be anything, really
What do you want to be the part that makes me family?
Barty – 02.53
I don’t know
Evan – 02.53
Maybe you don’t have to
Maybe sometimes just being family is enough
Maybe sometimes you don’t need a reason
Barty – 02.54
Maybe
But I still hate him
Evan – 02.54
Of course
I hate him too
Don’t you fucking worry about that
Can I come pick you up now?
Barty – 02.54
Yeah
Evan – 02.54
Do you want to talk when I arrive or would you rather not
Barty – 02.55
I’d rather not
Maybe sometimes being family is enough
Evan – 02.55
You don’t have to quote me like that
That’s just cheesy
Barty – 02.55
You basically just called yourself cheesy
Evan – 02.55
No it’s cheesy that you repeated it
What I said wasn’t cheesy
at all
Barty – 02.56
If you say so
Evan – 02.56
Be there in five, B
Barty – 02.56
Thanks