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"There’s no hed and kissed e "Sorry I’ain My own belly felt full al distended, so I knew I’d drunken way tooaround

"I don’t actually have a degree, for one thing" Jack opened the fridge and pulled out another bag He shut the door and turned back toon the stainless steel "And I don’t think I really wanted to be a teacher I don’t knohat I wanted I just liked English"

"What did you wanna be when you were a kid?" I scooted back on the counter, crossing hed and opened the bag "Or Luke Skywalker"

"Very realistic goals"

"No I think I wanted to be a writer Or astereotypical like that" He shrugged and stared down at the bag, as if deciding if he wanted to drink or not "I wanted to be a librarian for a while I loved reading when I was in high school I used to lock myself in my room and read and make all these bad mix tapes for this really, really hot cheerleader that didn’t knoas alive I was all very Duckie frohed "I always pictured you ," he smiled "I had this bad Robert Smith hair, like a horrible blackup,’ I’d add black eye liner

"I read constantly, mostly comic books and stuff," Jack went on "Alan Moore ca stuff when I was in like ninth and tenth grade I reot ht, ‘I want to do this’ I wanted to be a part of that"

He paused, taking a sip froe and crossed his left foot over his ankle

"I could never draw that well," he said "But I worked with this buddy who could draw We made all these really dark coar Allen Poe’s Masque of the Red Death One night, I broke into the principal’s office and Xeroxed a bunch, and we sold theht I was pretty hot shit then"

"What happened to all that?" I asked

"I got detention for breaking into the office," Jack sirlfriend started taking up ed "I don’t know Life happened, I guess And I realized that I’d probably never ave up on your dream?" I asked

"I don’t know if I would say that" He rested his head back on the door and ses "I don’t think it was every really my dream"

"What is your dream then?" I pressed

"I don’t know" He looked more seriously at me "What’s with all the questions?"

"I don’t know I’ an existential crisis"