June, 1987: High school graduation for Angie and Jeremy. Tommy dropped out.
July, 1987: Angie and Tommy fight; Angie seeks comfort from Jeremy, who confesses his feelings for her. She confesses that she is pregnant and plans to stay with Tommy.
February, 1988: Jeremy makes one last attempt to convince Angie to get rid of Tommy.
March, 1988: Adrian is born.
September, 1988: Jeremy leaves for a large college, deciding that it is ultimately better for he, Angie, and Tommy if he isn't around.
- He decides to get his bachelor's in Psychology.
August, 1992: Jeremy lands a counseling job at a k-12 school near his college, and stays in the city for a few more years.
January, 1995: Jeremy moves back to his home town, and asks around to see how Tommy, Angie, and their child are doing; he's hard pressed to find out that things were as he'd suspected when Angie first broke the news of her pregnancy, but is reluctant to speak to them personally.
April, 1995: Jeremy receives a late night call from Angie, a tearful and emotional mess. She asks if he can come pick she and Adrian up from the old gas station Tommy left them at in a fit of rage. As he and Angie sit in the rain, Adrian watches his mother cry and he fights with an obscure emotion inside himself. He vows to protect her from "that monster." By the time Jeremy arrives, Adrian has fallen asleep. As they drive back to town, Jeremy tells Angie that his offer still stands. Not much else is said that night.
May, 1995: Angie calls to talk to Jeremy while Tommy is at work, only to find out that he had packed up and went back to his job in the bigger city. But he left an address for her to reach him at. Angie writes down the address and stores it away safely.
August, 1995: Tommy intercepts the letter that Angie finally sat down and wrote to Jeremy. Angie finds Tommy in their kitchen with a bottle in one hand, and papers in the other. Fear strikes her to the core: She knows Tommy found the letter, and that he is angry and drunk; a lethal combination at best. He comes at her with a kitchen knife, and the screams wake Adrian up. He walks into the kitchen, wielding his aluminum baseball bat, to find his mother slumped over and a bloody mess on the floor, and his father staring at him intently. Enraged and tearful, Adrian charges at the man, but is stabbed in the stomach himself.
September, 1995: Adrian wakes up in a hospital. He is told that his mother had passed, and that his father was taken to prison. He will be put into foster care. Jeremy is devastated when he hears the news. He is angry with himself for not trying harder to get Angie and her son away from Tommy. He takes a leave of absence and goes into hiding for a while.
January, 1996 - June 2002: Adrian is moved between various foster homes and schools, and finally ends up in a group home near his home town.
December, 2002: Once again, Jeremy comes back to his home town. He hears about Adrian from his mother and decides to check into the situation himself.
January, 2003: Jeremy makes arrangements to adopt Adrian, who is now a moody 15 year old. He feels it might make up for what he failed to do years before. But he will wait until he is ready to tell Adrian about this much.

That is all for now :B

Title: The Same Black Line
Genre: One-Shot
Rating: T?
Warnings: Non-Canon Pairing, A bit of sexual tension, nothing too explicit.
Other: Crappily Written (I'm lacking in creativity but it had to come out >:[ ) I'll elaborate and make it better when I AM feeling more creative angsty :B And, um... the title is derived from "6th Avenue Heartache" by the Wallflowers
Story Summary: Nathan reflects upon Mag's words to find that they haven't only made him angry, but stirred up old emotions that he hadn't felt in many years.

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Yay Phoenix Wright 8D

Christmas just gets closer and closer, don't it? I need to finish shopping @.@ I swear, I think Joey is one of the most difficult people to buy for :/ He's the type who sees something and cries about how they want it, then a month later, they couldn't care less. I offered to make him a wire wrapped pendant with an amethyst, but he basically shrugged that off because his melody stone already has amethyst in it... so I don't know what to do about his stuff.

I already gave Jazz his present, and he gave me mine... but it didn't work ;_;
He bought me Silent Hill 4 for the PS2 and it started out working fine. Then, after Cynthia's death, when Henry wakes up back in Room 302, I can't climb though the hole again :'( I CAN, but the game locks up after it shows the cinematic for going through the tunnel. So, I told him to take it back and get the XBOX version, and I can see if it works any better. I should call him tomorrow and see if he's tried Oblivion yet :3 I got him the Game of the Year edition for the PC n_n

Other than this, I'm waiting on my second order of gemstones to come in. This time I ordered Pink Opal, Fluorite, Garnet, Amethyst, and Chalcedony. I can't wait to get them :D I want to work with some new stones <3

I made my first wire wrapped gemstone pendants <3

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They are in order from first to latest :) My first was my moonstone pendant, and 2nd and 3rd were both carnelian.
 

Between now and my next day off, I will be wrapping Joey's "Melody Stone." Hopefully it's just as purdy as these 3 turned out xD

It seems like, in all honesty, this entire month (that's only 3 days more than a week) has been going to hell.

The first thing that disappointed me most was an idiot I was in Microeconomics class with. I accepted his friend invitation on MyYearbook and all he did was hit on me. I later found out he was drunk and on percocet (sp?) but it didn't make me any less offended by it. The guy's like 30-something, he KNOWS I have a boyfriend... I swear, some people are pigs.

Then there was the fact that my relationship was threatened. Joey (my boyfriend) had grown distant, just like he had when he cheated on me before. I knew the girl he left me for was moving, but I didn't know it would bother him. But we talked about things and I discovered that was his problem. Thing is, she moved away with her new man. So there wasn't much he could do about it anyways. It made me sad to think that after all he and I have been through, he would even consider going back to her. He'd even told me he was unhappy with her, and that he felt right being back with me. But, things happened, and he told me that he told her off, and that he was completely done with her. It took me by surprise. Part of me still doubts it, but I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt and getting on with things. Besides, she's gone now anyways. Now we're just bickering over those stupid cigars he can't seem to quit. (Really, this is only a fraction of what happened, but I don't feel like typing all of it).

So, we decided to go camping with my sister, her boyfriend, and their daughter. It was all fine and dandy, until Joey asked me permission to smoke one of those godawful smelling things. My answer was obvious, but he totally disregarded what I said and smoked it anyways, which meant he'd later come into the tent reeking of the thing, and I couldn't cuddle him like I wanted to for the simple fact that I might've puked. So I went into the tent, laid down, and began playing my music in hopes that I'd pass out before I had to smell him. No sleep came. So I got to listen to Roy(my sister's boyfriend)'s drunken rant. I decided to go to the bathroom, which was an insanely long walk that Joey insisted on escorting me on. We came back and I laid down, trying to sleep again. After Joey came into the tent, (I guess despite the smell, I needed my teddy bear xD) I finally dozed off. Not for long, though. Some guys came near the tent, and they were kind of loud... but I nodded back off, and before long, Roy was up, barking out his drunken rants some more.

My sister had obviously left the tent, my niece had woken up and started crying, and it pissed Roy off. Danielle (my niece) comes over to mine and Joey's side of the tent, and Roy continues ranting in the other side. Obviously, he couldn't figure out how to get out. So, he punches it some, and eventually takes a piss right in the corner near my head. I was in tears, apologizing to Joey over and over again. I was lucky to have gotten two hours of sleep, and I felt terrible for Joey, who was tired to begin with. It was 5:30 AM, so evidently we didn't get much sleep. To get away from the situation, Joey and I took another hike to the bathroom. When we came back, Roy was asleep again, and Joey got some more fishing in before we left.

I'm looking forward to going camping again. Roy said (when he was sober) that once they get the camper allotted at the park, we were welcome to use it anytime. So, I'm hoping to go again soon.

So yeah... I finally got a full night's sleep lastnight after we got home... I'm still drained, but I'm relieved to be home and able to sleep.