February 1st 2013
emails from Stefan
I fell asleep for a few hours for the forst time in days. I woke to pee, and saw a missed voicemail around 7:30pm. My mom: “Stef, please….grandpa’s house is on fire, and he’s been trapped in there for 45 minutes. They won’t let us in. They can’t find him.!!” It’s frantic. My half asleep ass popped up in a psycho daze….I got over there. It was like a movie set. Police, fire dept. I walked up and almost murdered some guy filming it with his phone.
They got him out of the house…..he was resuscitated on his lawn, and they were forcing him to breathe. But he was inhaling smoke for so long the poison was too deep . At the hospital they cracked his chest open to feed air directly through tubes…..no deal. The douche preist is reading him his last rights now. He’s been unconscious for all of this though. And he’s now on a drip. He’ll prob die within the hour. It’s my last grandparent….and they all go in unfortunate circumstances that I get a front row seat for. My mom is a wreck….I juat had to hold her up at her best friends funeral not too long ago, and one of my Aunt’s just died of unknown causes.
Now, they need me to go to his house to talk to he arson investigators…tthey can’t figure out how it happened, and they think,(and my mom thinks), someone did it. This is unreal. And….this is why I’m on a mess. Anyway…I have to rush and my phone is about to die. I’m not meant to sleep.
Eh….that it’s. He just died.
email from me
Good gawd, man.
How does this crap happen to you?! It must be terribly burdensome for you to be the one who is looked to to take care of everything.
I know you weren’t fond of the man, but still, you have my condolences, whatever that is worth.
The house was burned?! Does this mean all those reels of film are melted and wrecked? That’s quite a shame. Do they think it was a robbery, with a fire to mask the crime?
Jeez. Such drama!
Well, I don’t know how late I’ll be up tonight, but if you want to rant at someone, you can call me. If you need someone to help out, cook and clean at your mom’s, or help you do all the background stuff that nobody else is tending to, let me know. I like any excuse to not be home on the weekend while my roommate is blackout drunk. Especially during rent weekend.
And of course, if you want to escape, you are always welcome here. You can chainsmoke to your heart’s content. My roommate will annoy the crap out of you, though.
emails from Stefan
Well….I can’t go anywhere now. They’re pumping water out of the house and installing new locks and doors now because there’s valuables everywhere and the fire dept broke down every door. I’m not sure what’s destroyed yet. Sorting thru shit now, and I’ll be up all night….then going to the funeral home in the morning to start the arrangements.
It wasn’t a break in….not sure what caused it yet.
It’s just one thing after another.
I feel like my nerves have been permanently shattered.
email from me
Well, my offer stands.