Minus

by Minus


Chapter1: Yesterday

Minus. Underscore. I live in the horribly coloured house. You know the one. I'm 20 something, I stopped celebrating birthdays after 21 so I actually just keep thinking I'm still that age. But it's been years so I can't still be 21 I know.

I got up at probably midday. I know I sleep in late, but I also fall asleep late. I've never had an easy time getting rest. I just did usual stuff like have something to eat, have a wash. Talking to my roomate once she gets home. That's the highlight of my day. At 6PM I went to a self-help group. I've not been there long, and I don't know the ponies too well. They all seem worse off than me. Theres Flint, a yellow earth pony, Vee a purple pegasus, Minty the green and brown earth pony, uh, a white one with a black mane, Algorithm the all blue one, and Chess Piece the blue unicorn with a red mane. I think that's all there was.

Chess was in charge of things and at the start of every week, as this was, he assigned us a task to complete. He said we should do a self-portait, and be honest. I expect he'll ask us to do it again later on so we can compare, and see if we look happier in the newer picture. Or maybe I'm looking too deep into it. I already finished mine, it's an image of myself drunk on the couch. Back to the session, we were asked about our weekend. I had a bad weekend, so I'm glad I didn't have a chance to talk. I actually did spend the whole time drunk. It started out well until my roomate had to leave for her overtime. I forgot about that, I try not to drink alone, but I messed up. And then I threw up.

Sorry that wasn't the question you asked. Uh, black and white guy was talking about his home getting flooded, seemed bad. Flint and Algorithm got into an argument on a dance style, one of them saying their favourite is the best and even inspired the other's favourite. It was stupid. The examples they did looked the same to me, and pretty funny. Oh at the end there was a moment of silence. One of the members had recently taken their own life. Starfait, or maybe Starfall. I couldn't really tell from the handwriting and was too embarassed to ask.

I went home. Wait I stopped by the shop and got a pizza, since they do a deal on Mondays. Got home and shared that with the roomate. We spent the night talking, and then I went to bed. I had a really bad night's sleep because of how unusually cold it was. It's been so hot it's made me ill lately, but that night was ice cold. I kept checking the clock and time just did not seem to be going forward, even when I thought I had fallen asleep for a bit. Guess my clock just broke?

That is what I remember from Monday.