Dog Days

Aiden is sent to Hawaii to stay with his father, whom he has never met. But when he arrives there he discovers there is no one to meet him. He has no money, and his mother and stepfather do not want him back. Devastated at their betrayal, hungry and heartsore, he walks away from the airport in a random direction, only to be beaten up and have his belongings stolen by vagrants. But Aiden is a fighter. The next morning he determines to find help, and on his way he sees three children being attacked by dogs. He jumps in to save them, and the consequences of this act of bravery leads him down a brand new path. Aiden soon learns that he can choose his own family, and that his past need not always define his future.

Emery C. Walters · LGBT+

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23 Chs

Chapter 20

Then Lefty almost fell off the chair he had pulled over. “Oh my God,” he roared. “Casa del—ha-ha! I just got it!”

My tentative smile evaporated. I was left out of the joke. See if I cared.Tuesday

‘Dear teacher; Aiden won’t be in school today; he has a fever; signed, Aiden’s mom.’ Well that was most of Monday. Aiden wasn’t anywhere. Oh sure, I knew where I was and what was going on; I just didn’t care, and it didn’t seem real anyway. Early on Tuesday, a new patient was moved in to where Sol had been. This guy was snoring his ass off, and I hated him already. And he smelled. He had an I.V. pole with all kinds of shit hanging off it, an oxygen tank, no flowers and only one visitor, and if he wasn’t a bum off the beach, I don’t know who would have been. The patient’s name was Bubba Gonzales. His friend looked stoned.

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