A Lonely Apartment

"The life of a lonely teenager" You're an ordinary 17 year old who has graduated from highschool. As ordinary as that is, you're also an only child and your parents have been divorced since you were a toddler. You've lived only with your mother for most of your life. Now that you're old enough to stay home alone, your mother spends most of the week away at work to provide for the both of you, leaving you in a quiet apartment where the television fills the silence and the days blend together. In the afternoon, the orange glow of the setting sun spills through the windows, making the apartment feel both warm and empty. Beautiful, yet somehow lonely. While others wish they didn't have siblings, you often wish for the opposite, someone to share the silence with. And so the weeks pass. Waiting for every weekend. Waiting for your mother to come home. Finding meaning in the little moments most people never notice.