Uneventful lives

Chapter one

"The perfect life" The fairy tail dream, every one wants one, the happily ever after. The supposed secret recipe: meet the perfect person, defeat an evil witch/queen, et cetera, et cetera. you see most people never live those kinds of lives, minus the battling of the evil witch or queen. lives where they find the perfect person and know exactly what they're going to do the moment they see them. people go through years of their lives living uneventful lives doing uneventful things looking for the eventful lives. some find these eventful lives, I didn't, Hi i'm Matthew Quinn.

I'm sixteen years old, I live in Portland Oregon, right across the street from the girl with autumn brown hair and forest green eyes. I like video games, books and soft pretzels. I've had a particularly uneventful life, for most my life I only had one friend, the girl across the street. Ashley and I were close, we'd run through the forest sometimes id like to think I was running through the depths of her eyes; the rays of sunlight streaming through the branches, it was magical, like a fairy tail.

going outside was a thing of the past, books took most of our time, sometimes shed ask me to read her to sleep. other times we'd be surfing the internet, looking to see what the worlds largest orgy was, the longest time spent continuously surfing the internet. 3 days 13 hours 38 minutes and 12.2 seconds, we tried beating it a couple times, it didn't work very well. Video Games was certainly one of our passions, welll one of my passions, I think she just played because I was. Don't forget about the fandoms, please don't even get me started about the fandoms, they...consumed us. the consumed us and molded us to their trashy liking's and we became the base of Tumblr. Life was great, it seemed like we had the world at our finger tips; I, was in love with her, but then for some reason it stopped.

Ten years passed, I had a small job, about to finish my degree, I was gonna major in Game design, my passion. These days I hardly even thought about Ashley, sure I'd think back to the good old days, wondering what I could have done to save our relationship, maybe I should have told her how I felt. no matter how many times I ran it through my head over those ten years, I couldn't make any sense out of it, so I finally moved on, my life seemed to be coming together. or, almost.....