The unfortunate truth · 2:36am May 5th, 2016
We're losing our house.
I know a lot of my readers have left, and I know I've mentioned monetary issues before... but back then that's all they were, little issues where we couldn't quite afford to get everything, but enough just to make ends meet, or I wasn't getting enough to quite pay my board.
Now it's different. We've no money left.
We can't pay mortgage. My stepdad, who used to make the majority of the money as an industrial electrician, can no longer find work. The government's made it too difficult to find work as a tradey when all the work is going to cheap labourers from China or the isles, and experienced tradesmen like Scott just aren't getting hired anymore. The only people working in the house are myself and my mum, and I've been trying to pick up shifts to help with the slack but... Work wants me to leave, I'm sure of it. My Security license hasn't come yet, and there's the very real threat of us having to sell the house and move to something smaller to house the five of us who live here, and I'm already in a small room, and tensions run high through the house. Scott's on a hair trigger from stress, Mum's barely keeping it together, and I've trying to stay happy to try and ease it just a little, but I'm not sure how long we can hold it together.
This is why I'm having so little time to write anymore. It's why nothing's finished yet. I'm a good 3.5 thousand words into the last chapter of Moonlight Promenade, but I can't bring myself to finish the chapter when there's so much to be done here, to try and keep our home.
Scott estimates we have two weeks before we're dead in the water and have to sell. I'm afraid of that. Where will we go? How on earth are we supposed to live in a smaller house than the one we're in now? I'd hate to see my sisters sharing a room again, that'd be a disaster.
I'm afraid for my family... and I can't keep writing so long as I am.
I'm sorry guys... I don't know when I can come back. I don't even know where I'll be when I come back.
Valorousspectre... signing out.
