Page 16 of Sweet Days


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with her?

Liam is Neil’s brother. Rain and Neil were

together practically their whole lives, since they

were kids, but Liam was always in love with her,

from the first day he saw her, it’s just … well, it

took him a while to man up and tell her and even

longer to come home and take care of her.

I was angry with him for a long time. After the

accident our band’s musical prospects stopped

dead, but he struck out on his own, signing a

record contract that was originally offered to us

and making a success of it.

But then it happened. He came back. He found a

way to get forgiveness and we’re finally all

together again, without Neil of course. We’ll

always miss him, but we’re still here and it’s right

that we keep going down our road while never

forgetting him.

I try to guide them but fuck … no one ever

listens to me. I think if people stopped torturing

themselves about the past and just lived in the

present, thinking about what they feel now,

everything would be a lot simpler.

See, I’m an outsider, if I can define myself as

such. I have zero sentimental tendencies. I am able

to see over their noses and to understand before

they do what it is they are feeling, what they are

afraid of and what they’re running from. Call it my

sixth sense. And it’s thanks to this gift I have that

I’m able to avoid a noose around my neck or a