"I didn't freak out, though. I kept my cool and figured that when I fell asleep again I'd wake up and everything would be right again. But it wasn't. The next day I was still here. And that's when I freaked out. I tried to explain to my parents that I was from the future. Try as I might, they wouldn't believe me.
"My parents were never quite the nurturing types. Mom came from a wealthy family, and it was pretty evident that my dad only married her for the money. He took very little interest or notice of me. My only purpose was to distract my mother. But my mother had no true interest in parenting me, and whenever things got too 'real' for her she retreated to her 'nerve pills'." Bill made air quotes around the words real and nerve pills. He looked bitter for the first since we'd met.
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