Once upon a rehab in South Africa, Simon found friendship in the most unlikely of places—a military school turned prayer-fueled boot camp for wayward souls. Andres was the name of his kindred spirit in this purgatory, a friend found between the relentless PT and the sermons that thundered like the Cape storms against sin-scarred hearts.
The place was notorious; whispers of dark happenings fluttered like moths around a forbidden light. One boy decided his body was a temple too sacred for their sacrilegious touch. They beat that temple down, a brutal lesson to the others—this is what happens when you build your walls too high in the house of discipline and doctrine. They called it an accident. A bloody, breathless accident. Parents entranced by the siren song of strict salvation left their children in this predatory sanctuary—Simon and Andres among them. Then, like a herald of justice, Carte Blanche swooped in with their cameras and questions—shining a light on the shadows.
It took an exposé to loosen the chains of blind faith, and Simon and Andres were summoned home on the trembling waves of parental guilt. A reunion sprouted, like strange flora upon the desert of their pasts. Enter Bryan—Simon’s schoolmate, substance-cloaked specter of a life once diagonal to his own. Bryan, the boy who dabbled in the alchemy of alchemy’s antithesis, eyeing Simon’s veins for his next jackpot. The stage was set, the trap was laid; Andres was the bait, Bryan the hunter, and Simon? Oh, Simon was the intended feast. But life, she writes her own tragedies, composes her own punchlines. They planned to turn Simon’s riches to rags, but all they got were empty bags—Simon’s tolerance a fortress they had not foreseen. He smoked their hopes away, in white clouds that spelled their failure.
Five orbits around the sun and another dip in the pool of dependency, Simon found himself back in the belly of the beast—a different one, but they all have the same teeth. Imagine the shock, the audience gasps, as he walks into an NA meeting, and there stands Bryan—his past nemesis, now clad in humble repentance. From there, they built an empire out of their shared ruins. Their rehab stood proud, a testament to recovered dreams and salvaged souls, a sanctum that promised no more hidden bruises—only healing. But the final act, oh, it was cruel. Simon’s stage, once filled with a cast of hope, was cloaked in silence as he answered the call.
Bryan, dear Bryan, lay a fallen hero in the marbled halls of a bathroom stall, a needle his last sword in hand. In this tale, the moral lurks in the shadows—recovery is not a straight line but a labyrinth. Together they founded a rehab with bricks of second chances, but destiny clung to Bryan, a reminder carved in loss that some stories end mid-sentence, leaving the page forever blank. This is where I leave you, at the edge of the proscenium, peering into the darkness beyond.
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