i know it ain't helping him or me any but fuck i just want my little buddy back and i'm pissed that she took him from my arms in the middle of the night to probably a different state without letting anyone say goodbye

Wonderful Everclear(lyrics) listening to this and thinking of him

what the fuck are they doing in florida

did you guys look into emergency custody?

dylan, the old fuckhead lives there :/ and while we think he's MOSTLY got his shit together (read: mostly) we think she's also playing him like a fiddle. he's engaged now, works full time as a fisherman

basically he went down to florida to leech off his family down there, got told fuck no and thrown out and had no choice but to buck up and start doing for himself

i can't speak of his character now since i've only seen him once in idk how many years but he is throwing money at mason, started contacting my mom to talk to mason (him talking to my mom is ABSURD because they butted heads so much)

so he's trying at least?????? he's engaged now and yeah he fishes down in florida so spends weeks at a time out on a fishing boat

but he's been sending mason money

and he's actually the one who contacted my mom and while he wasn't 100% forthcoming with whats going on he just said 'all i know is i invited them down here, didn't make them come' etc. so with what pieces we have

she's probably been talking to him/his mom, badmouthing my mom saying 'i'm a PRISONER here me and mason need to GET OUT for a bit!!' and got a way down there

and without telling anyone at all nikki just bolted for it

but he's engaged and so on so its just a matter of how it plays out rn

does nikki and masons presence there fuck up his engagement and he ends up back with nikki (who, from a standpoint of how he used to be (ie leeching off nikki))

she has nothing to offer him

she has no job, no car, no money, nothing

i really hope he's truly cleaned up his shit

if he was still that way like, she literally has nothing

yeah i do too, i mean idk its a weird feeling 'cause i can't really forgive him for all the shit he did

nothing forgives the shit he did

but at the same time if he is starting to do better and do right that's very reassuring in the 'people can change' department

if that makes sense

but he'd better be able to pull himself together to support his kid at least monetarily

not that i'm saying YEAH HOLD ON TO PIECES OF SHIT LIKE HIM AND TRY TO CHANGE HIM 'cause fuuuuuuuck no but. it sounds like he had no one left to enable him so he started doing what he shoulda been doing all along

if he did change, i don't want nikki going in and fucking undoing all that

and while i don't forgive him i can at least appreciate that in a weird way 'cause he does seem to be trying

he calls mason, if mason says he doesn't want to talk to him he doesn't argue just says 'ok, call me if he wants to or i'll call back later'

he lets mason decide

he brought mason an xbox one for christmas and some other shit, like some stuff he's fished up some sort of shell and the jaw bone of a lemon shark or something

gave mason like $60 on top of that to pick out his own games with

then returned every day the whole week he was here to play those games with mason

so he seemed honest to god interested in doing right by mason, he cried and thanked my mom for taking such good care of him

he's sent nikki money too after that, sent $200 for mason

thing thats fucked up is, mason got a $50 pair of shoes out of that money

the rest, who knows where it went

he said he wanted to pay masons tuition, started sending money for that

my mom paid it for last week and nikki gave her the money he sent her

then before nikki left she dug it back out of my moms purse

so tl;dr the one being a complete fuckhead rn is nikki

dylan was probably in the position of 'sure i'd like to have you and mason come visit' and nikki turned it into a melodramatic thing

instead of spending time getting mason psyched up for 'we're goin on vacation, gonna see dad, gonna see beaches and fun it'll be fun!!'

instead she lied to him and dragged him out of my arms in the middle of the night when all he wanted that day was to see missy

nikki needs to fucking give up custody of mason to your mom so she can just go ruin her life on her own

he kept asking me 'after good morning sunshine do you work? can i really spend all day at your place? will you pleeeeeeease play my game with me?!'

and i kept telling him no baby i'm off yes yes!!

and he went from that to being jerked out of bed at god knows what hour and dragged off to someplace where he doesn't know anybody

how is that fair for him or right

it pisses me off and i miss him

she doesn't do right by that child and it's not fucking okay

nerp :/ so for now we just hope he's alright and doing ok and hope we'll see him soon

god i really really hope you get some good news about mason soon

me too

also i really hope dylan really is getting his shit together

it seems like he is and yeah good for him

yeah pretty much. like idk LIKE I SAID ITS WEIRD but basically my feelings on it are a distant sense of 'good for you'

sincere, but distant

agreed

i'm not gonna forgive him or sing his praises or say UR A GOOD PERSON NOW 'cause he did so much shit to my sister, my family, MASON in the past that i'm not gonna let it go

i'm not gonna equip it and go for fisticuffs whenever i see him, but i'm not gonna forgive either

so. good for him

w/e