Happy Birthday to Roommate

Got home in the morning from work and roommate asked me to wake him to get ready for his interview at a car wash so I stayed awake writing on a new story instead of hopping into bed. He asked me to take him to his interview too, but I would get no sleep today if I did. He asked his car buddy to take him so I could sleep. After I woke up, I took him to my hotel so he could have free cheesecake (they give free food for birthdays and anniversaries) and I bought a pizza. He loves their cheesecake. He didn't say much to his former coworkers and disappeared to sit outside in the cold. I told them he went out to smoke and a little embarrassed they saw him with bloodshot eyez from being high. Next year he turns 21 and can sit at the bar. We went home and he called his family. I asked what his family thought of him living with me. He said they were surprised he was so lucky.

Well, he said after his family abandoned him in a hotel room, he slept under bridges and nearly froze to death. He went days without eating. The sun rising in the morning warmed him up after a cold night. He said joggers ran past him and a child with her mom pointed him out stating she thought that man looked cold and the mom told her to keep walking. He realized nobody is going to help him. He said he had sex with a homeless prostitute to keep warm one night. She didn't charge him cause he was cute. He worked at a fast food place until he got a security job at my hotel and moved into a hotel room with a coworker who was sleeping in his truck. Then he stole his coworker's girlfriend and forced to move in with career criminals next door until he lost his job and got kicked out. He stayed with friends until he was kicked out. He called me cause he had no place to go. I offered once my place to crash when I found out he was homeless living under a bridge until he moved in with his coworker. He was barely out of school and hardly any work experience to get a good job. Now he is living with me dreaming about getting his driver's permit to get a license so many jobs require and maybe go to college to be a mechanical engineer. He wanted to earn money to visit his family and was told not to come. Yeah, he's lucky people like him and care about him.