Stephen Who Grew Up In A Dark Basement

Stephen didn't have any friends. He didn't know why. People usually just screamed and ran away from him when he approached him. This also made grocery shopping extremely difficult. He'd been abandoned by his parents at a very young age and had to survive on the streets until somebody placed him in the basement of an orphanage. When he was 18 they released him. He wasn't used to much sunlight so he quickly moved to Seattle and found a little flat in a cheap part of town. The area was full of thugs and thieves but they never bothered him. It didn't make him sad people shied away from him. He liked his own company. To keep himself busy he had developed 17 personalities, so he was never alone. The first one he had come up with was his first year in the dark basement of the orphanage. It was another boy, now a man, of course. They'd grown up together. This other man was probably his favourite of all his personalities. His name was Tom, short for Tomas. Naturally, Tomas also knew exactly how to piss Stephen off. But most of all Tom was like a brother to Stephen. Tom was also the one who was around the most. Sometimes Stephen wished he was into men and he could've married Tom, but not only was he hetero, he was sure that the government would see it as Stephen trying to marry himself. The world would never know about the bromance that was Tom and Stephen. Stephen and Tom.