First off, my sincere apologies to all, especially you Hiro. My grandfather, whom I was very close to, was diagnosed with bone cancer. No one knew about it and when it was discovered, his life span was that of only a few weeks, at most. I spent a few days with him in the hospital before returning home, and sleeping an entire day. Thirty-six hours being awake is a long damn time, not to mention a helluva lot coffee! What time I didn't spend with my grandfather, I spent with my father, who is the youngest of the family and by far the closest child to my grandfather (it's hard seeing someone like a father crying, when you have only seen it twice before), and my grandmother when she wasn't able to be at the hospital.

After five days in the hospital, my grandfather was sent home with Hospice, a service for terminally ill patients who wish to die in their own house. Once there, he said it was good to be home. We all laughed, agreed, and smiled. We were hurting so deeply, but my grandfather was a man with a heart and a sense of humor, so we honored him by not showing our grief due to reality at hand. I leaned down, kissed his forehead, and told my grandfather "I love you gramps. I'll see you later ol' timer." I went home, where I rested for five or so hours.

At 7:30 in the morning, my father called me. "Jay, daddy died..."

Once again, no sleep. At the funeral, I leaned down, kissed his forehead, and told my grandfather "I love you gramps. I'll see you later ol' timer."

And that's that. My reason for being absent. I've missed about 7 days of school, hence why there will be another thread that has my school work in it, due to the fact my A-drive is fucked and I have no ink in my printer. Once I get my work handed into Lucifer, also known as my Eng. teacher, I will delete that thread, and once I feel anyone who wants to know the reason of my absence has read this, this one as well. So...I hope you can all forgive my absence. I hope to return soon.

Sincerely,

Jason a.k.a Marius Draven, Roleplay Mod

PS...I'm not looking for sympathy or condolence or remorse from anyone. I just told my reason...and that's how it came out.