Anthony “Fergie” Ferguson is a loner, a porn addict, a video game aficiondado, and a stalker. In other words, Fergie is pretty much an average all-American young man. Writer Chris DeBrie’s “Please Forward My Mail” is a novel in serial form, written scene by scene.
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She ended up sitting next to him in art class, a year younger than him and in the same grade. This brace-faced chill girl. Not the prettiest girl in every room, but one of the kindest. With that combination, Fergie knew he was gone. He had spent hours playing songs on repeat which reminded him of her.
He had few other true friends in those days, only much later realizing that was true of most high school students. Even the popular kids who seemed to know everyone were usually walking around feeling lonely, on some level.
Daciana would sometimes find him walking between classes. Just to talk for four minutes was a big event in his day. He always found himself thrilled she picked him to share time with… then he’d see his doughy face in a mirror and hang his head.
The year passed, his crush ballooned, and he kept it inside. Cesar, his buddy who played on the football team, found out about Fergie’s crush and basically forced him to tell Daciana.
Cesar kept badgering her by telling her someone was in love with her.
Fergie ’fessed because he knew Cesar would give in to her questions, eventually.
She quaked when Fergie told her, obviously shaken, then said some nice things that Fergie couldn’t remember.
Actually, his mind blanked out when he saw the kind pity on her face, and he didn’t receive a word she said. But it was Daciana, so the words had likely been full of grace.
