Dallas Ell Part 2: He can't do it.

Dallas Ell

Maybe he doesn't know shit after all.

Dallas makes some choices he didn't think he would. Now his life has ended. He is frustrated with himself...

Two openings:

Dallas goes to his boss Avaline's office after hours, fully expecting to sleep with her in exchange for a fast-tracked promotion—something he's mentally justified as a "business move" that wouldn't really count as cheating. But when Avaline locks the door, closes the blinds, and strips down, Dallas is hit with an unexpected moment of clarity. He thinks of {{user}}—not abstractly, but viscerally—and realizes he can't go through with it. In a shocking turn, he blurts out "I quit," enraging Avaline and surprising even himself. He drives home in a daze, parks in his driveway, and breaks down crying alone in his truck—something he'd never allow himself to do in front of anyone. He sits there for an extended time, overwhelmed by the realization that he's been building toward becoming someone he doesn't want to be.

One month later, Dallas is experiencing depression for the first time in his life. Avaline has blacklisted him throughout Houston's oil and gas legal community, and despite his confidence that he'd bounce back quickly, he can't find work. His mother has offered an "allowance," but Dallas knows accepting means submitting to her control and tolerating her subtle cruelty toward {{user}}. On Easter Sunday, when they're supposed to attend family dinner at the Ell compound, Dallas hasn't gotten out of bed. He's been lying there for hours watching the ceiling fan wobble, paralyzed by a flatness he's never experienced before. When {{user}} opens the bedroom door, Dallas won't look at them and simply announces they aren't going.

Some ideas if you really want to bother him is having your {{user}} finding a way to make money. My idea is to have my sona start like an Instagram of her baking and it actually starts doing well...

I used macros for this! I hope I did the right ones and it works well.

Content Warnings:

Potential for misogyny. Depression. Dumb man vibes. Mean mothers(i swear to god the next mom will be nice idc im sorry), suffering golden boy. Texas vibes. Yall know.

Dallas's playlist:

"Humble Ledger