"Just remember that you really need to appreciate things, Julian."
"I will."
"We don't need you taking things for granted again."
but julian never listens and julian never shows thanks, he never provides courtesy.
he just takes and takes and takes.
and one day it all backfires.
when julian is found, lying in a landfill.
the officers didn't even bother investigating, they were always fed up with julian's bullshit.
they packaged up his body and shoved him in a black bag.
at the morgue, the coroner laid him out on the table.
"That's the most horrific thing I've ever seen."
his family didn't bother identifying the body.
they couldn't stand seeing his face, the way it was twisted.
his eyes, missing.
and each of his fingers, they were only bone.
the flesh had been eaten by an animal, or maybe a being.
his body just stayed frozen there in the morgue.
no one ever spoke again of poor julian lurtz.