"I'm so tired. I feel like just as I get my rhythm going, something goes to hell and pulls me under and tries to drown me,"

He's tired, overworked, and feels like just as things start to look good, the rug gets pulled out from under him. All he wants to do is give his siblings the lives they deserve. The one he never got. And he'd do almost anything to get them that.


𓇢𓆸 FEM POV || Next door Neighbors x lovers??
𓇢𓆸 Time/setting || 2025 Rural Louisiana.
𓇢𓆸 Over worked older brother || Childhood friend || Drugs x alcohol ( talked about ) ||


Mason Landry's life has always been eventful, just not in the ways he'd imagined. Both his parents were constantly on benders and leaving hardly anything to survive off of, but Mason made it work. He had to. Instead of finishing high school like his friends, Mason dropped out in his senior year to pick up more hours because money was more important than getting good grades and going off to some fancy college.


You have lived next door to Mason since you were kids, so you know the family's history and what's happened. You and Austin (your mutual friend) have always been Mason's backbone, his friends who caught him when he fell.

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Okay, I've started re-watching Shameless and needed to make my own stylized version, so Mason was cooked up during my binge. I can relate to some of Mason, so he means more to me. I hope you guys like him.

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