When You Know Your Life Sucks...

So, I started reading the Lifeguard by James Patterson the other day. And I couldn't help but shake my head and chuckle at this poor kid's terrible luck. 

First of all, he's a graduate from BU on an academic scholarship. Great right? Turns out he was actually going on a sports scholarship, but he injured himself and there went his scholarship. Anyways, the school gave him a chance to get good grades and keep a scholarship of the same value and he did. Good. So he gets his degree. Goes into teaching.

He's this great history teacher at a high school for students that have played with the wrong crowd. Sort of like he did. He helped them out, gave them good grades for their efforts and became an inspiration friend to many of his students. One in particular, a female, he took interest in. She had the dreams that he had, but she never thought she could achieve them because of where she grew up. He was her inspiration. Until she said something that went down the social chain and turned into him assaulting her. Bam! There goes his teaching career regardless of the fact that the girl eventually came forth and said it wasn't true. Tell me that doesn't suck. But it doesn't stop there.

Since that little incident is on his permanent record, he becomes a lifeguard.

While he's lifeguarding he meets this beautiful woman that he probably wouldn't have a chance with, except this one time. Tess was her name and she was a knock out. He went on a few dates with her and really thought his luck was changing.

BAM! Tess is murdered. Tell me that doesn't suck. But he doesn't know this yet...

His friends (he calls them his family) are plotting this amazing robbing scheme to steal 3 paintings from a rich man and sell them for 5 million dollars. Great plan. It's going well. Ned is doing everything he's supposed to be doing. BAM! They were set up and BAM! His whole family is killed on a murder spree by an inside job. Tell me that doesn't suck. And after he finds this whole thing out, he drives by Tess' house only to find that she was murdered as well.

Now he's lost his family and his lover. The only thing he has left is his mother, brother, and father. (By the way, his older brother was murdered in a shoot out by a job set up by his father... tell me that's not messed up!) He goes to Boston to get away from the FBI... and to get a hold of his dad who probably set up the inside job for his best friends that ended up killing them all.

Tell me that doesn't suck.