The first 17 years of Luke's life earnt him the title of Unlucky Luke. Unfortunately it was all bad luck. His daddy Pete died in a car accident driving home from the hospital after visiting Luke's mother Sarah the day before she was to bring Luke home. Sarah's father Jake had to bring her the bad news and then arrange to take her home. She stayed an extra day due to the upset and on that day their family home burnt down. So then Sarah and Luke had to stay an extra day due to the further upset. Jake finally took Sarah and Luke home 3 days late, home to Jakes house where he had lived alone since Sarah's mother died from breast cancer that was diagnosed the day Sarah's doctor told Sarah she was pregnant. From diagnosis till death was a short 3 months. Luke's bad luck had started before he was even born.
Jake had inherited some money and also worked hard and had plenty in the bank but frequent doctors visits and a series of cars that kept breaking down were eating into his nest egg. By the time Luke was 17 Jakes wealth was down to the last ten thousand.
Luke, well his school life growing up was ...not good. Imagine how popular a boy would be if every team that he was on ALWAYS lost, even if it was just kicking a ball around. He worked hard in class and, so long as there were no chance elements, he managed to pass, JUST. Girls avoided him after the one girl that he tried to talk to in the cafeteria actually had all the elastic in her panties snap leaving them around her ankles, a girls worst nightmare!
Luke's life bounced along, bouncing from one bad event to the next. If something bad could happen, it happened to Luke. He finished high school and had applied for every job that was going in town but -- no luck there. Not surprising really. He'd had a paper route but the paper closed a week after Luke started delivering it. He'd worked in a cafe but it got closed down by the health department two weeks after he started. After ten jobs like that no-one was willing to hire him.
So what did Luke do with his time, on-line gaming was a washout -- he lost those games too. His only escape was on-line porn, hours and hours of porn.
Luke's one bright spot in his negative life was his older sister Jamie. Eighteen months older and she was 'normal'. No she didn't have super good luck, she just had the regular girl type life. Whenever any of her dates got a bit pushy she had an unusual defence,
"I'll get Luke to touch you or your car." Those boys just didn't want to risk any of Luke's bad luck rubbing off on them.