Darkness
Little Drabble.
Jade West loved the dark. Even as a little girl she adored the way darkness could make you feel as if you were nothing, no-where, as if you were floating throughout nothingness, avoiding unforeseen things that were hidden by the dark. When she was little the monsters in the dark had been strangely comforting compared to the monster of her father who only came out in the light. The monsters in the dark never did anything, never hurt her or yelled at her. They were nothing to be feared they just listened, never moving, never talking. Why all the little boys and girls in her class were scared of them she had never known because to her, they were friends and all through her life she had enjoyed being alone in the dark with only the monsters who would listen to her speak.
However as she became a teenager, the monsters were pushed to the side for mostly the dark was used for hiding. Hiding things, hiding people. The darkness hid her first boyfriend from the gaze of her drunken father storming through the house and bursting through her door. The darkness beneath her bed hid the box of memories she never wanted to revisit but kept because she couldn't let them go. Darkness hid her relationship with Tori Vega until the two of them had an idea what it was. They hid because they were never supposed to happen, Tori Vega and Jade West. They were enemies, they hated each other. They didn't love each other; they didn't even like each other. It was all just sort of a coincident, an accident almost. It wasn't planned, it wasn't prophesied, it just happened.
And it was forever hidden it the dark. The dark of the janitor's closet in school where they would steal long kisses and soft touches. It was in the dark of the night where they ventured new depths of a relationship neither of them would admit was such. It was in the dark of the brown eyes that got her lost. Lost for what she would never say was quite obviously forever. It was in the dark of the wings upon waiting to emerge on stage where they had kissed good luck unbeknownst to the eyes that watched them that didn't belong to the monsters.
It was in the dark when her mouth had let three tiny words escape. In the darkness where her lover's lips parted and a gasp escaped. In the darkness where she'd whispered four words in return. The four words that anyone who had ever mumbled, muttered, shouted or yelled those first three words wanted to hear in return.
It was in the dark when they vowed to step out into the light.