Authorsnote: This is a first. Forgive my shit writing.
Summer has gotten used to being forgotten. This probably sounds melodramatic and could possibly be blamed on her being a teenage girl but she really is forgotten about. A lot. Her parents fight so much it s almost too hard to fall asleep at night without the sounds of their yelling. With them so focused on themselves she s hardly even acknowledged most of the time and even when they see her it's because they need something. Her grandpa, well he has his moments. When he first showed up at the front door in the middle of the night she was the one to answer it. She thought it was going to be her boyfriend but when she looked up and saw that stern looking old man with the blue hair she squeaked and slammed the door. She woke up everyone by running through house screaming about a witch doctor. Needless to say, he thought it was hilarious and sometimes still brings it up by making jokes about witch doctors.
He definitely noticed her back then and in the beginning she hated not being able to have secrets. He would find everything out on more than one occasion even dragging a stray boyfriend out of the house in the middle of the night. For some reason she liked it though after spending so many years doing whatever she wanted it felt nice to have someone around to pay attention and stop her from making obvious mistakes. she s made plenty of mistakes in the past when she was on her own but then he was around to stop things before they start in his own nonchalant 'not giving a fuck' way.
All things come to an end though she's not sure when it happened but eventually she faded into the background again. Even for him. She was disappointed of course, when her boyfriend could crawl through the window in the middle of the night without being caught and when she could come home past midnight and walk right past him slumped on the couch. her irresponsible actions returned full force then even at one point getting together with the wrong type of guy and coming home with a black eye. Not a peep from anyone even Morty was too tired from late night adventures to notice. Even when she was invited along on the boys adventures it was to go to the movies and then be left in the ship when something goes down.
After spending so much time being ignored and forgotten about she s actually become a very good observer. She tends to play with her phone but listen very carefully to the conversations going on around her. She s quite proud of how well she can read people and their intentions. If shitty boyfriends taught her anything it s how to tell when someone s acting to get what they want. Though she still has her moments of weakness she is only 16. She thought she had put those skills to good use when tagging along with the boys to get the Ball Fondler s movie on dvd and running into Ricks ex Unity. Watching unity go from a calm and collected collective to mass chaos she knew what was happening. She s even done it herself before, changing everything she is to try and become what a guy wanted. Knowing Rick was no good for them Summer tried to warn them but to no avail. In the end she was just ignored again and sent home.
she can hear rick pulling into the garage now. sounds like it was a bumpy she looked up from the tv and saw him she knew something was up. She s sure everyone else did too but none of them could bring themselves to ask. Shortly after he went to the garage she excused herself to her room saying she was tired and climbed down the drain pipe outside her bedroom window. Her boyfriend used to climb it to come visit her at night but not since she broke up with him. Can we just be friends? she had said. He was understandably mad but she knew it was for the best. She didn t want to drag him down with her. She assumed she would find her Grandfather getting sloshed. Maybe Unity figured out Rick was bad for them so they broke up with him. If so good for them but her grandfather s probably upset about it and knowing him that means he s going to get even more drunk then usual and probably drag her brother off somewhere only to pass out and force the kid to drive home. She had just wanted to check. She would have been better off if she had just gone to bed.
Peeking around the side of the house she was surprised to see the garage door was still open. Not really sure why but happy because she didn t need to stand on her tiptoes to look through the tiny windows she scooted down to the ground and crawled so she could barely stick her head out and look in. Rick was leaning over digging through a cabinet when she finally positioned herself comfortably to watch. There was a trashcan a few inches from her spot so if he had looked in that direction she was mostly covered. She watched as he pulled out some kind of weird blob creature that was apparently frozen somehow because when he poured an orange chemical on it it seemed to thaw out and start to cry. Focusing on his face she realized that was the saddest she had ever seen him. The only time she can remember him at least acting sad was when he first returned a little over a year ago and he was trying to convince her mom he was sorry. He was so gentle with the creature it seemed out of character for him. She s always seen him as a stern man with very little cares outside of his work so watching him now being so gentle with the creature and looking so sad was a shock to say the least.
She gave a start when he gulped the orange chemical and covered her mouth to stop herself from crying out and getting cant be good for him. It was harder not to make a sound when she watched him hold up the little screaming creature to a device and get disintegrated into a pile of dust in his hands. She is struggling to her feet when she sees him sit down and straighten the thing over his own head. but By the time she gets up he is face down on his work table and the device goes off with nothing there to hit. She stands there for a few minutes unsure of what to do but since she can tell he s still breathing she decides to just go back to her room. After struggling back up the pipe she sits heavy on her bed. Unsure of what she just witnessed.
He tried to kill himself she realized. Tears start to collect in her eyes and slide down her face. Why would he do that? It s been so much better around here since he showed up. He s a freaking genius and he was going to let one failed relationship stop him from continuing his work that she assumes is a pretty big deal. He could abandon his family and be perfectly fine but when it came to a relationship with one collective conscience it s the last straw?
He s a drunken bastard but for some reason ever since he came into her life she felt like in a way she finally had a positive role model. He s not really positive sure but at least he doesn t try to put the blinders on. He doesn t lie to her to make her feel better he is straight forward about everything and she has come to appreciate that. She s spent most of her life feeling like she had no reason to feel bad about anything that she was just being ungrateful and that everything should be and is fine but he showed up and basically said it was stupid to let anyone else decide how you feel or what you do. He taught her and her brother that everything sucks and being raised told otherwise was fucked up. Once you grow up and realize it s really not okay there s no one there to help you. Like the safety rug being pulled out from underneath you and falling into a never ending pit of darkness.
She feels selfish that she s so sad. He s the one that tried to kill himself why is she sitting here crying. He s not supposed to fall like that. He s supposed to be her hero. Why would he try to leave her and Morty to go back to the way things were before? What is wrong with her that her hero is the most selfish drunken bastard in existence?
She doesn t have anyone else.
Authorsnote pt 2: kick my ass with your opinions maybe i'll listen.