Heeeey! I hope you guys like this story, I have always wanted to re-write Sweeney Todd in modern day. I love the original story
Disclaimer: These are not my characters I wish they were, man that would be cool, owning Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter Yes Please ;)
As I walk off the plane from South Africa back home to England. With the song When We Stand Together by Nickelback on my lips as I walk through the gate, I go through customs to get checked out to see if I brought back any diseases. As you do.
As I got out of the airport I was met with the city I left behind 10 years ago, and it looks the same as it did when I left, bright, shiny, and new, I left to help sick kids get their lives back on track. I never knew what it was to fall in love. I'm thirty-nine-year-old male who has never had a serious relationship, some would say I have commitment issues but the truth is I have never found someone to love.
Instead of hailing a taxi, I walked. Walking for what felt hours, until I looked at my watch and saw that I had only been walking for an hour and a half. I sat down on a bench to look at my map I got from the airport, to try and find a hotel.
"Right from the start you were a thief, you stole my heart, and I you're willing victim, I let you see all the parts of me that weren't all the pretty, and with every touch you fixed them, now you've been talking in your sleep, uh-oh, things you never say to me uh-oh, tell me enough of our love, our love." A voice traveled from somewhere nearby it sounded familiar.
"Just give me a reason, just a little bit's enough, just a second we're not broken, just bent and we can learn to love again, it's in the stars it's been written in the scars of our hearts, that we're not broken just bent and we can learn to love again ." The voice rang again; I followed it to see where it was coming from.
After following the voice I came to a street corner and found a woman singing with a hat on the floor and a guitar in hand I knew the girl it was my best friend Eleanor Todd. I walked closer and joined her until the song finished.
"Hey gorgeous," I said while she was putting her guitar away
"Hey, you," She said blushing and standing up to give me a hug, "When did you get back?" She asked when we broke.
I helped her putting her guitar away and counted her money, and came out to $25.45 "Wow not my best day, but its good I guess."
"What's a good day for you?"
"About $100 and a bad day is $50."
"Have you always done this?"
"Yeah ever since I was 18 when you left and I ran away from home. Because my parents wanted me to run the family business but I wanted to be a singer." She said.
"Wow, I missed a lot when I left, didn't I?" I said.
Eleanor and I have known each other since we were kids. Every year at school we would always be in the same class and we were best friends all the way up until I left to go to South Africa, and after 10 years of me living on a different continent we lost contact after 3, but no matter what I still love her. But I wonder if she still loves me.
We got to the coffee shop where we used to get coffee when I used to live here. "So tell me more about your life over the past 7 years, you know since I haven't heard from you in that long." I said getting a little mad at her.
"Come on, Ben that's not fair. I had to stop like I explained in my last letter I sent, I got married and every time he saw a letter from you he forced me to stop writing to you. Do you think I wanted to do it? I have loved you since the first time I saw you, but you left before we could have a chance to make our friendship more than what we had, and I know you wanted it too, but you left. You left me at the time I needed you." She crying now, I was regretting leaving her all alone, and now she was married to another man I missed my one and only chance to be with the one and only woman I have ever loved.
"I never stopped loving you, and I never will." She said, "But you left and now I'm married Ben I can't just toss that away just because you have come back." She said staring at the coffee cup in her hand.
"Do you love him?" I asked suddenly.
"What?"
"Your husband, do you love him?"
"I have to; my parents fixed me up with him and arranged the wedding after the first date. So no I don't love him but if I leave him my parents will kill me. Literary both my sister's left their husbands and my parents killed them."
"Well, then run away with me, we'll go anywhere you want to go. We'll go to France, Scotland, Ireland or America anywhere you want to go. Please Nellie; I don't want to lose you again." I said grabbing her hand. She lifted her head and looked into my eyes, and she lit up and nodded. "Ok, but I don't want to leave."
"We don't have to. Didn't you say that your parents used to own a shop down on Fleet Street?"
"Yeah,"
"Why don't we move in there like we did when we were kids?"
"Oh yeah, that's a wonderful idea, but how do we live in there without people noticing?"
"Well, when I was in Africa I picked up how to cut hair, and since there is a room above yours I thought that I use that one and open up a barber shop."
"Oh you are a genius. I love you so much." She said giving me a big hug.
"Oh, my God I forgot how much I missed you until I saw you on the street corner." I said hugging her back harder.
I followed her to her parents shop. We were holding hands as if it was the most natural thing the world until we reached the shop and saw her parents inside.
Well, there you go chapter 1, I hope you liked it please feel free to review, the chapters will get M rated in the future and if you have any ideas on where I could go with this story please tell me :) Thanks Guys :)