The Future
Chapter 1
The scene is St. Carnard in the year 2030 at the Arts Council.
A blue screen with the words 'Why we're like this.' Shows up
A film written by Gwen and Will Muddle foot.
An adult Gwen in her late 20's shows up on screen. She's wearing black cat frame glasses, a purple tank top, camouflage pants, curly hair with tattoos on her arms.
"We blame our parents. I've been engaged 4 times to three different guys. And Will my brother has been engaged to 5 different girls. And if you do the math that's a lot of angry people. Apparently leave a guy once at the alter it stings. The second time highly destructive."
Will peeks up from the camera. He has a little goatee and spiked red hair, a jersey and shorts.
"How do you like us so far?" Will asked.
The twins grin at the camera.
"Let's begin shall we? With a story that's become almost like folklore in our family. It's 2006 so we were one. And it was our parents anniversary." Gwen said.
-In 2006-
Gosalyn and Honker are walking with the twins in the street. In there 20's. Gosalyn is wearing a black jacket, purple shirt, jeans and shoes. Honker is wearing jacket, blue t-shirt and jeans and shoes. It's late October so just a little chilly out.
"So what do you want to do?" Gosalyn asked.
"We could go to a movie or see a play."
"What says anniversary?" Gosalyn asked.
Just then something fell on Honkers coat. That looks like bird poop.
"Not this." Honker said.
Gosalyn looked at gross. "Eww. What kind of bird did that?"
"Maybe a big bird." Honker said.
Just then the guy that married them came down the ladder with paint.
"Oh thank god. Paint. I've never been so more excited to see paint." Honker said.
Gosalyn looked at the guy and relized they know the guy.
"Hey we know you." She asked.
Honker looked at him and nodded his head. "Oh my gosh! You're right!" Honker said.
"You're Gosalyn and Honker right?"
"Yeah and you're Lenny."
"Yeah, that's right." Lenny said.
"Did you know that it's our anniversary today?" Gosalyn asked.
"It is not."
"Yeah 3 years today."
"That's amazing."
Gosalyn picked up the twins.
"Look kids this nice man is the one who married us. I tell you Lenny you're wedding was just so special. Thank you."
Lenny looked at them and paused.
"You two know that I'm not really a minister."
Gosalyn and Honker have dumbfounded looks on their faces.
"No."
"Well I'm not. It's nice seeing you two again."
Lenny walked away from them.
Gosalyn and Honker just looked at each other confused.
"So we're not married. The official papers we wrote Humpty Dumpy and Louis Lane."
"This is soo not happening." Gosalyn replied putting her hands on her face as she shook her head with disbelieve.
-Will-
"So we're the bastard kids of two idiot parents."
-Gwen-
"My therapist tells me. Yes I'm in therapy. That in our parents defense they seeked a lot of help. A LOT of help."
-2010-
Gosalyn and Honker are in therapy.
Gosalyn has shoulder lenth hair, wearing a purple turtle neck and a skirt, high heels. Honker is starting to go gray.
Their therapist hands them a slice of cake and sighs.
"Gosalyn and Honker I don't know if you're been keeping track. But this has been you're hundred session." Therapist said.
Gosalyn and Honker are stunned to hear that.
"Is that true?" Honker asked.
"Dear god." Gosalyn replied shaking her head.
"So that's like.." Honker trailed on.
"5 years." The therapist replied.
"I know that. I was just.." Honker said trying to add all the money.
"Ten thousand dollars." She said right away.
Honker spat out his water. "Dear of god!" He replied.
Gosalyn nodded her head. "Uh huh." She replied.
-Gwen-
"But I'll move on."
-In 2006-
Gosalyn and Honker walked in the apartment and took their jackets off.
"How can we not be married? Our entire marriage is a lie." Gosalyn said.
"It's not a lie." Honker replied.
"Yes it is. For the past 3 years we've been not what we thought we were. Our foundation is built in quick sand. Doesn't that bother you?" She asked as she put the twins the crib.
"No not really." Honker replied.
She then walked up to him. "When I tell somebody that my husband will be back at 6. I'll be ling."
"I'll be back at 6." Honker said while taking a sip of his drink.
"Yes but you're not my husband." She replied.
The doorbell buzzed. "Good then stop yelling at me." Honker said as he got up from the couch and answered the door.
There were their next door neighbors who don't like Honker and Gosalyn for some reason.
"May we have it?" One asked.
"Excuse me?" Honker asked.
"You're apartment it's up for rent."
"What?" Gosalyn asked shocked.
"See in here. It says it's up for rent."
"Let me see that." Honker said.
He took the paper and looked at it.
"That's our apartment. But it's a mistake."
"Oh, so you're not moving?" Asked the neighbor disappointed.
"Nope." Gosalyn replied.
"Staying?"
"Afraid so." Honker said.
"Good then."
They just walked away and Honker closed the door.
Gosalyn and Honker looked at each other confused.
"Nice." Honker said.
"Honey." Gosalyn said.
"Okay this is what we're going to do. We'll go down town sign our papers and bing bang boom we're married."
"When?" Gosalyn asked.
"When what?" Honker asked.
"When are we going to get married?" She asked.
"When ever you want. Thursday or Friday."
Gosalyn shook her head. "No it has to be today."
Honker looked at her confused. "Why?" He asked.
"Cause today's our anniversary. We have to keep the same anniversary."
"Alright." Honker replied.
"Ask me." Gosalyn said.
Honker looked at her and shurgged.
"Alright, can we go?" He asked.
Gosalyn sighed and rolled her eyes. "Ask me to marry you." She said.
"Oh. Will you marry me?" He asked while taking a sip of pop.
-Gwen and Will-
"These are the people who told us the facts of life." Gwen said.
-2016-
Honker and Gosalyn are sitting down on the table. Gosalyn has her hair in a messy bun, wearing a sweatshirt and jeans.
"You see kids. Boys and girls are different. Girls have… um… and boys have… um. Boys and girls have… honey." Gosalyn said.
"See kids when a man love a woman. He can't get his head on anything else.. If she's bad he doesn't care. She can do no wrong."
"Honey." Gosalyn said patting his arm.
Gosalyn and Honker look at each other and back at the twins.
"Let us get back to you on that."
They walked away.
-Will and Gwen-
"Don't worry our parents actually did a lot of family planning." Will said sarcastily.
-2008-
Gosalyn and Ally are sitting in the hospital waiting room. Gosalyn is reading a magazine.
"So let me get this straight their going to cut off his you know?" Ally asked.
Gosalyn shook her head.
"No. It's waay inside. It's not that bad. The doctor said that in 36 hours he'll have total feeling in his groan. Isn't that remarkable?"
"Poor Honker."
"It's waay inside. Look we thought about this a lot. And I decided that two kids enough. I got a boy and a girl. What else do I need?" Gosalyn asked.
-Gwen-
"Thank you."
-Back with Gosalyn and Ally-
"And where is it written that every family needs more then two kids?" Gosalyn asked.
"Where would I be?" Ally asked.
"Huh?" Gosalyn asked confused.
"I mean if my parents thought like that. I wouldn't be here. I wouldn't have been able to bug my older siblings. And I wouldn't chance that for anything in the world. My sisters wouldn't have been to brush my hair when I was younger. And my big brother wouldnt be able to protect me. Those are things that you really are proud of growing up." Ally said.
Gosalyn just sat there and thought about it for awhile.
"Well they did say it was reversible." She replied.
Just then Honker comes walking out slowly and he sees Gosalyn's face.
"What is it?" He asked.
She bite her lip and chuckled nervously.
"Um… I think we made a mistake."
Honker was shocked to hear this. He just nodded his head.
'Really?" Honker asked.
-Will-
"Our mother the hand full." He replied.
-2006-
Gosalyn and Honker are in Duck burghs city hall.
"Tell me again why we're here in Duck burgh?" Honker asked.
"The smaller the town. The shorter the line." Gosalyn replied.
"Next."
"See." Gosalyn replied.
The two of them walked up to the desk.
"And what can I do for you?" He asked.
"We would like to get married."
"Then you came to the right place. Is this the lucky lady?"
"Yup it's her."
He filled out the papers. "All I need is 10 dollars."
Honker pulled out a crumbled up money. "Lets see I have two dollars and…"
Gosalyn sighed and pulled out a ten from her purse. "How do you leave the apartment?" She asked.
"Thank you so much. All you need is to go the chapel and the justice of the peace will take care of the rest."
Gosalyn and Honker nodded their heads and walked away.
"Nice guy."
"Yeah really nice."
They walked in and saw the same guy standing there.
Gosalyn looked back and back at him.
"Aw, don't you want to walk down the isle?" The minister asked.
Gosalyn looked back at saw it was only 2 steps away and shrugged.
"Oh okay." She replied.
She handed Honker her black jacket and walked back.The minister pushed play on the tape player and Gosalyn walked two steps. He stopped the tape player and hit rewind. Gosalyn and Honker looked at each other and smiled.
"Alright dearly beloved we are gathered her to marry Hunker Muddlefoot and Gosalyn Muddlefoot. Is there anybody who rejects?" The minister asked.
They looked around and saw the lady with the rice.
"I'm good." The lady said.
"Good, Honker do you take Gosalyn as wife?"
"I do."
"Gosalyn do you take Honker as you're husband?"
Gosalyn couldn't spit it out.
"A little louder please."
"Not a good joke." Honker said.
"I don't want to get married." Gosalyn said.
"What?" Honker asked.
The lady then tossed rice at them, Gosalyn took off running out of the alter. Honker and the minister just stand there looking confused.
-Will-
"Apparently the apples don't fall far from the tree."
-Back with Honker and Gosalyn-
They're sitting down at the pizza joint.
"But you wanted to get married."
"I know. But the I was standing right there in the alter. And I kept thinking what if were making a big mistake. What if we end up just like my dad and Morgana? I mean we have a good thing going. Why ruin it?"
"Gos, we're not like you're dad and Morgana. That wouldn't happen."
"You don't know that Honk."
Honker sighed and held her hand.
"Tell you what we go to concealing when ever you feel like we need it. And make things right so we can be married again."
"Honk, we were never married."
"Of course we were married. It just wasn't labeled right. Say you come in here and you ask for chocolate. The waiter comes and gives it to you. You eat and love it. But then the waiter comes back and says sorry that was root beer. Do you come in and ask for root beer next time?"
"Yes."
"Well see that's the opposite of this." Honker said.
-Twins-
"Have you ever heard the expression. Intelligence is able to change ones mind?" Gwen asked.
"No you have not." Will replied shaking his head.
"And the reason why you haven't is because it's not really an expression. It's just something our mom would say. But she'll say it was."
"But it's not." Will said shaking his head.
-2008-
Gosalyn and Ally are in the waiting room again eating popcorn.
"Honker's really great about this." Gosalyn said.
"I'd say." Ally replied.
"And I probably pushed him into that first one anyways."
"Probably."
"He's probably relieved that I changed my mind."
"So what do they do? Just glue it back on?"
"Waay inside. And now the twins will have a younger siblings to play with. It's going to be good."
"Yeah for them." Ally said.
"What?" Gosalyn asked.
"What about for you? Goodbye freedom, goodbye hips. And goodbye career. I read in a magazine once that 2 out of 10 women with more then 2 kids. Don't go back to the work place. They just stay home and turn broken and sad."
Gosalyn has the same look as before and Honker walked out and sees her.
"Hey sweetie." Honker said.
Gosalyn bit her lip and chuckled.
Honkers eyes bulged out and looked at Ally.
"What did you say to her?" Honker asked.
Ally shrugged.
"Stop bringing her to my surgerys!" Honker exclaimed.
-2013-
A 6 year old Will is behind a camera. He's wearing his favorite superman coustume, along with a cape, red shorts, tennis shoes.
Gwen is sitting on the desk she's wearing a pretty purple and pink dress, white socks and black mary jane shoes, her hair is in pig tails.
"Alright sissy you can bring out the first guest." Will said.
"Okay, our next guest is a…" Gwen trailed on.
Gosalyn and Drake in their outfits are standing in the next room.
"I think I'm going to be next." Darkwing said.
"What makes you say that?" Gosalyn asked.
"I just know it." Darkwing said.
"And please welcome our next guest…." Gwen trailed on.
Darkwing walks out and Gwen and Will laugh.
"Not yet pappy. Go back and wait." Will laughed.
"Huh?"
"Yeah please welcome mommy." Gwen said.
Gosalyn walked out and laughs and pats her dad on the shoulder.
"Sorry pops, but mommy beats superheros every time." She said.
Darkwing watched as she sat down in the kids chairs, sat down too.
But his butt was too big again and he begun stuck.
"I think I'm stuck." Darkwing said as the chair was stuck on him.
The twins laughed and Gosalyn rolled her eyes at that.
-2008-
Honker and Dewey are at the store.
"Say Honker shouldn't you be having the surgery again?" Dewey asked.
"Ha ha very funny Dewey."
"It's just funny. First she said she wanted you to do it. Then she changed her mind and wanted you to get undone. And now she wanted to you to do again." Dewey said.
"Yeah well that's Gosalyn. You just do what she wants you to do." Honker replied.
-Gwen-
"The way I see it. Little events lead to big events."
-Late in 2035-
You see an elderly Drake and Morgana walk in a theater together.
"Look there it is. A film by Gwen and Will Muddle foot."
"What kind of name is Stabbing bob?" Drake asked.
"They're angry." Morgana replied.
"Really?" Drake asked.
They walked to their seats and Drake remembered something.
"We should save these two seats for Gosalyn and Honker. Cause the twins want them to sit next to each other."
He put their jackets on the seats, they both sat down.
"Do they both know that the two of them are going to be here?" Morgana asked.
"Yeah, but they said that they're going to be mature."
"That's good. Cause this is the twins big night. They don't need them fighting." Morgana said.
Just then Ally and Dewey walk in with their newborn baby.
"Hey, there they are." Dewey said.
"We're here." Ally replied.
They hugged each other. "We should save these two for Gosalyn and Honker." Dewey said.
"Yeah we know." Morgana replied.
"Okay good." Dewey replied.
Morgana looked at their baby. "Aww, she's so adorable."
"Thanks, this only happens once in a blue moon. They're clean, and we're clean. So don't get used to it." Ally said.
They also sat down and begun chit chatting.
Honker is the next one to walk in he has gray hair and is a little more on the middle. Wearing a suit.
"Hey, my kids made a movie." Honker said proudly.
"Honker." They said.
They greeted him. "Honk man, why don't you sit there." Drake said.
"I think I will." Honker said.
He was about to sit down when Gosalyn walks in.
Gosalyn has chin length red hair, wearing a trench coat with a purple dress under it.
"Hey there." Gosalyn said.
"Look it's the mother of the film makers." Ally said.
"I hope I'm not too late." She said.
"Not at all sport you're just in time." Drake said.
She hugged her dad and smiled at Morgana.
"Morgana, I am so glad that you could come. It means a lot to the kids." Gosalyn said.
"I wouldn't miss it for anything Gos. Just because you're dad and I aren't married anymore. Doesn't mean there not my grandkids." She said.
"Gos, why don't you sit right here." Ally said pointing to chair next to Honker.
Gosalyn walks to the empty seat and sees Honker.
They both look at each other and paused. It's been months since they split. They just smiled at each other.
"Hi." Honker said.
"Hi. How are you?" Gosalyn asked as she sat down.
"I'm good. You?" He asked.
"I'm good too." She said.
There was an awkward pause between the two of them the lights turned off.
"Oh I guess it's starting." Gosalyn said.
"I guess so too." Honker said.
It was weird seeing them like this. All one has to do is say that they love each other and it will be over with. But they're ego is in the way.
To Be Continued…