Charms
By Envi
A/N: I've had this story stuck in my head for SO long!! I couldn't continue Cinderella because I had yet to write this down! (My mind works in weird ways...) So, I wrote it down as a one-shot, but now, reading it, I think I should maybe continue it. Although it may be a little weird because I was listening to Little Sparrow by David Cook when I wrote it, and that song makes me think strangely...Most songs do...I worte Cinderella listening to Bohemian Rhapsody by Michael Johns.
Disclaimer: I own absolutely nothing!!
He'd bought me the bracelet, back when we were married…Before all the bad stuff happened. That beautiful silver bracelet, with six charms…One for each year we were married. I still wear it, everyday, as if it will bring him back to me…
They say six is the devil's number…Satan's number…and I guess that's true…After all, six years, six charms, and we were twenty-six…it seems to fit. Now we're twenty-nine, and my five year old daughter, Kacie, is starting to question where her daddy is…She hasn't seen him since she was two…She doesn't remember all that much. She knows what he looks like, though. I have pictures of the three of us out in the house….But it all goes back to the bracelet…I am wearing it in every photograph….She asks me, every night, what the story of each charm is, but I have yet to tell her. Even though I tell myself every night.
The heart was the first one…It is a little silver heart with love inscribed in the middle…He told me it was symbolizing our great devotion towards each other…And I still believe that today…
The second charm was the dog…It is a Labrador, standing tall and proud. He told me it stood for how proud he was to be my husband, and the father of our future child. Even though Kacie Ann hadn't been conceived yet, he knew we were gonna have a kid.
The third charm…Was a horse…A beautiful trotting Morgan horse was what he told me…It is a beautiful charm. You can see the animal's rippling muscles and perfect form. He said that that's me. He said I am that beautiful, that perfect…I don't think I believe that anymore…
The fourth charm…Well, it has to be my favorite…A mother and baby dolphin…I got it when we found out I was pregnant…A mommy and a baby…But not a daddy…I never realized that before…could he had been planning this all along? No…he wouldn't do that…He would never plan to leave me…
The fifth is a butterfly….I made his heart flutter…Do I still? He said he couldn't keep still around me….He said he loved so much, and that he would never leave me…Not ever, but I guess he broke that promise….
Now that sixth charm…Is an angel…I was his saving grace….I caught him when he was falling, and I held him in my arms…To make sure he'd be alright…I guess didn't need to be saved anymore…
I tore that little silver bracelet off of my wrist, and threw it to the ground….I let the tears fall, the ones I'd been holding in for nearly three years….I cried for him…For my daughter -our daughter- and then I cried for myself….for all those years I spent pining for him….And even after all that, I still love him! How? Why? Why him? Why me? I don't know….
Now little Kacie Ann is hugging me…She's telling me everything will be okay…She is so strong…My little girl is so strong…She barely remembers her daddy…she wonders about him, but she doesn't ask…She doesn't want to make my life any harder…I love her so much…and I tell her that…
Suddenly, the doorbell rings, and I have to get up to get it…As I walk down the deep red hallway, towards the door, I sigh, hoping I will never get my heart so broken again…I find the courage to open the door…"Jess…" I whisper…
"Rory…"
And Kacie Ann bursts into tears when she sees her father…She knows how badly he hurt me….
"Rory…I'm sorry…"
A/N: See what I mean!! Should I continue it?