Okay before I start, I want to say a few things. Yesterday I watched this documentary and it was to help gay teens stray away from being gay. Suicide, heart break, and losing yourself… all of which was in it. I being who I am am a bi-sexual female who isn't ashamed of whom she is. It makes me sick to see people not accepting people for who they are, who they want to be. I am just torn with this, my best friend watched it with me and her girlfriend died a few months ago, and she was shaking so hard from this. So please people don't be against people because of their sexual orientation.
Okay now that I have that out of the way, I am going to do a series of one-shots.
Title: Home movies.
"Clare, could you help me bring these boxes out to the trash please?" I heard my mom shout as I sat on the stairs reading a series of short stories.
"Sure, mom." I said not moving from my spot. I heard her come to the step and point at me.
"Now!" She screeched. I shot up from my seat and went over to the box and looked in it. I was appalled. it was a box of home movies from when we were actually a family, it looked like ones from my birth all the way up to last Christmas.
I didn't want to throw out my childhood; I didn't want to see another part of me slip away. So when I knew my mom had left for work, and Jake and Glen were gone too, I took the movies up to my room and stashed them directly into the loose floor boards of my floor.
I took out one of the movies and looked at the title; Clare and Darcy, Clare's third birthday. I felt my body freeze when I read it, how could my mom want to trash something so special to me, or her old life?
I searched in my room for my old VCR and I hooked it up to my plasma T.V. I took a seat on my bed and grabbed a pillow to hold close to my chest. The movie was rewinding when I heard a light tap on the window. I looked behind me thinking it was just another woodpecker or something like that. Little did I know it was Eli standing on my balcony with a smile on his face? This I found odd.
I went to the window and opened it and let him in. He smiled and said,
"Hey, I was wondering if you wanted to um have that talk we have been avoiding yet." I looked at the TV and heard the tape stop, signaling it was fully rewound. I took Eli's hand and led him into the room and had him take a seat on my bed. I hadn't uttered a word yet.
"Clare, are you Ok?" I shook my head 'no' and went to grab the remote. Before I turned on the T.V. I turned to Eli and said,
"I love you, that's all I have to say." I guess it took him by shock because he looked at me for a minute before falling back dramatically on my bed. I let out a slight giggle and pushed the play button on the remote. I braced myself for seeing how life used to be. Good.
The video rolled and instantly you saw a tiny me and a young Darcy sitting on the lawn of our house. I was eating a piece of cut up cake, and Darcy was staring at the camera making funny faces. In the background were a few of our friends playing in our jump house my parents rented and in the very corner was my dad standing there talking to some woman. I rewinded a little and paused. I got up and looked closer at the T.V. and saw who he was talking to. Rage grew inside of me when I realized who it was; Kate Myler. He left us last year for her. She had worked with him as his secretary since we were tiny and he was starting out his own law firm.
I fell crumpled onto the floor and shook with tears free falling from my eyes. I felt my heart sink to my stomach and I realized my whole life was a sham. My parents never loved each other, we never had the perfect Christian family, we were just normal.
I shook more when Eli realized I was over there and got up. He hesitantly bent down and pulled me into his lap. He grabbed the remote and pushed 'play' once again. He held me while we watched the video to nearly the end. It was maybe five minutes until the video was over when I saw something else and paused the video once again. This time it wasn't my dad, it was a short black haired four year old boy sitting next to me stealing bites of my cake while I just smiled at him. He leaned over and kissed my cheek causing pink frosting to get all over me, and I just giggled.
I looked behind me at Eli, and he had a look of awe on his face. Then I looked back at the screen and saw those green eyes. I turned back around and paused the video and said,
"That's you." He hesitantly nodded and said,
"I had no idea we were in love, even back then. Hell I didn't even meet you until earlier last year I thought." He ran his fingers through his hair and said,
"Oh I forgot something, I also came here to give you this…" he reached in his pocket "Here, I know tomorrow is your birthday." I smiled and grabbed the small box and opened it. Inside were lenses from the glasses he ran over. And etched on the lens it read "I will love you forever." I felt tears fall and I leaped on him and kissed him.
Who knew old home videos could hold such a meaning, from now until then.
Hope you guys enjoyed this! I have no clue how many one-shots there will be, but more to come. I take requests, so let me know! Please review if you want a new one soon or at all :)