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Chapter 1: The Good Bye.
"Your what!?" Irene Bell screamed at her first-born son in
such a tone she had never used before with him.
"I'm
quitting the band." Carey whispered, he
was a grown man but at the moment very afraid of his mother.
"Why?" She had noticed her voice was too loud and
tried her hardest to calm it down.
"Sorry I
can't tell you." He hated not being to
tell her, he always felt him and his parents had a very good relationship with
one another. But there was no way he
would be able to answer her question.
"Will you
be going back to school?" Those were
the first words Ned had said since the diccusion more like argument began.
"I doubt
it." Carey knew that would be opening a
can of worms.
"Son you
can't get far in this world with just a high school diploma, how are you going
to find work?" Irene's calm voice was
disappearing.
"I can just
play my guitar at clubs and stuff, I'm sure it won't be long before I'm hired
to play for someone."
"Carey it's
not that easy! The only reason you got
this gig is because of obvious personal connections."
"Mom I'm
not a child anyone, there's no need to protect me from the big bad wolf." His parents look at him thinking over what
he just said.
"Do you
think we baby you? Is that why you want
to leave?"
"Yes, I
mean no, well maybe." Carey had no way
to explain this to his parents. No
matter what he said someone was going to get hurt. He was beginning to wish he did what was originally planned,
leave in the middle of the night no questions to answer. There was a long silence, the uncomfortable
kind that you try hard to avoid. Carey
looked at the door, at his parents, and back towards the door.
"You're
right son you are no longer child, me and mother can not tell you what to do
anyone."
"But also
as a parent we are still allowed to look out for you, even when were rocking
away in rocking chairs without any teeth you and your brother will be our first
concern."
"I realize
that. Thank you. But this is something I really need to
do. I'm sorry." Carey knew it was now or never, so with that
said he rose from his seat and grabbed his suitcase that was hiding behind the
sofa.
"You're
leaving now!?" Both of the Bells said
at the same moment.
"You spring
this on us out of nowhere and even before we can adjust to the news you just
leave?"
"Carey I at
least thought you would finish this tour, you know what a pain in the ass it'll
be for me to find a new guitar player in such short notice? Plus we only have a handful more of stops."
"I can't do
that!" Carey didn't mean to holler like
that, but they just weren't listening to what he was saying.
"I am
really am sorry about this, I have to go my train leaves at 11:00." They all looked at their watches, he had two
hours, but it was a semi-long ride to get to the station.
"We can
give you lift." Ned said whiling
picking the car keys off of the coffee table.
"I
appreciate the offer but Gary is going to give me a ride. I'm suppose to meet him over at the
Phillip's house. So I can say goodbye
to everyone there and the rest of the band."
"Oh Carey I
don't like the way Gary drives it's too dangerous—"
"Mom!"
"You're
right, I'm sorry. Let Gary drive you,
you better pray hard though." She said
that last part under her breath but Carey heard her just the same. He decided to be the better man and not say
anything about it.
"Where
exactly will this train be taking you?"
"New
York." Carey could tell by the looks on
their faces they had a thousand objections, but they realized voicing them
wouldn't change anything. He picked up
the suitcase and walked towards the door.
His parents right behind him.
When he turned around his dad gave him a bear hug and a fatherly kiss on
the forehead. The hug from his mother
was much softer and lasted longer, it ended with two kisses on each cheek. Carey felt his eyes start to water up, he
hoped they didn't notice, he however noticed his parents' eyes were doing the
same thing. He mouthed the words good
bye, opened the door and walked out.
Carey
decided to walk to the Phillip's house, it was only a few blocks away, thank
god they decided to move closer he thought to himself. His parents were the last to find out, he
was afraid of what they would say, and it looks like he had good reason to
be. He had lied when he told them he
wanted to say goodbye the band and the Phillips, the only people to be at the
house were Molly and Gray. His parent's
must have been so overwhelmed with the news they forgot Jack and Annie would be
at school this hour. And that most of
the band was hired to play some new club for one week only without Molly. Carey was happy they had failed to remember
those things, it made things much easier on him.
When the
house came into view Carey took a deep breath and walked in without knocking
like he had a thousand times before.
Gary was seating on the sofa watching what sounded like Rosie O'Donnell
while sipping on a diet coke.
"Hey
man." Gary said without looking up.
"Um we
should get going." Carey decided he
just wanted to leave now. He felt very
uneasy.
"Molly's in
the kitchen." He should have realized
no matter how hard he wished to disappear it wouldn't be that easy. With a sigh and after putting the suit case
down Carey walked into the kitchen.
Molly was at the counter slicing carrots unaware she was being
watched. He just stood there for a few
moments doing just that, watching her.
"Hello
Molly." She screamed at the sudden
voice and dropped the knife. Luckily
she missed hitting any fingers.
"Carey." That evil silence had returned to haunt him.
"So I'm
leaving now."
"Yeah I
know." Molly whispered.
"God Molly
I don't like this either but I don't have a choose here!"
"I know,
I'm sorry."
"What
for? I'm equally to blame for this."
"No your
not, I'm the adult I should I stopped it even before it started."
"Do you
regret what happened?" Carey was afraid
of the answer but he had to know. Molly
thought for a second then began to smile.
"Not at all
Carey, I only regret it had to end like this."
He nodded in agreement.
"Sorry to
intrude but Carey we really should get going."
Gary said from the doorway and quickly disappear as if he was never
there. He was the only that knew what
was going on, hopefully it would stay that way.
Carey
walked over where Molly and just stood there, their eyes grilling into one
another. At the same moment they leaned
forward and shared what was likely to be there last kiss. It was more passionate and powerful than all
their other kisses put together, making this harder on both of them. Finally Molly pulled away and started
chopping again as if nothing just happened.
Carey gives her shoulder a tight squeeze and walked out of the
kitchen. Gary was waiting for him, with
no words to say but he gave his now former band mate a I'm sorry for your pain
kind of pat on the back. He grabs the
suitcase and slams the door shut on what could possibly be the best thing that
ever happened to him.
