My disclaimer from the first chapter applies to Sailor moon and I also do not own Angels and Girlfriends or Dying both by Five for Fighting so don't sue and I also don't own any fairy tales mentioned or alluded to in this particular chapter but the gist is mine!! Thank you!!
Enjoy the Show
I woke up still sitting on the stool with my head on the counter but I didn't lift my head up yet because I could hear Lita humming and I didn't want her to stop because I was awake. As I sat there listening all I could think was what a strange song it was she was humming and I wondered how I knew the lyrics when I can't remember ever hearing it. It seemed to go something like "She said I love you more, I said I love you not… I'll be your only love, you'll be my only friend…" at this point she started to sing the words "Angels never come for free, if you know what I know you know what I mean… Girlfriends never fall for fun…" as her voice started to fade I looked up and realized she was walking out of the kitchen … but wait that isn't Lita…
Then a drag queen walked into my kitchen and was about to walk past me or so I thought when suddenly she turned to me and said, "Excuse me, what are you doing in here?!! You should be watching the show!! It's almost time for it to start!!" while she/he said this he/she graved my hand and dragged me through the door Lita had walked through. "Wait, what are you doing? Let go of me!!" I said as I was practically dragged away.
When we got into the next room it wasn't my living room like usual but a long hall way that had five or six doors that were almost all open except for the one on the very end. As we passed the doors my guide slowed down and I looked inside through the doors and saw… dressing rooms with people in old costumes from long ago when women could be princesses or heroines and men were knights or magicians…the only thing between those worlds of love and fortune and this world seemed to be the twisted fate of reality…
Each room seemed to have its own theme and own costumes connected to that theme, like in the first room was a woman who looked like she could be Rapunzel ready to let down her long hair to the man she loves however the man she should have loved seemed be kissing another woman behind Repunzel's back… the woman he was kissing seemed to be Rapunzel's care taker… the witch that sent her to the tower where she suffered in wait of her love in the first place and as I briefly saw this in passing it looked like Rapunzel was numb to everything around her and just sat brushing her hair looking into a shattered mirror… and I realized in her mind she was still in that tower waiting for her prince to come and rescue her.
The next room had an old man spinning a thread of gold and a baby rocking in its bed crying softly and whimpering every now and then as if afraid to be to loud. In the far corner I saw a woman being raped by her husband the King because she tried to stop him from hurting the baby again… and the old man kept shushing the baby, telling her to not get to loud and that he would take her away soon…
The next room I could only get a glimpse of because I stumbled and the drag queen wouldn't let me go back to look but I did make out a beautiful or what used to beautiful rotting corpse in a glass coffin and an old man crying over it whispering that he was to late… just a little to late…
The fourth room was were we stopped at the plea of someone calling the drag queens name which I then found out was Isabella and begging her/him to help them. When we walked into this room he/she turned around and told me to wait a second and that she/he would be only a moment.
When Isabella walked away to help a man holding a pillow get his white wig on correctly, I decided to look about the room and saw a girl sitting on a silk bench crying over her feet that were bloodied and bruised, from being in shoes that could not bend or twist, for to long and those shoes I discovered were laying on the ground next to her, one shattered into little pieces from being dropped down a set of stairs and the other stained red as blood from I could only guess what. On the other side of the room was a young man fighting with a shorter older man who looked exactly like him with little differences here and there. They seemed to be arguing about a wife for the young man but the young man kept insisting that he was in love with his best friend another young man by the name of Cinder.
As I was observing this Isabella walked over and said it was time to go. She/he graved my hand and we started to walk down the hall again my mind trying to absorb all that was happening around me.
The fifth room was of three old maids holding broken sticks that held no magic whether from the start or just for the little while I did not know… and a young girl sleeping holding a dead young prince in her arms and an evil queen with dragon's claws for hands holding the girls neck harshly to make it bruise and make the girl feel like she was being strangled, cackling wickedly every now and then as she whispered in the girls ear telling of what would happen to her kingdom and all her people that would suffer, consequently giving the girl horrible nightmares that would cause her to cry and scream in her sleep… a sleep that she would never wake from not now that her love had died from the poisonous bite of a dragon.
Reaching the end of the hall I realized I had been crying but hadn't known when it started… I was so intent on watching these people I hadn't realized that I'd started to care about them and felt eternal pain for them.
Isabella stopped in front of the door and seemed to be looking for something… a key perhaps… then I saw her a little girl sitting on a small table next to a bottle and a pill or cookie looking thing that had something attached to it that looked like a tag and it had words on it however I could not make them out… but then I saw it she was sitting on a key… a big golden key… much to big for her to pick it up on her own and she was crying over it. Suddenly she stood up and ran off of the table crying into the abyss that was below her and that was the last I saw of her because Isabelle suddenly jerked my head up and said to me "Do not look at Alice when she jumps because if you do… you will never forget the sight of how she looks when she hits the ground." Then she/he graved the key and opened the door. She stepped through into a room much darker then the rest but as I stepped through Isabella walked to the side and said that the show was straight ahead and that she could go no farther with me for she must go back and help the king with his problem, which king she was talking about I did not know.
As Isabella left I stepped farther into the room seeing torn tapestries and dead wolves all along the ground, then I came upon a very tall something that was covered up by a blanket or sheer sheet that has become very dusty over the years from lack of movement. Deciding that I should find out what this something was I graved the cloth from the side and slowly removed it watching it fall off the side and wipe away any dust… revealing a painting of a beautiful woman in a long rosy red dress with long dirty blond almost brown hair braided around her head and bright blue eyes, when I moved closer to get a better look so did the painting that's when I realized that it wasn't a painting at all but a mirror with an image of me in it…
then I heard a growl behind me and whirled around to find a man no a… beast laying on the ground reaching up for a table while being torn up by wolves… I was aghast at the sight and treatment of a being that was so old and brittle looking that I doubt he could have done any real harm… I was suddenly filled with this need to help so I graved I large piece of broken glass laying on the ground nearby and ran at the wolf biting his throat and slashed it from head to tail, the wolf fell off of the beast and started to whine then he started to change into a… human a man… with dark hair tied back in a ponytail and brown eyes wearing a tattered red outfit and holding a gun at his waist he looked at the gash running down his body then up at me in disbelief as if I had betrayed him and shattered his world in mere seconds… that's when I realized this man was in love with me in a very intense way…
I then turned to the beast man and saw that he was also looking at me and looking into his eyes I saw what I had seen before at that coffee shop those eyes of that man… those bright full of live blue eyes… and he asked me for the rose on the table said it was his to take to death with him, when I told him that I wouldn't let him die he asked me again for the rose so I reached up and graved the wilting rose by its stem and it pricked my finger in the softest most kind way it could but still it made me bleed and the beast seeing this graved my hand and licked the blood off of my finger then broke off the last petal of the rose and wrapped it around my finger… looking up into my eyes as he did this… then my heart broke because his eyes slowly closed and he sucked in his last breath for a long, long time to come.
Then I heard that humming again only this time it was a different song… "I'm Dying, Dying to forget about you, that you ever lived… it's the same old story of love and glory that broke before it bent…" I stood up and followed the humming through the room to the end where there was a balcony hearing all the while "Dying, Dying to die just to come back so we can meet again… Dying, Dying too say what I always… always should have said… As long as there's a breath…" when I came upon her I found the same girl from early and I still could not see her face and she was standing on the balcony singing, "I'm Dying and I can't live without you again." Then she jumped off of the balcony and I felt this sudden breeze and realized I was the one falling… zooming towards the earth no not the earth a lake, a lake filled with the dead and dying as I fell u could hear cheering and realized there was a crowd on the other side of the like and they were watching my fall into oblivion cheering and hooting all the while and then I realized I had been in the show the whole time in fact I was…am the main character of this story, when I hit the lake water splashed over me and I gasped sitting up awakened by Lita shaking me and telling me my scone was ready.
"Serena are you okay?" Lita asked as I was gasping for air trying to make my head stop spinning.
"Ya, I'm fine Lita just a little stirred up by my dream…" I replied.
"Alright well eat up skinny ya need some fat on ya!!" she joked.
Then as I ate and thanked them with my mouth full I started to think about my dream and how I wouldn't being going to bed anytime soon…
Stay tuned for the next episode of The Mysteries of Love and All Things Included, Ladies and Gents...
Hey Guys!! Waz up?!! I know it seems like this chap. has nothing to do with the story and is kind of twisted but I like it and I hope you do too!! It's pretty weird and kind of sad but I dunno I just like it!! Soooooooo read it and review telling me what ya think!! Good? Bad? Morbid? Awful? What? Ya gotta tell me!! Oh ya and could you tell which fairy tale was which? Hmmmmm? My fav was the Cinderella one!! Lol!! Did you particularly like any part of this chapter? Hmmmmmm? Love ya lots and hope you enjoyed!!
Lots of luck Kirarie