My Heart Turned Red
Chapter 10: Completely Torn
Author's note:
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So sorry, I've been experiencing a huge case of writer's block. And believe me, it's torture. I've been in school, six honors classes, and you name it and that's what I've been doing. I apologize one hundred times. But a loyal reviewer approached me and caused me to force myself out of this writer's block and write this chapter.
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Disclaimer: I own Gnomeo and Juliet on DVD proudly! I wish that owned more than that but... oh, well.
Juliet.
That name and the girl that it belonged to was the only thing I thought was going to be on my mind the whole day. Boy, how wrong I was. I thought that the rest of my day was going to be about thinking of her and how much I wanted to be back in the Lawrence Garden with her than here. Even though I was home, I didn't feel like I was home completely. As soon as I walked through that gate, I knew that if I could have, I would have turned around and gone back in the other direction. That would've caused more suspicion and I needed to protect her from that. If it got out that I was in love with a Red, then they would immediately go after her and probably do things to her I couldn't even imagine. I had to protect her even it meant denying my love for her. No one could ever know, other than Shroom and Nanette. They may not understand why we're doing this, but they care about us and that was more important. Sadly, no one else would ever see the way that we see. That was the hardest part of keeping this a secret from the rest of the people we loved and cared about. Something that would be proven to me today as soon as I walked through the back gate.
The only thing that I knew at the moment as I opened the gate back to my garden was that I was completely and utterly in love with Juliet and that being away from her for another twenty four hours was going to be more painful and frustrating than any other feeling. I kicked the gate closed with my foot and sighed in happiness. I was smiling the biggest smile I think I've ever had. I didn't know how it felt to be in love, but if it felt this good, then not being in love was no longer an option. I was completely unaware of the best friend I had that was coming to break my fall. I was brought out of the clouds by Shroom once again jumping into me as he did this morning. I was too happy at the moment to be mad at him. It didn't occur to me that something could be wrong.
"Hey Shroom!" I said happily. "What's up, Button Head?"
I could usually understand him, but now he was making it very difficult. The reason for this was because he was shoving me. I was assuming this to be a way of Shroom saying that he missed me. I was about to find out how wrong I was.
Shroom continued to push me, and I started to get really annoyed now. Shroom usually did push me normally but not like this. I had no idea what the bloody hell was wrong with him, but I didn't like it at all. This was the second time in a row today when he pulled me out of happiness and I was not going to put up with this again.
"Careful there! You're going to chip something!" I yelled.
But he didn't stop and kept pushing me harder in another direction.
"Now what's eating you?"
I finally got him to stop, and then out of the corner of my eye, I saw something truly awful. I turned and looked with both eyes to make sure I was seeing this correctly. I then learned why Shroom was so anxious: he was trying to tell me about the Wisteria. I looked in absolute horror as I saw my father's life's work completely destroyed. The wisteria was torn to shreds, bits and pieces of it scattered in various places around the garden. My friends and family surrounded around the pieces and were mourning it, holding the pieces of it that were left. I stood there in disbelief at the tree that was being admired so much by my mother not even a day ago, was now nothing more than a dead and lifeless plant. Guilt was now the only emotion I felt, especially when I saw the look of sadness on my mother's face.
"How? How?" she said, crying her eyes out.
I then ran over to her, some horrible thing in the back of my mind was hoping she hadn't noticed I was gone.
"Mum!"
"Gnomeo! How could this have happened?" Mum cried, but then her emotions quickly changed when she remembered that I had been gone. "Where...Where were you?"
"I was..."
Then Mum started to cry even more, and the excuse I was going to tell her to make her unsuspicious was now forgotten. No excuse would ever be enough to her. I had betrayed my mother, even though I was not the one who destroyed the Wisteria, I might as well have. As I looked at my mother's eyes and her tears, the guilt multiplied and I fully accepted that this was my fault.
"I was nowhere."
My mother then continued to cry, and my mind was trying to even think of something that could make this better for her.
"Don't worry, Mum. I'll make it up to you..."
"HOW?!" she snapped back in heartbreak. "Redbrick and his hoodlums have destroyed the most beautiful thing we Blues have."
I immediately thought of Juliet, and how much I wish I could say that she isn't like her father and Tybalt at all. I wished I could tell her the truth of why I was really gone. But that would have just made things even more worse, and this was the worst possible thing to think about at a time like this. I then thought of my father, and how when I was a little boy, he planted and cared for that tree as if it was another child. He cared about that tree so much, and even a little kid could see that. As he raised me, he raised the Wisteria with the same love and care he had for me, Mum, and the rest of his friends and family. Without the Wisteria, all the love and hard work my father put into this garden before he died was completely gone.
"Your father planted her," Mum said, trying to contain herself. "We raised her from a seedling."
Mum couldn't even bring herself to say anything else and walked away in tears, taking the rest of the Bunnies with her. Although one did stay behind to remind me of my fault in this and then ran off to join its friends.
Did I regret not being her to defend my garden and save the one thing of my Dad I had left? Yes, of course.
Did I regret spending the day with the girl I loved because of this? No. The worst part about it is that I didn't regret it. I would give anything to go back there now.
Part of me wanted to go back to my old self and take revenge against the Reds, but the part of me that loved Juliet with all my heart pulled me back to my senses and told me that I would lose her forever if that happened. I had already betrayed one person that I loved, and I was not going to betray the other one. Because that person meant more to me than anything, and I couldn't lose her.
I watched my mother walk away from me, and I let the guilt flow through my entire body. I had no idea how I was going to fix this, and I never would get a chance to figure it out, because it was already figured out before I even knew it.
"Those blasted Reds!" Benny snarled in hate. "Come on, Gnomeo! We'll make them pay!"
I looked behind me to see Benny with a weed killer gun, full and ready to destroy the Reds as they had destroyed the Wisteria. I looked at it in horror. The rest of the Blues started to gather in with Benny's enthusiasm
No.
No was the only thing I wanted to say to that. No, I can't do that ever again. If I do that...
I then realized that there was no way out and no other option.
Yesterday, Gnomeo would stop at nothing to destroy the Reds and was so quick to get revenge on all of them because they killed my father. The boldness of him losing the race on account of Tybalt cheating was so inspiring to the people around him. No one had ever been in the Red Garden before to get revenge, and now that someone had, it was now legal and something new. As far as they were concerned, the Gnomeo from years ago and yesterday was the one standing right in front of them. He was now ready to get justice for his mother and father, and for his garden. What they didn't understand was that Gnomeo no longer existed, and that was something they could never know. The Gnomeo that was in front of them was someone madly in love with someone he could never have. Yet he didn't care, and loved her anyway even though she was the daughter of his mortal enemy. To even consider betraying her was unthinkable.
Benny shoved the gun into my hands before I could even object.
"EVERY LAST ONE OF THEM!" he roared.
I then looked at my mother, and she turned away from me and continued to walk away from me. From her look, I could tell that she wanted this to happen. She wanted them to pay and she wanted me to make up for what I had done.
I thought of my mother, but I also thought of Juliet. The two women in my life that mattered more to me than anyone else. A choice between my mother and the girl I loved. I had already let my mother down, and because of that, the last thing we had of my dad was gone forever. The Blue Garden was my home, the one my parents had worked so hard to build and create. It had everything I needed: my friends, my family, a home, a place to be myself and call my own. But Juliet isn't here with me. She's in a place that I could never be welcomed to as an equal, and the same thing could be said for her over here. If I gave her up, it would mean being completely empty for the rest of my life. I loved her so much that thinking about not being with her was painful. Betraying her would mean never being able to see her again, but not doing this to keep up the act would also cause that. They couldn't find out about her because they would probably do worse things to her in order to force me out of love with her. I couldn't explain any reasons why I couldn't do this. They would never accept our relationship.
"Every last one?" I said to myself in pain and guilt.
I had to do this not only because of loyalty to my mother, but also to protect her from my family.
I'm so sorry, Juliet.
"Come on, Gnomeo!" Benny yelled, pulling me to the side. "Help us with the plan!"
Forgive me, my love.
That's it! Hope you enjoyed it! I'm again really sorry for the wait! But thank you for your patience and I promise to update again very soon.
Next Chapter: Gnomeo and Juliet's fight and Featherstone's tragic love story. Favorite scene of mine.
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