A/N: This is chapter three, I am guessing right now that this is going to be, at the least, about fifteen chapters when it's done... hope you enjoy this chapter! If anyone wants any tie-ins with their stories just either review or send me a PM
Disclaimer: Nope, still nothing... Chris is hiding in my closet though... I may have stole him from Steven king, but don't tell people.
He's Just Brave Like That
Ignoring the rather large lump in her throat, Grace decided to tell a story, one only she and her father knew, and now she was telling Gordie. "My dad's always been brave, but he's never been more brave then this time, in my opinion anyway..." she said, then, she began her story, while Gordie watched her intently, "You must've known my Uncle Richard... right? You may know him as Eyeball." She said, and when Gordie nodded, she went on, "Well, he showed up, out of the blue, at our house a few months ago. He was drunk, and babbling on and on about how sorry he was, and my dad just sat there, and he listened.
My dad brought Eyeball to the couch and sat him down, I don't know if he knew that I was sitting at the top of the stairs, I think he might've, but I'm not sure. My dad just nodded, while Eyeball went on, and I would've socked him right there.
'I'm sorry for all the shit I did when we were kids. I'm sorry I let Ace almost kill you, I'm sorry I kept calling you and your friends girls, I'm sorry I took that kid's hat. I didn't want to Chris, but Ace was a scary guy Chris, you know that, he was scary.' And he kept going on, 'I'm sick Chris, real sick, I think it's somethin' with my liver. I don't want to die, I'm not ready Chris, I ain't ready yet. I haven't met my nieces and nephews, I haven't done a whole mess of shit. I don't want to die Chris.'
He was crying now, I thought that he was going to explode, it didn't sound like he took a breath the whole time it was talking. Dad was quiet, he just sat there and rubbed Eyeball's shoulder, rubbed his shoulder until he fell asleep. Eyeball started snoring, and I walked down the stairs towards my dad.
My dad was crying Gordie, he was sitting there, with his head in his hands, and he was crying. At first I thought he was laughing at his brother, but when he sniffed and looked up at me, I knew that he had been crying the whole time that Eyeball was talking.
Seein' my dad cry like that, I thought I was going to puke. I started crying, and my dad just put his arms out and pulled me to him, and we both cried together. I still don't know why I was crying, I didn't even know Eyeball yet, but I knew that when my dad cried, it ripped my heart in half." Grace paused and wiped her eyes, she had started crying again, and was leaning into Gordie,
"Eyeball died three weeks later, and he got to meet me, and he even played some checkers with me a few times. I cried when he died, but my dad, he didn't shed a tear, he just stood there in his black suit at his funeral, his hand on my shoulder. I near screamed looking at him, because he looked like that for weeks. I can't even explain how helpless looked, he just looked like he lost his best friend, even though his brother did all those crappy things to him.
When I asked him about it, he sort of half smiled at me and said, 'Your
brother's all you got Gracie, if you had a brother, you'd understand.' That confused me... but I think I get it now." When Grace looked up, Gordie was nodding solemnly, "I only saw your father cry once." He said, and Grace looked at him, as if waiting for him to say the story.
A/N: Aren't you glad I updated so fast? It's basically going to be that part in the movie by the tree, but what Gordie's thinking and everything.