A story I started years ago with no intentions to finish it
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Dark
gray clouds filled the skies as the sunlight dissipated from the once
brighten blue. The rain starts to pour onto the dark black streets as
the sounds of honking and skidding fills the neighborhood. You can
hear the innocence of children’s laughter as they run down the
street into puddles that started to form. The wind blows and cold air
takes over the atmosphere barring the streets of people.
She places her hand onto the
window of her home and looks down onto the street. The icy cold
feeling on her fingertips as the window is fogged up from the steam
in her home. She lets her hand falter a little and pulls away leaving
behind her hand-print. She walks across her carpeted floor bare
footed and looks back at the window. Her hand print still visible as
it slowly started to fog once again.
A small smile evidently left on
her lips as she opens the door to her darkened room and crawls back
into bed. Her comforter engulfing her in as her eyes starts to shut
as the noisy buzz from the TV let her fall into her slumber. The loud
noise of a ringing makes her shoot up from her bed and grabs the
annoyance of the moment. “Hello” Her voice whispered still asleep
but sweetly.
“Hi” He speaks and her head
drops a little as she runs a hand through her dark curly hair. “I
thought I told you not to call me anymore” She spoke sharply as
anger filled through her body. She was now sitting against the
headboard of her bed legs crossed and the phone gripped in her hands.
“I just needed to talk to you … please Gen” He began. “Goodbye
Nicholas” Gen began.
“No wait Gens please” he
begged as he knew that her patience was running thin with him.
“What?” Gen said as she glanced at what the TV was playing. The
music station was on and she watched the screen change onto a new
song and she cursed in her head silently. The song started to play
and it entranced her ignoring the banter coming from the phone.
The words of Kelly Clarkson’s
addicted started to swirl around Gen and the tears started to fill
her eyes.
“And
I know I let you have all the power, And I realize I'm never gonna
quit you over time, It's like I can't breathe, It's like I can't see
anything, Nothing but you, I'm addicted to you, It's like I can't
think, Without you interrupting me, In my thoughts, In my dreams,
You've taken over me, It's like I'm not me, It's like I'm not me”.
“Gens … Babe?” Nicholas
asked breaking Gen from her world. “Don’t say that to me don’t
call me babe, Gens or Genny, Nicholas we aren’t friends anymore”
Gen said and changed the TV station onto nonsense cartoons. “Gen
please give me another chance to prove” Nicholas begged. “To
prove what exactly Nicholas betrayal, pain, disappointment perhaps”
Gen said bitterly.
Her voice was laced with venom
and Nicholas could hear it with each word she spoke. He involuntary
shivered every time she spoke to him like this. Nicholas knew of his
mistakes he constantly made but he needed her as his best friend
again. He rubbed his face as frustration was starting to grow within
him but bit his tongue. “Gens … I need you” Nicholas said
easily. “Well Nick I need my life back” Gen said and
pressed the end button.
The
call was disconnected as their friendship neither was satisfied where
they were left. Gen looked back at the television the brightly colors
of the cartoons danced across the screen but she could not see with
her blurred vision as tears cascaded down her face.
