Joke Thirty Five | Everyone leaves me

[crazy_clownwoman]

[Harley has been having a blast, Halloween coming up after all. The best holiday of all. And they were going to have a great time! Everything was awesome for once! 
Of course it never lasts. She found Vince dusting the toy shop. A quick run to his house and she see's everything she needs to. ...Or more like the lack of everything she needs to. She is not pleased.

The phone is knocked off the hook. Mayfield you may now here a HIGHLY distraught woman yelling through tears. It sounds like someone is throwing things as well.]

-OUT OF IT!  VINCE! 

Stop it! Stop it right now! 

[A smash]

"Mrs. Quinn I think we should get to work."

DON'T CALL ME THAT! 

"Well I'm going to go and clean the window's now. Keep an eye on the shop won't you?"

[And just sobbing now.]

.....You weren't supposed to leave me....

[Harley notices the phone and grabs it up.]

Fine! Take everyone away from me why don't you! What's the point! I try and try and EVERY TIME they leave. I'm tired of all of this. Torturing us every month, taking away people. Bringing people back who don't remember you anyway!

Well I've had it! I QUIT! I'm not doing anything here ever again! I don't CARE if I get droned. This place is horrible! And whoever's doing this is a sick freak! 

[And with that she slams the phone down and marches home. Call back? Try to drag her out of her locked bedroom? She's inside crying but she'll answer the phone or a knock on the door.]

Comments

[crazyclownwoman.livejournal.com]

[Muffled reply. Like she's face first in a pillow.]

What.

[mathisradical.livejournal.com]

[ 'Are you okay?' is a stupid question at this point. ]

What happened?

[crazyclownwoman.livejournal.com]

Another friend of mine is gone.

Only he was here....for a really really long time.

....Everyone leaves.

[mathisradical.livejournal.com]

[ A moment of silence while he tries to decide how to respond to this. ]

... Yeah. Everyone leaves. You'll leave, I'll leave. We're all gonna leave eventually. We can't stop it.

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[crazyclownwoman.livejournal.com]

I know!

2/2

[crazyclownwoman.livejournal.com]

.....I'm just tired of it.

[mathisradical.livejournal.com]

Who isn't? Nobody likes gettin' close to someone just to have them get yanked away again. And, yeah, it's not fair. But nothin's fair around here. And we've just gotta tough it out, put on a brave face, and deal with it.

[crazyclownwoman.livejournal.com]

Two years is a lot of time for that.

Stupid brave face....

[mathisradical.livejournal.com]

Yeah. It is.

The way I see it, we've gotta have a brave face. We can't let them know how much they're hurtin' us. It's okay to be cryin' on the inside and appear perfectly fine on the outside.

[crazyclownwoman.livejournal.com]

Can I just cry in here for a while an' put on a brave face later?

[mathisradical.livejournal.com]

Sure. S'not like anybody can stop you. Just remember, when you take a bad fall, your knees are skinned, you ache all over, your stamina's fadin', and victory seems so far away... you'll always have a team behind you to tell you you can do it. You can win.

[ Drawing parallels from tennis to any situation is a pretty easy thing to do for him. And so is saying "I'm here if you need me" using metaphors. ]

[crazyclownwoman.livejournal.com]

.....thanks.