How Did We Get Into This Mess - KOTLC Oneshots

Unsaid Emily | Jatp Inspired

First things first.

Keefe stepped forward, oddly relaxed for someone so scared.

We start the scene in reverse.

He remembers all the times his parents had pretended to love him.

All of the lines rehearsed.

A small speech prepared, he wouldn't stay long.

Disappeared from my mind. 

Seeing the home he had lived in triggered something. Not that Candleshade was much of a home.

When things got loud.

Lord Cassius shouted, face twisted in anger.

One of us running out.

Keefe wiped the one tear from his cheek, stony-faced.

I should have turned around.

He thought he was ready to face his father.

But I had too much pride.

He couldn't see that pride wasn't the problem here.

No time for goodbyes.

He grabbed his brushes, and familiar stuffed animal.

Didn't get to apologize.

He wasn't the one in the wrong.

Pieces of a clock that lies broken.

Lord Cassius falls to the ground, hands at his temples.

If I could take us back.

The buried memories of loving his son tearing at his mind.

If I could just do that.

He ruined his perfectly gelled hair, tears dripping down the bridge of his nose.

And write in every empty space.

Regret throbs in the man's heart.

The words I love you in replace.

Wishing couldn't help now.

Then maybe time would not erase me.

He stood up, leaning against the wall.

If you could only know.

Keefe threw himself into bed, hiding in a cocoon of blankets.

I never let you go.

Sophie tugged Keefe closer to her, letting him cry into her shoulder.