Wish You Were Here

First and Last Love

"Did that letter ever deliver?" Velvet was approaching the dressing room. Most likely on her way to suck the talent out of my body again. Every time she's done it recently, I've noticed a green glow around her that's becoming stronger and brighter. I sat up in the bottle to stretch before my daily torture. If I'm gonna be in pain, may as well make it hurt as little as I can. The only thing that hurts right now is my head from all the thinking about Veneer I've been doing.

"Yes boss. The post office said it arrived to him a few days ago." Who's this 'him' they're talking about? I guess I can just ask. There's nothing better to do.

"What letter?" Velvet looked over at me with a blank face that turned into a sadistic grin. She strutted her way over to the perfume bottle and picked it up before telling me all about her 'evil plan'.

"I forged a letter begging for BroZone to come and save you." She what!? No no no, this is bad, this is really really bad. I don't want my brothers to get hurt. Knowing them, if they all reunite to try and rescue me, they'd look for Veneer and drag him along as well.

"You leave my brothers alone!" I banged my fist against the diamond wall trying to look threatening, but it's quite difficult when your captor is twenty times your size. My heart was racing from pure anger. I swear to god, if I ever get out of here, I'll mess her up if she hurts any of my brothers. I can't even imagine what I'd do if I saw her hurt Veneer. Crimp spoke up, completely taking Velvet's attention away from me.

"Oh yeah, I finished that smoothie thing you asked me for." Crimp hopped up onto a vanity and spun around a mannequin with some kind contraption on it. It looked like white and gold shoulder pads that had purple diamonds on the shoulders and a matching button in the center. Crimp demonstrated how it worked and Velvet hurriedly threw the top onto herself. She grabbed the bottle, making me stumble from the sudden movement. I was shoved into the shoulder compartment and felt my body become entirely suspended in the air while she took more of my talent.

"Velvet! You said this was for smoothies. Are you sure this is really the best idea?" From what I could see through my blurred vision and dizziness, Crimp looked insanely nervous and guilty about my current situation.

"It's the only idea. I grew up with nothing and was born into a shitty family." Velvet took me out of her shoulder pad and placed my weak body back into the perfume bottle. I could feel my lungs growing weaker with all the heavy breathing I've had to do. Her and Crimp continued their conversation which was starting to get a bit heated.

"That's not true! Yesterday you told me you and your brother were stars!" They both were? Crimp told me what she knew about Velvet's past, so all I knew was that Velvet used to be a star. Apparently her brother was one too. So far I know her brother is a Troll, he used to be a star, and they had a falling out at some point.

"Exactly. 'Were'. All he had to do was sign that contract and we could've had it all. But what did he do? He ran! He left me all alone to fend for myself. I had to feed off of scraps my whole life to survive until I found that Rageon drink." Rageon drink? That's probably how she turned from Troll to Rageon. Velvet was going off about her brother. I curled my legs up into my chest and wrapped my arms around myself. This sounds so similar to what I did to Ven. I left him all alone on that trail without even thinking it through properly. I'll never forget hearing him call out for me while I walked away. Why did I do that to you Ven? I'm so sorry.

Velvet stormed out of the room muttering curses and kicking objects out of her way. However, my eyes widened at one of the sentences she spat out before turning the corner and leaving my line of sight.

"Screw you, Veneer."

Holy fucking shit, I was right. Veneer is her brother. Why did he keep that from all of us in the years we knew him? I wonder what happened between them. When John came back with him that day he was found, John never exactly elaborated what happened when he found him. Crimp came to the side of the bottle to check on me. I quickly placed my hands on the wall to talk to Crimp.