Prism of Passion: When The Closet Door Creeks Open

♦️Cam's Tormented Psyche

Cam lies awake as the sun rises, having yet to sleep more than a wink. The fast food bags from the night before are now cluttered by the bedside full of vomit. The flashbacks of his entire life and everything he has ever done wrong play out like a video montage behind his eyes. As Charlee lays in the peaceful nothingness of the guest bedroom, Cam is basking in the sorrow that fills the master bedroom they once shared.
It seems as though nothing has ever gone "right" for cam. That is, in his eyes at least. Cam has a tendency to be similar to a tornado. Delicate feelings of the woman he loves only to be destroyed like the precious keepsakes on the shelf that are left for her to place back together in the morning.
Cam arises from his half-assed drunken slumber, walking right past the putrid mixture of smells coming from old fast food and vomit. He takes a glance at himself in the mirror and no longer recognizes the loving man he once knew he could be. He had yet again, for the 5th week in a row, woken up knowing that the last thing he saw before he closed his eyes was the bottom of a bottle.
Why did Cam find himself so deep in a pit of misery? Every waking moment of his life was one to be wished away. The answer is quite clear for everyone but himself.
Cam watched every night as his father would crack open the 29th can in his 30 pack of cheap warm beer. Cams father always made it clear that there was nothing wrong with having a beer or two or twenty nine, depending on the night and the severity of the fights between him and Cams mother.
Soon enough, Cams mother decided she had been through enough. Father insisted that he could care for Cam had she actually left, so she did just that. As her taillights faded out, so did the life that cam could have had. Abandoned and destroyed lay Cam on that fateful night. The hopes and dreams of a successful life stolen by the people that brought him onto the earth.
The problems inflicted by Cams parents eventually bled through into his behavior. Cam and Charlee are now but a mere reflection of his Mother and Father. Of course cam feels sorry for the strain he has placed on his marriage, but will it ever be enough to make a change?