Dreamer || Colby Brock

Chapter Seven

• Chapter Seven •
Brother?

It was mid day, 4 o'clock. My mom wasn't home. I had no word from anyone, I was worried. I had a text from Jake telling me to meet him at the house but I wasn't going not until I know where my mom is. Colby has been gone since 1 looking for her.
"Clem, what's up." I hear jake as he opens my door. I was looking out my window looking down at where my mom would usually be in the garden.
"My mom hasn't been home since yesterday." I say as I look at him.
"Oh no, my dad hasn't been home since yesterday." He says
"Colby is looking for her." I say as I cross my arms and sit on my bed.
"Lets go down to the living room and wait there." Jake says
"I can't even stay still for 5 minutes." I say as I get up and walk on the other side of my room and lean against the wall. I look at jake and noticed he was staring at the picture on the wall of me and my dad.
"Come on." He says as he grabs my hand and takes me downstairs. He puts a blanket around me then he starts closes the blinds making it dark. He turns on the tv and puts on Netflix, he looks through and finds my favorite tv show, NCIS.
"I know you don't watch stuff like this." I say to him as he sits next to me.
"But you like it and you need a distraction so I'll do whatever it takes." He says as he lays his head back.
"I mean I guess." I says as I cuddle into the blanket, I then lay down with my head on the arm of the chair then my legs go over jake.

4 o'clock turns into 9 o'clock. I was outside on the back porch listening to Tame Impala. Jake went home to see if his dad was home an hour ago and I been alone since. As I sipped my orange juice I felt a cold hand touch me. I look up and see Colby, I jump up, surprised. He had concerned all over him. I then see jake come up with sam. I felt my heart go numb once Colby's mouth opened.
"Your mom is in the hospital." He says, I was shocked. I didn't know what to say or do but anger took over fast. I get my glass of orange juice and throw it on the wall, I screamed as I fell to the ground. My vision blurry as my throat burned, the memories of me and my mom went through my head, I started to cry more. Colby picks me up as he takes me to jakes car and sits me in the back with him while jake and sam sat up front. Sam drove, I was guessing jakes dad was also in the hospital. I heard nothing no one said, it was all mumbles. Colby held my hand the whole way as I cried. He rubbed circles with his thumb, he knew it calmed down. It was like the ringing in my head wouldn't stop.
Soon after we get to the hospital. I stared blankly at the hospital doors as Colby runs around the car and helps me out. He put his arm around my waist as we walked in. For some reason the walk to her room seemed so far, it was like I was walking 100 miles just to get to her. Sam and Jake went down a different hallways while me and Colby went down the next hallway. He sits me down at some chairs making me look at him with confusion. I try to get up but he sits me down.
"Listen to me clem, she's not herself. What happened at that meeting was bad and she-." Colby says
"Just let me see her." I say as I get up and Colby is behind me as we entered her room. I froze in place. Her once cheerful brown eyes were almost black, her blonde hair was greasy. That's when I passed out, I fell to the ground. Last thing I hear is Colby saying my name.

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I open my eyes and I was in my old bedroom, I look around and I see my 7 year old self. I remember this day, it's was supposed to be our yearly family vacation that we had with my dad but this was the first time he wasn't here.
"Oh, clementine." I hear my mothers voice from downstairs. My pigtails bounced up as I get up off my chair. I look at the drawing on my desk, I drew my house. I then felt a presences behind me as my seven year old self ran out the door. I look and seen it was Colby, he smiled at me as he followed behind me. I then teleported downstairs where my mom was with a glass of orange juice.
"Yes mommy." I hear my little voice say. I then realized what was happening so I just sat back and watched.
"Since we have nothing to do today would you like tooooooo... go to the park." She says and I jumped up and down. Colby was in the shadows laughing at me as I ran up stairs to get ready. It then goes to my mom doing my hair in the bathroom mirror.
"I promise after the park we get ice cream." My mom tells me, I jumped in excitement. She laughed with her golden laugh I will never forget.
"Will daddy be there?" I asked, my moms eyes kinda went into sadness but kept a smile on.
"No, he's out of town for a few days." She tells me. I look over into the next room and see Colby. For some reason my past self also saw him and waved at him with a big smile. Maybe I knew Colby way before I found the house.
My happy self was still smiling even though I knew my dad wasn't coming back. I thought if I stopped being happy then my mom would.
We are now at the park, it was almost empty beside some couples on the benches or teens hanging out on the play ground. My mom sat down at an empty bench as I ran to the swings. I stood next to my seven year old self as I swung by myself while my mom answered her phone, my tiny self could hardly even swing because I couldn't touch the ground with my feet. Then Colby pops up on the swing beside me, I looked at him. He laughed making my seven year old self look at him with kind eyes. He smiled big at me with a sparkle in his eyes.
"Can you help me." I asked him with a toothy smile.
"Of course I can." He says as he gets up and started to push me. I started to laugh, making him laugh.
"Higher Colby." I say, I smiled at how happy I was but I looked over at my mom and she had anger on my face. I walk over to hear her talking to my dad.
"What the hell do you want from me, clementine is best with me and jake is best with you." She says making my eyes go wide. Jake as in jake Webber. No way he's my brother, I have no memory of him.
"Clementine will never remember him. She's to young to remember." My mom says and the hangs up the phone. She puts a smile on and walks right past me as she gets to my seven year old self and started to laugh with me. Colby had disappeared but was still around because I could feel him. I watch as my mom started to push me on the swings making jokes with me.
I started to cry, seeing my mom and how she acted around me made me so sad. I never knew how sad she was because she was always happy around me. I loved my mom more than anything, I just wished I had more time with her. That's when I started to hear my name all around me.

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I wake up and I jolted up, I was sweating. I look around and see I'm still in my moms hospital room. Colby had me in his arms, he signed in relief. I get up and look at my mom again. I busted out in tears once I realized what had really happened to the women who raised me and taught me right from wrong. She was my rock, my whole heart at times.
"Why did you have to leave so soon mom, I need you." I say to her as I sit down in a chair Colby pulled up for me. I grabbed her lifeless hand. I sat there for hours staring at her lifeless body. Only thing keeping her breathing was a tube. I had no idea what was gonna happen to me, but I know for sure I was now going to find brennen Taylor and kill him.

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I cried so hard when I wrote this, I'm sorry. :(

Q: what's your happy place like ?

-thewalkingcreatures

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