Writer's Games: Carnival

Semi Finals: Eleanor Lennon Mercer

"There once was a little boy named Rigby and a little girl named Eleanor. That's me, Eleanor with no Rigby. My little brother. Well, he's only a few minutes younger... But to us, it was like forever. I'm so much older than him already. He'll never get older again and I will but he'll never get old again... Never..."
"Anyways, my little brother used to be Rigby. Now I don't have one. Even though we're twins, he has always been my little brother. My little brother, my brother Rigby. I've been protecting him our entire lives but now there's nobody. Nobody except for me and no Rigby..."
"My name is Eleanor Lennon. Eleanor, like the Beatles song with the lonely people. Lennon, like the guy who my dad idolized for years. I'm the second youngest, except for Rigby. Now I'm just the youngest. There's nobody but me, just me now. Eleanor with the colorful hair and the leopard pants and the ghost brother. He's a ghost, he doesn't talk to me anymore."
"It was my fault, you see, that he's gone. I lost him. I didn't find him in time and then I did but he was dead. He's gone and it's all my fault, really, because I didn't find him when I was supposed to. I let him go. I had always protected him but then I let him go. It's all my fault, I didn't mean to do it. I didn't mean to."
"I don't have a brother anymore. I don't have anybody. They're gone, I'm all by myself and I don't know what to do. I don't know how I'm going to do this, what do I do? He's gone and I'm by myself and if I knew what to do, I would do it. But I don't. I don't know what to do. I don't know what to do anymore... He's gone, I'm by myself. All alone."
"I want my mom. I want my mom and my dad and I just want them to be here. I want them to come get me, they promised they would come get me. They said they'd take us home after all the music stuff was done but I'm all alone and there's nobody except for me. They're all gone, they're gone and they left me alone but it's my fault."
"I don't want to die. I don't want to die. My brother is dead and I don't want to die. It's all my fault and I'm so sorry but I don't want to die. It's not my fault, is it? I want my mom and dad. They said they'd be here but nobody's here. I'm by myself. Eleanor and no Rigby."
"Once upon a time... Once upon a time, there was a little boy named Rigby and a little girl named Eleanor. They were best friends. The very best friends. And they fought dragons together, they were the best of friends and they destroyed evil and beat bad guys and saved the day together because they were heroes together. They were each other's heroes. And they... they lived happily ever after."
"All the lonely people, like Eleanor and Rigby, they got to live happily ever after. There were no goodbyes and crying and being alone because there were no lonely people. They got to live happily ever after, brother and sister. Fighting dragons."
"I just want my mother... I want my dad, they promised... I want Rigby. I don't want to be the lonely people, I just want to go home."
"Why can't I go home?"