Sweetp4u
Mischief Maker
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This is closed for myself and Ravenloft 
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The house was silent now, the mourners having come and gone for the last three days it seemed as if it would never settle. At twenty seven, Sarah hadn’t changed all that much from the high school grad that had left nine years previously to the woman now, standing in the middle of her old bedroom.
She’d wanted to come back home a few times, but real life and her ex-husband had kept her busy… She never thought she’d be coming back for this reason so soon, her father’s funeral. It still hadn’t quite sunk in, that he was gone forever, and she couldn’t help feeling something more was coming at her yet still.
After all it was her step mother who said, “Terrible things always seem to come in threes.” As if a divorce and death weren’t bad enough, why would she predict something so heinous? Perhaps Sarah and Irene hadn’t ever saw eye to eye on things but the last thing she needed right now was her step mother poking more salt into her wounds.
When she wasn’t thinking of her father and those memories, she was trying not to think of the divorce that had left her about the same as before she married… Childless and broke. Standing center, her old bedroom loomed around her as if it were shrine. Fairy tales, day dreams and impossible realities were all here within these walls.
Jareth..
No one ever measured up to him, never could in her mind. “A fictional character from the wild untamed mind of an adolescent teenager.”, or so the shrink had told her, her father and anyone else who asked about Sarah’s wild ramblings about Goblins and Jareth. She hadn’t known it then, but she knew it now as an adult, just what she had wanted…
“He never could bring himself to change it.” Irene said from the door way, wrapping a shawl tighter around herself as she too looked around the fairy princess toy store bedroom. Resentment was there, although Irene tried her best to hide it. She’d wanted a fancy guest bedroom for her family to stay in, instead it had remained Sarah’s room…
”Should she ever need it, I want her to feel like this will always be her home.” He’d hugged Irene, kissing her temple before wandering back towards the living room for some late night with Letterman.
Sarah tried to smile, but words just didn’t seem to be there for her lately, it was just so hard to speak of happier things and lost loves. It was hard seeing dad that way and knowing he would be forever in the ground, not at home. Hard still to see Toby, happily married with a Toby Junior just down the hall. Bright blue eyes and cherub cheeked, he looked so much like his father. Jealousy twinged sharply within her heart, but she’d never admit to that, or the need to also have a child. And so she put on a happy face for Toby and Junior, and for the guests, her step mother and her self.
Eyes scanned her old room, the four poster bed and eyelet lace spread with mystical fairies her grandmother had lovingly stitched into it for Sarah’s sweet sixteen all those years ago. The shelves of books, plays and binders from school days of drama class all lined up neatly in a row should she choose to walk further down memory lane.
”I really miss those days..” Her lip trembled but she refused to let more tears fall. Regrets were many, she admitted to herself as her eyes fell to the goblin king’s miniature resting on her vanity. A small chuckle escaped, that had been one really awesome dream!
Speaking of.. “Where is Lancelot?” He should’ve been here in her room, replaced before Toby senior started teething. Moving to her closet, she opened the door wide and looked around. A faint smile as costumes and prom dresses fluttered before her, it had been…
Thought incomplete, she hunted through the mound of toys on the floor and found nothing. Searching the dresser top, the corner net and her bed spread yielded, yet again, no Lancelot.
“I just…” Hadn’t she seen him earlier? She could’ve sworn he was sitting on her pillow. Really this was a bit childish to be hunting down her teddy bear, but her dad had given it to her … It wasn’t a mere toy, but a connection to the man she missed terribly…
“Don’t be silly Sarah, it’s just a bear.. and he couldn’t have walked very far… being stuffed..” Again she looked under the bed, over to the rocking chair and along the shelves still no sign of him anywhere.
Across the hall she heard the baby monitor crackle on, a soft crying coming through.
“Misty?” She called out for Toby’s wife and mother… Wrap your mind around that one, who named their kids juniors anyway? People who much like to be confused, if you asked her opinion on the matter. Silent, waiting for confirmation that Misty had heard her, she knelt there. A few more cries came and no soothing voice through seemed to be happening.
“Damn it.” Her knees were aching, toes tingling from kneeling there for so long, but it was apparent that there were no other adults up stairs but her. She really hated herself for her hesitance, it was her step-nephew after all in there bawling his little eyes out. Teething if she recalled hearing right at the dinner table… So why weren’t the perfect parents anywhere near by for him?
She got up, reluctant to go but making herself do it. It wasn’t fair of her to blame the babe for her short comings and childless marriage. She so badly wanted to make her father a grandfather as he teased every time they got together for these family ‘adventures’. Toby had done it on his wedding night… “Oh.. yay…” Sarcasm dripped from her mouth as she stepped inside Toby’s old nursery to eye the crib and squaller.
“Alright Toby, that’s enough.” She moved to the bed, noticing one angry red little face and one very wet Lancelot. Déjà Vu anyone? “Figures! Just figures.” Angry tears wet her cheeks as she picked up the sour milk scented bear in one hand and then Junior.
She tried patting his back, but he grew angrier and squirmed enough to tangle into her hair, pulling a good hand full out at the root.
“Damn it!” Her tension mounted as the pain throbbed at the base of her neck. “I forgot..” It didn’t matter that she’d forgotten her long hair, she now had to rescue the squealer’s tiny fingers from her strands of hair, which was proving to be a challenge. Dropping Lancelot to get a better hold on the boy, she stepped wrong and nearly tripped over the damn bear.
As if it couldn’t get any worse that this, he then chose to spit up all over her shirt front. “Where the hell is everyone!?” Feeling near tears herself and just wanting to go to bed she snapped at the baby to be silent. Her frustration kept climbing and that’s when the dream came back and junior was held away from her as he continued to cry, squirm and her headache grew worse.
”Jareth, the King of Goblins.” That dream had been something wonderful, a place within her mind she had never wanted to leave but had chosen too for the good of Toby. Or so she told herself…
“Goblin King..” The words came softly, but quickly as she tried to remember them, “Goblin King, where ever you may be.” Brows furrowed and junior was laid back down into his crib. She’d been good in that play, been a star. “Take this child of mine, far away from me..” Pausing, she shut off the light and felt lightened from her grief. “Ha, get that! I remembered!” She had forgotten what it was like, to be young and innocent and full of dreams. To not have worries, bills and responsibilities.. And Jareth, a man of her wildest dreams.. Well teenage day dreams, but although she had been naive in the ways of men and women, he had been so gorgeous.
Junior interrupted her happy moment, screaming even louder, and more pissed off than ever before. Seeing just where she’d left Lancelot and that fact she’d stepped on his face, she stalked back inside the nursery, snatching up her bear and then she stopped. A small sound, a whimper really but the broken button eye captured her attention.
“I wish..” Her fingers traced over the plastic piece, sadness welling up inside at the senseless destruction carelessness had caused. “I wish the goblin King would take you away… Right now!” She stormed out, door shutting hard behind her on her way back towards her bedroom. Lancelot had made it through so many years, and now look at him? What right did they have in her room to begin with?! Messing in her things like that!
It wasn’t right away, thought she would’ve like to tell someone it had been, that she noticed Junior had stopped crying. Stomach in knots, knowing that it wasn’t really happening to her again… but some sick part of her hoped it were. She stood once more center of her room, this time her window was open and the wind was blowing them inward… And just outside, some where in the inky dark she couldn’t quite see through, the screech of an owl sounded.
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The house was silent now, the mourners having come and gone for the last three days it seemed as if it would never settle. At twenty seven, Sarah hadn’t changed all that much from the high school grad that had left nine years previously to the woman now, standing in the middle of her old bedroom.
She’d wanted to come back home a few times, but real life and her ex-husband had kept her busy… She never thought she’d be coming back for this reason so soon, her father’s funeral. It still hadn’t quite sunk in, that he was gone forever, and she couldn’t help feeling something more was coming at her yet still.
After all it was her step mother who said, “Terrible things always seem to come in threes.” As if a divorce and death weren’t bad enough, why would she predict something so heinous? Perhaps Sarah and Irene hadn’t ever saw eye to eye on things but the last thing she needed right now was her step mother poking more salt into her wounds.
When she wasn’t thinking of her father and those memories, she was trying not to think of the divorce that had left her about the same as before she married… Childless and broke. Standing center, her old bedroom loomed around her as if it were shrine. Fairy tales, day dreams and impossible realities were all here within these walls.
Jareth..
No one ever measured up to him, never could in her mind. “A fictional character from the wild untamed mind of an adolescent teenager.”, or so the shrink had told her, her father and anyone else who asked about Sarah’s wild ramblings about Goblins and Jareth. She hadn’t known it then, but she knew it now as an adult, just what she had wanted…
“He never could bring himself to change it.” Irene said from the door way, wrapping a shawl tighter around herself as she too looked around the fairy princess toy store bedroom. Resentment was there, although Irene tried her best to hide it. She’d wanted a fancy guest bedroom for her family to stay in, instead it had remained Sarah’s room…
”Should she ever need it, I want her to feel like this will always be her home.” He’d hugged Irene, kissing her temple before wandering back towards the living room for some late night with Letterman.
Sarah tried to smile, but words just didn’t seem to be there for her lately, it was just so hard to speak of happier things and lost loves. It was hard seeing dad that way and knowing he would be forever in the ground, not at home. Hard still to see Toby, happily married with a Toby Junior just down the hall. Bright blue eyes and cherub cheeked, he looked so much like his father. Jealousy twinged sharply within her heart, but she’d never admit to that, or the need to also have a child. And so she put on a happy face for Toby and Junior, and for the guests, her step mother and her self.
Eyes scanned her old room, the four poster bed and eyelet lace spread with mystical fairies her grandmother had lovingly stitched into it for Sarah’s sweet sixteen all those years ago. The shelves of books, plays and binders from school days of drama class all lined up neatly in a row should she choose to walk further down memory lane.
”I really miss those days..” Her lip trembled but she refused to let more tears fall. Regrets were many, she admitted to herself as her eyes fell to the goblin king’s miniature resting on her vanity. A small chuckle escaped, that had been one really awesome dream!
Speaking of.. “Where is Lancelot?” He should’ve been here in her room, replaced before Toby senior started teething. Moving to her closet, she opened the door wide and looked around. A faint smile as costumes and prom dresses fluttered before her, it had been…
Thought incomplete, she hunted through the mound of toys on the floor and found nothing. Searching the dresser top, the corner net and her bed spread yielded, yet again, no Lancelot.
“I just…” Hadn’t she seen him earlier? She could’ve sworn he was sitting on her pillow. Really this was a bit childish to be hunting down her teddy bear, but her dad had given it to her … It wasn’t a mere toy, but a connection to the man she missed terribly…
“Don’t be silly Sarah, it’s just a bear.. and he couldn’t have walked very far… being stuffed..” Again she looked under the bed, over to the rocking chair and along the shelves still no sign of him anywhere.
Across the hall she heard the baby monitor crackle on, a soft crying coming through.
“Misty?” She called out for Toby’s wife and mother… Wrap your mind around that one, who named their kids juniors anyway? People who much like to be confused, if you asked her opinion on the matter. Silent, waiting for confirmation that Misty had heard her, she knelt there. A few more cries came and no soothing voice through seemed to be happening.
“Damn it.” Her knees were aching, toes tingling from kneeling there for so long, but it was apparent that there were no other adults up stairs but her. She really hated herself for her hesitance, it was her step-nephew after all in there bawling his little eyes out. Teething if she recalled hearing right at the dinner table… So why weren’t the perfect parents anywhere near by for him?
She got up, reluctant to go but making herself do it. It wasn’t fair of her to blame the babe for her short comings and childless marriage. She so badly wanted to make her father a grandfather as he teased every time they got together for these family ‘adventures’. Toby had done it on his wedding night… “Oh.. yay…” Sarcasm dripped from her mouth as she stepped inside Toby’s old nursery to eye the crib and squaller.
“Alright Toby, that’s enough.” She moved to the bed, noticing one angry red little face and one very wet Lancelot. Déjà Vu anyone? “Figures! Just figures.” Angry tears wet her cheeks as she picked up the sour milk scented bear in one hand and then Junior.
She tried patting his back, but he grew angrier and squirmed enough to tangle into her hair, pulling a good hand full out at the root.
“Damn it!” Her tension mounted as the pain throbbed at the base of her neck. “I forgot..” It didn’t matter that she’d forgotten her long hair, she now had to rescue the squealer’s tiny fingers from her strands of hair, which was proving to be a challenge. Dropping Lancelot to get a better hold on the boy, she stepped wrong and nearly tripped over the damn bear.
As if it couldn’t get any worse that this, he then chose to spit up all over her shirt front. “Where the hell is everyone!?” Feeling near tears herself and just wanting to go to bed she snapped at the baby to be silent. Her frustration kept climbing and that’s when the dream came back and junior was held away from her as he continued to cry, squirm and her headache grew worse.
”Jareth, the King of Goblins.” That dream had been something wonderful, a place within her mind she had never wanted to leave but had chosen too for the good of Toby. Or so she told herself…
“Goblin King..” The words came softly, but quickly as she tried to remember them, “Goblin King, where ever you may be.” Brows furrowed and junior was laid back down into his crib. She’d been good in that play, been a star. “Take this child of mine, far away from me..” Pausing, she shut off the light and felt lightened from her grief. “Ha, get that! I remembered!” She had forgotten what it was like, to be young and innocent and full of dreams. To not have worries, bills and responsibilities.. And Jareth, a man of her wildest dreams.. Well teenage day dreams, but although she had been naive in the ways of men and women, he had been so gorgeous.
Junior interrupted her happy moment, screaming even louder, and more pissed off than ever before. Seeing just where she’d left Lancelot and that fact she’d stepped on his face, she stalked back inside the nursery, snatching up her bear and then she stopped. A small sound, a whimper really but the broken button eye captured her attention.
“I wish..” Her fingers traced over the plastic piece, sadness welling up inside at the senseless destruction carelessness had caused. “I wish the goblin King would take you away… Right now!” She stormed out, door shutting hard behind her on her way back towards her bedroom. Lancelot had made it through so many years, and now look at him? What right did they have in her room to begin with?! Messing in her things like that!
It wasn’t right away, thought she would’ve like to tell someone it had been, that she noticed Junior had stopped crying. Stomach in knots, knowing that it wasn’t really happening to her again… but some sick part of her hoped it were. She stood once more center of her room, this time her window was open and the wind was blowing them inward… And just outside, some where in the inky dark she couldn’t quite see through, the screech of an owl sounded.
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