Diary of the Damned
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Angst › General
Rating:
Adult +
Chapters:
5
Views:
1,030
Reviews:
2
Recommended:
0
Currently Reading:
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Chapter Two: Learn To Leave Well Enough Alone
Chapter Two:
Learn to Leave Well Enough Alone"¦
Shelly jumped up out of the chair and quickly left the room. Outside was Nathan, looking a little drained.
"Nathan!"
He slowly turned until he faced Shelly. "Hi! What are you doing here "” oh, it doesn't matter why, it's so good to see you."
His strides went from sluggish to vivacious; his arms leaving his sides to surround his sister.
"You're okay!" Shelly exclaimed with relief.
"Of course I am. Why wouldn't I be?"
"I don't know why you wouldn't be; I just had a feeling"¦"
"So you came all the way here just because you had a "˜feeling?' I thought I was the odd ball." All the words were somewhat stifled because through the entire exchange they never left the hug.
Nathan finally looked behind Shelly and noticed Damien, again, leaning against the doorjamb.
"Hi, Damien. This is my sister: Shelly. Shelly this is Damien."
"We know each other already," Shelly said while smoothing down her hair.
Every time she went in a state that wasn't landlocked, her hair started to frizz "” it didn't even matter if she isn't anywhere near any water. She guessed that the moisture must know she's coming and takes a trip to greet her.
"How'd that happen?" Nathan asked, curious.
"Well I was knocking on his door for two minutes; I thought it was yours"¦ Anyway he told me that you were in a class and offered to wait for you with me."
She finished her vain attempt to make her hair obey and continued.
"So, lets go sit down in your room and you can tell me what has been going on." She turned her head to look at the other man. "Nice meeting you, Damien."
"Bye guys"¦" Damiened aed and when Shelly turned her head back, he subtly winked at Nathan.
"See you later Damien," Nathan started walking with his sister to his door. He opened it, when he did, Damien went back inside.
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Later at dinner"¦
"So, how are things at school; life in general?"
"Oh come on, I talked to you a week ago on the phone, you know how I've been."
"˜Evasive, unlike him'
"Then tell me again," Shelly pried. "Something has had to have changed since then."
"Things are fine"¦" His voiced shifted to a lower tone.
"˜He always lived up to my expectations but never his own.'
He was handsome; anything past that was something a sister couldn't judge. Shelly never understood why he'd only had one girlfriend since high school "” and that one didn"˜t last long. Lots of girls liked him; he'd just seemed to be too busy, or didn't want to deal with the drama of dating in high school. That she could understand. Now, he had been in college for three years and still nothing.
"Are you seeing anyone yet? One of these days you're going to have to find someone." "˜ I'm sounding like mom.'
"No"¦" He hesitated marginally "No, I'm not seeing anyone"¦ with all my classes, it doesn't leave me enough time."
"Well maybe you should take up Damien's schedule. He seems to have enough time to wake up with a hangover." She chuckled self-satisfied.
"Yeah, Damien"¦ What did you two guys talk about? What did you think of him?" A small smile worked its way to his face.
"I liked him a lot." She almost blushed. "We talked about you, mostly. I took out your old baby pictures, the ones of you in the bathtub naked"¦"
"What!? You didn't." Complete and total indignation.
"Oh come on. I'm not Mom."
'Yet'
"Do you know if Damien is seeing anyone?" Shelly inquired, trying to work it into the conversation.
Another pause. "You know what? I don't really know. I"˜m not certain, I"¦"
"˜There was that quiver again.'
"You what?" She seemed concerned.
"Nothing"¦" Silence.
The waiter finally came with their meals. He set both steaming plates of pasta in front of them and they ate.
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Back at the dorm"¦
"It was good to see you again. Are you going stay here a while?"
"Sure, might as well; my boss is probably mad at me anyway."
"Heh! I still can't believe you used your lunch break to go to the airport. Then you left"¦ You won't be in too much trouble will you? You can leave if you have to"¦"
"No, no. I might as well stay. I just have to call in and say that it was a family emergency."
"Oh, my ethics professor would love you!"
"Ethics? Why the hell are you taking ethics?"
"It just interests me"¦"
"You say you have no time to meet anyone, yet you're taking classes you don't need. And mom is paying for it?"
Nathan lowered his eyes. "Fine, maybe my ethics professor would have fun with me."
"Well good night. Maybe we could do something tomorrow."
"I don't know, I will have to look at my class schedule"¦ But, yeah if I can, I'll make room. Sorry, but it's late and I have classes in the morning. See you tomorrow, then?"
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Shelly found her way to a hotel and checked in. She went into the room and realized she didn't bring anything except her purse when she left Chicago.
"Damn it! I don't have anything to wear, no toiletries"¦ I'll have to go shopping tomorrow"¦"
She lay down on the bed. The jet lag must have finally caught up with her, because she fell asleep as soon as her head hit the pillow.
She awoke to a day as pretty as before. Her right arm was numb and she was cold. She noticed she hadn't even gotten under the covers the night before. She sat up, rubbed her arm until it was no longer numb, and then quickly pranced to the bathroom. She took a shower, and with disgust on the clothes she wore the day before.
Shelly went down to the lobby and asked the attendant if there was a mall nearby.
"Sure there is. You go out to the highway and take exit 34 b. You can't miss it."
"Thank you." She left briskly, happy to go shopping.
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Shelly returned to her hotel room carrying three bags of new clothes, and two more that contained shoes.
She set the clothes next to the bed, took all of the shoes out of their boxes, and lined them up on top of the bedspread; in all, she had bought twelve new pairs of shoes.
"I don"˜t have a problem"¦ I just couldn't leave the shoes there all alone. Their purpose is to be bought and worn; I couldn't let them down. The people with the problems are the ones counting how many shoes I have."
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Nathan luckily had the night off from classes, and he and his sister went to a nearby park to watch the sunset.
"Shelly?"
"Yeah?"
"I can tell you anything, right?"
"Of course you can, we've always told each other everything," Concern entered her voice again. It seemed to be doing that a lot lately. "Is there something wrong?" "˜Maybe my feeling was right.'
"No everything is okay, I just needed to hear that"¦"
Some people thought that the relationship Nathan and Shelly shared was precariously situated between sweet and suspect. They just loved each other, like any brother and sister should. They always knew that they could count on each other; they knew they were never truly alone. At least, that is what the both thought before, but now"¦?
Nathan sat there thinking, with a smile on his face. He wondered if his sister knew it was faked. "˜Is there something that she can't accept? Something our bond couldn't handle?'
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Shelly went back to the dorms"¦
The door opened, and Damien smirked a little when he saw who was knocking.
"Are you lost again?" A little sarcasm was edging in.
"No, I really meant to go to your door this time"¦"
"Good, because Nathan is in another class."
"I know"¦ that is sort of why I chose now to come." He looked at her with a quizzical expression. "˜Oh god what is he thinking?'
"Wait, what are you thinking? No! Don't answer that. I came when he wasn't around because I have to ask you about him"¦ I've never had to do this before. I'm really worried about him. He used to tell me everything"¦ " He stopped her short with a simple crisp hand gesture.
"Come in and sit down. I promise the place isn't dirty this time." He smiled warmly and she met his eyes"¦
She shook her head and she was inside already. "˜They should use those eyes on the warfront. The enemy wouldn't know what hit him. Then again, they may only work on women"¦'
"So what's the problem; you have just been sitting staring"¦?" She turned crimson.
"Jetlag sorry"¦"
'Quick thinking'
She continued. "Is my brother okay? Do you know of anything that might be bothering him, you seem to know him well; like I used to." Her head tilted down; she looked like she was ashamed.
Damien stopped dead.
'Is he shaking?'
"Are you okay?" she asked.
His speech came slowly, like he was carefully choosing his words. "Yes, I'm fine"¦ I can't think"¦ of"¦ anything that could be bothering him"¦ But you are his sister you, would know better" That only made her head dip lower. He quickly apologized. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to make you feel worse."
"Don't apologize, Thank you anyway. It just seemed like he"¦ Never mind. Could you not tell him about this?"
"Sure." Now he had calmed"¦
Shelly sat there for a little bit longer then left Damien in the room alone. His nervousness returned and he looked around the room as if an answer could be found somewhere, maybe in the corner? No?
He sat there for a few more minutes then he did go to the corner, picked up a gray shirt and looked at it thoughtfully. He sniffed it, folded it up, and set it on the nightstand.
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Shelly went to her car "” she was a little calmer "” and just drove around. She didn't even really look at the roads, or the scenery. Nevertheless, she ended up back at the dorm and at the right time.
"Hey sis." Nathan was just walking towards his dorm when she pulled up. She got out and followed him
"How was your class?" She asked.
"Fine, fine."
Right then, Damien sauntered out of his room and was a little taken back by Shelly's presence, but continued on towards Nathan.
"Nathan, somehow your shirt got in my wash"¦" Nathan looked at him strangely and then glanced at his sister. Recognition glazed his face. Damien handed the gray shirt to him.
"Oh, thank you"¦"
"No prob"¦" They both smiled and Damien left, but not before smiling warmly at Shelly.
Her thoughts lingered"¦
"So, sis, what do you want to do? I'm free for the rest of the day."
"We're going to a bar; and don't even try to get out of it!"
"But"¦"
"What did I say? You can't get out of this." He finally resigned.
"Fine, let me change."
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Nathan sat down at the table where his sister was waiting patiently"¦
"Did you get her number?" Shelly inquired, with anticipation.
"No, like the other five you pushed me out into the dance floor with, she didn't seem interested."
"She grabbed your ass."
"And that meant she was interested"¦?" He joked trying to hide his discomfort.
"Oh, come on! You can't be that stupid. Can you?"
"Fine, I wasn't attracted to her or the other four"¦" He stopped and it sounded like he wanted to continue"¦
"I guess we'll have to keep looking then"¦"
He shook his head slightly. "˜Why won't you just give up?'
Nathan turned to his sister in consternation. "You know what?"
"What," she leaned in so she could hear over the loud music, but kept her eyes on the crowd.
"I am one of those people who thinks that there is only one person you can truly love and be with forever." He confessed to her. "My line of thinking doesn't reveal whether there is such a person for everyone. Maybe I am just one of the people left without"¦"
"That's a very cynical view." She seemed like she was affronted by such a notion.
"You think so? What some people consider cynicism is just the world being seen as it really is. By the way, when are *you* going to find someone? Maybe we should be looking for you!"
"Don't you turn this around on me! We came for you!"
"Yeah, we tried me, now it is your turn." He turned and looked through the crowd and finally pushed her towards a guy.
"We're not through with this you know"¦" The rest, if there was any, was blotted out by the crowd she was soon enveloped in.
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Shelly came back and swiftly sat down. "That wasn't fair!"
"You've been doing the same thing to me all night!"
"That's completely different."
"And how is that?"
"It just is!"
"Great reasoning. Here's a thought: How about we just give up on each other tonight? Deal?"
"Fine! I am getting tired anyway." Both resigned, they ordered more drinks and finally left.
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Learn to Leave Well Enough Alone"¦
Shelly jumped up out of the chair and quickly left the room. Outside was Nathan, looking a little drained.
"Nathan!"
He slowly turned until he faced Shelly. "Hi! What are you doing here "” oh, it doesn't matter why, it's so good to see you."
His strides went from sluggish to vivacious; his arms leaving his sides to surround his sister.
"You're okay!" Shelly exclaimed with relief.
"Of course I am. Why wouldn't I be?"
"I don't know why you wouldn't be; I just had a feeling"¦"
"So you came all the way here just because you had a "˜feeling?' I thought I was the odd ball." All the words were somewhat stifled because through the entire exchange they never left the hug.
Nathan finally looked behind Shelly and noticed Damien, again, leaning against the doorjamb.
"Hi, Damien. This is my sister: Shelly. Shelly this is Damien."
"We know each other already," Shelly said while smoothing down her hair.
Every time she went in a state that wasn't landlocked, her hair started to frizz "” it didn't even matter if she isn't anywhere near any water. She guessed that the moisture must know she's coming and takes a trip to greet her.
"How'd that happen?" Nathan asked, curious.
"Well I was knocking on his door for two minutes; I thought it was yours"¦ Anyway he told me that you were in a class and offered to wait for you with me."
She finished her vain attempt to make her hair obey and continued.
"So, lets go sit down in your room and you can tell me what has been going on." She turned her head to look at the other man. "Nice meeting you, Damien."
"Bye guys"¦" Damiened aed and when Shelly turned her head back, he subtly winked at Nathan.
"See you later Damien," Nathan started walking with his sister to his door. He opened it, when he did, Damien went back inside.
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Later at dinner"¦
"So, how are things at school; life in general?"
"Oh come on, I talked to you a week ago on the phone, you know how I've been."
"˜Evasive, unlike him'
"Then tell me again," Shelly pried. "Something has had to have changed since then."
"Things are fine"¦" His voiced shifted to a lower tone.
"˜He always lived up to my expectations but never his own.'
He was handsome; anything past that was something a sister couldn't judge. Shelly never understood why he'd only had one girlfriend since high school "” and that one didn"˜t last long. Lots of girls liked him; he'd just seemed to be too busy, or didn't want to deal with the drama of dating in high school. That she could understand. Now, he had been in college for three years and still nothing.
"Are you seeing anyone yet? One of these days you're going to have to find someone." "˜ I'm sounding like mom.'
"No"¦" He hesitated marginally "No, I'm not seeing anyone"¦ with all my classes, it doesn't leave me enough time."
"Well maybe you should take up Damien's schedule. He seems to have enough time to wake up with a hangover." She chuckled self-satisfied.
"Yeah, Damien"¦ What did you two guys talk about? What did you think of him?" A small smile worked its way to his face.
"I liked him a lot." She almost blushed. "We talked about you, mostly. I took out your old baby pictures, the ones of you in the bathtub naked"¦"
"What!? You didn't." Complete and total indignation.
"Oh come on. I'm not Mom."
'Yet'
"Do you know if Damien is seeing anyone?" Shelly inquired, trying to work it into the conversation.
Another pause. "You know what? I don't really know. I"˜m not certain, I"¦"
"˜There was that quiver again.'
"You what?" She seemed concerned.
"Nothing"¦" Silence.
The waiter finally came with their meals. He set both steaming plates of pasta in front of them and they ate.
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Back at the dorm"¦
"It was good to see you again. Are you going stay here a while?"
"Sure, might as well; my boss is probably mad at me anyway."
"Heh! I still can't believe you used your lunch break to go to the airport. Then you left"¦ You won't be in too much trouble will you? You can leave if you have to"¦"
"No, no. I might as well stay. I just have to call in and say that it was a family emergency."
"Oh, my ethics professor would love you!"
"Ethics? Why the hell are you taking ethics?"
"It just interests me"¦"
"You say you have no time to meet anyone, yet you're taking classes you don't need. And mom is paying for it?"
Nathan lowered his eyes. "Fine, maybe my ethics professor would have fun with me."
"Well good night. Maybe we could do something tomorrow."
"I don't know, I will have to look at my class schedule"¦ But, yeah if I can, I'll make room. Sorry, but it's late and I have classes in the morning. See you tomorrow, then?"
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Shelly found her way to a hotel and checked in. She went into the room and realized she didn't bring anything except her purse when she left Chicago.
"Damn it! I don't have anything to wear, no toiletries"¦ I'll have to go shopping tomorrow"¦"
She lay down on the bed. The jet lag must have finally caught up with her, because she fell asleep as soon as her head hit the pillow.
She awoke to a day as pretty as before. Her right arm was numb and she was cold. She noticed she hadn't even gotten under the covers the night before. She sat up, rubbed her arm until it was no longer numb, and then quickly pranced to the bathroom. She took a shower, and with disgust on the clothes she wore the day before.
Shelly went down to the lobby and asked the attendant if there was a mall nearby.
"Sure there is. You go out to the highway and take exit 34 b. You can't miss it."
"Thank you." She left briskly, happy to go shopping.
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Shelly returned to her hotel room carrying three bags of new clothes, and two more that contained shoes.
She set the clothes next to the bed, took all of the shoes out of their boxes, and lined them up on top of the bedspread; in all, she had bought twelve new pairs of shoes.
"I don"˜t have a problem"¦ I just couldn't leave the shoes there all alone. Their purpose is to be bought and worn; I couldn't let them down. The people with the problems are the ones counting how many shoes I have."
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Nathan luckily had the night off from classes, and he and his sister went to a nearby park to watch the sunset.
"Shelly?"
"Yeah?"
"I can tell you anything, right?"
"Of course you can, we've always told each other everything," Concern entered her voice again. It seemed to be doing that a lot lately. "Is there something wrong?" "˜Maybe my feeling was right.'
"No everything is okay, I just needed to hear that"¦"
Some people thought that the relationship Nathan and Shelly shared was precariously situated between sweet and suspect. They just loved each other, like any brother and sister should. They always knew that they could count on each other; they knew they were never truly alone. At least, that is what the both thought before, but now"¦?
Nathan sat there thinking, with a smile on his face. He wondered if his sister knew it was faked. "˜Is there something that she can't accept? Something our bond couldn't handle?'
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Shelly went back to the dorms"¦
The door opened, and Damien smirked a little when he saw who was knocking.
"Are you lost again?" A little sarcasm was edging in.
"No, I really meant to go to your door this time"¦"
"Good, because Nathan is in another class."
"I know"¦ that is sort of why I chose now to come." He looked at her with a quizzical expression. "˜Oh god what is he thinking?'
"Wait, what are you thinking? No! Don't answer that. I came when he wasn't around because I have to ask you about him"¦ I've never had to do this before. I'm really worried about him. He used to tell me everything"¦ " He stopped her short with a simple crisp hand gesture.
"Come in and sit down. I promise the place isn't dirty this time." He smiled warmly and she met his eyes"¦
She shook her head and she was inside already. "˜They should use those eyes on the warfront. The enemy wouldn't know what hit him. Then again, they may only work on women"¦'
"So what's the problem; you have just been sitting staring"¦?" She turned crimson.
"Jetlag sorry"¦"
'Quick thinking'
She continued. "Is my brother okay? Do you know of anything that might be bothering him, you seem to know him well; like I used to." Her head tilted down; she looked like she was ashamed.
Damien stopped dead.
'Is he shaking?'
"Are you okay?" she asked.
His speech came slowly, like he was carefully choosing his words. "Yes, I'm fine"¦ I can't think"¦ of"¦ anything that could be bothering him"¦ But you are his sister you, would know better" That only made her head dip lower. He quickly apologized. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to make you feel worse."
"Don't apologize, Thank you anyway. It just seemed like he"¦ Never mind. Could you not tell him about this?"
"Sure." Now he had calmed"¦
Shelly sat there for a little bit longer then left Damien in the room alone. His nervousness returned and he looked around the room as if an answer could be found somewhere, maybe in the corner? No?
He sat there for a few more minutes then he did go to the corner, picked up a gray shirt and looked at it thoughtfully. He sniffed it, folded it up, and set it on the nightstand.
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Shelly went to her car "” she was a little calmer "” and just drove around. She didn't even really look at the roads, or the scenery. Nevertheless, she ended up back at the dorm and at the right time.
"Hey sis." Nathan was just walking towards his dorm when she pulled up. She got out and followed him
"How was your class?" She asked.
"Fine, fine."
Right then, Damien sauntered out of his room and was a little taken back by Shelly's presence, but continued on towards Nathan.
"Nathan, somehow your shirt got in my wash"¦" Nathan looked at him strangely and then glanced at his sister. Recognition glazed his face. Damien handed the gray shirt to him.
"Oh, thank you"¦"
"No prob"¦" They both smiled and Damien left, but not before smiling warmly at Shelly.
Her thoughts lingered"¦
"So, sis, what do you want to do? I'm free for the rest of the day."
"We're going to a bar; and don't even try to get out of it!"
"But"¦"
"What did I say? You can't get out of this." He finally resigned.
"Fine, let me change."
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Nathan sat down at the table where his sister was waiting patiently"¦
"Did you get her number?" Shelly inquired, with anticipation.
"No, like the other five you pushed me out into the dance floor with, she didn't seem interested."
"She grabbed your ass."
"And that meant she was interested"¦?" He joked trying to hide his discomfort.
"Oh, come on! You can't be that stupid. Can you?"
"Fine, I wasn't attracted to her or the other four"¦" He stopped and it sounded like he wanted to continue"¦
"I guess we'll have to keep looking then"¦"
He shook his head slightly. "˜Why won't you just give up?'
Nathan turned to his sister in consternation. "You know what?"
"What," she leaned in so she could hear over the loud music, but kept her eyes on the crowd.
"I am one of those people who thinks that there is only one person you can truly love and be with forever." He confessed to her. "My line of thinking doesn't reveal whether there is such a person for everyone. Maybe I am just one of the people left without"¦"
"That's a very cynical view." She seemed like she was affronted by such a notion.
"You think so? What some people consider cynicism is just the world being seen as it really is. By the way, when are *you* going to find someone? Maybe we should be looking for you!"
"Don't you turn this around on me! We came for you!"
"Yeah, we tried me, now it is your turn." He turned and looked through the crowd and finally pushed her towards a guy.
"We're not through with this you know"¦" The rest, if there was any, was blotted out by the crowd she was soon enveloped in.
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Shelly came back and swiftly sat down. "That wasn't fair!"
"You've been doing the same thing to me all night!"
"That's completely different."
"And how is that?"
"It just is!"
"Great reasoning. Here's a thought: How about we just give up on each other tonight? Deal?"
"Fine! I am getting tired anyway." Both resigned, they ordered more drinks and finally left.
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