Lost Cause
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Thread Topic: Lost Cause
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The silence inside of the crystal blue room could be deafening to all as the only sound able to be heard is the occasional car passing by down the road outside of the two story brick house that was home of the Valentine family. The youngest of the four inside of that home had called for a family meeting earlier that day to tell them some big news, but they all we're waiting for her to speak. She, herself, Harper, was nervous as hell seeing as she was about to tell her family the biggest secret she ever had to tell someone. It had been a year since she found out herself, and she thought it was time to tell her family. She knew her family was quite religious, and not exactly the most open-minded either, and she feared what would happen. The only one she knew who wouldn't freak out was her older sister, but she was still unsure with her. Her sister, throughout the years, has been the most open-minded of her family. She just has no idea of her sisters thoughts on what she was going to reveal though and that scared her to hell and back a thousand times over.
The five foot two teen, Harper, stood in front of the coffee table that they had in the living room, while her parents sat opposite on the couch. Her sister was sat at an angle facing Harper from a teal recliner beside of the beige couch.
Harper's sister, Violet, was staring towards her sister waiting to hear what the so called important news was that her sister had. She felt it couldn't be too bad, she just hoped that this news wasn't that her underage sister was pregnant. But, if that was the case, she would be a supportive sister and help Harper through it all. She loved her sister, and the two were quite close growing up. As kids, they rarely were seen apart from one another. But as years passed they didn't spend time together as much except for now and again occasionally. When they did though, they often times made the most of it by catching up with what was going on with one another, the things they didn't know from around the house anyway. The two tried to spend atleast a whole day together every three to six months.
"Uh, hi guys. Family.. Mom, dad, Vio." Harper spoke to her family, looking to each one as she said their names. She was fidgeting nervously with her fingers that she had behind her back, and in her mind praying for the best result from it all.
"Harp." Her sister said, using the nickname she often called her growing up. She could tell her sister was nervous a million miles away, and wanted to help her calm down. Hoping that it would help her to do so.
Harper laughed silently in her mind, easing up a tiny bit as she stood there. Leaning from side to side now and again. She could never keep still when nervous, a well known fact about her to nearly everyone. "I-" she began, scanning her family's faces who were smiling back at her, encouragingly. "I-" She took a deep breath, closing her eyes shut and coated to ten in her mind. "I-I am uh, how do i say this?" she said the last part to herself as she decided to just let it all out. Do it quickly, like a band-aid she supposed. "I'm bisexual." she finally said after what felt like a millennium and a half.
The deafening silence that followed was quickly replaced by anger and rage easily written over her father's face. "Stop this lying, Harper." He said between his teeth as he glared to his daughter. Harper looked over to her mother who, in a way, was replicating her father just in silence.
"I'm not lying!" she yelled out, surprising herself that she even did so. She had never yelled at her parents, or her sister. No one really, she was a rather calm girl growing up.
"My daughter is not a freaking sin. No!" her father yelled, quickly and intimidatingly standing up to his feet.
"I am bi! There is no changing that. I-" she paused for a moment, scared. She was staring right into what used to be so caring eyes which were now only filled with rage, dissapointment, anger. "-I have known for half a year." she finished off what she was going to say.
Her father groaned and shook his head at his own daughter. "Get out." he said shaking his head still. "I will jot have a sin living in these walls as well as me." he ordered.
Harper felt the wet droplets of the tears begin to fall from her eyes as she ailenrly cried in her mind. She had dissapointed her father with this. She knew this would happen, but she still held on to hope that they could just open their mind and not keep living inside of that closed door for once. She looked towards her sister hoping she may say something, but her sister just turned away from her, looking away from her own sister in sadness. Violet had never thought that that may happen at all and was quite surprised.
Harper was about to head upstairs to her room to get her things but was immediately afoppes by her father standing in her way. "No, now! You own nothing up there anymore." he demanded, pointing directly to the door.
Harper nodded slowly, and backed away to the door. She put her hand on the cold metal doorknob and twisted it, pulling the door open. "Good bye..." she whispered, staring to her sister in sadness.
It was freezing outside, seeing as she was on winter break from school. Christmas was three days away, and she had lost the only place she ever called home. She had no friends in school, and nowhere to go to. Harper stared down towards her bare feet as she began to slowly walk down the sidewalk with no particular destination. Luckily she was wearing a pair of sweat pants and she was in her jacket still with her sweater underneath. Atleast she wouldn't freeze too much that night. -
The star filled sky looked so lonely tonight. The cold breeze was Harpers comfort on this day as she laid on the roof of an old abandoned building possibly three miles from her home, if not more. It took her two hours to get there when she noticed the cloudy skies begin to form up above, and she had a bad feeling that a storm was brewing, about it begin soon. So she took to what seemed best at the time, an old abandoned building on Bison Street, and luckily she was able to get inside as well.
A drop of water from the sky is what snapped her out of her almost sleep. Harper slowly opened up her brown eyes and looked up to the dark sky as more droplets began to fall down upon her. With a sigh, she five foot three girl pushed herself up off of the concrete ground she was laying down on, and quickly rushed to the wooden door that led back inside. Her feet slapping against the ground with each step she took before pulling open the door and escaping the incoming storm that was approaching quickly.
Just as Harper managed to get back inside, a loud clap of thunder echoed throughout the skies, and soon the once empty stairway that Harper occupied was filled with blue-white light, showing the way back down the stairs.
With a strong feeling that she should rest before she has work the next day, she took a quick entry to one of the first rooms she came across which seemed it once was a bedroom. But now, it was empty. No bed. All that was inside was now Harper, and nothing more. Harper took a deep breath in, shivering from the slight cold breeze from the open door and window, the ever covering darkness inside of the room, she slowly stepped inside and slowly, however quickly, she approached a corner which would probably provide the best cover and help her keep warm much more as well that the middle of the room.
Harper removed her light pink jacket and slowly wrapped it around herself as she leaned against the wall with her back. The rain filling up the silence, which often was accompanied by the loud claps of thunder from the storm. Harper sighed in relief she was able to find someplace for shelter before the storm had came. She just prayed it would stop and pass by by the time she would wake up in the morning. Would she even wake on time for her work? She took a deep breath and hoped that she would, knowing her boss didn't take much to being late. But if she was, she hoped that he would be lenient a bit towards her.
Harper slowly began to close her eyes, the sound of the rainfall easing her into her sleep as well, as she blocked out the thunder as best as she could. Soon, the darkness of sleep had overtaken her, and Harper was in her dreamland. A land that was filled with peace, a home, a family, and happiness. A place she had left behind only for hours earlier that night. A place she felt she would not return to for a long time. A place filled with memories, some happy, some sad. A place she would miss a much from now on.
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