Post by Steve Awesome on Jul 8, 2010 22:12:52 GMT -6
The sun peers in through the blinds like Falcon at an all girl summer camp. The rays sneak in and kiss there faces, gently awaking them from there slumber. Two pairs of eyes, one green one blue, instantly gaze into each other as there eyelids flutter open. He smiles when he see’s her. The type of smile you make when you awake from an amazing dream only to find out its all a complete reality. He never knew happiness such as this even existed and he was absolutely positive he was willing to die just to keep it. He took his hand and gently caressed her hair over her ear.
“Do you realize how much you mean to me?”
He asks her, truly baffled by the answer he was seeing in his heart. She chuckles and rolls her eyes.
“No I’m serious. I use to laugh at people like me. All the sappy hopeless romantic stuff seemed really stupid to me and I never could understand where all that mumbo jumbo came from. But now it’s like I can’t stop it. I just…..I just….”
He sits up from the bed. Mildly frustrated that he couldn’t figure out how to fully express how he was feeling.
“I just want to sit here and recite Shakespeare to you. Or write your name in the sky with one of those jet planes. I seriously want to climb the highest mountain there is and shout your name off it like some kind of crazed, love-sick Barbarian!”
He throws his head back and shoves his arms up in the air toward the Heavens.
“Kelly!!”
She covers her ears when he yelled.
“Steve.”
She tries to get his attention but he doesn’t hear her and continues to shout.
“KELLY!!!!”
Now she sits up from her side of the bed.
“Steve!”
She says it a bit louder this time but it’s no use. He’s too amped up to stop now. He takes in a deep breath and lets it rip.
“KKKKKKKKEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
She finally has enough of it and punches him in the arm. It does the trick and he looks over at her as he catches up with his breath. She crosses her arms and gives him a deadpan stare.
“How come you can’t just say Good Morning like a normal person?”
He grins and scratches the top of his head sheepishly. Maybe he did go a little overboard, but when your in love, there’s no such thing as too much.
“Right. Um….Good Morning babe.”
He leans in and gives her kiss. Her agitation disappears and she just can’t help but giggle at his goofiness. She hits him with a pillow before they both get up to start the day.
Black background.
Close up on him as he stares into the camera from behind his sunglasses.
“There you go again Adam.”
He slowly shakes his head.
“Blaming me for your own shortcomings and failures. You talk about beating me up. You want to make me hurt so that I might be able to feel your pain. You want me to be the martyr, the scapegoat, to your problems so that you can somehow justify your mistakes. Sorry to tell you Adam, but that just isn’t going to work the way you want it. This Sunday, you could do what you want. You could do the most horrific thing you could think of to me but it won’t make you feel better. You could turn me into a vegetable, beat me retarded, or even make Sunday the last day of my life, but I promise you Adam, nothing you do to me will ever make me regret anything.”
His hand slashes through the air, emphasizing his point.
“Because I have nothing to be ashamed of. I didn’t do anything wrong. All I ever did was love Kelly. Maybe I loved her too much, but is that really a crime? Is that so bad? Yeah, I whisked her away from you and kept her here in my home but that’s because I saw the truth. I saw it before you or Kelly were even aware of it. What you and her had together Adam, it wasn’t what you thought it was. It wasn’t this perfect love. It was a fantasy. Just a dream of what you thought it was supposed to be. Just an idea you kept in the back of your mind because you liked the way it sounded. When in reality you both were still just kids suffering from the effects of “puppy love”. And sure that’s all well and cute if you have Bieber Fever but this is real life Adam. This isn’t high school crushes and love notes, this about grown adults feeling feelings that we’ve never felt about anyone else before. We told each other that we were willing to do anything to have Kelly in our arms. Well I guess what it all comes down to is that I meant it more. I….”
He steps closer to the camera.
“….Love her more than you.”
The two lovebirds sit hand in hand on the sofa. They are actually watching TV together instead of Steve watching Kelly break it. She rests her head on his shoulder as they watch the Adam Knite promo. There at the part where Adam rips apart there wedding photos and drops them off the balcony. Awesome hums the tune to Dawson’s creek as the scene slowly fades out. Kelly picks her head up and gives him a playful shove.
“Will you stop that?”
Steve turns and looks at her. A bit surprised.
“What? It’s just a joke.”
She shakes her head in disgust.
“Yeah well stop it! Can’t you see the man is hurting? He just lost me and now he’s mourning. And you just want to poke more fun at him?”
Steve was dumbfounded.
“I uh….I…”
Her stern face gives way to a grin.
“Gotcha.”
She laughs and grabs the remote and cuts the TV off. Steve wipes his brow.
“Phew…for a second there I thought you were actually defending James VanderKnite over there. Thought you were going to tell me I was walking into my “Knitemare” on Sunday.”
He feints fear before waving it off like a pissed off Adam was something to scoff at.
“Yeah right. Adam and his dumb little sister get what they deserve this Sunday. He likes acting like he’s up the “creek” so much well this Sunday he’s going to realize he’s without a paddle.”
That arrogant smirk worms its way onto his attractive face.
“That’s my girl. So you don’t regret any of this?”
She shakes her head.
“The only thing I regret right now is the day I married him.”
He shakes his head in awe. He couldn’t believe how lucky he felt. Like he hit the jackpot.
“I love you Kelly.”
She smiles.
“…me too.”
The two embrace in a kiss just as Jayson Matthews comes walking into the scene.
“I don’t want to alarm anyone…..but I have reason to believe there is a crazed love-sick barbarian running loose around here. So be on the lookout guys….”
Jayson goes back to his search as Kelly and Steve laugh.
Back to the same room. Awesome stands there with a smirk on his face. One that dares Adam to try and slap it off.
“I thought this whole thing was going to end up differently. For a minute there, I thought that no matter what I did I wasn’t going to be able to get through to Kelly. She was just going to continue to live in some pathetic shell of a marriage with some guy who used to think he was a dinosaur. But then Adam…..you started to mess up. You want to sit there and wallow in your own self pity on your balcony. You want to shout mindless threats towards me like I’m the bad guy in all of this. But the fact is that you have no one to blame for all this but yourself.”
He spoke his words like daggers, so that they could cut deep.
“That’s why beating me up won’t solve anything. It might feel amazing each time your calloused knuckles meet my flawless complexion but when the next morning comes and you wake up alone….that same feeling will all come flooding back. The bed you make, is the one you must sleep in Adam. You made this happen every time you ignored her. You made this happen every time you called her a name. You caused this happen by not being there for her when she needed one person in this world to trust her. You couldn’t even follow the rules of the ring and you were the one who put it her finger in the first place. You practically handed Kelly to me wrapped in a bow the moment you decided your anger was stronger then the love you shared with her. And honestly…..”
He shrugs his shoulders.
“…I’m not surprised.”
“I knew this would happen. I told you it would, but you didn’t believe me. Well thank you Adam. Thank you for playing right into my plan. I took control of your board and took your Queen all while playing you as a pawn. You destroyed your own castle Adam and do you wanna know what the best part is? I’m not even that good at Checkers. I don’t want a congratulations. I don’t want a pat on the back. All I want is for you to finally just leave us alone Adam. Don’t tell me I won, I wanna hear you accept that you lost. Then I want you to leave us alone. So that Kelly and I can raise Ryleigh together in peace without being forced to listen to James Vanderknite cry over his balcony rail.”
He shakes his head.
“It really is pathetic.”
It’s dusk now as we open to find a big cliff that overlooks a large meadow. Even in darkness it still looked beautiful.
“Just a little further, Kel.”
“What is this all about Steve?”
“I told you, it’s a surprise.”
Steve Awesome enters the scene with a blindfolded Kelly in tow. He stops her on the hill and then finally takes off her blindfold.
“TA-DA!”
Kelly doesn’t seem very surprised. In fact she looks a tad bit alarmed.
“A giant cliff? I didn’t accidentally sign a group suicide pact did I?”
“What? No! Your real surprise should begin right about….”
He glances at his watch.
“…now.”
*POP!* *Bang!* *FIZZZZZZ*
On cue with Steve, Fireworks begin to shoot into the sky. The raised cliff almost put them at eye level with the beautiful explosions. Kelly couldn’t believe what she was seeing.
“What is this?”
Awesome produces a blanket and throws it down on the grass. He looks up at her and smiles.
“It’s a late Fourth of July. I read on the Knitelife about how much you enjoyed fireworks. So I wanted you to be able to see them.”
She stepped closer toward him and took his hands.
“You did all this for me?”
He nods.
“Well yeah…..I love you.”
Her eyes fill up with tears and for the first time in weeks, they were actually happy ones.
“And I love….these fireworks. Oh my gosh!”
They both lay down and cuddle up on the blanket as the night sky lights up with fire.
Same room.
Same person.
“Zelda…..I just want you to know that I don’t have a problem with you. I never did. Even when you crapped all over our friendship, I never hated you. I understood that blood is thicker then water and that you were going to protect Adam with all that you could. It doesn’t matter. But I just want to thank you. Thank you for sticking your nose where it didn’t belong Zelda. Thank you for helping me get it through to your brother that Kelly isn’t the one for him. Thank you for snooping around and finding out the things that you did because I can honestly tell you that if it wasn’t for you and your “meddling” I wouldn’t be sitting here with the love of my life. Thank you for helping me break your brothers heart. Whether you consider me one or not, thank you for pulling through like a friend would, Zelda. You’re a lot better of a person then people give you credit for.”
He flashes a grin that almost passes for condescending.
“Adam. I’m not afraid of monsters anymore. I’ve killed them before. I was the one who killed Homeless Harold. Not angry Gib in a mask like Angel likes to brag about. I was the one who took the Icon out of Stephan Rzany. I’ve taken out Xtreme Gods, Saviors, Messiahs, Birds of Prey, and anything else in this world, so excuse me when I don’t start shaking in my boots because of some “Knitemare.” So go ahead Adam, beat the ever loving snot out of me this Sunday. Beat me till I can’t stand. Because It won’t matter even if my face is so swollen nobody can even recognize me. You still won’t break my stride….”
Suddenly a light turns on and it illuminates the room. It was a lamp and it revealed Kelly half asleep in there giant bed.
“….are you coming to bed?”
“One second babe.”
He gets up from the chair he had been sitting in and walks over to his side of the bed. He pulls the sunglasses off his face and the camera finally gets a good look at his face. He was on top of the world and nothing could pull him down.
“…because when we wake up on Monday morning….my “Knitemare” will be over. But yours will have only just begun.”
He sneers into the camera as he climbs into bed with the love of his life. He hit’s the lamp.
Deuces.
“Do you realize how much you mean to me?”
He asks her, truly baffled by the answer he was seeing in his heart. She chuckles and rolls her eyes.
“No I’m serious. I use to laugh at people like me. All the sappy hopeless romantic stuff seemed really stupid to me and I never could understand where all that mumbo jumbo came from. But now it’s like I can’t stop it. I just…..I just….”
He sits up from the bed. Mildly frustrated that he couldn’t figure out how to fully express how he was feeling.
“I just want to sit here and recite Shakespeare to you. Or write your name in the sky with one of those jet planes. I seriously want to climb the highest mountain there is and shout your name off it like some kind of crazed, love-sick Barbarian!”
He throws his head back and shoves his arms up in the air toward the Heavens.
“Kelly!!”
She covers her ears when he yelled.
“Steve.”
She tries to get his attention but he doesn’t hear her and continues to shout.
“KELLY!!!!”
Now she sits up from her side of the bed.
“Steve!”
She says it a bit louder this time but it’s no use. He’s too amped up to stop now. He takes in a deep breath and lets it rip.
“KKKKKKKKEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
She finally has enough of it and punches him in the arm. It does the trick and he looks over at her as he catches up with his breath. She crosses her arms and gives him a deadpan stare.
“How come you can’t just say Good Morning like a normal person?”
He grins and scratches the top of his head sheepishly. Maybe he did go a little overboard, but when your in love, there’s no such thing as too much.
“Right. Um….Good Morning babe.”
He leans in and gives her kiss. Her agitation disappears and she just can’t help but giggle at his goofiness. She hits him with a pillow before they both get up to start the day.
Black background.
Close up on him as he stares into the camera from behind his sunglasses.
“There you go again Adam.”
He slowly shakes his head.
“Blaming me for your own shortcomings and failures. You talk about beating me up. You want to make me hurt so that I might be able to feel your pain. You want me to be the martyr, the scapegoat, to your problems so that you can somehow justify your mistakes. Sorry to tell you Adam, but that just isn’t going to work the way you want it. This Sunday, you could do what you want. You could do the most horrific thing you could think of to me but it won’t make you feel better. You could turn me into a vegetable, beat me retarded, or even make Sunday the last day of my life, but I promise you Adam, nothing you do to me will ever make me regret anything.”
His hand slashes through the air, emphasizing his point.
“Because I have nothing to be ashamed of. I didn’t do anything wrong. All I ever did was love Kelly. Maybe I loved her too much, but is that really a crime? Is that so bad? Yeah, I whisked her away from you and kept her here in my home but that’s because I saw the truth. I saw it before you or Kelly were even aware of it. What you and her had together Adam, it wasn’t what you thought it was. It wasn’t this perfect love. It was a fantasy. Just a dream of what you thought it was supposed to be. Just an idea you kept in the back of your mind because you liked the way it sounded. When in reality you both were still just kids suffering from the effects of “puppy love”. And sure that’s all well and cute if you have Bieber Fever but this is real life Adam. This isn’t high school crushes and love notes, this about grown adults feeling feelings that we’ve never felt about anyone else before. We told each other that we were willing to do anything to have Kelly in our arms. Well I guess what it all comes down to is that I meant it more. I….”
He steps closer to the camera.
“….Love her more than you.”
The two lovebirds sit hand in hand on the sofa. They are actually watching TV together instead of Steve watching Kelly break it. She rests her head on his shoulder as they watch the Adam Knite promo. There at the part where Adam rips apart there wedding photos and drops them off the balcony. Awesome hums the tune to Dawson’s creek as the scene slowly fades out. Kelly picks her head up and gives him a playful shove.
“Will you stop that?”
Steve turns and looks at her. A bit surprised.
“What? It’s just a joke.”
She shakes her head in disgust.
“Yeah well stop it! Can’t you see the man is hurting? He just lost me and now he’s mourning. And you just want to poke more fun at him?”
Steve was dumbfounded.
“I uh….I…”
Her stern face gives way to a grin.
“Gotcha.”
She laughs and grabs the remote and cuts the TV off. Steve wipes his brow.
“Phew…for a second there I thought you were actually defending James VanderKnite over there. Thought you were going to tell me I was walking into my “Knitemare” on Sunday.”
He feints fear before waving it off like a pissed off Adam was something to scoff at.
“Yeah right. Adam and his dumb little sister get what they deserve this Sunday. He likes acting like he’s up the “creek” so much well this Sunday he’s going to realize he’s without a paddle.”
That arrogant smirk worms its way onto his attractive face.
“That’s my girl. So you don’t regret any of this?”
She shakes her head.
“The only thing I regret right now is the day I married him.”
He shakes his head in awe. He couldn’t believe how lucky he felt. Like he hit the jackpot.
“I love you Kelly.”
She smiles.
“…me too.”
The two embrace in a kiss just as Jayson Matthews comes walking into the scene.
“I don’t want to alarm anyone…..but I have reason to believe there is a crazed love-sick barbarian running loose around here. So be on the lookout guys….”
Jayson goes back to his search as Kelly and Steve laugh.
Back to the same room. Awesome stands there with a smirk on his face. One that dares Adam to try and slap it off.
“I thought this whole thing was going to end up differently. For a minute there, I thought that no matter what I did I wasn’t going to be able to get through to Kelly. She was just going to continue to live in some pathetic shell of a marriage with some guy who used to think he was a dinosaur. But then Adam…..you started to mess up. You want to sit there and wallow in your own self pity on your balcony. You want to shout mindless threats towards me like I’m the bad guy in all of this. But the fact is that you have no one to blame for all this but yourself.”
He spoke his words like daggers, so that they could cut deep.
“That’s why beating me up won’t solve anything. It might feel amazing each time your calloused knuckles meet my flawless complexion but when the next morning comes and you wake up alone….that same feeling will all come flooding back. The bed you make, is the one you must sleep in Adam. You made this happen every time you ignored her. You made this happen every time you called her a name. You caused this happen by not being there for her when she needed one person in this world to trust her. You couldn’t even follow the rules of the ring and you were the one who put it her finger in the first place. You practically handed Kelly to me wrapped in a bow the moment you decided your anger was stronger then the love you shared with her. And honestly…..”
He shrugs his shoulders.
“…I’m not surprised.”
“I knew this would happen. I told you it would, but you didn’t believe me. Well thank you Adam. Thank you for playing right into my plan. I took control of your board and took your Queen all while playing you as a pawn. You destroyed your own castle Adam and do you wanna know what the best part is? I’m not even that good at Checkers. I don’t want a congratulations. I don’t want a pat on the back. All I want is for you to finally just leave us alone Adam. Don’t tell me I won, I wanna hear you accept that you lost. Then I want you to leave us alone. So that Kelly and I can raise Ryleigh together in peace without being forced to listen to James Vanderknite cry over his balcony rail.”
He shakes his head.
“It really is pathetic.”
It’s dusk now as we open to find a big cliff that overlooks a large meadow. Even in darkness it still looked beautiful.
“Just a little further, Kel.”
“What is this all about Steve?”
“I told you, it’s a surprise.”
Steve Awesome enters the scene with a blindfolded Kelly in tow. He stops her on the hill and then finally takes off her blindfold.
“TA-DA!”
Kelly doesn’t seem very surprised. In fact she looks a tad bit alarmed.
“A giant cliff? I didn’t accidentally sign a group suicide pact did I?”
“What? No! Your real surprise should begin right about….”
He glances at his watch.
“…now.”
*POP!* *Bang!* *FIZZZZZZ*
On cue with Steve, Fireworks begin to shoot into the sky. The raised cliff almost put them at eye level with the beautiful explosions. Kelly couldn’t believe what she was seeing.
“What is this?”
Awesome produces a blanket and throws it down on the grass. He looks up at her and smiles.
“It’s a late Fourth of July. I read on the Knitelife about how much you enjoyed fireworks. So I wanted you to be able to see them.”
She stepped closer toward him and took his hands.
“You did all this for me?”
He nods.
“Well yeah…..I love you.”
Her eyes fill up with tears and for the first time in weeks, they were actually happy ones.
“And I love….these fireworks. Oh my gosh!”
They both lay down and cuddle up on the blanket as the night sky lights up with fire.
Same room.
Same person.
“Zelda…..I just want you to know that I don’t have a problem with you. I never did. Even when you crapped all over our friendship, I never hated you. I understood that blood is thicker then water and that you were going to protect Adam with all that you could. It doesn’t matter. But I just want to thank you. Thank you for sticking your nose where it didn’t belong Zelda. Thank you for helping me get it through to your brother that Kelly isn’t the one for him. Thank you for snooping around and finding out the things that you did because I can honestly tell you that if it wasn’t for you and your “meddling” I wouldn’t be sitting here with the love of my life. Thank you for helping me break your brothers heart. Whether you consider me one or not, thank you for pulling through like a friend would, Zelda. You’re a lot better of a person then people give you credit for.”
He flashes a grin that almost passes for condescending.
“Adam. I’m not afraid of monsters anymore. I’ve killed them before. I was the one who killed Homeless Harold. Not angry Gib in a mask like Angel likes to brag about. I was the one who took the Icon out of Stephan Rzany. I’ve taken out Xtreme Gods, Saviors, Messiahs, Birds of Prey, and anything else in this world, so excuse me when I don’t start shaking in my boots because of some “Knitemare.” So go ahead Adam, beat the ever loving snot out of me this Sunday. Beat me till I can’t stand. Because It won’t matter even if my face is so swollen nobody can even recognize me. You still won’t break my stride….”
Suddenly a light turns on and it illuminates the room. It was a lamp and it revealed Kelly half asleep in there giant bed.
“….are you coming to bed?”
“One second babe.”
He gets up from the chair he had been sitting in and walks over to his side of the bed. He pulls the sunglasses off his face and the camera finally gets a good look at his face. He was on top of the world and nothing could pull him down.
“…because when we wake up on Monday morning….my “Knitemare” will be over. But yours will have only just begun.”
He sneers into the camera as he climbs into bed with the love of his life. He hit’s the lamp.
Deuces.