[PRP] Walk This Way [ Ofelia + Melvin ] FINISHED

[Rown]

It didn't take long for Ofelia to start her sobbing, her loud childish tears that she'd been keeping pent up. Usually if she cried she was quiet, or didn't cry at all, but out there on the sands she wailed like a child who'd lose their parents, a lover mourning at a grave over someone who'd never return. It was like having her heart broken, even though it'd been broken so many years before and had lay withering in dust, so the pain was fresh and frustrating.

She didn't want to think about how her parents had abandoned her to her aunt.

She didn't want to think about how her aunt ignored her very being, or how her brother eventually just went ahead and called her a liar as well.

She didn't want to think about how alone she felt at Deus when she watched everyone together, always happy and talking. She didn't want to think about how the one person she might have grown to care for, she'd burned that bridge just like everything else.

Ofelia was a fire starter, sure as her hair was red. She burned everything in her path, left it to ruins, but still tried to cross bridges on thin lengths of charred rope.

No one here wanted her. No one here needed her.

She didn't have a shield that would stop her if she wanted to talk into the ocean and drown.

She didn't have a person who would grab her by the arm and pull her back if she walked into the ocean to drown.

That bridge, she'd burned it. There was nothing but silence now, endless silence.

And so she kept sobbing, not moving, until eventually she just stayed crouched down. It didn't matter she was taking forever, it didn't matter that she was getting dizzier and dizzier. She wanted to cry out there and just go to the dark waters to get rid of all these thoughts.

Ofelia was most scared of her own voice in her head, and she kept wailing to try and down it out.

MoonKitsune

 

[MoonKitsune]

Rown

After some time, the sound of sand moving could be heard as Melvin returned. His black shoes stopping before the sobbing teenager as he looked down at her. "You've had enough time. Let's go." He told her, and reached down to grab her arm and force her to her feet.
 

[Rown]

"Ah'm....there's nothin' left'a me now. Where...where do Ah go from here?" Her words were muffled by her hands, her hair, and the tops of he knees. "Ah've let them go...but Ah've got nothin' left. No one, nothin'."

There was no one to tell her they wanted to be her friend, or that they were friends. It was all one-sided on her part.

There was no one to tell her that they loved her. It was all one sided on her part.

There was no one to tell her that she needed to live. Her feelings where what held her.

There was no one to tell her that she needed to die. Rue wasn't in her head anymore.

Ofelia was tired, Ofelia was broken. She couldn't keep lying to herself, not when her body was this weak and there was no safety net, and so when she felt like she was just going to stay that way Melvin pulled her upward. She stared at him silently, a few tears still falling from her eye and staining her cheek, but that was it.

No argument, no thankfulness, nothing. Ofelia had nothing left, she was empty.

Just like that time in the bathroom, where she forced herself to smile, she couldn't even do that.

MoonKitsune

 

[MoonKitsune]

Rown

He rolled his eyes. "There is plenty left. You just dropped off what wasn't needed. From this point, all you can do is gain. I can't answer all the questions for you. I'm not Ofelia after all." Thanks god for that. He'd hate to be a teenage girl with that many problems, and he much preferred being Melvin.

He lead her slowly up the path. The Infirmary techs were going to kill him for bringing her back looking like this. Oh well.  

[Rown]

"Ah'm not Ofelia either. Ah'm nothin'." Ofelia mumbled to Melvin's back as he led her along, her steps slower than his and her whole body swaying a little as they went. She wasn't even focusing on anything, she couldn't focus on anything, and his stupid words of moving on meant nothing.

You couldn't go forward if there was no where to go. Everything she had she left in the dark waters including herself and, ironically enough, Ofelia did not know how to swim. She could tread water, maybe, but when she got tired there'd be no arms to pull her to the shore.

It was as they got closer to the Infirmary, the steam rising from her body as the sun dried her clothing, that the teen recalled something. She'd wanted to ask Melvin something, to tell him something very important, but had she left it behind as well?

"Melvin, Ah. . .hahahahahaha, no never mind." Her words started serious, strong, then faded into a bitter chuckle.

MoonKitsune

 

[MoonKitsune]

Rown

"If you keep saying something and saying 'forget it' and 'nevermind', it becomes a bad habit and makes people not want to listen to anything you begin to say. Now, what is it?" He asked, looking at her as he stopped behind the Lab Infirmary building.  

[Rown]

"Ah was goin' ta ask ya if...we could be friends. That was why. . .Ah sent'cha the text earlier, cause Ah wanted ta see ya." She sounded so stupid, so childish, but she said it anyway. He was holding onto her arm so she couldn't escape. She just had to say her piece, all of it, and make her peace.

"But it's all one-sided, right, so dun feel pressured. Ah'll leave ya alone from here out, so thank ya."

MoonKitsune

 

[MoonKitsune]

Rown

"Why ask if you already are making assumptions about me? I can be your friend, now come on before the techs beat me to death for bringing you back all covered in sand." He opened the door for her and helped her inside.  

[Rown]

"Ahahaha...hahahaha." Ofelia didn't really know what to say, know what else to do. Melvin said he'd be her friend, she wanted to believe it, but in her mind she was doubting every syllable that came from his mouth. It was like she couldn't trust words, not just yet, but at least she knew one thing.

She had to start over and someone was at her side telling her what to do, for now, and that was all she needed.