Eyes Open
Natalie
Doug or whatever starts off and
goes into the animal barn,"Hey. Hey! I thoght we were going
to get food!"
He turns towards me with a stern face, rosey cheeks from the
windchill, and crooked nose scrunched up like an angry
dog,"Can you wait for two seconds, bra?" he says low
and quiet.
My face gets hot. I hate that nickname. Its what my ex called me
before i moved,"Can you please call me by my name,
idiot?"
He flashes me a quick smirk and turns back around,"Let's
go, bra."
"Hey! Did i not just tell you not to call me
that?!"
He shrugs,"No, you told a guy named idiot. I'm Doug, who
are you?"
"Nat. Doug's a stupid name." I say quickly.
"Yeah, well Nat sounds like a bug." he mimics the tone
of a child.
I followed him into the cow stable and sit on an old splintery
bench while i watch Doug pick up two pitch forks and walk
over to me. I look at the pitch fork and up at
him,"What..?"
"You're helping me change the dirty hay with new
hay." he says holding out the giant eating
utencil.
I scoff but i look up and his eyes were a serious
amber,"You're serious.."
He nods,"Yeah, bra. Let's go."
I refuse to take it,"Nope, you have to say my actual name or
else I'm not helping."
Doug shrugs and leans the pitch forks against the wall. Then he
sits next to me hunched over with his elbows on his knees and
looks out at the dirty stable without a word.
After a few minutes i speak up,"Umm..Are we gonna
eat?"
Doug continues to look out,"Nope."
"Why not?"
I see a slight twitched smile,"We have to clean this up
first."
My eyes widened,"Are you kidding me..? You're just gonna
sit here until i help you?!" I shake his shoulder.
He turns to and show the otherside of his face smiling like a
happy child,"Well?"
I scowl at him and fold my arms. But, after a few minutes, I cave
and help him. After cleaning the muk and grime and me complaining
while he silently listened and made quiet sarcastic comments, we
put the pitch forks away and head out and walk into a town full
of christmas cheer and decorations. Everywhere we turned, there
were reaths and lights glistening in the early darkening sky. One
i haven't noticed i could remember. As we walked I watched
all the lights while Doug had his hands in his pockets and looked
forward, occasionally saying happy holidays to old ladies that
smiled at him in the streets.
As we neared the deli i felt kinda weird without his sarcastic
remarks,"So do they do this for every holiday?"
"No, christmas trees are for christmas only." he
saids.
"I meant with other holidays, buttmuncher."
"To answer your question, yeah, this town is really
traditional and festive for every holiday no matter how small.
But seriously, christmas trees are for christmas." he said
with a sigh.
"you know what?"
"What?"
As we walked into the deli and quickly bought some food, blocked
his way out the door,"I wanna put up a christmas tree for
every holiday BUT christmas just for you."I say proudly.
He smirked again,"Good luck with that, bra." Then his
pick me up and placed me to the side and continued to walk. I
noticed he had a huge limp that at first just looked like he was
trying to walk cool, but it wasn't. His leg looked funny. I
caught up just to annoy him more.
"Do you smile?"
He looked at me confused,"Yeah i do..?"
"Why don't see you smile?"
"You've seen me smile alot today." He scratched his
beard.
"No. You twitch and only smile on one side."
His eyes widen and his mouth said "ahh" without a
noise,"I smile, trust me."
"I haven't seen you smile full yet."
"That's because it doesn't work."
As we started to walk out of town, i stopped by a large tree and
sat in the snow like it was a new relciner. Doug looked down
smirking again,"See? You smirked."
He shrugs,"That's my smile."
I pat the snow next to me and he sits back leaning on the tre and
looking up. He took off his hood for the first time revealing
short black hair and green short mohawk that was
undone,"Impressive. Your hair that is. Not you."
He smiles (but i know not on the other side of his
face),"Why not me?"
"Because you can't say my name."
He chuckled quietly looked down at his worned down hands,"I
think I'll survive, bra."
I smack his shoulder lightly but he flinches like i hit him with
a malet,"Sorry did i hurt you."
He sighed shakily, mist coming out of his mouth,"Nah I'm
good. Sorry. I just flinch really easily."
I watch him for a few moments and start t say something when i
hear screaming.
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