#13: Weekly Quick Fic #4
Title: Can't Go Back Now
Prompt: Skeletons in the Closet and Better Than Yesterday At Least
Bonus? no
Word Count: 460
Rating: PG
Original/Fandom: Glee
Pairings (if any): none
Warnings (Non-Con/Dub-Con etc): angst
Summary: Sam thinks about moving out.
A few days after we got the news, I offered to move out. “No, Sam, don’t be silly,” Ms. Hudson had said, tears rolling from the corners of her eyes. Her face was red and strained, but she looked set in her decision. “You have to stay. Where would you go?”
I shrugged. I felt like I shouldn’t be here anymore and maybe I never should have come back to begin with. I’d been living here for over a year and it had always been a little weird to dorm in the Hudson-Hummel household. It wasn’t anything I could put my finger on, and Finn had always shrugged off the tension. Without him… it was a different world. “Maybe I’ll move back home.”
“No way, you can’t do that.” Kurt looked me straight in the eye. He was only in town for a few days and I hated to lay my problems on him. “You’re a senior, you graduate in less than two months.”
“I just don’t want to get in your way,” I mumbled. “Ya’ll have been way too nice to me, but it’s different now…” I should have known to keep my mouth shut. Ms. Hudson started crying again. I shook my head, figuring maybe I really should leave. “I’m sorry, I’ll be upstairs.”
I went upstairs and into the room I had shared with Finn. My breath caught in my throat. I’d never had my own room before, and this was not how I ever imagined that wish coming true. I went over to the closet and reached in for my one suitcase. I couldn’t stay; it was too hard. His clothes were still hanging in the closet. All the outfits from our competitions, the suit from prom, from his almost-wedding. I had to turn away, I couldn’t even look at that stuff.
I sat on the floor for a while, just staring into my empty suitcase. I didn’t really want to leave Lima, I had too much invested in this little one horse town. My whole life was here; my friends had become like my family. I could hear someone approaching and I knew it was Kurt before he even said anything. I looked up at him and said, “Don’t worry, I’m not really leaving. I have too much to lose.”
He just nodded down at me, holding his arms tight across his chest. “I know. It’s hard right now, but we can’t look back. We have to keep living, you know? That’s what he would want.” His eyes drifted to the skeletons in the closet. He sighed, “Today is better than yesterday at least.”
Prompt: Skeletons in the Closet and Better Than Yesterday At Least
Bonus? no
Word Count: 460
Rating: PG
Original/Fandom: Glee
Pairings (if any): none
Warnings (Non-Con/Dub-Con etc): angst
Summary: Sam thinks about moving out.
A few days after we got the news, I offered to move out. “No, Sam, don’t be silly,” Ms. Hudson had said, tears rolling from the corners of her eyes. Her face was red and strained, but she looked set in her decision. “You have to stay. Where would you go?”
I shrugged. I felt like I shouldn’t be here anymore and maybe I never should have come back to begin with. I’d been living here for over a year and it had always been a little weird to dorm in the Hudson-Hummel household. It wasn’t anything I could put my finger on, and Finn had always shrugged off the tension. Without him… it was a different world. “Maybe I’ll move back home.”
“No way, you can’t do that.” Kurt looked me straight in the eye. He was only in town for a few days and I hated to lay my problems on him. “You’re a senior, you graduate in less than two months.”
“I just don’t want to get in your way,” I mumbled. “Ya’ll have been way too nice to me, but it’s different now…” I should have known to keep my mouth shut. Ms. Hudson started crying again. I shook my head, figuring maybe I really should leave. “I’m sorry, I’ll be upstairs.”
I went upstairs and into the room I had shared with Finn. My breath caught in my throat. I’d never had my own room before, and this was not how I ever imagined that wish coming true. I went over to the closet and reached in for my one suitcase. I couldn’t stay; it was too hard. His clothes were still hanging in the closet. All the outfits from our competitions, the suit from prom, from his almost-wedding. I had to turn away, I couldn’t even look at that stuff.
I sat on the floor for a while, just staring into my empty suitcase. I didn’t really want to leave Lima, I had too much invested in this little one horse town. My whole life was here; my friends had become like my family. I could hear someone approaching and I knew it was Kurt before he even said anything. I looked up at him and said, “Don’t worry, I’m not really leaving. I have too much to lose.”
He just nodded down at me, holding his arms tight across his chest. “I know. It’s hard right now, but we can’t look back. We have to keep living, you know? That’s what he would want.” His eyes drifted to the skeletons in the closet. He sighed, “Today is better than yesterday at least.”