GROWTH
Sitting on the sofa, half-listneing to the radio, Saph was thinking the same thoughts she had been thinking the last few hours - what has happened to Brett?
I know that it's your soul but could you bottle it up
That preety much summed it up. When she found out about Professor Lyn's suicide (according to the police, he had strangled himself, with an unhumanly firm grip), she had been natuarally shocked but was more concerned of Brett's lack of emotion. She had never met Professor Lyn but from what little things Brett said of him, Brett highly regarded him, so why did he seem not to care?
Well, she cared. Now that the Professor was dead, Brett was back to his deadend cleaners job. Despite his previous hatred of the job, now he seemed to take it in his stride.
I am aiming to be somebody this somebody trustsAnd still, Brett wouldn't open up. This was not the Brett she had first met all those years ago. Her Brett wasn't obsessed with plants, even now he was stroking a certain type of plant. She didn't know the name, but it had long leaves. Looking at them, Saph foolishly let a small tear escape from hr eye.
You meant to make me happy, make me sad
That was it. She didn't care what he did now. She had had enough of his weird behaviur and was determined to sort it out. SO She got up and stormed over to her 'boyfriend'.
"Listen Brett. These last few days, you have treated me like I never existed. Even these stupid plants are treated better than me" Yelling this, Saph was furious to see Brett hadn't even flinched. So angry was she, she kicked a nearby plant, knocking it over and smashing the pot. It was then that Brett looked up, but not at Saph but at the fallen plant. He immediately crowched by it and held like he would a dead body. He then turned to Saph with killer eyes "You killed her" he breathed.
Saph was stunned. Brett carried on, slowly yelling "You know how important these plants are to me" Suddenly Saph piped up, screaming at him "That's the problem! I DON'T! You don't talk to me anymore! If you did, I wouldn't have kicked the stupid plant!" Suddenly, as Saph looked into Brett's eyes, she suddenly saw something human in them for the first time in a long time. But it wasn't a pleasant expression - it looked like someone trying to escape but not knowing how. "Help me" whispered Brett, dripping with desperation.
"You need it" The words were escaping before she realised it. She had just seen Brett - the real Brett. The Brett she had been living with these past few weeks had not been the real Brett, an imitation, nothing more. And this infuriated her and she had to take that anger out somehow. "You're a freak" It happened before she knew it. All she knew was that the real Brett had dissapeared almost as quickly as he had appeared. ANd as he dissapeared and as shee finished speaking, someone using Brett's hand raised it and slapped it across her face. As she lay on the floor, she started to sob. Not because of the pain, it wasn't even the slap, not really. It was the blank expression on 'Brett's' face, no regret or sorrow anywhere.
Slowly she stood up and walked into their room and started packing. Afterwards she rang June saying she was staying at her place "How long for?" asked June. "Until I get Brett back" replied Saph. As she stood at the doo, her hand on the handle, she turned to look at whateer had replaced her boyfriend. Unsuprisingly, he was stroking the plant again. She absorbed the scene and opened the door, slowly shutting the door as quietly as she could.
Standing outside her flat, she shuddered despite it being early summer. Seeing a plant pot near the door, she made her last revenge, despite the small impact it may make. She kicked the plant pot, smashing the ppot and tipping it's entire contents onto the floor. "Stupid plants" she spat "You've ruined my life" She stormed off to June's place. As she stormed off, she missed the supposedly dead plant slowly creep towards a nearby window...
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