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Chapter 3
Disappointment -(Once-ler's POV)-

"All alone! Whether you like it or not, alone is something you'll be quite a lot!" -Dr.Seuss

I gave it my all. I tried my best and yet she still looked at me with the same old disappointed look. It hurts being let down, its agonising when your family even refuses to acknowledge you after you have lost everything.  You would think that your family would always be there for you, but the truth is they aren't. Just like friends, they turn their back on you when shit gets complicated.
At least with me it was like that.
I looked down to the letter once again; a piece of paper I had received 4 months ago. The last letter I ever received was from a town in the very Far East, saying my last brother had died. I am now the last decedent of my family. My very dysfunctional family.
Now I surely won't hear a word from anyone. I am alone. And the closest thing I have to a friend is silence and emptiness.
It's ironic, to think I once had it all, and now I have nothing.
To be fair, I still have a couple of hundred thousand dollars for selling my idea of Thneedville to a short nerdy guy. But what's money worth when you have no one to share it with?
"You've got me? That old green suit could use some remedying. You could go to MY town and buy a new suit. Heck you could buy the fucking town back and then you wouldn't be so alone. Stop complaining already!"
Remember how I said I was alone? Well if I was wrong let me introduce you to someone, the only person whom has stayed with me since I was 7: Greed.
"You know I don't want to get out of here." I answered, speaking into the emptiness of what once was a mansion.
"Tsk, wimp! Just because you wanna starve your social life, doesn't mean I gotta do it, too! I miss some company, no offence."   He remarked with a humble tone.
"Non taken. I can't leave; if the Lorax comes I have to be here! You of all peo …thing …YOU know it better than anyone. Plus, what would people say if they found out about the trees, huh?"
"Nothing! You know why? Because EVERYONE IS FUCKING DEAD!! You are like… 150 years old!" He was starting to get mad; Greed was always a short-tempered thing… pers …GREED!
"76," I corrected him.
"Well it feels like longer when you don't have a fucking calendar!"
"I am sorry okay… but I can't leave. This is my jail. This is my sentence for all my wrong doing, and if it means I will be here until I die, then so be it!" I sat on my bed and looked at the refection in the mirror. I had been locked in this house for the past 55 years. It was time I came to terms with my destiny.
"Greed?"
"Huh?"
"What happens to you if I die? I do believe I have never asked you this. Right?" I lied down.
"I am you, so I die too, you idiot.I am nothing more than the personalities and emotions you locked down." Greed said quietly, almost sleepily.
"I don't recall being greedy." I sighed
"Exactly." He chuckled, almost as if calling me dumb… again.
"Sometimes I feel like you are my imaginary friend." I giggled.
"Tsk, I may be imaginary but I am NOT your friend kid." He mumbled.
I closed my eyes and began to fall into deep relaxation… a deep… sleep.
"Once-ler, could you go tell your dad that we need a new cleaner? And for gods sake, please stop it with your inventions! You will get dirt on the floor. Plus, no girl will ever want to marry you if you do those stupid things." Mom looked at me disappointment written across her eyes as she watched my brand new invention, The Snuzzel. It is meant to stick materials for you automatically… it just needed some tweaking.
"Okay mom," I got up, grabbed my stuff, and walked out. "Dad?" I called out, walking into the shed. He was fixing his old guitar, since I had accidently broken 2 of the cords.
"Once-ler? What is it? Don't tell you-" He stopped and looked at the objects in my hands. "Is that your new invention? Wanna show it to me?" He smiled brightly, taking his cap off and placing it aside as he sat to watch me assemble the Snuzzel together.
"It's meant to do all the sticking for you. You know how the wagon needs sticking constantly? It always takes so long and then the material is so hard to stick. So yeah." I grabbed two pieces of fabric and placed them over a tube. The machine turned on and began to work, but then it caught on fire and spat oil on the two of us. "AUUURRRGGGHH!!! AGAIN!!!!!?"
"Relax kido." Dad chuckled, wiping the oil off his face.
"Mom wants you to hire a new cleaner." I mumbled, picking up an old wrench and starting to reap my failed excuse of an invention.
"Does she have any idea th-"
I looked up and saw dad smiling. He stared at me for a while and then grabbed his cap and placed it on his head.  
"Once-ler, how is it, you manage to have so much patience? I mean where do you get it from? All this dedication and determination. I am a quieter, and your mom only takes advantage of people…lets not talk about your brothers or uncles…Tell me son… How is it this family was blessed with someone like you?" Dad asked, mostly to himself. "When you have the chance, you run away, son. Don't let us drag you down, someday you will be famous and rich and have everything you ever wished for."
"Come on, dad, be realistic! And our family might be messed up, but family is family. We'll always be here for each other." I smiled.
"You are just 13. Far too young to understand life."
My eyes opened with the sound of thunder. The room was pitch black, but black had been a colour I had grown familiar with. A colour that hafd become part of me. He was right about someday being famous and rich… but what he hadn't told me was that every super star has its downfall.
"Dreaming about the day your Dad died again?" Greed murmured.
"Yeah.I think that was the only time I saw Mom cry.."
"Or show any emotion other than greed or disappointment." He snapped back.
"Mmhhmm." I mumbled.
"Hey, just now I thought about the perfect job for you!"
"And what might that be? Start an organisation called green peace to save the poor misfortune animals?"
"Hahaha, Green sounds good. Peace?...Not so much… I don't see myself saving freaking panda bears. Anyways, a priest."
"What? Why?"
"VVVVVVIIIIIIRRRGGGIIINNN!!"
"No I am not!" I cried out, embarrassed.
"……"
He was right. I grew up in a farm, my dad taught me everything I know: how to write, read, play guitar, and take care of myself. I never had much time to adventure out, especially after Dad passed away. Then I became way too busy. My life was an endless task after the other. And when I did have time to stop and relax, something new would pop up.
No time for love and se…intercourse…
"SHUT UP! I WAS TOO BUSY LETTING YOU RULE THE WORLD!!"
"Excuses," Greed teased.
"Okay okay… change subject, let's go watch the storm."
"You haven't even kissed a chick before."
"I SOO HAVE!"
"By chick I mean female not those weird looking bird babies… wait… I still can't believe you kissed a fucking bird!"
"Well I would have… If I had showed up for the date." I looked out the window into the grey clouds.
"Ohhh yesss, Norma! Hahaha you never showed up! Hahaha disaster!!! That, Once-ler, that was a big disappointment." Greed cracked up laughing. Personally, I too felt disappointed. I had let down the only person who ever took interest in me, Norma. I met her while selling Thneeds… I failed at that…but on the other hand I got a date with the most beautiful girl I had ever seen and on the same day I was meant to meet with her, but a bunch of people showed up at the forest with a load of money and asked for Thneeds…
Then, just like every other time in my life, I got too busy for those kinds of things… Love and relationships, I mean. Thinking back to her. Her long wavy chocolate hair. Her big brown eyes. I haven't seen her since. Maybe she got married and had kids? Maybe she even has grand kids.
I heard the cry of crows and a faded rumbling sound…a small light headed in the direction on my house.
"Wait. No one is meant to come around this area. No one. It's out of bounds!!" I cursed myself, turning the light on to try and clarify it wasn't just an illusion.
"FINALLY A RESCUE TEAM!!! FINALLY!!!!" The demon inside me cheered.
I stared as a small boy drove into the front yard of my property.
"A FUCKING KID? SERIOUSLY!? LORAX IF YOU ARE DOING THIS I WILL PLANT A TREE SO FAR UP YO-"
"Shhhhh!!!" I complained, observing the boy. Was he crazy? What could a kid be doing out here, in the middle of nowhere? Outside of town. Where were this boy's parents?
He rang the bell and Greed almost died laughing, yelling in my head "show time show time."  The kid got thrown in the air, tossed, pulled up and God knows what else until my 'security' machine brought him up to my window.
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?" I yelled, trying to sound as intimidating as possible. Doesn't this kid know how dangerous it is to wonder off? Doesn't he know that he might get into a lot of trouble?
"Trees…I want to know about the trees." He struggled.
"HA!!! GREEEAATT AND HOW DOES HE EVEN KNOW ABOUT THE FREAKING TREES."
"I didn't think anyone still cared about trees.." Was all I could manage to say, still a bit too shocked to find out a person outside of town was doing all this for trees. Was he for real? Did he wreck rick his own life for the trees?
"W-WELL THAT'S ME! THE GUY WHO STILL CARES!" He cried out.
I stared at him, and for the first time in a very long time, I didn't SEE disappointment written across a person's eyes when looking at me. Wait…those eyes… have I seen them before?
Chapter 2: [link]
Chapter 3:here
Chapter 4: [link]



Special thank you to my Editor: :iconpekina:
love you Greg ;)

I know that Once-ler does NOT talk to greed and that they are the same person, but think of this as the Jim Carrei movie "Me, Myself and Irene" (its a great movie so go watch it)
If you don’t get it then allow me to explain:
Once-ler grew up being selfless and very generous, he would rather give all his money to the poor than buy himself a new pair of clothes. Because he was so selfless inside his mind, all the greed and ambition and anger a human is naturally born with was stored in one place, therefore creating a twisted part of him. :)

hope you understand me. <3
hehehe
Love ya all.
Stef
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nerdyfanchick's avatar
Yay! you sneaked a bit of Norm-ler in there too :D