~Memories Cafe~

"please dont keep it all in its..unhealthy..you can talk to me even if it's just hi every now and then.." with a weak smile she touched his shoulder giving him her share of puffs she was eating. Milly took a small break,"Maxi..don't please..you can't like him or get close to anyone else but me.." she was crying a but as maxi hugged her in the kitchen the cooks mined there business. She knew she killed herself due to men but how n why eluded Milly. Maxi held her,"don't be such a baby..I can have friends..I'm not gonna leave ya Mills okay." smirking like her usual self washing up and taking orders in. Mills fixed herself and called Cory over to the lounge she waited for him.
 
Cory finished the puffs and walked back into the kitchen. He fellt like he had been talking a lot letely, he attributed that to maxine approaching him so often. It was throwing him off balance. He had never wanted any friends, he was afraid of betrayal. He wouldn't show it however, which was why he tried to drive people away with his cold sarcastic attitude.
 
Milly was only protecting Maxine, "Cory....There is no nice way to put this so I'll just say it.." her head rested on hands,"Maxine...don't get too nice with her...I know your the leave me alone type but please don't okay." she stood patting his shoulder,"she isn't able to handle negative emotions...that is all I know." she left him with that thought. Maxine was flirting with the male filled table sitting on ones lap,"haha mm well it depends on your behavior mister.."
 
Cory though he may have felt the slight bit hurt by this. he scowled. he didnt care. he didnt need friends, and this was why. there was always something there, something that would stop it. Maxine was the one who had aproached him, and he had never really been nice. he went to the stage and put his guitar away. he hoisted the guitar case onto his back and headed towards the door. "im leaving early today." he said as plainly as he could without snapping at them with customers around.
 
She just smiled and waved as she approached a family sitting by the window spot overlooking the town. "hello.." Maxine saw mills and Cory leave cursing in her mind she played with flirty with them getting there order in,"make I snappy there very hungry.." the cook took over as main cook maxine wanted to wait tables. Ur seein as Cory left she would wait in the last of the costumers as the shop came to a close. The sounds of cleaning and filling salt and pepper shakers could be heard. Maxine counting her tips a madding feeling over came her staring at Milly getting both upstairs and main levels money ready for deposit. "do you enjoy taking away things from me..I can't handle my emotions you say..tell em Milly..why do you kep me away from every single dam person.." Milly sighed lookin at her seriously."recall that day you hurt yourself..well that night I too had a dream sleeping with you as you healed. A girl just like you cutting her self up but she...looked so plain and normal..it scared me coz then it was you looking up at me."
 
Cory found a place in a nearby park. it was getting late so everyone was gone. he pulled out his guitar and strummed a few random notes. he felt a slight headache come and go as he remembered a song from his past. he strummed and sang, "He drowns in his dreams, An exquisite extreme, I know He’s as damned as he seems, And more heaven than a heart could hold, And if I try to save him My whole world could cave in It just ain't right It just ain't right Oh and I don't know, I don't know what he's after, But he's so beautiful, Such a beautiful disaster, And if I could hold on Through the tears and the laughter, Would it be beautiful? Or just a beautiful disaster?" he was stopped by his tears.he couldnt hold them any longer. he pulled the small silk pouch from his pocket. he opened the pouch and looked at the diamond ring inside. he quickly dropped the ring back in the bag. this song is for you Cory, because you are my beautiful disaster. i found you in a disaster and brought out you beauty as a person. all that was left of him was the disaster. he put his head in his hands as he cried.
 
She said nothing picking up her things she just left her there pissed off,"that is not who I am!" she should as she walked down the road to the apartments, the her she knew was a bad mouthed girl..not this plain Jane who cut herself. Staring at the sky she cursed it."..I hate it when she makes sense..if only she knew her past.." the man had shows her a happy family and a pregnant Milly but different she was Happy celebrating something then everyone was dead n Milly was sad and depressed..then a bright light. She had come to her door lost in thought she pushed her way in dropping it all and started throwing everything out the window in anger. "IF IT'S TRUE THEN I RATHER BE DEAD THEN I DON'T WANNA BE SOMEONE IM NOT!!" she shouted hair clinging to her as tears streamed down her face as she realized that it could be true, but why the switched dreams. Falling to the floor she laid by glass.
 
Cory packed up his guitar. he rolled the ring around in his hand as he walked home. he tucked it in his pocket as he climbed up to the roof of the apartment building. he pulled his guitar out, "happy birthday, i miss you." he wiped a tear as it fell and began to play his guitar. "You found me when no one else was looking....."
 
The glass on the floor was scattered on the floor she stared at it thinking about Milly"how do I tell her...." she cried silently into the night. Milly was at her door face dropped,"Maxine!!" running to her she kneeled moving the glass picking her up."what's wrong Maxine tell me.." she just looked at her and spoke will sorrow in her voice."...your true history...that day I too had a vision from a hooded figure. Your family was murdered...and you were taken..you didn't die by gods hand.." she looked away as millys eyes widened.
 
Cory went to pull the silk pouch from his pocket and as he did the ring slipped out and rolled down the roof. it glittered and tickled as it hit the shingles. "no wait!" Cory reached and missed. he set his guitar down and made his way to the edge of the room as he watched it roll over the edge.
 
Milly backed away and said nothing maxi say up glaring at her as she left she heard someone outside and walked out glass crunching under feet. "what's wrong..." she shouted ffrom her balcony looking up something shiny caught her eye as she tried to see what it was. Milly didn't feel like leaving and fell by the door,"...killed.."
 
the ring rolled over the edge and Cory looked down, his eyes wide. not only had he just lost his prized possesion, it had fallen near Maxines room. "oh sh..." he stopped himself. "its nothing really." he said, his eyes darted about, searching around the broken glass for the ring.
 
It caught her eye but just Bent over and took it it was the most prettiest ring she saw. It brought to her a very clear image of acory holding it..happy and then saddness.."this is pretty.." speaking aloud softly she could feel rain drops as the images seem to pass over her like a silent film. Why was she seeing things since her head injury, how come? She had tears mixing in with the rain she stood there sad hurt feeling empty. "..Cory...I...here.." her words jumbled seeing his face clearly unsure if she should tell him what she just saw. The things Milly said..the memories she had.."..I'm...not sure who I am..I have felt strange since I hurt my head remember?"


Milly had saw from behind the curtains,her face fearful. "...I told them not to get close...now she will fall for him all over again.." Milly backed away and left for her home deciding to not butt in any longer. "she will suffer..she has the memories of..his..." The whole story unfolded in her mind again like a movie. "she will live..her memories I gave her are that of different people..twisted I know but I'm not very nice now am I..Maxine powers a plain Jane who wanted to be wrong and sassy. I gave her that minus the plane Jane part. Given the adult Maxine with memories of a love...Cory's precious girlfriend..it seemed fun..." she had recalled seeing the shadow laugh and leave asking how will she save them from its cruel fate it gave them in this world...a odd and twistd world she thought.


(I fixed it any thing let me knows..it would be something to see how Maxine with traits of her wants self and Cory's girlfriend..well the love part at last lol..)
 
Cory grabbed his guitar and dropped over the edge of the roof. He took the ring form her and looked her in the eyes. His expression was complicated. "Thanks, this is important to me. it was supposed to be ffor my girlfriend. she died of a brain tumor and i....she was the only one who ever bother to break this facade i put up. i cant take it anymore, whats the point of being here if shes not with me? i canbt even remember her face or name, but these feelings keep stabbing through me like knife. why....i just...." he trailed off. for the first time since before his drowning he let his tears flow freely. he fell to his knees, unable to stop himself from crying. its like someone had just twisted that knife, twisted it till broke. he sat there under the evening stars, letting out everything he had bottled up. he felt broken, torn apart. the feeling had ripped right through him as he had taken the ring from Maxines hand.


((if your pushing the story in the direction i think you are, Cory hadnt proposed yet and his girlfriend died of a brain tumor. if i am mistaken, then please correct me.))
 
Milly laid awake in her bed, was what Maxine said true and why did they get these random visions now of all times."why you bastard! Tell me.." cursing Milly Mae tossed and turned that. Other hoping Maxine wouldn't do anything stupid.


Maxine stood there dumbfounded, part of her wanted to smack some sense into him but that small voice in her mind said to comfort him. Kicking the glass away she kneeled down in front of him,"..Cory..come inside..it's a bit trashed but you can use a towl dry." she took his hand and dried him Off carefully. "I know you hurt..I feel a deep pain in my heart and also a wanting..he I only have eyes for one man." she stopped and headed towards to the door."I won't ask why or how you got you ring..sleep till your rested then you can go if the rain lets up..."
 
Cory wiped his tears, his usual frown set firmly on his face once again. he jammed the ring back in his pocket turned back to Maxine. "this never happened. i dont break down in front of people, EVER" he gave her a stern look "i trust you wont say anything?" his tone softened a bit. he cursed himself inwardly, now he had a new problem to deal with. why couldnt he just live quietly? why did the pain keep coming back?
 
She was facing away from him as he said his words she was a bit frightened but sighed turning,"do I look like one to blab.." she frowned sittin on her sofa cleaning off the glass an such from her outburst. "that is not who I am.." looking away her cheeks flushed think why why now when he was talking to him finally! Hanging her head in her knees like a school girl. "it'll be as if i don't know nothing don't worry...all I ask is you don't question why my apartment looks like someone ran sacked the place..I got anger issues.." Maxine was still figuring out who she was. A sassy flirt? Maybe the sad plain girl Milly spoke of, or maybe someone who loves Cory because that is what happens when a girl likes someone for a long time. Had she known him long? She tried to think back but it just made her head hurt a lot. The rain had stopped,"..you can go the rain seems to have lifted.." standing up lost in thought she walked to her room and stepped on glass cutting her foot. "ahh!" she held her foot up in pain. "dammit!.."
 
Cory walked over and grabbed her by the arm to steady her. "be careful!" he said sternly. "you have to be able to get to cafe tomorrow to make your sweets." his tone softened, but his frown remained. he helped her to her bedroom, and without even asking searched for her broom and swept the glass to the side. he then searched her bathroom for a clothe. he grabbed a few bandages as well before he went back to her room. he dabbed at the blood and bandaged her foot. "i never said you were untrustworthy, and anger wont solve anything." he cast his eyes to the piles of glass he had swept to the side. "i figured that out a long time ago. no matter what we do we cant change the past. thats why ive stopped caring. as long as stay out of the way, my future can remain as my present is. no worries, no.....pain." he hesitated slightly, slipping his hand back into his pocket. he got up and walked to the door, lingering a moment. why was he telling her this? why did feel he could trust her when he couldnt for everyone else?
 
"you like my sweets?" siting there as he tended to her foot she didn't have the urge to kick him hating being tended to but his touch, why did it feel..right? "yes I know I has a moment of weakness..my head is confused.." she watched him leave and as he turned she spoke softly,"stay..." it all made sense..she didn't care who she was as long as she was someone who could make him smile again, how she wanted to see him smile. "..stay..." he shocked herself by saying that, if only she could know her true past maybe her present would be more clear.
 
"your sweets....yea they are good." Cory felt needles in his heart. why did she have to keep asking questions? why was he opening up to her. he heard her mutter stay, and his eyes widened a bit. nothing surprised him, but this did. he faced her from where he stood in the door. "why do you care? doesnt my cold attitude put you off? most people just avoid me, so why?" he had a complicated expression. what was he saying? a painful memory flashed through his mind. Why am i still here Cory? because i care! because your my friend, and i dont want you to hurt. "what makes you think youre my friend." he wondered if this was going too far, it was like replaying everything that had happened before he died. was it ok for him to settle into something like this? it wasnt false hope was it?
 
Maxi had hobbled to the door of her room holding the door her face half hidden from him, his coldness had not made her want to leave him alone. She had this feeling like she had to get closer, and make him smile. "thanks..." her voice was softened more so very unlike her self..what ever that was. her face was hidden his coldness jsut made her want to get even more involved with him. she averted his eyes as her heart wanted to burst out of her chest."I...I look at you and all i see is a man at a stand still..it makes me want to move your forward..or something.." mumbling at the end, his words stung but she wasnt one to cry over it and the door moved from her face she stood there leg bent hands in fists,"STUPID i am your FRIEND...a good friend is concerned about them and feeds them hoping something will happen one day. That all the days of making new flavors dont go unwasted!" all this time she was making different flavors for the sake of Cory, to find his flavor..not that he would care it would seem and upset her so. "stupid.." she muttered a single tear fell from her face,"maybe i am the plain jane Maxi hiding behind a rude in your face mask.."
 
The needles in Corys heart were replaced by warmth. Her took her in and hugged her, a few tears of his own falling. "Why" he mumbled over her shoulder, "why is there always someone has to get in my business and make me wonder why I pushed them away in the first place."
 
Taken back she stood there, his hug..it felt warm. "that's what a friend is for Cory." looking into his face maxi wiped his tears that fell."no more..whether this life is real or fake..let's not dwell in the past but make a future for ourselfs yea." seeing him tsking in what happened deciding that she would not let what happened get to her any longer. Maxi seems to glow for once her hair a mess her foot still hurt.
 
Cory nodded. his expression remained flat, but soft. "ok. i..." he said awkwardly, "im looking forward to trying more flavors of your puffs." he put his arm around her waist and helped her back towards her bed. he didnt want her opening her cut. "you should probably take it easy at work tomorrow." he cautioned. he thought as the familiar feel of natural music started to come back to him, "oh, and i might be able to play something worth listening to.....i mean, if you want." he rubbed the back of his neck.
 
She watched him and helped herself on the bed,"thanks.." hearing him speak about her puffs she smiled a little,"yea I'll need help cleaning so I might call for so help and arrive late..puffs will have to be put on hold." her living room was trashed and would take time cleaning. Milly wouldn't be able to come she still couldn't leave her work and hear his music, "i can't wait to hear the real Cory's music.. I bet it's great." rubbing her foot she smiled to herself imagining what it would sound like humming a random tune.
 
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