Obsession part 2 – chapter 27 – Nobody's home
Weeks, followed by months, started to pass and eventually turning into years in the Lipsky house hold. Ryan was growing like a bean along with Alison, who was still having problems with keeping friends. Her grades were low which seemed to make things even harder for her.
Shego started to regain more strength and became back to her old self. She taught Alison every day how to control her powers, and in her old fighting room she would teach both of her children the art of kung-fu. She tried to teach Drakken, but one fall with his legs split he couldn't walk for two days. Abigail's health was upbeat and healthy, which made Drakken very happy. She would go to the YMCA every Thursday afternoon and take swimming lessons to help with her arthritics.
Ryan's grades were high, just like his fathers. He tried to tutor Alison but nothing really was working. He worked on his band with his friends, giving everyone in the home blasting headaches, but his sister never minded his music. Ryan would tell his parents he wanted to be a huge rock star someday, which led to the fact that Alison knew they needed a lead singer, if they were to be big and famous. Within time Alison became the singer of his band and things started to turn around for them.
Drakken told Shego the news about the gold the night they went out to dinner and she was completely blown away. Her life changed that night. Shego's spirit was healthier and her reactions towards Marisa became easier and friendlier. Even though Shego knew in her heart what would become of her life and her family she was only doing what she had to do for the best, and if that's what it took, she would even sacrifice her life for them just so they could live a normal and healthy life…
"Have you seen my pick?" Ryan called from the bottom of the stairs in his home. Shego, the mother of Ryan barely recognized him anymore, he was growing so fast.
"Are you sure it's not in your room under all the mess you have?"
"Nah, I checked there."
"Look in the garage, I know its there, I saw it on the floor like two days ago." Interrupted a girl who had grown just as much as her brother did, it was Alison.
"Pick it up next time and give it to me." Ryan asked waving a hand in her direction.
"I'm not your slave."
"Yes you are," He laughed, Alison scowled.
"Both of you hush, Alison pull your hair back or brush it, I don't like it like it looking like that."
"But mom," Alison questioned running up the stairs and standing in front of the woman who gave her life and tugging out a few strands of her black hair and let them fall to the grown. "I like my hair this way. I really don't want to cut it off. I mean or brush it, its like yours… you know we're blessed to have this kind of hair."
Alison's facial features were the becoming images of Abigail, her father's mother. Alison's hair was wavy like her mothers and hung down to her behind. She didn't mind to have it so long because she wanted to look like her mother and Shego always told her that was nice but to be original is better.
"No matter what," Shego laughed glancing tugging at her own hair, "you will always look like me, even if you don't have my hair style."
"I love my hair." Ryan admired himself running his fingers through the black spikes in the mirror below them.
"You're gay." Alison laughed.
"Don't talk to him that way Alison." Shego sighed; walking back into her bedroom Shego picked up her cell phone and dialed a number.
"Who are you calling mom?"
"Your father. I miss him."
"Someone is insecure." Alison whispered as Shego shot her a glance that told her to watch her mouth. The ringing rang in her ears for a few moments until the other end became noisy when Doctor Drakken picked it up.
"Hey, sweets!"
"Drakken, hi… how are you, how is everything?"
"Everything is great; I think they actually might take it."
"Really? Oh wow! Are you serious?" Shego giggled excitedly.
Drakken was away at a villain convention trying to sell of his newest item for world domination. Shego was hoping that it would sell because they wanted be back in the villainies life again.
"How are the kids?"
"Good," Shego sighed sitting on her bed, drooling over her husband's deep raspy voice. "Fighting over their hair, Alison wants it to be like mine."
"Let her."
"You think I should?" Shego asked. Her arms were now bursting with goose bumps across them so she started to rub them vigorously.
"Yeah. Hey I have to go, but I will be back late tomorrow night."
"Tomorrow night? Drakken, Ryan's show is tomorrow night, you have to be there! He is counting on you!"
"Yeah, yeah I know he is, but I will try my best to be home."
"You better."
"Have a nice day dear, love you, bye."
"… Bye." Shego whispered as she flipped her silver phone shut and placed it back on its charger as she headed downstairs to find her twins arguing over something. Sighing and walking down the hall that led to Marissa bedroom, she stopped before her door and knocked on it.
"I saw you coming."
"I know… no one is safe in this house with you in it." Shego teased as she pushed open the door and Marissa shut it quickly.
"Can I paint it black? My bedroom, can I paint it black please?"
"What did you do to your hair? And you look paler, Marissa, what's the matter?"
"I um, decided to cut it? Can I paint the room black or not?"
Marissa looked down at her feet. Her face had become thinner and her eyes were surrounded by dark circles. No long did her beautiful straight reddish brown hair hang to her shoulders, but it was now in a trashcan in her bathroom close to Shego. Marissa's new style looked as if someone put a lawn mower to it. Everything was a mess.
"I need my mother; I am weak with out her."
Shego bit her lower lip as her friend slowly stumbled over to her bed and laid down, her swollen eyes turning over to Shego's direction, looking for help.
"… How long until it happens, Marissa?"
"Really soon. You know the plan correct? You know what you have to do."
"Yeah… I know, I am still having nightmares about it...about her!"
"I will do what I can do, but I have to warn you…"
"You're dying aren't you, oh my god… Marissa…please tell me are you're not dying?" Shego gasped and covering her mouth with her hand.
Marissa's cracked lips started to curve upwards which soon parted and out came a laugh and a cough.
"Yeah, I guess you could say I am. When the time comes I will be normal again just for that night and than… and than…"
"Your life will be over…"
"So much for doing what mommy said. Telling you the real truth about me, m-my mother knows and she has told my father."
"What!" Shego nearly screamed, not caring if her children would soon pound on the door asking what was going on inside.
"I know… I know." Marissa coughed and wheezed.
"Oh god, please no! How could she know?" Shego asked, in a desperate tone
"She is w-watching me ri-… I can't talk to you anymore about this. Not now. Go!" She shivered as Marissa eyes became glued to the door, her fingers digging into her bed covers. "G-get out… now."
"Okay, I will let you be." Shego whispered keeping her head down and leaving the room. "And yes, you can paint the room black. That's what I did when I was your age."
"T-thank you. Now leave..."
As Shego left the room, Marissa managed to pull her frail body up and stumble into the bathroom. It was dark and hard to see her reflection. Her short hair in tiny spikes darting everywhere, looking as if they were going to shoot off her head and stab someone, she brushed them back with her comb.
"Go to hell!" A voice muttered In her mind as she started to pound her fist on the mirror, hoping it would crack. A moment later her knees grew terribly weak and Marissa fell to the ground, and started to cry.
That day the weather was overcast and there was nothing really to do. Shego took her children and Abigail to the movies to see something they haven't seen yet.
"What are we seeing again?" Alison wined resting her head gently on the glass window in the backseat of her mother's tiny car.
"I think it's the day bunnies attacked Ohio." Ryan yawned and Abby chuckled.
"Bor-ing!"
"Alison, you know we're not going to go see that, Ryan don't intrigue your sister, leave her alone." Shego snapped eyeing him in the mirror of the car. Ryan laughed and rolled his eyes.
"The weather has been ugly for weeks."
"I hope it rains and washes us away." Alison muttered angrly.
"What's the matter honey?" her grandmother asked her turning around the best she could to look at her granddaughter.
Alison shrugged and rested her head back on the back of the car seat, "Oh I don't know Grandma. Have you ever liked someone and you just can't tell them how you feel?"
"Whoooo! Alison's got a crush, who is it! Who!"
"Ryan, leave her alone! Don't make me pull, I don't think at the age of 15 you guys need reprimanding that much anymore… well, for this stuff that is."
"Of course they do!" Abigail nodded crossing her arms as Shego stopped at a red light and watched a mother and her daughter hurry across the street.
"What do you mean?"
"Um, can we get back to me, please?" Alison asked as Shego nodded shutting her mother in law up.
"Anyway, thanks. I mean, Nana have you ever been in that situation?"
"Yes, I have."
Alison looked up, "What did you do?"
"What did I do," Abigail repeated running her wrinkled fingers through her dark brown hair, "Well, if you really, really like a boy than you should tell him. Go up to him. Try to start a conversation, who knows… he just might like you back."
"No one will ever like me, I am a freak…"
Ryan turned his head and looked at his sister. She was staring at her pale hands that within any moment they could burst into pink flames and Alison could burn the car to bits.
"You're not a freak sis, you're just… different. You're the different one and I'm the gifted one in the family."
"Excuse me?" Alison questioned,
"You heard me babe, the ladies just love me! I can't help it, I got moms looks… no wait, oh my god ew!"
The whole car burst into laughter except Ryan who was blushing and sulking back down into his dirty seat.
"See Ry," Alison giggled covering her mouth with her hand and pointing a finger at him, "You treat me bad and you get what you deserve."
"It's true." Shego smiled and Ryan kicked his mother's seat.
"Ryan!" Shego screamed waving her hand around in the back, trying to grab her son's foot.
Abigail rolled her eyes and pulled Shego's hand back onto the wheel and slapped Ryan's foot and he stopped.
"Who do you like dear?" She asked Alison who looked dull.
"I, er… not say?"
Ryan made a farting sound and burst into laughter. Alison glared at him.
"You're an idiot."
"I know, I mean, am not!"
"I just want to live a normal life…" Alison cried. Ryan was rocking his head back and forth and listening to the rolling stones on the radio. The song could barely be heard from all the screaming and laughing that was going on. Shego stopped at another light and decided to change the channel on the radio. A familiar tune started to start and Alison's face light up as she jammed her body between her Nana and mother to turn it up.
"Whoa Alison, what's the deely?" Ryan questioned pulling her back into the seat as Avril Lavinge voice basted in the car.
"This is Marissa's song! Just listen… it is… this song was written just for her!"
The car started to move again as the words from the music box flooded into the Lipsky's ears, one by one…
I couldn't tell you why she felt that way, What's wrong, what's wrong now? Open your eyes and look outside, find the reasons why. Her feelings she hides. She wants to go home, but nobody's home. She's lost inside, lost inside...oh oh
She felt it everyday.
And I couldn't help her,
I just watched her make the same mistakes again.
Too many, too many problems.
Don't know where she belongs, where she belongs.
She wants to go home, but nobody's home.
It's where she lies, broken inside.
With no place to go, no place to go to dry her eyes.
Broken inside.
You've been rejected, and now you can't find what you left behind.
Be strong, be strong now.
Too many, too many problems.
Don't know where she belongs, where she belongs.
She wants to go home, but nobody's home.
It's where she lies, broken inside.
With no place to go, no place to go to dry her eyes.
Broken inside.
Her dreams she can't find.
She's losing her mind.
She's fallen behind.
She can't find her place.
She's losing her faith.
She's fallen from grace.
She's all over the place.
Yeah,oh
It's where she lies, broken inside.
With no place to go, no place to go to dry her eyes.
Broken inside.
She's lost inside, lost inside...oh oh yeah
By the time the song was over, Shego's eyes were filled with tears and starting to run down her face. Abigail was silent and was white. Ryan's jaw was hanging and Alison had her arms crossed and nodded.
"It is… it truly is…" Shego whispered pulling the car over and grabbed a tissue.
"Mommy, are you okay?" Alison asked, curious and nervous why she was crying.
"Y-yeah sweetheart, Mom will be fine. It's just… what ever happens to you two, if something did ever happen; I will love you and your father forever, do you understand me!"
Ryan looked at Alison who looked back and they both nodded with little smiles.
"Where did you hear that song before?" Shego asked as they started up again,
"Uh, I found it in dad's car, on a c-d… why?"
Biting her lower lip Shego mumbled, making sure no one could hear her, "Because it tells not only her future, but ours as well."