Title: This House Is VegasGenre: Drama
Characters: Arrigo, Carmena
Prompt: 12 ~ Forgiveness
Word Count: Approx. 445
Rating: PG (just in case)
Type: Series
Summary: Arrigo comes to some conclusions.
Warnings: Minimal language
Arrigo tried not to look as his mother sat down beside him. It wasn't that he didn't like talking to her--he did, really--but after all this drama, he just wanted a few moments to himself. Besides, he didn't understand how she managed to be so seemingly unaffected by all of this; hell, she still even wore her wedding band! Was she truly so resilient? Or was she just being idealistic to the point of borderline stupidity?Regardless, it was somewhat painful to realize just how different they were. He would never be strong and tough and generous like her; he would always be miserable and weak, just like his father. Perhaps that was why he had always been so willing to hurt the man.
"Nice night," his mother ventured. He replied with a grunt; he didn't feel worthy of words.
Out of the corner of his eye, he watched as his mother turned her head and frowned. "'Rigo? Are you okay?"Are you okay? That phrase was almost foreign. His father had seen him much worse and had never bothered with that simple question. Yet, this realization only made him resent her more--why hadn't she been there to ask him if he was okay all those other times? Why hadn't she been there to hear him scream that he wasn't, to just make it better?
Ah, but the only reason he couldn't forgive her was that there was nothing to forgive. It was all his father's fault, everything from her initial disappearance to her continued absence to the current situation, and Arrigo himself had only fueled the process with his own idiotic decisions.But after all this, he still couldn't feel too angry at the man. It seemed he was doomed to forgive Vinicio everything. Either fate was even crueler than he had guessed, or there was something seriously wrong with him.
"Arrigo?"
It was true that he had no right to have any grievance against her. Now that he thought about it, he couldn't give her an honest answer to that question anyway--if he told her what was on his mind, no matter how he stressed her innocence, she would not for a moment think to forgive herself. At last, he had been given an opportunity to vent, and all he could do was lie through the teeth.Life. What a bitch.
"I'm fine, Mom," he told her with a grimace, slinging his arm around her in hopes of her reassurance. "Just... zoned out for a minute, that's all. Sorry about that."His mother laughed. "Oh, 'Rigo, you silly boy! There's no reason to be sorry!"
For you, maybe--for you.
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Sorry about the drabble. Next up... drabble. And then... more drabble. But then there shall be plot, dammit!
ReplyDelete...hey, I'm running out of prompt words.
Running out of prompt words means...you are almost done with the table!!! Woo Hoo!
ReplyDeleteI still feel so bad for Arrigo that he just can't seem to move past blaming himself for eveything that is wrong.
If this is drabble, I want more!
Yep :) Unfortunately, that means I'm almost done the story as well. I planned it so that it only spans the one table. I now have fifteen prompts left to write.
ReplyDeleteArrigo has a significant amount of self-loathing worked up, so blaming himself almost seems to be a natural tendency. I don't think either of his parents will ever fully understand what goes on in his head, sadly :(
Drabble is never in short supply around here :P
Forgiveness, apt title for this bit. Rigo showing another side to his complicated personality, he wants to protect his mother, awww.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad it managed to work. When down to so few prompt words, it's sometimes difficult :S
ReplyDelete'Rigo is simultaneously mama's boy and daddy's little girl. And this while also having even more than the usual teenage antics and suicidal tendencies. And yet, somehow, he works.
"Was she truly so resiliant? Or was she just being idealistic to the point of borderline stupidity?"
ReplyDeleteSeriously one of the best lines I ever read!
Poor' Rigo, he never really got to learn the concept of the middle ground did he? The complexity of your characters, once again, astounds me :)
Thanks Katee :)
ReplyDeleteYeah, 'Rigo's not really sure how he can be loyal to both parents at once, I think, which is a common issue for kids with divorced/seperated parents. Given the added strain of all his other problems, it's no wonder Arrigo's having some difficulties here :(
Arrigo seems a genuine and kind person under all those monkeys on his back. You describe his internal workings in such a fascinating and realistic way - definitely not drabble. XD
ReplyDeleteOn a side note, since 'Rigo mentioned her wedding band, it always sort of amused me how sims' rings are on their middle finger, heh.
At the core, he is a nice a guy... but there's a ton of stuff surrounding that core.
ReplyDeleteYeah, that always stuck out like a sore thumb to me as well. It is rather amusing, though, in a strange way.
Thanks Yuxi :)