Post by ZELDA on Jan 26, 2024 1:04:38 GMT -5
{It’s like the world has stopped around her. She looks at all the faces surrounding her, tears in their eyes. She remembers the words of all the people who stood in front of the crowd and told their stories about how much they loved him, how great of a man he was, how he could always find a way to make you smile… and she keeps running the thoughts through her head where “Steve wouldn’t want us to be sad. He would want us to smile and celebrate.” She can’t do that though… Zelda stands there, her and Steve’s small son standing beside her with his hand in hers… tears rolling down his face and the world is silent, time has stopped and she stares blankly into the distance before she seems to start talking to the void. Talking towards something, or somebody, who isn’t standing there.}
Zelda: Please God, this can’t be true. Please, walk through that door right now and let me punch you in the stomach because you pulled one more of your elaborate pranks. Nobody is going to think you’re funny this time… You went too far this time… you can't’ do this to me. You can’t… you just…
You can’t be gone… You just can’t. Adam stood up there and told this crowd of thousands that you wouldn’t want any of us to be sad. Trent talked about how you were the best wrestler that ever stepped into the ring. I just can’t think of like that, I can’t think of you in the past tense.
You are my everything. You’re everything I always wanted to be and when I was in my darkest times you were there. You pulled from the depths of hell, from the grasp of my own self destruction… you took my hand and made me a mother.
Ben looks so much like you. He says he’s going to follow in your footsteps and that he’s going to make you proud… but I see the tears streaming down his face. I see the frown as he smiles talking about how much he loved his father. Nobody thought you were going to be around to be a father to him, but I never doubted you. I knew how amazing of a man you are, how you could always make me feel like I was the most important thing in the world. Our future… it was going to be the happiest time of my life.
They all said I shouldn’t fall in love with you because of your past. They said I was insane for believing in you. But you know what you always told me. Let them. Let them talk, let them talk about all the past, you didn’t care. I didn’t care. We were just going to do this together…and now.. Now…
This just can’t be real.
Steve. You were my rock.You were my best friend. I will never forget the laughs, the adventures. No no… I’ll never forget our misadventures. Especially the time we got lost in Vegas… *smiles*. You were the best part of my life.
{Zelda begins to silently cry as she lowers her head. She begins to imagine a time in the past.}
((Steve gets down on a knee and extends his hand, holding a small black box in her direction, to a laughing Zelda. She rolls her eyes at him as she punches him in the shoulder.
Zelda: Oh Mr. Awesome. You stop that shit right now.))
{Zelda looks up and around the room still frozen in time. She can’t let this moment pass, she can’t because that would mean that he was really gone. That he was never walking through that door to kiss her again. He was never going to sarcastically call her Sydney as she was doing something to get on his nerves. He’s never going to take that video game controller from her hands and drag her off on some crazy ass shenanigans ever again… if she lets this moment in time go on.}
Zelda: I will never lose those memories of you. I have to go on in this world without you, but I will never stop thinking about the good times. I will never let Ben go a day without knowing what type of man his father really was…
{She clutches her hand against her heart as she falls to her knees and looks at Ben’s frozen face. The world begins to rotate again as throws her arms around her crying son. Adam and Kelly walk over and throw their arms around her as they slowly help her up. Adam grabs Ben and throws him into his arms and holds him on his shoulder. Kelly wraps her arms around Zelda’s neck before Adam begins to lead the group out of the room. Zelda turns back and looks into the nothing, her heart crushed, her soul hurting for the most amazing man she had ever met.. He brings her hand to her lips and blows a kiss into the air.}
Zelda Awesome: I love you Steve.
{Fade to black}
Zelda: Please God, this can’t be true. Please, walk through that door right now and let me punch you in the stomach because you pulled one more of your elaborate pranks. Nobody is going to think you’re funny this time… You went too far this time… you can't’ do this to me. You can’t… you just…
You can’t be gone… You just can’t. Adam stood up there and told this crowd of thousands that you wouldn’t want any of us to be sad. Trent talked about how you were the best wrestler that ever stepped into the ring. I just can’t think of like that, I can’t think of you in the past tense.
You are my everything. You’re everything I always wanted to be and when I was in my darkest times you were there. You pulled from the depths of hell, from the grasp of my own self destruction… you took my hand and made me a mother.
Ben looks so much like you. He says he’s going to follow in your footsteps and that he’s going to make you proud… but I see the tears streaming down his face. I see the frown as he smiles talking about how much he loved his father. Nobody thought you were going to be around to be a father to him, but I never doubted you. I knew how amazing of a man you are, how you could always make me feel like I was the most important thing in the world. Our future… it was going to be the happiest time of my life.
They all said I shouldn’t fall in love with you because of your past. They said I was insane for believing in you. But you know what you always told me. Let them. Let them talk, let them talk about all the past, you didn’t care. I didn’t care. We were just going to do this together…and now.. Now…
This just can’t be real.
Steve. You were my rock.You were my best friend. I will never forget the laughs, the adventures. No no… I’ll never forget our misadventures. Especially the time we got lost in Vegas… *smiles*. You were the best part of my life.
{Zelda begins to silently cry as she lowers her head. She begins to imagine a time in the past.}
((Steve gets down on a knee and extends his hand, holding a small black box in her direction, to a laughing Zelda. She rolls her eyes at him as she punches him in the shoulder.
Zelda: Oh Mr. Awesome. You stop that shit right now.))
{Zelda looks up and around the room still frozen in time. She can’t let this moment pass, she can’t because that would mean that he was really gone. That he was never walking through that door to kiss her again. He was never going to sarcastically call her Sydney as she was doing something to get on his nerves. He’s never going to take that video game controller from her hands and drag her off on some crazy ass shenanigans ever again… if she lets this moment in time go on.}
Zelda: I will never lose those memories of you. I have to go on in this world without you, but I will never stop thinking about the good times. I will never let Ben go a day without knowing what type of man his father really was…
{She clutches her hand against her heart as she falls to her knees and looks at Ben’s frozen face. The world begins to rotate again as throws her arms around her crying son. Adam and Kelly walk over and throw their arms around her as they slowly help her up. Adam grabs Ben and throws him into his arms and holds him on his shoulder. Kelly wraps her arms around Zelda’s neck before Adam begins to lead the group out of the room. Zelda turns back and looks into the nothing, her heart crushed, her soul hurting for the most amazing man she had ever met.. He brings her hand to her lips and blows a kiss into the air.}
Zelda Awesome: I love you Steve.
{Fade to black}