The jukebox still intact , but adjacent to it was a doppelganger jukebox. But it had a blue canary on it. I took both of them with me but tripped over something. And when I saw what it was, my heart leaped up into a joy.
When I reached back into my room, and tried looking for a secret chamber where my father put letters in it was locked. When I squinted to look, there was a small keyhole in both those jukeboxes.
The tune bought me back to my childhood. Those moments I spent with my dad, our laughter and my happiness. Everything lost when he went away.
A wave of depression hit my heart. I was taken back to that fateful day, a guy lying on the ground bleeding profusely and my mom screaming for me to get into the getaway car. Those months we spent underground, eating somedays running most. It had broken me down on the inside. And one day, I couldn't handle it any longer and went to the police station to give myself up. I spent a week, in juvenile detention as they couldn't start the proceedings as my so called parents had escaped.
That day in court, as I stood as a witness to my step dads case and during his sentencing, my mom shouting back at me about how she lost both of her husband's because of me. And that I should rot in hell.
All these memories broke me down in tears. I put those jukeboxes aside in my cupboard. But it became all so difficult even to move.
My husband returned home after his work and was heartbroken to see me sitting on my bed staring into the abyss. The house same as he left. I hadnt moved the entire day, I was too depressed to do anything.
He held my hand and looked at me in the eye.
"Hun! I am here for you. I will do everything. I love you!"
I hugged him tight. He didn't ask me anything and went ahead to clean the house. After which he sat next to me as I said," My mothers sees me as an unwanted child, I lost my dad and my stepfather used me for his gains. Why do you love me?"
He stared back into my eyes and pulled me close,"Nobody in this world would've given me a second chance . And you accepted me even after everything. You gave me strength to do something in life. And you are asking me why I love you? I would be dead in a nook or cranny of opioid if you hadn't helped me live a better life. I am because of you!"
Somewhere my world was better and we decided to eat dinner and watch a movie.