The Documentary?
The first few chapters are crap, haha but please read more it gets better trust me- Samara
That morning I was so eager to find who was Ray? And why did he just walk out on me like that? Im pretty sure Gram and Gramps knew.
"Gram,Gramps do you guys know Ray?"
"Oh you mean Rayel?", Gramps said
"Yeah he was sitting next to me at the bay yesterday, I need to talk to him", I added
"He should be around the docks, probably fishing, I mean that's the only thing he does", Gram said
What did she mean by "that's the only thing he does?" He seemed strange enough, but to fish all day that's absurd. I took a 3 minute walk to the bay down that dirt road, I don't know why but it gave me a sense of hospitality.
I walked on to the dock and creeped up behind him, "I know your name", I said softly. He didn't respond he just kept looking onto to the water, "It's Rayel right?", I said quickly mentally slapping myself. We sat there in complete silence for 10 minutes until he said something, "Yea, what's your name Grand daughter"
"Susanna", I said looking at his blue eyes, I can tell why Lucy liked him he was very attractive.
"Susy", he said under his breath. He was the first to ever call me that, I liked the way it rolled off of his tongue "Susy", it made me feel dangerous.
"So I'm guessing you know Lucy"
"What makes you think that?", he said looking dead into my eyes, his icy blue eyes pierced my eyes like a pin, I stood there for a minute just examining his face his lips were as rosy as can be.
"I, uh saw a painting of you in um Lucy's room", I said breaking the silence. His eyes started to water but he blinked his tears away "Are you okay?", I said.
"Uh, if you want to talk, we can, just not here meet me at the graveyard", he said, his voice was calm and sweet.
I headed back home, I spent hours tearing apart Lucy's room, looking for Diary's, pictures, notes ect.. I found this picture of Lucy tucked in a compartment under the floor. She really was beautiful she had golden blonde hair and beautiful green eyes, I can see why Rayel loved her. I took the picture to the bathroom and put it in the drawer, I looked at myself in the mirror, I had recently dyed my hair black in act of rebellion, I had scraggly eyebrows and a couple of pimples on my face. I let out a big sigh and headed down stairs for dinner.
My grandparents always have us big meals, since they're from the south they know a lot of cuisines.
I toyed around with my food, "Are you going to each your stake?", Gram said.
"Yeah, sorry I was just thinking, hey what do you guys know about Rayel Gibson?", I asked.
"He was Lucy's long term boyfriend, he's a good kid I like him", Gramps said.
"Well I'm meeting him tonight", I said.
"Oh I see", gramps said giving me a little nudge on my arm.
"No, no Gram not that, I barely know him, I'm just asking him a few questions", I said looking at my plate.
"Oh okay, well don't forget to take the key", Gram said.
After dinner I put on some tasteful makeup that I got from Claire's, I put on a over sized flannel and some doc martens with black pants. I headed out to the grave yard with a flash light, the graveyard was about 18 minutes away from the house, I arrived and saw Rayel sitting at Lucy's grave with flowers.
"Hey! So are you ready to talk?", I said.
"Yeah, I'm ready", he said touching her gravestone.
"So um tell me how you met Lucy", I said as I took my tape recorder out and started to record him.
"We met in '93 we were in the same biology class, I remembered I really wanted to ask her out to prom", he said.
"She always had her hair in a blonde ponytail sometimes she left her hair out", he said.
"I touched her back and passed her a note, it had a little inside joke, and she laughed, her laugh it was contagious, I remember our first date, it was a disaster", he said
"Okay mom i'll be back before 11", Rayel said describing that night.
"Wait let me take a picture!", Rayel's mom said her name was Chassidy Gibson, a former drug addict and an AA counselor.
"Mom I'm going to be late", he said.
"Oh okay sweetie have a nice time with that girl, what's her name?", Chassidy said.
"It's Lucy and bye mom", he said giving her a kiss on the cheek.
"So I picked her up the school had the prom in a party hall and we got completely lost, it was a disaster", he said
"I thought we went south? And turned on exit 65", she said.
"We pretty much argued the whole night and missed out prom, so we went to this little fast food joint and had some burgers", he said
"Yeah but I'm glad we didn't go", she said as she smiled at him.
"Oh yeah why?", he said.
"Then she leaned in and kissed me, That's the way love goes was playing in the background and everything seemed right", he said.
"Wow, that's beautiful", I said turning off my cassette recorder.
"Yeah, I really loved her", he said as his face started to get red, and tears starting to fall down his face.
"I just want to um thank you, cause I know this is hard and fresh, but I want you to know that we're going to be doing this for a while, and of you're uncomfortable with it tell me now", I said looking at him.
"My therapist says that it's, good to get out your feelings o-or whatever, so I'll do it", he said wiping his tears. "I need a pack of smokes I'll see you tomorrow".
"Bye", I said gathering my stuff, it was about 11:00 and I was scared to walk alone. "Ray! Can I get a ride?"