Clockwork Your Time is Up! (REEBOT)

6/6/2003

A little girl with messy brown hair in the form of bunches sat in her room. She was drawing on the walls of her room, a colorful drawing of nature. Meanwhile, she heard footsteps coming. Her hazel-colored eyes stared at the doorway when this opened.

It was her tall, overweight, bearded, and strong father. While he just recently arranged his hair in the bathroom. The girl hugged her stuffed giraffe while starting to think that daddy will be mad if he finds out what she has done to the wall.

The man's eyes looked at his daughter and her art.

"Natalie!" he said in a deep and bitter voice, "What did I tell you not to do?"

His daughter looks into her father's grass-colored eyes.

"Not drawing on the walls?" she said in a low and nervous voice.

"That's right!, And look what you do!"

Natalie looked behind his back. Her drawings showed flowers blooming

while her crayons and sheets lay around on the floor.

She moved her head to his back.

Her father deep breathed.

"Natalie, for lying to me. You are grounded!"

The little girl rapidly looked at his father.

"B-but... Did you like my drawings?"

The man looked at the wall.

"Well... it is... beautiful. But remember, you can't draw for now!"

He walked away from the room and closed the door.

She started to clean his room while feeling like a fool. Once cleaned, she leaves her room and goes to the backyard. It has natural grass and bushes, and in front of the shrubs was his brother Lucas, who has black hair, a skinny body, coffee-colored eyes, and five years older than her. Lucas has eleven years old his sister has six years old.

"Hi, Natalie!" said in a joyful voice.

"Oh... Hi Lucas..." replied.

Lucas noticed the discouraged attitude of her sister.

"Natalie? are you ok?" said worriedly.

"I'm good just..."

Lucas approaches Natalie while he saw's his sister's looking, has sadness in her eyes. Some tears were coming out of her eyes.

"What happened?" said Lucas in a worried and low voice.

"Daddy grounded me!" replied Natalie screaming.

"What did you do?"

"I drew on the walls of my room, and Daddy said to me before not to do it!"

Lucas hugged her and started to caress his sister's head.

"Shhh... Quiet Nat."

Lucas continue

"Don't do that again. Dad wants you to be a good girl. I have also done similar things, and like you, I had to learn it the hard way."

Natalie looked at his brother's face while hugging his body.

"I'm here. Big Bro is here, everything is ok..." said Lucas in a soft voice while cuddling his sister's head while she is starting to feel more relaxed.

Natalie looked at her brother's eyes.

"Thanks, Luke..." She said in a little bit soft voice.

"No problem, mom, dad, and I are here to feel you save."

Lucas continued.

"Hey, sis! would you like to play with me with your giraffe?"

Natalie nodded as she rapidly goes to her room. She grabbed his giraffe and played with his brother for a long time in her room.

21/12/2006

Years later, Natalie was ten years old. She was a little bit chubby with some acne on her face due to her entrance to puberty. She sat on the floor to watch the television. They were broadcasting a late-night show where all of his presenters are annoying as fuck. Faking expressions, always doing unfunny sketches, and repeating the same news saw on the news.

She turned off the TV and grabbed a notebook and a couple of pencils. She decided to redraw the flowers draw on the walls of her room.

When she almost finished her drawing, her mother, named Marybeth, opened the door. She has long blonde hair, tall stature, and sea-colored eyes.

"Natalie!" she said. "You need to sleep. It is 21:59. "

Her daughter looked at her.

"Come on! I have almost done my drawing!" she replied.

"You can draw tomorrow. Now there's time to go to sleep."

Natalie goes to the bathroom. Her face was a little bit ratty because her mother interrupted her.

She washed her hands, brushed her teeth, and washed her face rapidly just to put on her pajamas and finish the drawing.

She finished. Her work looks a little bit better than the one she did as 6. Natalie was happy, filled with satisfaction. But then, she heard a knock at his door. She rapidly hid the drawing and sat on her bed.

"Come in!" said Natalie nervously.

To her surprise, it was Lucas.

"Ohh... It's you."

"Yes, Nat'" replied Lucas.

"Why are you here? You're supposed to be sleeping."

"I know, but I got a surprise!."

"What is it?"

Lucas showed a Blu-ray box of the "Back to the Future." trilogy on Bluray.

"I bought the entire trilogy!" said Lucas in a happy mood.

"No way! I haven't seen the other two movies. Where did you buy this set?" she said excitedly.

"I bought it at a video store. The school was organizing a visit to the National Museum of Illustration and while we were returning, near the school was a video store. I went in, found this trilogy, and bought it."

Natalie asked.

"Video store? Where did you buy it? Blockbuster?"

"No, Blockbuster is having a hard time..." replied Lucas.

Lucas continued.

"Now I have to sleep tonight, goodnight Natalie! Tomorrow we are going to see the movie!"

"Goodnight!" She replied kindly.

Her brother quitted the room and closed the door.

She took out her drawing, keep it on a table near her bed, turned off the light, and closed her eyes.

To her surprise, it was Lucas.

"Ohh... It's you."

"Yes, Nat'" replied Lucas.

"Why are you here? You're supposed to be sleeping."

"I know, but I got a surprise!."

"What is it?"

Lucas showed a Blu-ray box of the "Back to the Future." trilogy on Bluray.

"I bought the entire trilogy!" said Lucas in a happy mood.

"No way! I haven't seen the other two movies. Where did you buy this set?" she said excitedly.

"I bought it at a video store. The school was organizing a visit to the National Museum of Illustration and while we were returning, near the school was a video store. I went in, found this trilogy, and bought it."

Natalie asked.

"Video store? Where did you buy it? Blockbuster?"

"No, Blockbuster is having a hard time..." replied Lucas.

Lucas continued.

"Now I have to sleep tonight, goodnight Natalie! Tomorrow we are going to see the movie!"

"Goodnight!" She replied kindly.

Her brother quitted the room and closed the door.

She took out her drawing, keep it on a table near her bed, turned off the light, and closed her eyes.

An unpleasant dream

Natalie woke up. She feels it has six years old again. She was in her room, hugging her stuffed giraffe and listening to some loud yells coming from the door. It was her parents arguing.

"I never should have had any damned kids!" Screamed her father in a loud and deep voice.

"All they do is make messes, complain, draw on the walls-" He was cut off by the high, angered yell of her mother.

"Their children, David! They don't know any better!"

"Oh fuck me, Marybeth! I don't want to hear your bullshit excuses! I've had just about enough with them!"

"And what do you plan to do about it?!" replied his wife in a sarcastic mood.

Natalie heard loud footsteps coming towards her room, and she hugged her giraffe closer. She was looking to the doorway filled with fear until it shows her father.

He was holding his daughter's textbook filled with her drawings.

"David, stop it!" Screamed her mother.

"Fuck off!" replied her father.

He grabbed Natalie's neck, and she screamed and kicked, trembling and shaking in fear.

"This is for drawing on my fucking walls, you little bitch!"

Natalie woke up terrified. Fortunately, it was a nightmare.

"What the hell just happened?" asked Natalie by herself.

"Why my father was violent in a dream?"

She does know why and continued her sleep until it was a new day.

22/12/2006

Natalie opened her eyes and looked at the window, showing the sun appearing. She got up from her bed and goes into his parent's room.

In the room, there was no one.

"Maybe there are in the living room." Said Natalie guessing.

She walked down the stairs, searching until she founds the living. They were there.

They were talking about the actions of President George Walker Bush on Iraq. But they stopped talking when they saw her daughter.

"Hi, Natalie!" said her mother in an adorable mood.

"You took a deep sleep, my girl. Do you like it if I prepare you for breakfast?" said her father kindly.

"No, thanks, I will prepare it myself."

Natalie goes to the kitchen. She grabbed a bag of slices of bread and put it on a toaster. Once the loafs jumped off the toaster, she grabbed one of the dishes and a butter box.

Natalia returned to where her parents were and sat next to them.

"Do you sleep well?" asked her father.

"Well...I have a nightmare."

David face changed from a grin to a worried expression.

"Nightmare? What? What did you dream?

"I dreamed back when I was six years old. You were saying: I shouldn't have any damned kids because I was drawing the wall of my room. Mom tried to reconsider you not to punish me because I was a girl."

Natalie continued.

"You ignored her and went to my room. You grabbed me by the neck. You said to me: This is for drawing on my fucking walls, you little bitch!"

David and Marybeth looked at each other as Natalie started to cry.

"Natalie!" said David.

"Dad, I'm just..." she was interrupted by her father.

"Let's sit down on the couch."

They sat on the couch.

David and Marybeth hugged their daughter.

"Natalie! Calm down! It was just a nightmare!" said her father.

Her father continued.

"We are not like in your dream. If it were real, you would be living with your mother."

Natalie continued crying.

"Mom, Dad! I'm sorry!" she screamed.

"You don't need to apologize for a bad dream." said her mother.

Natalie hugged even more at her parents. She started to inhale and exhale rapidly.

Her mother grabbed a box of tissues and handed it to her daughter.

Better? she asked.

"Yes..." replied her daughter.

Lucas was coming down the stairs with a discouraged face.

"Hi Mom, Hi Dad, Hi Nat-" He sees Natalie hugging his parents.

Lucas goes to the couch.

"Natalie, What happened?" he asked her, worried.

"Oh! She just had a nightmare, but she feels better now."

"Luke!" said Natalie. The presence of her brother made her more comfortable.

She hugged her brother.

"Big bro... Can we watch the trilogy together, Please?"

"Trilogy?" asked her father confused.

"While I was returning, I bought a collection of movies, and it was the trilogy of Back to the Future!" replied Lucas.

"You bought three movies?" Asked his dad.

"Yes, I bought three movies in one box." replied Lucas.

"Ok, you can watch the movie, but after breakfast."

After the family ate his food, Natalie and Lucas went upstairs. Natalie followed her brother to his room.

Lucas grabbed the Blu-ray and opened it.

"What the hell?!" exclaimed Lucas.

Natalie looked at her brother, confused until she saw the interior of the case.

It was terrifying. Two discs are one on top of the other.

"How am I going to be able to get one of the discs out without scratching the other?" thought Lucas while being stunned by the horrifying view of the positions of the discs.

He tried to pull one of them. It feels like he was going to break one of the discs. The frustration invaded his body. He tried to grab another, but he thought that he was going to damage the other.

"What kind of sick fuck would make a disc case like that!" Exclaimed Natalie.

"I don't know." replied her brother.

He tried to search the other disc, a piece of paper fell.

Natalie grabbed the piece. She was stunned.

There are instructions.

"Luke! Look at this!" exclaimed Natalie.

She showed the instructions to her brother.

"Sister! Thank you very much!"

Lucas carefully grabs one of the discs, as he feels fear on his body.

Luckily for him, he did not break the disc or scratch it.

"FINALLY!" exclaimed Lucas.

The disc he grabbed was the first Back to the Future movie.

"Ready to revive some nostalgia?" asked Lucas.

"Yes!" exclaimed Natalie.

He put the disc on the player.

25/12/2008

Natalie was twelve years old. She had already graduated from Frank E. Thompson Middle School, a school located on 55 Broadway.

Her average was B+. A good one. The subject that suited him the most was art. She drew the Emmanuel Church, an Episcopal church located at 42 Dearborn Street, near Natalie's house at 55 Lee Avenue.

The church had gothic architecture and a tall quadrangular tower that resembles some cathedrals like the Notre Dame in Paris. She has a profound connection between her and the episcopal temple because her baptism happened there.

Natalie sat in her bed, worried.

2008 was not a good year for her family and the inner year was not too. The country was facing the Great Recession. Her parents were having issues with their jobs at a McDonald's in the neighboring town of Middletown.

She was viewing the ceiling while her mind drifted into her thoughts, imagining living on the streets, the cold streets of the state.

Suddenly she hears a knock on her door.

"Yes?" asked Natalie.

"It's me." replied a familiar voice.

She got up from her bed and opened the door.

"They are calling you!" said Lucas in a playful mode.

Natalie sigh.

"Ok..."

They both went down to the living room.

"Merry Christmas!" said David, Marybeth, and Lucas.

A cute smile formed on Natalie's face at the presents near the manger and the Christmas tree.

Lucas took one of the gifts and approached his sister.

"This is from me, little sis." said Lucas.

"Owww... Thanks."

WIP