Mother's Day Drabble
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catch22girlPG-13 for bad word. Pre-S1. Kim and Janet talking. Inspired by ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
queen_kiwi's wonderful mother day drabbles.
"Mother's day is such a stupid fucking holiday," Janet said, breathing out smoke as she stubbed her cigarette against the wall.
"Yeah," Kim agreed quickly, pausing to smile at the cute boy that just walked by.
"I mean, what good is a mother anyway? My mom left years ago and it doesn't bother me." Janet threw the
pack of cigarettes into her backpack.
Kim nodded. "I know what you mean, sometimes I wish my mom would just go away."
"The world would be better without parents in general." Janet declared. "Then we could go on that road trip..."
"I just turned 15, I don't think that I'm going to be able to drive anywhere for at least --"
"Your problem, Kim, is that you're afraid to bend the rules."
"I am not!" Kim countered.
"Okay, then, come over to my house this Sunday and we'll spend it getting drunk on whatever's in my
dad's liquor cabinet."
Kim grinned at the thought and then sobered quickly. "Can't."
"Why not?"
"Dad's coming back from his business trip on Sunday."
"So?"
"So..." And she thought about the silences, the awkward pauses, the way that her mom and dad would
sit in a room and somehow be miles apart. Or worse when she'd lay on her bed and hear them arguing
and the music couldn't quite blur out the words.
It was getting harder and harder to remember all those mother's days where she'd make breakfast in bed
for her mom or give her handmade cards, or later buy her tiny trinkets with allowance money she'd saved up.
A brief flash of a memory, her dad about to leave for his trip, standing at the door and her mom telling him
that maybe he needed to stay away longer this time.
"Kim?"
Kim picked up her bookbag. "It'll be a little difficult to get away, but I'll be there."
Janet smiled. "Good, hey do you have those bio notes?"
queen_kiwi's wonderful mother day drabbles."Mother's day is such a stupid fucking holiday," Janet said, breathing out smoke as she stubbed her cigarette against the wall.
"Yeah," Kim agreed quickly, pausing to smile at the cute boy that just walked by.
"I mean, what good is a mother anyway? My mom left years ago and it doesn't bother me." Janet threw the
pack of cigarettes into her backpack.
Kim nodded. "I know what you mean, sometimes I wish my mom would just go away."
"The world would be better without parents in general." Janet declared. "Then we could go on that road trip..."
"I just turned 15, I don't think that I'm going to be able to drive anywhere for at least --"
"Your problem, Kim, is that you're afraid to bend the rules."
"I am not!" Kim countered.
"Okay, then, come over to my house this Sunday and we'll spend it getting drunk on whatever's in my
dad's liquor cabinet."
Kim grinned at the thought and then sobered quickly. "Can't."
"Why not?"
"Dad's coming back from his business trip on Sunday."
"So?"
"So..." And she thought about the silences, the awkward pauses, the way that her mom and dad would
sit in a room and somehow be miles apart. Or worse when she'd lay on her bed and hear them arguing
and the music couldn't quite blur out the words.
It was getting harder and harder to remember all those mother's days where she'd make breakfast in bed
for her mom or give her handmade cards, or later buy her tiny trinkets with allowance money she'd saved up.
A brief flash of a memory, her dad about to leave for his trip, standing at the door and her mom telling him
that maybe he needed to stay away longer this time.
"Kim?"
Kim picked up her bookbag. "It'll be a little difficult to get away, but I'll be there."
Janet smiled. "Good, hey do you have those bio notes?"
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Date: 2004-05-09 11:54 am (UTC)*hugs Kim tightly*
*worships and adores you*
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Date: 2004-05-09 11:56 am (UTC)*hugs and loves and worships you back*
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Date: 2004-05-09 11:59 am (UTC)*Jackie!cuddles*
(Do we have a Toni!cuddle? We should.)
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Date: 2004-05-09 12:01 pm (UTC)But it's just one of the most wonderful painful things in recent tv history - this daughter who starts off really disliking her mom and then they bond and reconcile and then...she's gone. *sniffle*.
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Date: 2004-05-09 12:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-05-09 12:06 pm (UTC)I agree, the entire show is pretty much "how much pain can we put the audience through this season?" I mean, on what other show do you watch people disintegrate over a 24 hour period and not really learn any lessons and just become more angsty and depressed?
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Date: 2004-05-09 12:16 pm (UTC)I don't know how much more I can stand...
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Date: 2004-05-09 01:59 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2004-05-09 02:19 pm (UTC)Yes, before 24 I was much less depressed. ;)
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Date: 2004-05-09 04:34 pm (UTC)Thank you so much! Hee, yeah, Jane would be a different story entirely.
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Date: 2004-05-09 04:33 pm (UTC)Thank you so much! Oooh, do. I liked John (For the few min. he was in the show).
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Date: 2004-05-09 06:07 pm (UTC)You make me like her so much more than I do on the show, hee.
*snoogles Kim and you*
Oh, and brilliantly used irony? Always good. ;-)
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Date: 2004-05-09 06:10 pm (UTC)I really feel for the poor girl. *huggles back*
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Date: 2004-05-09 07:05 pm (UTC)