Lucy: Bringer of Light 10/14/07

My Dream 10/14/07 (3:01:45 PM)


(All My Loving by the Beatles plays in the background.)
The dream starts out with two teenagers playing around in the snow. Snow is falling down in slow motion and it feels like a romantic moment. It turns out being a young girl, blonde hair, and blue eyes, laughing and having the time of her life with this nice guy named Jude.
He clearly loved her. He just lit up every time he heard her laugh and as they both fell down into each other’s arms on the newly fallen snow, he crooks his head over to hers and kisses her atop her head. There are snowflakes piling up on her lashes but she just blinks them happily away, and looks up into her Jude’s face.

Lucy is her name. A bringer of light.
And that was what exactly came into Jude’s life the moment he saw her.


Jude, a striking young man, tall, with disheveled brown hair walks into an abandoned factory for his usual practice play with the band. They had an opening gig for Hole in the Wall Pub, and he had some doubts about Aly’s vocal abilities of late. The crew spotted him as he emerged from the outer darkness into the lone patch of light they had. Luckily for them, a few bulbs still worked with what was left of the building. So there he was, his red Fender strapped over his shoulder. He nods to the crew and they all start arranging themselves for their first song. Aly was sitting on an old crate looking her usual glum self. Though, the moment she hears his voice, she jumps to her feet and skips over to him.
“Hey Jud-ie. You haven’t been to the last few practices, we were worried you were gonna bail on the us man.”
She looks at him with her puppy dog eyes and he just laughs.
“Al-ie, dear, with those vocals last week, I thought I’d give you some time to mend it up a bit on your own. No way would I bail, I just need you to beef it up.”
Aly now has this look of hurt and she just wanders back over to her mic.

One-two-three goes the drummer’s sticks and they start off their practice. Jude is feeling the song and then Aly goes off on her wailing moment again. His perfect amplification distorts to an awkward halt. The rest of the group stops and Aly trails off. Looking back over her shoulder she shouts, “What man! I’m doing fine! What the up with that?!?” Hands over her hips she looks at all of them and is practically oblivious to the problem.
Jude sighs heavily and walks over to her.
“Aly, I know you have a cold, don’t strain yourself like that, just keep it smooth and effortless. No need to bring excess to it.”
Aly is furious now, “What! That’s my style man, the reason why you guys even have a lead right now. Psh, you guys are seriously acting like asses!”
With that, she storms off and leaves the rest of her band mates in an awkward moment.
Jude racks a hand through his hair and shrugs his shoulders. Nothing else was gonna work out today so they all mine as well call it a day. He tells the crew to pack up their stuff and head out.

Meanwhile, Aly is still stomping off when she runs into her stepsister Lucy. She was ahead of her playing in the snow without proper warmth. Aly shouts at her, catching her sister’s attention and runs over towards her. Lucy gives Aly a huge smile and throws open her arms for a bear hug. Instead, Aly grabs her hands and jerks her out from the snow to the shelter of an awning. Jude was rounding the corner when he saw the two.

“Lucy! What are you doing here?!? I told you to stay home and watch some TV and I would be back in a little bit…Lucy, you know not to come out with gloves and a hat. You don’t want to get sick like me right?”

Lucy looks into her sister’s worried face and shakes her head no.
“But, Aly is out in the cold, and she is sick. Lucy is worried about Aly. Aly’s a good big sister…Lucy is sorry…”

Jude wondered about the whole thing. He never knew Aly had a sister. He approaches the two.
“Hey Al…” he starts but he stops in mid sentence.

Aly was furiously taking off one of her jackets to give to Lucy. The moment he looked into Lucy’s eyes, he felt an odd sensation bloom in his heart. Smiling uncontrollably, he has his eyes on Lucy. She was busy letting her sister put the jacket on her, but upon seeing Jude smiling at her, she couldn’t help but bashfully look back at him and smile as well. Aly turns around to find Jude there and lashes at him.
“Well look who’s here. Here to apologize for your rude interruption?”

Jude looks at Aly and shakes his head. “No, I’m here just because I’m here. Who’s your friend?”

Aly scoffs disdain and introduces them. “Jude this is my step-sister Lucy. Lucy hun, this is my friend Jude. Nice to meet each other? Yes. Now we have to get going now. Bye!” With that, Aly takes the arm of Lucy and they swiftly turn around and walk away from him. Lucy is obviously in a blunder and is looking back at him in confusion, but waves a quick bye.

Jude is still smiling to himself. Shaking his head, he wonders if he’ll ever see Lucy again.


The next week, Jude and the band did so well on their gig, a major recording label decided to sign them. To celebrate, the gang went back to their abandoned building and decided to jam for one last time. Aly was on one of the stair singing a slow ballad, “Under the weather,” by K.T. Tunstall, and he was kicking around beer cans. That’s when Lucy came out of nowhere. This time she was in the right attire for the weather. She approaches the crew and they all stop what they’re doing and say a happy hello. She is clearly unsure of where she was until she saw Jude. She ran right over to him and gave him a huge hug. It was uncalled for and he felt rather out of breath to feel her this close to him. He reciprocated the hug and smiled down at her. His crew all hooped and hollered until Aly got there. All the happiness seemed to drain upon seeing her face.
She walks over calmly towards the two hugging. Lucy, seeing her sister at last, lets go of Jude and moves towards her for a hug as well, but is waved away rudely. Aly walks up to Jude, looking at him up and down. He is now wondering why she is doing such and asks, “Uh, what up with the fire?” Aly laughs and looks back up at him. This time in a sort of longing.
“Jude, congrats on the band, our label, our future. But one thing I just can’t let you have, is my Lucy.”

He looks at her like, “What!?” and shakes his head. Aly glances at the ground and back at him and starts to explain.

“To Lucy, you’re just a new friend. But she can’t see past that. She can’t comprehend anything other than friendship. Have you ever heard of autism? That is why I said I can’t let you have her. Lucy is my stepsister, and I care enough for her to not feel what she might feel once you’re done with her… I don’t know if any of that made any sense, but I just had to tell you this one moment. I’ve had my fun, now that Lucy’s here, I have to take her home.”

She walks over to her sister, who takes her arm. Lucy waves back to the crew and smiles goodbye.

Jude is standing there confused. His mates come up to him and shake their head as well. Man Aly was getting kind a psycho on them lately.




Spring came around and he found himself at a corporate dinner one night. He was in casual wear, wandering through the crowd aimlessly. A few beautiful girls would stop him and chat but he never seemed that interested. That was when he spotted her through the crowd. His Lucy. He couldn’t help but start to smile when she turned around and spotted him as well. She moved off to the side, away from the crowd out to the empty parking lot.
He moved his way through the crowd and exited the same way as she did. He heard running and followed the sound. Splashing of water and then silence. He noticed a lot of people were running around and hiding too. All around him were small ponds with lush vegetation. The glowing string of lights above him illuminated his pathway as he went around searching for his Lucy. For some odd reason, he felt drawn to a certain area and upon dipping a foot into the pond, he saw movement behind the plants and swiveled himself in. There right beside him was Lucy. She looked rather surprised that he found her so stealthily. He was about to say how glad he was to see her when she silenced him with her fingertips. His breath caught in his throat. His heart seemed to beat faster than usual. She moved closer into him and practically hung onto him. He could sense her anxiety. The searchers were on the watch and nearing. They both held their breaths and waited it out. At the moment they thought they had been overlooked, everyone lunged into their spot and uncovered them. Lucy sprang out of the pond laughing up her lungs and Jude could help but laugh along with her contagious laughter. Everyone threw confetti and silly string in the air. All this was a surprise for Lucy’s 19th birthday.

Jude and her were walking through the gardens, him holding her hand dearly, as she looked up at the stars in amazement. She looks over at him and gives her bashful smile. He tugs her closer to him and they stop next to a vine of orange trumpets. He smoothes a piece of hair around her ear and cups her face in his hand. She looks down from shyness, but he pulls her gaze back at him. Her hands resting on his chest, she leans into him and he meets her lips, in an innocent, chaste, and perfect kiss.
Her eyes open to find he didn’t close his the whole time and she breaks away from him. She feels her lips with her fingertips and wonders over the sensations running through her. He reaches out for her hand, which she takes, and they continue to walk back to the rest of the party.



Scene from before the party:

It’s still winter. And Jude has been hanging around after practice lately. Even Lucy comes a little earlier than usual to meet with Aly. Aly notices the odd chemistry between the two. A part of her feels happy to see her sister finally experiencing love, but a majority of her is rather jealous Jude has his attentions to the other. For the past five years, she’s tried so hard to move out of just being his “band mate” to girlfriend. Now that Lucy has gone and complicated the whole thing, she adamantly states to Jude it was totally wrong for him to try and make Lucy fall in love with him. She couldn’t comprehend that kind of love, and for him to even try with a person like her, was morally wrong. They would never last, so Aly thought.