So, I decided to give you a new episode of From the Abyss! For those of you who thought the pilot was long, wait until you see this episode. But, it's worth it, because I love this episode.
RATING: TV-14-DL (Suggestive dialogue and Language)
From the Abyss
S1E1 (1)- Pilot
S1E2 (2)- A Tub?: Sleep. It is a time when we rest, a time to get more energy. Henry, my roommate, was tossing and turning in his bed, smirking, as if he was having a wonderful dream. But I was unable to sleep, knowing that there was so much to explore. I got up from my bed and opened the door, turned the knob, and stepped outside to emerge into a world of endless possibilities. This had become my routine. I had laid in bed for a few hours, seeing if possibly I could get a small dose of rest, but then I am drawn into the world outside me, so I get up and explore the Wright home. Noah is walking down the stairs, and he goes into the refrigerator.
I was hungry. Very hungry. Inside the refrigerator was a vast variety of food for me to eat. I grabbed the chocolate syrup, getting some on my shirt. I then got some whipped cream, and filled my mouth with it. It tasted delightful. I then grew tired of the fridge, and I wandered into the living room, and turned on the television. A kung-fu movie was on. The two men on screen were speaking Japanese, and fighting. I did the same thing, when the Wrights all walked down, looking very drowsy.
"Uh... it's 4:23 AM and Noah is up speaking Japanese and kicking our coffee table covered in chocolate syrup..." Henry said. "Do you still think he's not a mental patient, Mom?"
In the next scene, Ron and Jaimie are talking to Noah. "Have you slept at all while you've been here, Noah?" Ron asked.
"No, I haven't," Noah admitted. "I've found that I like to get up when no one else is awake, and explore your house. I'm sorry, am I doing something wrong?" he frowned.
"No, you're not doing anything wrong," Ron said. "It's just unbelievable that you've been here a week and a half and haven't gotten any sleep at all."
"I just feel like there's so much to do," Noah said. "There's so much to find out about the world, and about myself."
"Well, raiding our kitchen isn't going to help you find out who you are, Noah," Jaimie said. "But it is understandable that you feel anxiety. Every small detail about you is a mystery. You don't even know who your name is. The doctors can only estimate that you're 16 years old."
I felt like the term "busted" applied here, and that I would not be exploring at night any longer. I had been caught, though I thought I had done nothing wrong, apparently I had.
At noon that day, there is a ring. It's the doorbell. Jaimie goes to get it.
"Just the person I was looking for," the woman at the door says.
It was her. Behind the woman speaking was the girl who had played the beautiful music. She looked beautiful, and shy, and kind. I could tell by her eyes.
"Listen, your patient, I believe his name is 'Noah', was in my house," the woman said.
"Kim, that was a week and a half ago. Why are you coming now?" Jaimie asked.
"I wasn't sure you knew," Kim said. "Was the boy punished?"
"Why would he be punished?" Jaimie asked. "He was only wandering; he was curious, and confused. He did nothing wrong. The door was wide open."
"Well, Stacey was there playing the piano, and he was spying on her," Kim said. "I don't want your patients around my daughter."
"Was Stacey hurt?" Jaimie asked. "Because she looks fine to me."
"No, Mrs. Wright, I'm fine," the girl, Stacey, said. "I wasn't hurt at all."
"Stacey! You were told to keep your mouth shut," Kim said. "I told you not to speak with Jaimie Wright."
"Okay..." Stacey said.
Her voice was amazing. So soft, and kind. But her mother was... angry, and mean. I did not think I liked her, though I did not think it was the right time to judge.
Suddenly, I was staring at Stacey. She stared back at me with a smile. Kim then noticed, and pulled on her arm, Stacey quickly said, "See you later!"
I knew that she would see me later, and that I wanted to see her again. She was a friend, something I would love to have more of.
It is night, and we are in Jaimie and Ron's room. Jaimie says, "We need to make sure that Noah gets some sleep tonight."
"Well, you're going to have to stand by the door watching him or something," Ron said.
"You're?" Jaimie said, somewhat angrily. "You mean you won't help me watch Noah overnight?"
"Listen Jaimie, he's you're patient, and I have a meeting tomorrow," Ron said. "I can't afford to lose any sleep for Noah."
"Come on, I just want to take shifts so I can get a little bit of sleep," Jaimie said. "I'm going to try to clean up the house tomorrow, and if you want me to do that, I need some sleep. And I'm sorry that bringing Noah into this house is such a burden for you that you make me handle him alone."
She had called me a burden. Is that what I was: a burden? I was beginning to wonder if I really was welcome in the Wright home.
"You know I'm a better person than that," Ron said. "But this is a really important meeting, honey. And, this family relies on me to bring home the bacon. This family needs a lot of bacon."
"Okay..." Jaimie said. "Maybe I can get Henry to stay up with me. April can't since she has work tomorrow."
"No, Henry doesn't need to stay up, he has summer school tomorrow, remember?" Ron said. "I suppose I could stay up, but I had better not miss that meeting because I'm sleeping."
"Don't worry, you won't miss the meeting. I'll make sure to wake you so you can get ready for your meeting," Jaimie said.
"Promise?" Ron said with a smile.
"I promise," Jaimie said sweetly, in a voice that you had to believe.
So, that night, Jaimie watched Noah while Ron slept, and then Ron watched Noah while Jaimie slept. Eventually, both of them fell asleep, while Noah was wide awake the entire time, staring at both of them, who are laying on top of each other. The next thing we know, we hear Ron's alarm, but he and Jaimie sleep through it. We see the clock tick for forty-five minutes, then Ron's eyes pop open. He immediately looks at the clock on Henry's wall.
"Crap!" he says. He shakes Jaimie. "I'm late!" he yells.
"Whose fault is that?" Jaimie says teasingly, still half-asleep.
"Don't start with me," Ron said. "Dammit!"
"There's no reason to get angry," Jaimie said defensively, now awake. "I'm sorry... I was tired, and I fell asleep on my shift. It's my fault for not waking you when I got tired."
Ron stormed out.
I felt like it was my fault that Jaimie and Ron were fighting. These people who had taken me into their home were stressed by my presence. I decided that it was best if I was no longer a burden. I decided to run off to the abyss where I had my first memories. I waited until everyone had left for their various activities, and then I wrote a note to the Wrights that explained everything. Then, I walked out the door, and ran. I then walked into Stacey's house one last time, and looked at her. She looked beautiful. She didn't notice my presence as she played her piano. I took a exactly a minute and thirty seconds to look at her, then I walked out of her home. There was water dripping from my eye, and I felt a pain in my throat. What was it? Sadness? Pain? Both?
Noah didn't know it, but he was crying. He was crying because he didn't want to leave the Wrights, he loved them. But, he still thought that it was the right thing to do. He thought it was necessary, and he felt that they did not love him. So, he jumped right into the deep abyss. He just laid down.
Meanwhile at the Wright home, Ron returns home to see that Noah is nowhere to be seen. He calls his name through the house, but doesn't know where he is. Then, Jaimie gets home from her errands and asks what's happening. Ron explains that he doesn't know where Noah is. So, they both go to Henry's room to see if Noah is finally sleeping there, but, on Noah's bed, they find the note:
"Dear Jaimie, Ron, April, and Henry,
I'm sorry that I have been a burden, and caused your family stress. I've left, and you will never have to worry about me again. Don't bother looking for me, because you will not be able to find me. But, it is alright. It is better this way. I'll miss you all.
Goodbye,
Noah"
"He thought he was a burden?" Jaimie asked. "Where did I hear that before?" She thought about it for a few minutes, then she said. "Oh no..."
"What is it?" Ron asked.
"Noah heard us fighting," Jaimie said, with a pained look on her face. "By the way, I've been thinking, and you're right. Noah isn't your responsibility, he's mine. He isn't April's responsibility. He isn't Henry's responsibility. He's my responsibility, and I should be the one watching him, and taking care of him, and I should be taking him to work with me."
"No," said Ron. "You took this boy in, but then, we decided that we would treat him like a member of our family. Therefore, this should be a team effort, and I'm sorry that I treated it look something less than that. After all, we're married, we should be a team anyways."
Then, we go to see April and her friend Mikayla sitting in April's boatmobile. "Oh my god," April said. "What are we doing?"
"Well, you think that Jeff is cheating on you, so we're spying on him," Mikayla said. "Now look, here he comes!"
"No, I can't look, really..." April said. She ducks down, and then looks back up. Jeff is walking up the sidewalk laughing, with another girl! April begins to tear up.
"He's cheating," said Mikayla. "I'm so sorry."
"No," April said. "He's not cheating because we were never together in the first place."
"You were just with him so you could do it with him," said Mikayla. "I set you up with him so you could lose your virginity with him."
"Well, I never agreed to doing that," said April. "Besides, we never did it. We did everything but it, actually."
"Summer's almost over, and I lost my virginity," Mikayla said.
"Plenty of times," April adds with a smile. Mikayla had always been very... friendly.
"Shut up..." Mikayla said. "Duck! He's coming!" Both of them ducked right away while Jeff walked past them with the other girl. They both came back up, and Mikayla said, "So what's going to happen when your parents find out you kept blowing off work to make out with Jeff in my hot tub, and you got fired a week ago?"
"They're not going to find out," April said.
"Sure they're not..." Mikayla said.
"They're not!" April insisted.
"Whatever," Mikayla said. "Could you take me home?"
"Sure," said April. She drives Mikayla home and drops her off at her house. Then she heads home, and notices that everyone is there, waiting for her. "What's going on?" she asked.
"As soon as you got back from work you were supposed to come back and watch Noah!" Ron said.
"You are now officially three and a half hours late," Jaimie said. "That's just ridiculous. What was taking you so long to get back from work?"
"About that..." April said.
"What about it?" Ron said.
"I kind of got fired..." April said. She figured that this was the best time to slip it in.
"Fired?!" Jaimie yelled. "For what?"
"For not showing up," April said.
April then explained everything, and her parents just stared at her. "I don't know what to do," Ron said. "I thought we were raising you right, but you've been hanging out with a boy we don't know and haven't met. Meanwhile, you didn't tell us about him anyways, and have skipped work so you can spend time with him?"
"It sounds bad when you say it like that," April said defensively. "But when you look at it in another way, it's really not that bad."
"What other way is there to look at it, April?" Jaimie said. "You've been lying to us for a week about going to work. You've told us you haven't been dating. How long have you been lying for?"
"A month and a half..." April said nervously.
"I'm not in the mood to punish you," Jaimie said. "Right now, I want to find Noah."
"Where is he?" April asked. Henry then handed her the note, looking solemn, and her mouth dropped. "He was not a burden. Where would he hear that?"
"I think that's me and your father's fault," Jaimie said. "I think Noah heard us fighting this morning. But the most important thing is to find out where he is."
"Well, he only knows two places: this house, and the abyss that he came out of," Henry said. "He isn't here, so by process of elimination, he's-"
"at the abyss!" April said. "Great job, little bro!"
"No prob," Henry said. "Now let's move!"
The four Wrights then got flashlights and ropes and drove to the abyss. When they got there, Ron climbed down first, with Henry going next, then April, and then Jaimie. All four of them kept calling "Noah!" until they saw Noah, laying down in the sand.
"There he is!" Jaimie said.
"Noah!" Henry yelled. He began shaking him. "C'mon, get up, bro."
He had just called me 'bro.' Did that mean he thought of me as a brother? Was I important to the Wrights? I opened my eyes, and looked into all of their eyes. All of them were crying. They did care. They had missed me.
"Don't ever run away again, 'kay?" April said. "I don't want to lose you again."
"Okay..." Noah said.
I got up, and we all climbed up the rope. Then, we got in the car, and went back home. Ron told me I should take a bath, and it would help me sleep after a long day. So, I took a bath, and after I was done, I got dressed, and laid in the tub. Eventually, I fell asleep
The next morning, April walked in, ready to shower. "Come on, Noah!" she yelled. "Get up!"
I heard her, but I was laying down. I wished she would be quiet, so I could get some sleep.
Then, Ron opened the door, and said he had a surprise for me. He took me to what used to be his workshop, where there was now a desk with a laptop, a chair, and in the middle of the room: a rug, and on top of the rug was a bathtub.
"This is your room, Noah," said Ron.
I had a room. To me, this was symbolic of me finally becoming a member of their family. Maybe not much was certain about me, but one thing was certain. I had a family: the Wrights.
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