Memories (A Home Movies Story)

"GO AWAY BRANDON, GET OUT OF MY SIGHT!" a loud booming voice yelled, the door slammed shut on Brandon Small, his face shedded with both sadness and a feeling of being heart-broken. 
He stared at the closed door before sighing as he walked off back to his car, entering the driver seat; he decided that he would go to his mother’s house for the night to vent all of his on-going anxiety out. Entering his mother’s house, she noticed him. Paula was aware about how much his son went through. He sat on the table with his mother sitting on the other chair...
"It happened mom, she broke up with me." Brandon said, still heartbroken about his going-to-be girlfriend breaking up with him as he stared down at table. Paula sighed before telling Brandon kindly, "Oh Brandon, i get it about the issues you been through ever since you graduated from school. But you will gonna try again with a different-" "Not happening" Brandon interrupted. "I might never get the chance to live happier life, i’ll just stick to alcohol until the day i die." He said, his voice sounding like he would break down in a next few seconds. "Brandon, alcohol doesn’t make you feel better, it just makes you feel worse" Paula said, trying to tell Brandon about the meaning of alcohol as Brandon looks up to her, his face stare with a mixture of confusion.
"Rather than drinking, why not just watch some of your old home movies you made with your friends when you’re a kid, that could make you feel better about yourself." Paula suggested. as he hears this, Brandon remembered the times where he used do film-making with his friends, making various movies such as horror and all that stuff. "I’ll try mom, let me just go to the basement for now" he said, exiting the kitchen as he walked down the basement.
In the basement, he looks around in the basement, seeing a box of VHS tapes stacking next to various objects along with a hooked TV and a set of beanbags, still left there as always. As he took some of the home video tapes out of the box, he turned on the tv and inserted the first tape.
It was a homage to the 1954 film, "Creature from the Black Lagoon" which included himself and his childhood friends Melissa and Jason. Brandon played the role of Dr. David, Melissa played the role of Kay Lawrence while Jason played the role of the Gil-Man himself. Brandon chuckled at how nostalgic and fun they had during the making of the homage at the time. He continued watching the whole 15-minute tape as he watched the entire tape itself before it ended. The tape ejected himself as he took it out, he then put another tape in, this one being his first home movie ever; a homage to Easy Rider under the name, "Eazy Trikers".
He then put another one, another one and another one. Just as he was finished with them, he noticed a tape that never had before during his film-making years nor he even filmed it over. A blank tape with red words "Memories" labeled on it. Curious about the tape, he inserted inside the player, ready to see what contains in it. 
He was not ready for what he had seen...
The tape started with static before clearing out to a view of Brandon himself, he was a newborn in the video as his mother, Paula was rocking back in fourth on a rocking chair, singing a lullaby to make him sleep. The camera zoomed into Brandon’s face as he slowly drifts off to sleep. After the lullaby was done, a familiar voice can be heard. "Is he sleeping?" The voice asked. "Yeah he is." Paula said to the mysterious camera-man. The camera-man then switched towards himself … it was Andrew, Brandon’s father.
He smiled softly as he turns the camera off, then several montages of Brandon himself as a baby then appear on-screen as Brandon stared at the TV. His eyes drifting that to tears, he couldn’t bare it much longer…
"Dad…" he said, he then broke down.
Sobbing quietly as he remembers his times with his father before the couple decided to become divorced. Andrew himself maybe estranged but they are close as ever like a father and son would. There was a time where they opened up a pizza club where the coach, John McGuirk was excluded from.
As Brandon finished his own time of sobbing, he was stopped as he looked at the tape before giving it a soft smile before putting it back into the box just like the other tapes.
He knows what to do but also wants to fix himself as-well, just so he would want to make it up to himself and become a happy person that he was wanting to be for a long time.
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