In a small town in East Idaho on a cool summers evening. 9:32pm on a Thursday.
Lou is a 20 year old girl in a not so good relationship. Her boyfriend comes over almost every night to hangout and chill. Her boyfriend, Carlos however, has been addicted to weed the past month and it's made him a little impulsive, and outright dangerous. Lou had an exhausting day in her school (college) and really didn't want him to come over....
Lou opened the door to her small house and immediately dropped into the couch exhausted. She didn't remember that Carlos was coming over and after about fifteen minutes of laying on the couch, a rhythmic knock broke her out of her resting phase. Remembrance and a wave of terror came across her expression as she frantically sat upright and shot her eyes at the front door.
"Helloooo Lou-boo?" Said a familiar and rather fear injecting voice through the door. "It's meeeeee! I'm showing you The Shining tonight!"
"Coming!!" Lou called back, "just give me two seconds!"
Lou ran to the closest mirror and made sure her hair was somewhat neat, and then she remembered: I forgot to make dinner! She thought to herself. He'll kill me! He hit me yesterday and threw my cat out the window.... And last week he slammed his hand on the tabl..... a few nights ago he also grabbed me by the hair and then he.... And tomorrow what if he decides.... As her thought overlapped each other in a frantic race, they were interrupted by another knock at the door.
"Sorry, coming baby!" She yelled again and pranced to the door. Taking a deep breath and forcing on a smile, she opened the door to meet face to face with Carlos himself.
"Let me in you little meanie-poo!" He said with a laugh and teetered past her and into the house. Yep... he was definitely high...
"Hey.... So I never got a chance to make any dinner. I just got home from school like a few minutes ago. I can start on dinner now if you want." Lou said as steadily as possible.
He gave her a long look and said, "well.. how long will it take? You know what, never mind, we'll just get a pizza."
"Uhm, alright. Do you want to order it?" She asked while he picked up the remote.
"No. I'm turning on the movie. You order the god damn pizza, and I'll..... I will turn in the movie. You can be the gentleman and pay for it too. I'm the guest...." He slurred a little bit.
"Okay then." She spoke back to him and went to pick up her phone.
"You know what, Lou, I had such a long day! Your tone doesn't help me at all. I just want to watch a horror movie, and go to bed. I want your couch too. It's where I'm going to sleep believe it or not! Hope you don't mind."
Lou was agitated and feeling a little bold (not a good idea) and said, "how about we watch a different movie. I don't like horror like you do."
Carlos got up, threw the remote on the couch, stormed towards Lou and stopped about a foot in front of her. She didn't move out of past experiences. She just thought, this needs to end... how can I do this without getting myself killed?
"We're watching THE SHINING, LOU!" He grabbed her shirt, and whispered it again into her face.
After he let go, he stormed to the couch, sat down, and kept messing with the remote.
Lou stood behind the couch and chewed on her nail. She hastily sorted through her mind on what she needed to do to get away from Carlos. A small idea popped into her head finally.
"Okay.." she started, "I'm calling Papa Murphy's."
Carlos immediately grunted and chucked the remote controller at Lou and it smacked her right in the jaw. She yelped and covered her face.
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How to get away from Carlos
Misteri / ThrillerLou is in a tough relationship and needs out, but can't do so safely. She decides to make a strange but genius plan that just so happens to involve pizza...
