~deepika.~ (REGRETAVATOR STORY)

11

It was a nice day, the sky is perfectly blue and had no clouds. There is a palm tree, a tall one with some coconuts. The wind was breezy. Then this big, fancy apartment complex are next to some palm trees. It was large.

Mach is laying down in bed. Then a man calls out to her.

Man: "I'm turning on the dishwasher!"

She was in a nice room with a window with curtains, a plant in the corner, and mint green colored walls.
Mach puts her right arm up. She slowly lifts herself off of the bed. She goes to the bathroom and opens the cabinet with alot of pill bottles. Mach couldn't find her Valium.

Mach: "Where's my valium?"

Man: "What?"

Mach then finds it.

Mach: "Nevermind."

Mach takes the bottle of Valium. It was small.

Mach: (opening the bottle) "Fuckin' asshole."

Mach takes two pills and then grabs a glass of water and swallows it.

The telephone rang.

Mach: (softly) "You answer it, bastard..."

Mach puts the pill bottle back into the cabinet and closes the cabinet door.

Man: "Mach, it's Pilby."

Mach finally picks up the phone and answers it.

Mach: "Hi, Pilby."

Pilby: (through the phone) "Hi mom. How are you?"

Mach exits the bathroom with the phone in her hand.

Mach: "Oh, I'm fine."

Mach: "How are you?"

Pilby: "Fine."

Mach: "Good."

Pilby: "Did you watch Fallon last night?"

Mach sits on her bed.

Pilby: "Mom?"

A moment of silence fills the air.

Mach: (begans to sob) "He's leaving me..."

Mach: "Your father's leaving me..."

Pilby: "Mom, what are you talking about?"

Mach leaned to the left.

Mach: "Pilby, can you keep this secret, top secret?"

Pilby: "Yes! Yes, of course I can mom--"

Mach: "He says..."

Mach took a moment to think, she puts her hand on her face.

Mach: "He says he doesn't love me anymore."

Mach took her hand off her face and placed it on the bed.

Pilby: "Well, I'm sure he doesn't mean it!"

Mach: "Yeah well, he does fucking mean it. He wants a divorce."

Pilby: "He said the word 'divorce'?"

Mach: "What? You don't believe me?"

Mach: "You talk to him, okay?"

Mach puts the phone down for a moment.

Mach: "Wallter?"

Wallter: "Yeah?"

Mach: "It's Pilby, they want to talk to you."

Pilby is holding the phone.

Wallter: (on the phone) "Yeah, Pilby?"

Pilby: "Is it true what mom said?"

Wallter seemed puzzled upon hearing that.

Wallter: "What?"

Pilby: "You want a divorce?"

Wallter: (calling out to Mach) "Mach, what are you telling the kids?"

Wallter: (on the phone again) "She'll call you back."

Wallter hangs up the phone.

Mach and Wallter are in their apartment. It was fantastic. It had a kind of small but cool kitchen, a light grey rug, and that same mint green colored wall.

Wallter is sitting on the sofa, with a wide coffee table in front of him. A sports game is playing on the TV.
Wallter is wearing a light yellow polo shirt with grey pants.
Mach enters the living room.
Wallter puts the phone on the wide coffee table and he looks at Mach.

Wallter: "Did I use the word 'divorce'?"

Mach: "You...You said you didn't want to live with me."

Wallter: (quickly) "Answer the question, did I use the word 'divorce'?"

Mach: (raises her voice angrily) "You didn't love me!"

Wallter: (also raises his voice angrily) "Did I use the word 'divorce'?!"

They both took a moment to calm down.

Mach: "No."

Wallter: "Good. I just wanted to make that clear."

A split second of silence occurs.

Wallter: "Now sit next to me. Come on."

Wallter pats on the sofa slowly, offering Mach a seat.

Wallter: "Sit down."

Mach just stood there.

Wallter: (shouts) "Sit, down!"

Mach slowly approachs the sofa, and she slowly sits down next to Wallter.
Wallter sighs deeply.

Mach: "Wallter, why?"

Wallter: "I don't know..."

Wallter: "I just want to be alone."

Mach is staring at Wallter.

More silence is between the two.

Mach stops staring at Wallter.

Mach: "I can let you be alone more if that's what you want."

Wallter took a moment to reply.

Wallter: "It's not that. Things change...people change."

Wallter: "I want out."

Even more silence is between the two.

Mach closed her eyes for a moment, then opened them.

Mach: "It's Folly, isn't it?"

Wallter: "Folly?"

Wallter stands up from the sofa.

Mach: (also standing up from the sofa) "You're in love with Folly."

Wallter: (walking to the kitchen) "Oh, get outta here. Please."

Mach: (upset) "You're in love with someone. Someone younger probably!"

Wallter opens the fridge.

Wallter: (quickly turns his head to Mach) "Wrong."

Mach: (more upset) "Wallter! It's okay! I'm not dumb! These things happen! I'll get over it!"

Wallter puts food in the microwave.

Mach: (angrily raising voice) "You know, I just wish you had done this twenty years ago!" (Yelling) "NOW I'LL HAVE TO GET ANOTHER FUCKING FACE-LIFT!"

Mach leaves the kitchen.

Wallter: "I'm in love with no one."

Mach stops walking.

Mach: "No one?"

Wallter: "No one."

Mach sighs lightly and she sits on the sofa again.

Mach: "Okay then..."

Mach: "...Schmuck."