The scene opens as we hear the faint sound of rain hitting and trickling down the windows of the old, beaten, Winnebago. There is an eerie silence as if nothing living, nor dead was present. We lay our eyes on the front window of the motor-home, and we see a woman sitting in a chair, steadily rocking back and forth, impatiently.
She has a candle lit by her window and a double-barrel shotgun by her side, next to her rocking chair.
She's been waiting.
Yeah, and this old lady, she's been waiting almost 12 years now.
For nothing else she cares.
A beat-up Winnebago in the American desert, a dusty, dirt road leads to an abandoned oil farm and the tumbleweed moving across the midlands is the most movement that it sees.
Her car stays parked in the driveway still filled with gasoline.
Who knows, maybe someday she'll need it.
Should James ever turn up and she succumbs to acting upon her basic instincts of guilt and rage, she will need it.
The getaway car and those dead roses she keeps on her shelf are the only things that she holds dear anymore.
James made a promise, a promise that he can't keep anymore.
But he'll try to.
Oh, he'll try to.
The tires on his car pick up dirt as he makes his way into the driveway
And she can see him clearly from two miles away
Closer,
Closer.
James has come to confess his sins and recollect the love that he once yearned for
She' is as patient and determined to commit her first
Silence
She hears his footsteps as he makes his way to the front door
She shoulders her weapon
"Sweetheart?"
Silence
James steps into the Winnebago as a creak echoes with every step he takes
"My Love, I'm home"
Still air, and silence ensues
She feels a rush so strong, she could erupt from the feeling that those eyes and his voice once instilled within her
Memories of love and laughter, the sheets that hold him in the night, but never letting go in the morning after
She then remembers
*Bang*
Oh, she remembered.
YOU ARE READING
The Red Dress.
غموض / إثارة"True love is to be feared as much as death itself, though, both equally promised throughout life, love occurs first."
