I am hanging out with Elaine who is really into a new
reality show in which a woman who is torn between two people who want to marry her. The two men then compete for her hand by
shopping for her in a large department store.
They are given a certain amount of money in each department with which
to buy her things and then she chooses which pile of stuff is closest to her
personal preferences. By the end of the
show, the man who does the gets a “yes” while the other does not. Elaine even has a special car from the
show. One day, as we are walking back
from lunch, she sees someone driving away in her special car. She says, “Is that Joe?” I am confused at first and then ask her to
wait until we get inside where she can see whether Joe is there or not. (Apparently he works in the same building,
for the same company, but in a different department.) She is insistent, saying she knows it was
Joe, but I am adamant that she at least wait to see. She refuses and calls the police as I rush
into the building and desperately start searching for Joe. I ask a few people who are confused by my
urgency. Then I find him and ask him
where he’s been, what he’s been doing.
He explains and I realize that he has an alibi for when the car was
driving off. But the police are there,
with lights flashing, ready to arrest Joe.
Before I can talk with anyone, an officer is handcuffing Joe and taking
him out of the building. I rush to
follow and see Elaine, standing in a foyer, watching everything through a window. I go over to her and point at her then press
my finger into her chest, digging my nail into her flesh, threatening her. “You should go to hell. You deserve it. I will do everything I can to
make your life a living hell before you go there.”
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