Shadow Dream Girl
by Bennet “The Sage” White
Chapter 16: Revealings and Feelings!
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Ian is confused.
No shit. That should have been the title of this boring book.
Luke and Ian bicker how Ian will use his time here, as Ian often tries to wait out the clock.
Ian loved a woman once.
Oh? Are we getting some plot 85% into the book? How novel.
Ian sips his beer. I guess realities are blurring here or something.
So, Ian remembers being at a party with her. He hated it, and he suspected she was there just to be around other people, besides Ian. I sympathize.
They had been arguing a lot lately. She wanted Ian to get over himself. You and me both, sister. He always seemed to annoy her. Yup, check.
He was in a relationship prison. Liek his job. Prison. Prison. Prison. Fuck off, Ian. It was a special kind of hell, Ian says.
My eyes are rolling so hard, they are spinning.
He can't remember her name.
Luke asks, “When did you start working at Millie's? Who's your boss-”
RECORD SCRATCH. FINALLY! The greatest mystery of the book!
He also asks how can he afford an partment on his wages, or even afford a psychiatrist.
Ian's answer...
“I don't know.”
I'm not even mad. This is what we all expected.
All he remembers is that night at the party. He leaned against the wall.
Right?
After some time of boring conversations, he goes looking for his chick. He found her in group that matches the group Lisa was with at the club a few chapters back.
Are we actually getting somewhere?
He tells her he wants to leave.
At Luke's office he takes a big swig of beer.
Back at the party, she screams at him all drunken like. He takes her by the arm and forces her out of the house.
They drive off. It's a long drive.
She's still screaming.
Ian seethes as he drives. She keeps screaming,at him.What the fuck is the matter with you? If you wanted to leave you could have left me at the house!
And the biter, the thing that hurt him the most:“I've had it with your moper, pity-partyI'm not your mama. Just kill yourself already, you dickless turd!”
Ian starts to cry.It was a mistake. A mistake to love you!
Ian drops his beer on Luke's carpet.I swear to God, we are through! I don't ever want to see you, or your sorry ass again!
“She wanted me to hurt myself, and-”
You made me waste my life, lyou fuckling- WATCH OUT!
Ian asks Luke if he's dead.
Luke gets a little angry and goes on a diatribe how he gets patients who are so oblivious to the truth that it's aggravating. And Ian is especially aggravating (no shit) because he's asking the wrong question, and that he's so close to getting it but keeps dancing around it.
Is Luke the voice of the readers?
Ian tries to leave, but his feet get stuck in the spilled beer like cement. It starts to get hot in here.
The chair Luke is sitting in turns into a charred car seat, with a smoldering skeleton with bright red hair. The room catches on fire.
Ian recognized the skeleton. It's Lisa.
End of chapter.”Selfish little boy!” Lisa scolded with a demonic grunt, ;ifting her head and exposing a face that had been half-burnt to the bone, “How long are you going to run?”
So, the “twist” apparently is going to be Ian drove the car off a cliff or something, and all of this is happening as he burns to death. Unless Bennet pulls something out of his ass.
