Go away.
This was the first instinct of Elliot.
Runaway, away to another place. Find a new city with new friends, new family, new partner , new life... But no, he could not do that. Giving up was not a word that is found in his dictionary. He had never given up in worse situations, would not lower his head now.
They were two hours in that car. Two hours where you could count the number of words that were spoken between the two with the fingers of one hand. Two hours passed dragged in no hurry. And the more they wanted Elliot pass, the more they seemed to stagnate.
Olivia was sitting beside him, driving. The silence was almost an omnipresent being in that car. A small space separating the two, but the invisible gap created between them, for years and years, was surprisingly higher.
Elliot was separated.
Yes, Olivia knew that. It wasn't big news, he has been separated once before, and had just returned to his wife. No… what bothered her most was the question that he had done for her.
"Why do you try so hard to save my marriage?" Olivia was able to hear the voice of Elliot asks it again and again and again ... It was a constant echo in her head.
Why did she do it? Perhaps because they were the only normal couple she knew, perhaps because it kept her hope of one day find someone like that, maybe because she liked Elliot do much that wanted to see him happy with his family - even if she wasn't included in it.
That silence was killing Olivia. she could no longer bear this situation.
"Hey, Elliot." – Are you okay? Have you spoken with Kathy? How are your children? - Olivia wanted to have asked any of these things, but she wasn't able to gather all the necessary words and say some words that made sense. - "Can I put a song?"
'Can I put a song?' What kind of question was that?
Elliot just nodded her head, that Olivia could see only by reflection.
He pressed the button quickly and the voice of Liam Gallagher - Oasis - filled the car, singing Stand By Me
"But there is one thing I can never give you
My heart will never be your home.
So what's the matter with you?
Sing me something new ... "
After Stand By Me, You & I came from Queen.
Another romantic music.
"But will we be together forever?
What will be my love?
Can not you see that I just do not know. "
What was that? A sort of alternate time of 'Love Rocks' at 3:00 in the afternoon?
Janis Joplin, Rollerskate Song.
"Well, I got a brand new pair of rollerskates
You got a brand new key.
I think that we should get together
And try them out, you see? "
Bad idea. Why Elliot accepted even turn on the radio?
Those songs were leaving him desperate.
He turned off the radio. Was tired of this whole thing of 'you have a new key', 'stand by my side' and 'we will be together forever? ". Simply did not fit with the situation. He couldn't stand the silence, but really thought his head would explode if he heard another song like that.