Part Two : A STRANGER IN TOWN
by: AAB
Girl gets home, shaken--begins to prepare special dinner for Visiting Mom. Decides afternoon was just unpleasant flashback. Mom calls and says, "oh, car broke down in Smalltown--can I take a raincheck?" Girl says "sure, Mom. No trouble." Turns to re-schedule and realizes calendar date--anniversary of deathly ride in the water car. Mom comforts her, says that's why she thought it was important to visit--has Girl told new husband details of accident yet? But Girl has not, is unimportant, she says--in the past. They hang up and she is left alone with her anniversary of water-car Ride of Death memories.
But she has made dinner and gone to a lot of trouble and what to do?--until husband calls. He's going to be bringing home new guy from office for dinner. Guy just transferred in from out of town, lonely, no family around here.
Girl is pleased--at least the food won't go to waste. And it will be nice to have a new person to talk to and get to know to take her mind off things.
She goes upstairs to change into nice outfit for company and to bathe baby--going to keep Jr. up until company shows so they can show him off--she knows consolation husband likes to brag about Jr.--though he doesn't do that much else with him, she reflects, sadly. Not like the Dad deadboy would have been. Maybe her suppressed sadness in her seemingly perfect marriage is what made her think she saw him today?
Doorbell rings. She grabs Jr. and goes to meet the door. Consolation husband steps aside to introduce guest to pretty wife and baby heir. Pretty Wife smiles in anticipation and holds baby heir proudly. Consolation husband moves to put arm around pretty wife, and she meets eyes with dinner guest.
For a moment she swoons--only Consolation Husband's arm around her keeps Pretty Wife from going down to kiss floor in a faint. Dinner Guest, her sweet bippy! It's him! It's Dead Boy, standing most not-at-all dead nor zombie-like in her doorway.
She thought about letting herself fall into the faint--maybe
he would be
gone when she came to--and it would all be an hallucination or a bad
dream--maybe she was becoming schizophrenic--she was in her
early 20s. But
she was holding Baby Heir, didn't want to drop him. So she
held her ground
as Consolation Husband commented that she was
shivering--probably from the
cool evening air and Dinner Guest should come in so they
could close the
door and keep Baby Heir from catching cold.
...to be continued...
DISCLAIMER: This fiction is property of its authors and has no connection with/to The Lifetime Channel or Movie Network or The Lifetime Original Movie beyond being a satire thereof.
