tabernumse

July 10th, 2017

Scene 1
I meet Carol in a bar. She's dancing. She's in her early to mid-thirties, attractive. The men there are assholes. I talk to her for a while. She's sweet. Likes dancing. But has this empty gaze about her, like she's deep in her own mind. I meet some other girl.

Scene 2
I'm on a date with this other girl. We're gonna make dinner, so we're out shopping. It quickly becomes apparent that I have nothing in common with her. She demands the most expensive wine there, and when I have to check my bank account before paying, she becomes impatient and yells at me. I yell back at her. That's basically the end of our date.

Scene 3
I visit Carol at her work. It's a bright and open workspace. It's nice. Carol is alone in her office by her computer. I ask her if she wants to go do something, or just hang out. She tells me she'd love to, but reminds me that she's at work. Right as I'm about to walk out the door she tells me she's about to go on her break, and I could just pull out a chair and sit with her. I didn't hear her. I walked out the door. Now I'm gone, and I'm seeing it through Carols perspective, third person, as if on TV. Some mean coworkers, noticeably a middle aged woman with glasses, sneers at her for eating her lunch at her desk, saying that the rest of the people are eating in the breakroom, clearly insinuating that they think she's uptight or "too cool" to eat with the rest of the team. Carol keeps staring through empty space, lost in thought.

Scene 4
It's Christmas, and Carol is celebrating it with her family. I hear her dad talking in the background as you see her unwrap the present she received from the rest of the family. The audio of the father is from a few days ago when they were picking out the present. He's talking about how this "present" is gonna crush her, and tells the rest of the family how she's gonna retreat from the world inside her own head. How they should look out for the empty look in her eyes. Carol opens the present which contains a bunch of cheap, shitty, precooked food. The rest of the family finds this very amusing.

I wake up