"She's a Wild One, " part 3 from "Inside your Shadow" (C) 2024

 

When she had done this before, she used to laugh at that too. She was fine for the first year or two. She was a stay-at-home mom. He was everything she thought she wanted. It was a beautiful life that she thought she wanted. He was a tenured college professor of Science.

“You left our child to do…” his voice was fading. She was on the nod. He walked to her, leaned down. Was face to face. She feared the chair would break. His eyes were full of tears. He definitely didn’t want to, “I want you out by the time I get back from work,” She knew it was for real this time. “The law will com to escort you out.” Then he dug into his pockets. Took out a roll of cash and threw it in her lap. He walked away quickly. Stomped his way upstairs and cried. She hated to fall asleep in that chair to the sound of his crying. She woke up about two am. She knew where he hid his wallet. Took out his black American Express card, took their seven month old son, Copernicus, and the new BMW suv that he bought her six months prior.

“I didn’t want to leave,” She was haunted by the memory, as though it had happened now as she walked beside her father in a field of stones.

“I had to do something! Look At Me! Damn you!” She screamed as she stopped walking. Then she looked up at the face of her father. His face was pale. His eyes were green, “Sometimes it is easier to remember what wasn’t than what really was,” he said. Then he vanished.

She now saw a darkness inside of the hood.

After she left her husband, she went back to her hometown. She went to see Sally, her high school best friend. Sally lived off and with, “My Man,” Sally told everyone. Her man made meth in the same trailer home that they lived in. the trailer was deep in the woods of Saucier Mississippi.

“I had to do something he was threatening to take my son away. It was waiting on me?” Lil Nick kept crying in the backroom, “Damn I wish he’d shut up,” Maddie said. “He’s probably hungry. Where’s his bottle?” Sally replied. “See that’s why I love you. You’ve always kept me together,” with that Maddie got up and walked cautiously around the dirty piles of laundry, milk crates and boxes filled with things that Sally acquired from the side of the road. Sally puffed her long cigarette. With each inhale and exhale it looked like her face was going to fall off of her skull. “Yep yep,” she replied. Then she pulled a glass tray from underneath the rocking chair.

 

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