THE SCRIPT

Strange Things...

I slowly entered my car into the garage and I got off. The day has been a tough one and I just wanted to go and have some rest. I slowly stepped towards the veranda and what I saw was not a pleasant view. There were blood stains on the veranda floor and some flies were still having a taste of the dried out blood. It brought a loathsome feeling to me and I just went and filled a bucket of water and I just poured it on the floor. The stains were dried out so it didn’t go away. I left it to absorb the water for a bit and I poured another bucket of water again. This time it slightly went away but not completely. I was too tired to deal with all that. I left it to be done in another time and I went inside the home.

I sat on the sofa for a while and I let out a deep sigh.

‘What an eventful day’ I told to myself as I closed my eyes for a while. I heard the sound of the mockingbirds and it made me open my eyes.

‘Well, let’s get going Alfred!’ I told to myself and I moved to the kitchen to make myself a coffee so that I would feel better to get through the rest of the evening. I saw there was still some coffee left in the pot which Elenia made this morning and I poured myself a cup and I went upstairs.

I quickly changed into pyjamas and I thought of checking all the notifications I had this morning. And soon I found out that I left my phone probably in the car.

‘Oh dear!’ I sighed and I went downstairs, took the car keys and rushed outside.

‘Oh, here it is’ I said to myself seeing the mobile on the table in the patio. As I touched my phone, I felt a strange chill in my hand. I let go of that sensation as I thought it was probably because of the cold climate and I went inside. With all the brightness of the lights in the living room, I noticed my hand which was holding the phone was covered in blood. I felt disgusted and I kept away my phone on the dining table and quickly wiped my hand with a paper towel. I wanted to clean my phone as well, but when I was about to, I noticed there was nothing of sort on the phone. There was not even a drop of blood on it. As strange as it seemed I went to the patio to see if there was blood there on the table, but there was nothing as well.
‘What the hell!’ I rushed to the bathroom on the ground floor and washed my hands. I was not able to understand anything that was going on. The day has been strange and there seemed nothing to make it any less. I brushed off all the confusions and the strange feelings that were captivating my mind and I took my phone and went back again upstairs to get going with the work I had undone.
As I was checking all the notifications again, I saw the post I had shared last night.

‘I want you!’ is what I saw with my picture in the background.

I wouldn’t lie that picture looked as if I was about to jump onto someone and start making love.

‘The strange things people do when they’re drunk’ I laughed at myself and I understood why I got all the weird messages showing interest in me.

Among all the weirdness I noticed again that one message that took my attention this morning.

‘Hmmm Elisa Parker.’ She responded to my post with a good question .

‘What you want?’ is what the message said.

I was curious to see who it was so I touched the profile picture but to my surprise it was just a face with messy hair that looked like a girl but I wasn’t sure. Only the name was convincing me that it is a woman.

Anyway, I understood why I posted that. I have been working on a new script and I wanted new ideas. I was having a lot of stress recently and I was thinking of finding some new inspirations yesterday morning. But somehow I didn’t think of putting it out to the world in a strange post like this. Anyway, now it’s already done, so I might as well just continue with it.
I responded to that woman with a voice message and I explained to her what I was looking for. I always preferred sending voice messages over texts as it was much easier.

As the time passes, I got a reminder on my phone saying A36 at 22.

‘Oh god!’ I told to myself as I suddenly remembered that I had a meeting with my friend John and my new producer at A36 bar today at 10pm.

I forgot about it with all the chaos this day has already brought.

‘well, I better get my ass off here soon if I want to be there at 10’ I told to myself and I quickly got ready  in the best possible way and there I went off.

I was driving fast because I was already getting late to the meeting. My eyes were begging for some rest and the headlights of other vehicles coming my way didn’t make it easier either.

Somehow I made it on time to the bar and I parked my car. As usual the bar was full of people and there I recognised a familiar face.

‘Hey buddy!’ John waved at me while coming my way.

‘Where have you been? I thought you were going to miss the opportunity I hardly arranged for you’ John said to me while greeting me with a tap on my shoulders.

‘No! Are you nuts, I’d never do that? Thanks man.’ I said.

We both went inside and sat on the table that was reserved for us. As we sat john was giving me a hint with his eyes while showing a woman at the corner of the bar.

‘C’mon man you know I’m not that much into these women.’ I told John with a displeased voice.

‘One night won’t be a sin’ john said with a playful voice and a wink.

As we were chitchatting John raised his hand and waved at someone as if he was giving directions to that person towards us.

‘There your treasure is coming’ John whispered to me.

As he said that to me, I took a sneak peak of who’s coming and I saw a young handsome man with a playful attitude and a full white outfit was heading our way.

‘Heyyy John, see, I kept my word’ the person who came told to John while spreading his arms in a friendly way.
‘I knew you would. So, this is Alfred the director I told you about and Alfred, this is Russell the producer to be I told you about.’ John introduced me to the person who came.

We both shook our hands and greeted each other as we sat around the table.
‘Russell, so what would you like to have?’ I asked Russell.

‘One whisky on the rocks please’ he replied.

‘Great!’ we ordered the drinks and we started our discussion.