Emmy | Akemi She mutters a harsh ‘bastard’ into the phone before hanging up and turning her attention to the hanging photographs on the wall. It hardly seemed he deserved more than that.
The assortment of photographs on the wall stare blankly back at Akemi. There’s a few consistent figures amongst each photo- first, a red-head boy, Bow-Wow- or, Luca. The second, the same woman who is still laying on the couch- although, Akemi gets the feeling that somehow…she looks a little more off colour than she had last time she’d looked at her. Even in the photos, her face is obscured and distorted in each photo, sometimes by objects, other times by smears on the glass. Sometimes, a man is present.
He does not look kind, in fact, he looks like a stereotypical redneck. In other photos, it’s just the woman present. There’s a couple of grandparents in some of the earlier photos. Nothing seems particularly out of the ordinary about the pictures, aside from the strange obscuring of the woman’s face.
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Andrew coughs a little as some of the residual smoke exits the oven, however, he’s able to see the lump inside. It’s a charred, half-melted version of the dog plush that was sitting on the counter. The ribbon on this one is melted and burned away, but the tag sits within reading-distance.
Unlike the other one, this one reads,
“To: Luca, From: Dad”.
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Chula - Suzune Suzune picks the bottles up off of the floor and sweeps the broken bits, throwing them into the recycling bin,
Her fingers touch a full bottle, and she freezes as soon as it’s fully in her hand. It’s like she’s stopped in time for a moment. Whilst at first it looked like the same colourful, bright glass that had been dotted around the living room, as Suzune crouches and stares almost blankly at it, her vision distorts. For a moment, the lights in the room flicker dark. During the moment of darkness, the colours in the room shift. It’s suddenly darker, dingy, and the much-more familiar dark-brown beer bottle stares back up at her. No longer is it a childish fun-coloured glass bottle.
Before she has the time to fully process it, everything returns to normal. That is, until she stands bolt upright, and Andrew glances over just in time to see Suzune’s eyes roll backwards.
There’s a momentary delay, and then everyone seems to be sharing the same vision.
Akemi hears the sound of a curtain whipping across the living room, and she sees the vision with her own two eyes. Suzune and Andrew, however, are definitely seeing Akemi’s point of view instead of their own.
A curtain suddenly whips across the room, hiding the space behind the couch from view. The shadow of a woman and a man stand across from each other. Their voices are muffled- almost like the three of you were hearing them through a wall, but their words are clear enough to be audible. The woman grabs one of the bottles, and holds it tightly in one hand as she waves her hands furiously in front of her. Then, the pair begin to argue.
> WOMAN: Go on David, abandon us all over again! Don’t give me that bullshit ‘bout goin’ ta see your ma and clear ya head! I know exactly where ya been goin’! You’re seein’ that Cali woman again aren’t ya?!
> MAN: I’ll go where I damn please, Winnie! Ya don’t even know a thing about her! But she’s a lot better’n you!
> WOMAN: I know that little brat of hers is your kid, David! I know me an’ Luca ain’t good enough for ya! That ya wanna just go an’ be with her instead! FINE! Y’KNOW WHAT, DAVID! FINE! I GIVE UP! I’m takin’ Luca, an I ain’t ever gonna let ya have him.
> MAN: That’s if the booze doesn’t kill ya first, Winnie, you’re a damn drunk! I ain’t takin’ the kid, I ain’t ever gonna take the kid! Ya can have him! I don’t want him, he ain’t worth fightin’ for!
> WOMAN: You’re a good for nothin’ bastard! That boy loves ya to death! He cries every day ‘cause he wishes his daddy loved him! I’LL KILL YOU, WASTE’A SPACE EXCUSE FOR A FATHER!
There’s a sharp thunder clap, a crack of lightning, and a shrill scream as the woman launches herself at the man. The man surges back, the two break into a scuffle, before the woman goes down. The curtain whips open suddenly, but there’s no trace of the figures in the room any more…
Andrew and Suzune come back to themselves as soon as it ends. It takes a couple of moments to blink the fog from their minds, but… they don’t seem to have any long-term side-effects from the out-of-body experience. The woman on the couch, despite the vision, still seems to be unaffected. It’s getting hard to tell if she’s just some kind of weird decoration in all of this…
Akemi, being in the living room, notices it’s begun to rain outside.
