e-assignment 2 part 2

Part 2)


There’s no one around me as I stand by the window in a small cottage room, watching the last light of day die behind the green trees. I’m finally home again. Suddenly I hear a sound that almost breaks my heart.

-“Jake?” (hesitating) “Jake? JAKE!!!!! You’re back!!! I’ve …missed you…so…much…” (kissing me) ” Where HAVE you been?? (lecturing) That trip wasn’t supposed to last more than a week…I’ve been so worried! And you look like you’ve been visiting Hell itself...”

-“I love you.” (swallows) “I need you so much.”

-“Oh, Jake. I love you so much too…”

- “I love you more than my life, Sophie. I…” (hesitates, pulling back)

- (sighing) “I still can’t trust that you are home.” (frustrated) It was driving me crazy, not hearing your voice, just getting text messages.”

(pause)

-“Jake?” (softer) What is it, honey? I can see that you’re haunted by something. Whatever it is, you can tell me.”

-“I…”

She sighs, relieved that I finally respond in some way.

-“Please, Jake… I can’t take seeing you this way.”

-“I don’t know where to begin. I…”

-“Did something bad happen?”(worried)

-“Yes.” (whispering with broken voice) “Do you know what Pete’s line of work is?”

- (hesitating) “No…”

-“Well, he’s not only a mechanic, he also tell people whatever’s most painful to them and make sure they understand it will be the absolute truth if they don’t do as told.”

- (gasping) Did he do that to you?” (chocked) “Why would he..?”

-“He wanted me to be more motivated to do his bids. He’s deceived us all.” (hollow) “He wants me to work for him and together they tried to use you and Jess, to get to me.”

-“Jess? Why? (frightened)

-“Pete’s the one sending the text messages to you, not me. I’ve been….” (hesitating)

-“I was locked up back in the garage, with Kip and Steve guarding me, assuring my safe keeping.”

-“And they...” (Sophie swallows loudly) “…did they hurt you?”

I cringe at the memory.

-“Baby, you’re safe now. They can’t hurt you anymore.” (Calm, comforting)

-“They will try. And what I did….” (words failing)

-“What did you do? (concerned) I know you and you can’t have done anything that bad.”

- (bitterness) “If you knew….”

-“So tell me.”

- (sighing) “They told me what was to be expected if I didn’t collaborated. I tried to warn you too…” (pause)

-“I was in the cell for many days, how many I don’t know, with almost no food or water. The thirst was driving me mad, just as they figured it would. They were trying to break me down.” (humourless laughing)

-“What happened?” (whispering)

-“There was this girl. A little girl, Sophie.” (tensing) “They made a statement out of her. Steve cut her in the arm, a cut for every grand her father owed Pete, making clear that they would do something like that to Jess if I refused to help them.” (wincing) “To our daughter, Soph... And she was right in front of me, all covered in blood, screaming. And Pete made her beg me to kill her.“ (groaning) “She was just a girl, Sophie, younger than Jess. And she was so afraid.”

- “I…can’t imagine the pain it must have caused you…I’m sorry, Jake.

-“Don’t feel sorry for me. I don’t deserve that. (spitting the words out) ”You don’t know what happened.”

- (softly) “What did you do?”

- “I killed her.” (turn away, disgusted) I took the knife from Steve and cut her throat as I knew that she would suffer even more if I didn’t.”

- “I… I’m trying to find the right thing to say.”

- “You don’t have to say anything at all. I know what I did, what I became.”

- (Comforting)”Jake, look at me. You killed her, but just to save her from even more pain. It wasn’t your fault. That doesn’t mean that you’re bad in any way.

-“It does. I killed her and that makes me a monster. I might just as well have fed on her blood, right there in front of them.” (closes eyes) “I know what I am now. So you don’t have to pretend, to be brave any more, just stop, before you tear me all apart.”

- “Jake. Look at me.” (aggressively) “I said, look at me.”

I open my eyes and look at her.

_”I know the real you and you’re NOT a bad man, in ANY way.” We will fix this, together.” (firm) “I will NOT let you bear this alone, you hear?”

(Kisses me again)

-“I love you. No matter what, I love ALL of you.”