IDEA - 9-16-2020
by
Patrick Ryan
1,489 Words
To one man, she's a saint; to another, she's the devil. Carolyn is with Myles; they've been together for over a year, but Carolyn can't get over Damon. To say that the relationship ended badly with Damon was to put it lightly; it was the love of her life, but Damon had a hard time with monogamy. It ended once and for all when Carolyn came home to see Damon in bed with her little sister. The picture was chiseled in her mind. The pain was unbearable; she thought of jumping off the bridge, but then she met Myles a few days later, and the pain dug deep into her subconscious. That day, Carolyn vowed that she would do whatever it took never to have that happen to her again; she became a model girlfriend, and Myles fell in love with her. Little did he know that she had his phone mirrored, that she had a GPS tracker on his car, and that she had hidden cameras set up around their house. Also happening without his knowledge was Carolyn's crusade to ruin Damon's life. Some revenge schemes involved keying his car at work with the words, 'child molester,' secretly posting derogatory stuff about him on social media with his photo attached. Whenever she had the opportunity, she would steal his Amazon packages and throw them into the river. These episodes of acting out made her feel better in the short term, but the pain always returned. Carolyn could no longer bear it; she decided that the only way to move on with her life was to remove Damon from Earth. She formulated a plot to burn down his house in the middle of the night. She knew he was a heavy sleeper, and would sleep through it. Tonight was the night, but it so happened that it was the day that Damon met Myles. Myles joined a new gym and Damon was his trainer. After the training session, they had a beer, and Myles showed him a picture of Carolyn. Damon warned him she was crazy, but Myles didn't believe him. Despite being completely sure that Damon was wrong, Myles began to think about the notion. When Carolyn left to burn down Damon's house, she was followed by Myles. With the tracker in his car, she saw right away that she was being tracked and quickly pulled into a convenience store, Mission Arson aborted. Carolyn began to see the messages between Myles and Damon that night. She totally lost her mind; she decided that killing Damon was even more important than her relationship with Myles. Keeping up appearances, Carolyn was behaving as an ever-loving girlfriend; secretly, she was planning to kill him and her ex. Myles, a good poker player, began to see some of the red flags that suggested that Damon wasn't so crazy after all. He didn't understand the extremes of Carolyn or Damon for that matter. As the war rages on, is Myles going to make it out alive?
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