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~The Agony of Truth (Second Interlude)~ <ring> <ring> <ring> "Hello?" "May I speak with Violet?" "May I ask who's calling?" A man's voice, vaguely familiar. "Who is this?" "This is Scott." "Why in the hell are you answering her phone? Put Violet on now." Yet I knew deep down why he was answering her phone� "Violet doesn't want to talk to you Nicholas. We're together now." "Like hell you are. Violet would never be with a moronic little troll like you. Put her on!" "No." "Listen you, if it's all like you say it is, let me hear it from her lips." "��" "��" "Nicholas�" Her voice� "Violet! I-" "You're such a shit Nicholas." "What!? How can you say that? You sound so cold." "I told you I don't feel for you the way I used to. But you just can't drop it. Then you call here and insult Scott! I don't care what you have to say to me. Scott is more of a man than you ever were. You're just an obsessed bitter rag doll of a man!" Neither of them saw it, but I clutched my chest like I had been shot. I tried to keep my temper, but I was rapidly failing. Then I heard Scott again on the phone. "We're together, and we deserve each other Nicholas. You never wanted her the way I do." I gritted my teeth, then I heard Violet again, the two of them were alternating. "He's so good to me, why can't you be happy for me?" "I should be happy that you are abandoning me for this�this?!" I sputtered in rage, and then Scott's voice came again. "At a loss for words? That's not like you Nicholas, I think you're running out of steam." "Put Violet back on you bastard!" "�Yes? What is it?" Her voice again. My last chance, whether I still meant it or not�I blurted it into the phone, trying to break through that coldness that seemed so wrong in a person like her. "I still love you!" "Nicholas�take care of yourself." Her voice was softer, but I knew I had won nothing. I held the phone a minute longer, I could hear breathing from the other end. It was Scott. I shouted into the phone, every blood crazed murderous threat I could think of. "And if I ever catch you Scott, your face is going to regret it!" I finished at a deafening volume. "We've been taping this conversation Nicko. If you ever come near us, we'll send this tape to the cops!" I didn't buy it, as I'm sure he didn't buy my threats, but that he would take it that far, that he thought I would take it that far, left me feeling dirty. "You'll pay Scott! You two will never stay together! If she left me, she will surely leave you!" I could see it clearly�then came his voice again, so smug and sure. "No she won't. We have something, something someone like you will never understand." He hung up the phone then, and I tore my phone out of the socket and threw it against the wall. It wasn't that she could just leave me like that. But now, after everything I'd been through just to get back to her, that she could do this now...and that I had to find out this way... Then, for the first time since I was a small child, horribly, I felt tears in my eyes. ~Spite~ They're both mindless whores, they're made for each other. I'm so glad I'm finally rid of her. Leading me on, teasing me with something I could never have. I'm going to make them pay, just be sure I'm grinning with savagery and spite� Love's dead, I'm dead, but still I'm walking upon the Earth, Like a vengeful ghost from the grave� I should break them, crush them, pluck their eyes like plums. I am nothing but spite, there is no soul left to save! I'm going down� So I'm here, here to burn away, every lie you say. I'm going to make you pay�any way, that I can� So you thought you could love me and leave me Violet? You're with another man, when I thought with me you would stay. You thought maybe I'd just bow out quietly like a good little loser. You told me you'd wait, but now you've gone away� You told me nothing but lies� You and Scott disgust me, what are you afraid of? Love? In our age it seems it's love not sex rearing it's ugly head. I should have heard the call of the cruel goddess Ambition in your ear. I wish I had never met you, I wish you were dead. Down, down, I'm going down� So I'm here, here to burn away, every lie you say. I'm going to make you pay�any way, that I can� Yes I'm here, here to burn away, every lie you say. You've taken everything away�and I'm going down� ~The Church (Third Interlude)~ It's been over a year now. Nicholas called once or twice more, insulting and threatening us. Then he stopped, but I know he hasn't accepted it, and I know he will never accept it. He just can't understand, I feel sorry for him for that. Once in a great while we'll talk, but our conversations are wooden, I know he's teeming with some volatile emotion, barely containing it and remaining civil. During our last conversation he got angry and accused me again, so I just hung up. I'm never going to think of him again, he's not worth a second thought. Today I marry my love, my Scott, the only man I'm having faith in from now on. I look into his eyes as he lifts up my veil and I close mine as we kiss. I open them and as we're running out of the church, I hear the cheers, the good wishes, and I look into the sun� A place that Nicholas will never know. |
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