100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween! 6 Nights Left! "...And scene "

The relationship was based on a heady idea of happily ever after mixed with lust. Neither person gave a rational thought beyond the physicality of the endeavor. Family and friends advised the both of them that they were rushing into the relationship too quickly but neither of the two would give a rational ear. Their love quickly waned and within less than six months they were at each others throats; they did not take the time to discuss the idiosyncrasies that either one might possess that the other might not agree with. Instead, their personal habits and ticks become a mutual source of contention. Add on a myriad of insecurities and unresolved deep seeded issues and you have a perfect recipe for disaster.

As we join our happy couple, we can see that they are enjoying a moment of respite before they continue with their murderous pursuits

(Close up. Randall is taking a breather while he sits at the kitchen table. Lucy is standing in the middle of the living room with a large kitchen knife in her hand)


Randall
(contemplating)
This is what we’ve come to, trying to kill each other


Lucy

It’s your fault, you weren’t honest. You lied, you’re not who I thought you were.


Randall

We can put that behind us, we can start fresh can’t we?


Lucy

Sure, we’ll end up fucking and everything will be okay until we try to kill each other again at the end of the month. Do you get that there’s a pattern here?


Randall

Then what’s left for us? What do we do?


Lucy

We have to kill each other, it’s the only way out of this.


Randall

And if we don’t?


Lucy

Then we go through this same shit over and over.


Randall

Why can’t we just agree to move out and move on?


Lucy

Because neither one of us wants to other to be happy outside of our relationship, if you can call it that? Neither of us is going to move to the mainland and even if we do break up, we’ll always be checking up on one another. It’s just best if I kill you, that’s the only real solution.


Randall
(getting up from his chair)
Wait, what happened to ‘We have to kill each other?’


Lucy

Well, that’s what I meant. You know that.


(Overhead shot of the two facing off. Close up of Lucy and then Randall. Tension, perspiration. It could go either way, they could end up having mad passionate sex or
they could kill each other. Both emotions are the same, it’s anyone’s guess)


Randall

No, I don’t know anything.


(Lucy lunges at Randall with an overhead strike. Randall catches her wrist and stabs her through the sternum with his own knife. Lucy has a second knife and stabs him in the heart at the same time. Both fall to floor and bleed out, the light slowly fading from their eyes. Another couple enters from the kitchen and sits on the couch. Both have walked directly over the dead forms of Randall and Lucy. They turn the TV on.)


Chris

I always feel like we’re not alone in this place. Don’t you?


Barbara
(puts food bag from the local eatery on the table, removes her food and starts eating)
Yeah, sometimes I can hear a couple fighting real bad, but then I remember that we’re the only ones on this floor. Kinda crazy huh?


Chris
(clearly irritated)

Why do you do that?


Barbara

Do what?


Chris
We order the food, it comes in the bag, and then you start eating and you don’t even take my food out and I’m sitting right here?


Barbara

You mean you can’t take it out yourself?


Chris
(Taking food out of bag. Shaking his head.)

Sometimes I wonder why I got into this relationship?


Barbara

So do I; especially at night when you’re sleeping. I wanna put a pillow over your face and suffocate you.


Chris
(Putting his burger down)

Oh really?


(Perspective of Randall and Lucy. They rise from the floor, bloodied with both knives stuck in their bodies. They stand, Lucy behind Barbara and Chris behind Randall. Knives suddenly materialize next to the food bags. The ghosts of Lucy and Randall look at one another and smile)



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