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Journey Of Moments 5 of 8
Sven: No, no you're not, you just picked a (remembering) jerk to come on to.
Jennifer: Oh, you can quit it now, I'm finished playing this little game. You can win, now it's best if you leave.
Sven: Due to everything that has just happened, I would like to; HOWEVER, you haven't been fair like you said. You've taken my indifference away.
Jennifer: No! No, you're not allowed to turn human...
Sven: Why not? (not fully understanding)
Jennifer: Stop. We both had our fun, we both saw something we liked and went after it, almost on a sort of mini-adventure. But it's over now, there's plenty of other 'Fair maidens' around, the sooner you leave, the sooner you can find one, just keep in mind that I won't let you do to her what you did to me; so, don't let me catch you running from me... in 'apprehension'.
Sven: I will leave, but I'm not completely finished yet. Just in case, I'll give you this (and from his wallet he passes her another one of his cards. She smiles and apathetically takes it and shoves it into her pocket so as not to resist and slower the pace) and because I don't want to leave with any regrets...
All goes quiet, as with the pause in time she looks at him, awaiting his next words, but instead she turns to receive a quick kiss.
Jennifer: (Blushingly alarmed, after a moment.) You seem pressed. I suppose desperate.
Sven: No, I just wanted to get everything out. I'm satisfied now, enough to leave but I can't after that, can I? Too many 'could have beens' are surfacing for the future.
Jennifer: Yes, I suppose so, and it's your fault, so you better fix it before you leave.
Sven: (knowing so he does so with) Yeah; so get lost, thanks to you I have to write a new poem and I'm doomed to be too human for the rest of the day.
Jennifer: Fine, get lost? I will, but thanks to you I'm never going to be able to walk into a card store again without being reminded of you. They'll probably haunt me with images of you, who came in and destroyed my self-confidence so you could make me the vulnerable girl you wanted me to be. Get lost? I'm fair, so I will, since I'm the one who made it easy for you. Better luck next time 'Sven'.
With that she walks out of the store with Sven following as far as the entrance, watching her walk away to the right.
Sven: After what's happened today, I may need it, and she was wrong, if anything she definitely made it harder for me, not easier. I hope we're leaving this place soon. (Almost stumbling to the floor in apathy for the physical world)
Just then the sales clerk of the card store (a middle-aged woman) behind him, who had witnessed the recent episode, begins sobbing. Sven turns to look behind himself, in light confusion.
Sven: (with a quick smile) Yeah, (looking at his watch) I have a good hour in this place. Great. Now what am I supposed to do? Like, 'Don't leave me lonely'. Ah, Jennifer you did. (Straightening up) I AM going to have to leave today, but not until we wake up and do what we don't want to. (He is now walking fast after her.) Oh-hum.
He eventually catches sight of her walking at a usual, slightly slow pace, looking like she is heading for the exit around the corner to the left. Seeing this, Sven turns back to the side exit he just passed, running and dodging a few shoppers and causing a fuss by accidently pushing over a bag-in-hand lady. Outside, he runs up the next side exit, the one she seemed to be heading for. Arriving there, he doesn't see her at first, then startled by her sudden appearance at the first set of exterior doors, he quickly opens the door in front of her and almost running into her...
Sven: You, we, can't leave like this--
Jennifer: (About to say something) S...
Sven: No, you went first last time, let's wake up, we may not like it, but who's askin',... I...
Jennifer: (Abruptly) You can't say it, but I can, I love you.
Sven: (Dissappointed) Yeah. It cuts both ways doesn't it. (Impressed still, yet currently agitated, by her ability to half read his mind.)
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