STORIES
49 - Say Yes
Wednesday in the wee hours of the morning ...
ESMODONTI:
… Come with me Mezzie, I want to show ya something.
MEZ:
Look, it's been fun, but I have to go school in a few hours.
ESMODONTI:
It’ll just take a sec - c’mon you know you’re sleepy.
ESMODONTI:
… Hey what was the deal with Lithium today?
Like, why was he crying?
MEZ:
I don’t know. Cammeo thinks he’s cutting a tooth or something.
ESMODONTI:
But he’s OK. I mean that’s normal - right?
ESMODONTI:
… Can ya tell me what he looks like?
MEZ:
I don’t know, he looks like a baby.
ESMODONTI:
How long has Roc and Lithium been crashing here?
MEZ:
About a month, maybe? I wasn’t here so I don’t know.
ESMODONTI:
OK, I’m not gonna grill ya no more because …
ESMODONTI:
…Voila! We’re here. Isn’t it fab!
MEZ:
The closet? Oh yeah it’s fascinating.
ESMODONTI:
I just dig this closet. I feel safer in a closed space. Guess
that’s cause my SOB of an ex master used to lock me up.
I didn’t mind too much – it kept him away from me.
MEZ:
He’d really lock you up? Why?
ESMODONTI:
Who knows? It ain’t no big deal. I’m only telling ya this cause you’ve been so nice to me tonight.
ESMODONTI:
… Anyway, I come here when I want to be alone. Being alone is pretty damn tough in this crib.
MEZ:
I know what you mean.
ESMODONTI:
Mezzie, I know you don’t wanna ask, but I’m sure you’re
dying to know what went down with me and Roc before …
We were hot and heavy for a few years, then he split.
MEZ:
He just left?
ESMODONTI:
He’ll blame it on school, but he left.
MEZ:
Did he know …?
ESMODONTI:
That I was preggos?
ESMODONTI:
.. Never got a chance to tell him. He should've stayed because of me, not because of that. He thinks he’s so right. Like he could really keep me from seeing Lithium if I want to. And after what he did to me ...
MEZ:
What’d he do?
ESMODONTI:
He left me with my SOB of an ex-master - who wasn’t happy
to know a baby was coming. That SOB locked
me up for months. Then he stole Lithium.
MEZ:
Wow - sorry.
ESMODONTI:
Yeah everyone’s sorry, even that SOB ex-master of
mine is sorry. I made sure of it.
MEZ:
Is that when you came here?
ESMODONTI:
No, first I became a vampire - that gave me strength. Then
my new vamp friends found out that the SOB marked my baby.
Come here, I want to show you something.
ESMODOMTI:
Look familiar? Roc said Lithium has one just like it.
MEZ:
He does, I’ve seen it.
ESMODONTI:
I got even with that SOB, then I came here, but I never found my little elf-kin. Now I find out he’s been with Roc.
MEZ:
That’s good, isn’t it? I mean, he’s safe and now you know where he is.
ESMODONTI:
I guess. I can’t think about it right now. I just wanna …
ESMODONTI:
That was great little kiss Mezzie. Come with me.
MEZ:
Where?
ESMODONTI:
Into my closet. I wanna forget everything,
for a little while anyway - and so do you.
ESMODONTI:
…You know ya want to. Just say yes.
MEZ:
But what about …
ESMODONTI:
Yes…
