Inspired by this music video of the song “Sleep of the Floor” by the Lumineers, and a crazy conversation with @AndieBegins
Our choices determine our destiny. A single, split-second decision can alter the course of our entire lives; one way, danger, risk, but excitement, happiness, wild, perfect joy; the other, safety, stability, but dissatisfaction, restlessness, incompletion.
This story begins at a funeral; the funeral of someone close,whose the death brings the small group of friends together. He arrives in a taxi, only in town for a short time. She sees him from across the room, just a face in a crowd, and in that moment, her life splits in two.
1. She sees him, remembers all she feels for him, and decides, in an instant, to leave with him. to leave her [g/b]friend, her job, her home, everything she’d worked to build, and follow her heart to him; to give up any illusion of contentment in exchange for freedom. To go out on the road, with him, for the adventure of a lifetime, and maybe find herself, after all this time.
She sees him, remembers all she feels for him, but decides, after a deliberation, to stay - to give up on the wild,
2. She sees him, remembers all she feels for him, but decides, after a deliberation, to stay - to give up on the wild, fantastic dreams they’d shared. The moment passes, and she has chosen to instead build a forever life, stable, safe; to give up any chance at freedom in exchange for contentment. To create a home, a family, and maybe find herself reflected in the world she creates around herself. He leaves and they both move on with their lives and their relationships. Or do they?
Our choices determine our destiny. Your life hangs in the balance of this one decision - to go… or to stay?
Narrator’s note: This story will have 2 timelines. It will go like this: It will start out at a funeral where all four characters are present. Timelines 1 and 2 will split off when one of the characters (ignore my gender pronouns above, it could be someone of any gender) decides to follow the person they’re in love with in 1, and does not follow them in the other. Each scene will indicate if it is timeline 1 or 2, and we will alternate timelines, seeing how the characters lives branch in different directions in each different timeline, and ultimately end up in the same place, or somewhere entirely different.
Hosted by:
Janine M (Agentj9)
Rotating narration
Started 12/09/18.
Scenes played: 2
License: Community License
18+
