"Glamorous"
Setting: The Alpha Pub. It's late at night and the pub is closed for the evening.
Events occur in real time.
Charlie, the landlady of the Alpha pub, comes back from her night out early and notices that some of the glasses have been left out uncleaned. It's normally her husband Jason's or her bartender Evelyn's job to do this, but she decides to clean them anyway before going upstairs to him. As she wipes the glasses, she has a sad look in her eyes, as it reminds her of the time she was in a car that collided with a glasses truck that resulted in the tragic loss of her younger sister and left her unable to conceive children.
Charlie (teary and to herself): "This is why I don't clean the glasses, Jason. This is why I never clean the glasses. As if I don't have enough on my mind right now with the impending destruction of Earth, now I have to clean glasses too." *sobs*
Charlie's phone rings and she answers it.
Charlie: "Yes?"
Voice: "This is commander Knowles of escape shuttle R2D2 confirming that you'll be ready to leave in 1 hour?"
Charlie: "Oh, yes, me and my husband will both be ready. The Earth is still about to explode then I take it?
Voice: "Unfortunately yes, but we'll be able to start a new civilisation with our brightest minds, most accomplished doctors, and of course everyone will still need pubs, so you and your husband are very important to us.
Charlie: "You know, I really thought that starting World War III was a good idea when it happened, who knew it could end so disastrously?"
Voice: "Yes that was a huge shock to us all, but here we are."
-Earth shakes a bit and Charlie drops the glass she was cleaning, shattering on the floor-
Voice: "Is everything ok?"
Charlie: (crying again) "Yes yes, just another tremor... and I'm not very good with glasses... so"
Voice: "Yes the tremors are getting more frequent, be careful, and get to the pick up point as soon as you can."
Charlie: "I will. Thank you for calling, I have to finish up here and get my husband."
Charlie wipes away her tears and heads upstairs. She hears the bed creaking and starts panicking that Jason might be repeatedly falling over onto it and injuring himself like the last time. She was unable to help him when it happened before as the door was locked, but this time it is ajar so she rushes in, only to see him in bed with another woman.
Charlie: "JASON!" She screams, and then looks over at the other woman... "EVELYN!!!"
In a fit of rage she runs over to Eveleyn and slaps her in the face so hard the sound could be heard from space, and then kicks Jason in the balls. She then takes a drink off the nightstand and throws it in their faces. Just as she does so the Earth shakes again and part of the roof collapses, crushing Jason and Evelyn.
Charlie looked at her husband and his ***** mistress under the rubble, blood splattered on the floor; both pleading with her to help them. Charlie laughed in disgust at both off them. “Rot in hell you rat faced twats” she said to them as she walked off in her high heels towards the exit door. “Wait, don’t leave me Charlie, we can work through this” Jason pleaded to her. Charlie looked back, looking at her husband’s blue eyes, thinking off all the years they spent together; would she really save him after he betrayed her so much. Deep down she still loved him, but if she was going save him, she would only have a few minutes to do so until the whole pub collapsed on them, killing them all. She ran back over and started to clear away the rubble surrounding her husband. “Please help me” Evelyn said to her. “Why would I help you, one less slut in the world” Charlie burned back to her. “Because…. Because…. I’m pregnant with Jason’s baby”.
Charlie look at her in shook. “Wait what?” she quizzed her. Jason looked over “Don’t listen to her Charlie, she is just saying that so you will save her, she is a liar”. “No I am not” Evelyn barked back to him angrily. “I mean look at her Charlie, she will say anything to you”. Charlie was still bewildered by what was going on. She had little time left. “I don’t believe you” she said to Evelyn, and continued to save her husband. “Please you have to believe me” … “I don’t have to believe anything that comes out of your filthy mouth” Charlie said back. Charlie was close to freeing Jason when suddenly Evelyn said something that stopped her. “It’s me…. Nikki, your long-lost baby sister who you thought died in that car crash all them years ago”. Charlies whole body froze. “What did you just say?” She demanded. “I’m your baby sister”. “It can’t be” Charlie said, but she noticed a necklace Evelyn was wearing, it was the same one their mother had bought the two of them years ago.
In that moment, she knew Evelyn was her sister.
She didn’t have much time, the pub was about to crumble, and she had to get to the shuttle to escape earth, she had the two tickets in her hand, she had to decide to save her long-lost baby sister who she could have a proper second chance with, or save the man who she loved who betrayed her. Charlie decided to save………
Tune in next time to find out.
