madness of Tess

chapitre 4 : Privas... ( part 1)

Nothing will be like before...

Elysabeth is like a tightrope walker...

His father no longer speaks to him.

He is convinced of having such

hold on her daughter that she will eventually to return, by renouncing.

Today, she receives a whole battery of emails and letters.

Today, she will discover her assignment. She's not really stressed, it can only be Paris...

Only this city can reach out, as always.

In the face of all this paperwork, Betty

don't understand much...

She looks around... But Paris does not appear anywhere. She grows impatient... Then she understands and it's almost violent.

head of office from immigration to the prefecture of... the Ardèche... Privas.

Privas... What is Privas... Privas...

Ardeche. She didn't even know that

this department existed... She searches

on the internet... Privas, less than ten

thousand inhabitants... Lost in the middle of nowhere.

No it can't be possible, there must be an error...

She calls... It rings.

?_Hello, I am Elysabeth Du

Tonquin... I'm calling regarding

my assignment. I believe there is a

error in my file.

_Your registration number?

_64739...

Silence. The young woman hears the other

at the end of the line strumming on a keyboard.

_ There are no errors. You are expected in Privas in two weeks.

_It is not possible ? I been in

the best... I can't go in Privas... No, but it's a village! It's...(His voice rises in the trebleand seems to sizzle)

_ There are no mistakes madam.

Elysabeth has trouble breathing.

She hangs up and a few drops

begin to bead on her

She hangs up begin and a few drops

to bead on his forehead. She never takes offense but today she is really

upset. Private. The images scroll...

She, from a great lineage (this is what

that she thinks at least) can't

to be affected in this lifeless place.

The shock is brutal... Even the storefront

of the prefecture is ridiculous. This city

is ridiculous! She deserves better than that.

God can't send him there!

There's a lump in her belly that doesn't

just growls. She looks at the virgin Mary, in tears. It's a nightmare !

She remains locked in her room.

Looks like a thousand demons are coming to visit him. She surrenders to

her bed. What if his father was right... What if she had made a big mistake... She does not know the province. In this

city, it will be far from everything... This

it's not his job that scares him

itself...but it is to be distant from what she always was.

She stays in a ball under her quilt

like a fifteen year old girl deeply frustrated.

Without friends, abandoned by her father,

who accepts having lost the battle

but not the war,

Elysabeth did not other choices than to turn to his little sister who agrees to help him despite their last differences.

Eve is like that, she is not resentful. She lands in the following day. She is so

happy that her sister is finally leaving this nest poison. she's a real ball of energy.

When she comes into the room,

Elysabeth is still in her dress bedroom, waxy complexion.

_Hey Betty... why are you making that face funeral?

_Eve... It's a nightmare... I swear.

_But no... So where are you going?

tell me you're going to Tours! As

I will be happy to have you near

me, although (she scratches her head

smiling).

Elysabeth bursts into tears again.

Eve sits at the foot of the bed and passes her hand in the tangled hair of the redhead.

_Hey don't get yourself in these states... there are no deaths of men.

_It's obvious that it's not you who goes to Privas, sighs Ely idle.

_Where is it ?

_My God even you don't know it... It's in Ardèche... Eve... I'm going die there... Far from Paris, far from dad... I'm starting in two weeks and I swear I'll make a

depression. (The blood red him rubs the upper back).

_Hey... It shouldn't be so terrible than that... (The younger sister looks on

his smartphone. A time) ok it's terrible... (then she smiles) But it's Very good ! It's pretty... It's calm. Attractive ? But there is nothing there!!

And you have a better idea? You

are you going to stay here all your life?

Ely shakes his head no while sniffling.

A new life awaits you. It is a chance!

There isn't even an airport... There isn't

not even a train, or a highway!

_I have passed this damn competition brilliantly and they send me to the smallest prefecture of France. I want to

ask dad to fix it...... It's so degrading...

_You're not going to do anything at all... You gonna go there. I believe in destiny

sis... It's a new beginning...

_ I have to find accommodation, move... I don't know anyone. I don't even know what to do...

_You're not alone...I'm here me... I told you that I will always be here... You show me your papers...? You gotta send them some stuff I think. I take care of that. Then we look at the housing?

The accommodations...

(she has a hiccup)

_My god... I feel like God punishes me for disobeying papa..

_Yuck. I don't want to hear that.

go to take a shower, we have a

bread on the board. Go Betty!

Eve shakes her shaved red hair

on the side (it's getting worse and worse at this level, Elysabeth thinks to herself...) She takes the duvet between his fingers and pulls it.

Faced with Betty's lack of reaction,

she throws herself on her to tickle her

to the ribs... Finally, Ely sketches a

little smile while squirming... This little

smile does not wash away everything that happens in the spirit of the Parisian. It's a heartbreaking... His relationship with his father breaks his heart...

_Ok ok you won... you go accompany me there?

Yes ! We could rent a truck. There must be seven to eight hours of road but it is doable! I take care of all ! I can not wait ! (She says it all pinching his cheeks as we play with a child).

Betty wonders how her sister made to be so joyful and playful...

She finally convinces herself to make a

toilet. And even then she can't

refrain from looking at the pictures of

his new prison. Privas It can't be only ugly... People can't be that

savages but Eve has reason... There is no more time to waste and she would still like to lose him be sorry for himself. She would like maybe go back, jump

around his father's neck, swear fidelity to him...

She would like Jesus to help her... someone helps him... The only person

who answers present is Eve,

Is it really the right one anyone to listen to?

Arght. By cutting her nails, the beautiful

redhead has just snatched a piece of

skin with a loud cry (more annoyance than anything else)

Eve enters the room.

_Hey Eve!

_Well what does it look like you were in

dying... I'm worried. I do not have

not allowed...?

_It's nothing... Can you go out? (She

hides the body with her hands, become

red like a tomato)

_I've seen you naked a million times

or almost... Don't be so stuck... Don't

don't be so shy...

_I don't want you to see me

like this... (beat) You really have

kissed a wwoman

_No but I'm dreaming! You are still

stuck on it? I kissed one girl... It's not that I have obscene and incestuous thoughts towards you! silly,You are my sister... Is here really people like you?

with age-old prejudices Christ!

_"Why did you kiss a girl?

_Because it happened like that.

What do you want me to tell you...

You want me to write a novel about

the subject ! Sorry I'm not too talented than you... Seriously Betty, do be careful... With preconceptions like that,

you are going to get smashed.

_I do not see the link. Why are you looking at me like that? This is embarrassing... Stop it.

You're serious ! I come here to help you and you are telling me a story because I

looks at you? Wow... But you have a serious problem... And you know what it's your problem my old goat? It should

maybe you're considering one day

ass pounding. Yeah. Look at me

not like that... With that I leave you.

_You leave me?

_I'm going to your silly room. I

I'm not touchy just imagine, well

that you take me for I don't really know

what...

Eve leaves the bathroom attached to

this princess bedroom. Elizabeth

is she ready to leave all this luxury

and that comfort behind it? She didn't

never lived alone. There is always

someone who has done things for

she... Everything, her meal, her bed, her

detergents... Damn it... And it's not with his miserable pay of 2500 euros waiting for her that she is going to be able to pay someone.

And his father is without doubt determined to cut him off, she said to herself, lathering up her body.

She's dizzy... Her head is probably going

explode. She can't stop thinking about that too what his sister has just said to him...

It's true what! She has nothing to do with it if the fact that his sister kissed a

woman bothers and disturbs her! This is

against nature !

But what is she talking about, she who hasn't never tasted any lips...

After putting on a long robe ugly black dress with a turtleneck, Ely joins her sister on her bed. The other young

woman still seems to be sulking.

_Do you want me?

Enough to ? that you take me for

a pervert? Yeah a little... And then you really intend to dress like that there? Even our rear grandma wouldn't wear this horror...(she mumbles) it's sure, you

don't risk getting ripped off...

,_Eve! You are bad...

_ No, I am realistic... But my faith is

your problem not mine. My sexuality is grandiose... We even consider with

Maxime to have a threesome...

_A what ?

Don't tell me you don't know this

what is it? (She rolls her eyes...) We're going choose a girl and we will sleep with what... a part of the leg in the air with my Max and a pretty chick it's gonna be denies...

Oh my god I don't want to know...

Stop talking to me about that... Oh my

god... (Yeah, Ely really dumps the hand on the mouth... Already that

imagine a man and a woman bare repugnance, two women

let's not talk but then the pompom...

Two women and a man!!! She goes

puke...)

_How about we talk about it? What ?

Are you going to reject me? What am I a

freak ? That's it ? Because if it is

that, your mess and your move

you'll manage on your own my

casserole!

_I thought you weren't likely

_Well maybe I am a little_

I can't believe you could believe

one second that I was watching you... No I don't come back!

_Ok... Excuse me ........is that good?

The silence that sets in is alarming.

Eve is still sulking... But the young

woman is effective. She comes from

scan with his phone, a bunch of

documents that she sends by e-mail.

It's true, Ely thinks, she's amazing

sometimes his sister...

She begins to look apartments on Privas... In a few

hours, the moving truck

is rented... It's going fast... It's going a little

too fast... Like dizziness, like

a plunge into the void. But

luckily Eve is here...

She will stay a week with her.

She leaves before the Du Tonquins

don't come back. That's for sure, Elizabeth

would have preferred to be supported for

face one last time

parents... But the presence of Eve

would have only made things worse.

_Well I'm coming to get you in a

week. Don't slip away... Maxime and

some friends will help us load

the truck. We'll find you furniture

and household appliances...because to my notice it's not the old man who will help you and put the thand in his pocket.

Hey... that gonna go... Stay strong.

I know him old. He will try to destabilize you, to make you look like a monster...

Become a chef of I don't know what cooperation... Bf_Immigration...

Yeah, that don't make you afreak. There really are strangerswho go into this rat hole? Must believe so. And you know something about it

strangers?

_Yes... I know all theregulations...

_ It's true I forgot, you're a

computer... Ok, let's talk about it again. I

kisses you.

Eve sticks her sticky lips and drooling on Betty's pale cheek