Family Business

Premonition

Wednesday May 29th MontClair New Jersey 2.30am
Prudence trembles as she stands naked on front of the baying mob. They jeer her fleshy mass, she recognises faces and voices but can't place them. Out of nowhere ropes tightens around her, her breathing begins to restrict, she gasps hard struggling to get air into her lungs, she tries to scream out for help but she can only gasp desperately. A shadow stands before her "Gluttony is a sin and you will pay!"

As she is about to scream, she feels a jumping sensation and wakes up drenched in sweat. She clutches the left side of her breastbone as her heart dangerously races. Her lungs bounce up and down as they struggle with the weak shallow breaths that she can only draw. With a trembling hand she turns on her bedside light and puts on her glasses, relieved to discover she is in her own home. The nightmare seemed so real, for the next hour she tosses and turns, unable to go back to sleep and afraid to go back to sleep.

Wednesday May 29th Room 106 Bowers Motel 2.30am
Florence lay awake in her bed, she can't sleep, she worries about Prudence, she doesn't want to worry but her conscience won't let her not. 'What if she dies or has a heart attack as we grab her' she asks herself. She doesn't want to hurt her, she just wants her money, 'is it right that I want her money she asks herself', she knows the answer but tries to ignore the question and giving an answer. She opens up her phone and looks at the videos of Prudence walking in the restaurant, the slow awkward waddle between tables, her sweat drenched face as she returned to her table. She turns on incognito mode on her phone and does a search for Prudence Sternwood, she goes to the video section and watches videos of her, she bites her lip anxiously on one video where Prudence is standing under strong lights, her tone is gaspy, and sweat is visible on her face 'I am going to have to look after her' she states 'if she is to survive I will have to look after her!'

Wednesday May 29th Room 110 Bowers Motel 2.30am
Richie and Gretchen lay naked in bed, Gretchen finished her cigarette, she always has one after sex "that was good darling" states Richie with pride.

Gretchen puts out her cigarette and lies back down and rests her right palm on his left cheek "soon, we'll be having sex in a fancy hotel in Mexico, thanks to my favourite cousin (her tone sarcastic) that extremely fat businesswoman Prudence".

Richie motions his left hand along her legs slowly "We will have to have sex on front of her, show her something she'll never have, a little thank you for all the money that she's going to give us"

Wednesday May 29th Room 117 Bowers Motel 2.30am
Henry sat up by his room table going through the plans again and again and again. He wants to be sure that they haven't missed anything, they are amateurs at this and Prudence is on to them thanks to Gretchen's stupidity.