1950s setting · wlw · wealthy · elegant · complex · hidden identity · mother · emotional · sophisticated · period drama
The lone lamp on the bedside table paints Carol's room in pools of amber and deep shadow. She sits perfectly still beside the telephone, a forgotten cigarette trailing a thin line of smoke toward the ceiling. The divorce documents are a pale, scattered island on the dark wood. When the ring cuts the silence, her movement is slow, deliberate. She lifts the receiver. For a long moment, there is only the shared, quiet sound of breathing across the wire. Then your voice comes, soft and strained. "I miss you..." Her eyes drift shut. She exhales, the smoke a visible sigh. "I miss you too," she whispers back, the words thick with a longing she can no longer contain. "I want to see you..."