Sunday, January 4, 2015

early draft/ opening scene of "Jimmy in the Small room"

"where is the butter?" Julie asked standing in the breakfast nook, hands on hips, pretty mouth turned down in an angry scowl.
'Butter?" I said, trying to sound disinterested, I knew where this would end, where it always ended these days, with Jimmy.
With out knowing anything else about the situation I knew with certainty that if the butter was missing that it would involve Jimmy somehow.
"Yes, the butter, I bought an entire box of imperial butter which contains four bars of butter yesterday and somehow there is no butter?"
Julie's voice went up at the end of the statement, it sounded like a question, but  it was her own  way, without saying anything directly, of blaming Jimmy.
'Did you bake a cake? Did you you make fudge, where is the cake ?Where is the fudge?" Where is the baked good that would require so much butter? Julie continued.
 How to diffuse this situtation,  I thought quickly.....
"Hey, I needed to go to the store to get some blue star ointment and mole skin anyway, i will pick up some butter."
"huuuuuuuu," Julie exhaled and turned towards the hallway.

Outside in the driveway i ran into Jimmy.
"Hey, bro! I was just at Gamestop and that Jace kid, you know Stamford's former girlfriends step-son, has the sickest new tattoo its a spine going all up his back, along his spine!!!!"
"Ugh, Jimmy, did you use four entire sticks of butter in a day."
"Oh, yeah, funny story.  I was gonna make this sick beef dish and it called for a entire stick of butter and I was making this killer rue to make this amazing gravy and I wanted to make my own bread but was already, just you know so busy with the rue and the beef dish that I just melted a bunch of butter and mixed in some fresh cilantro and some garlic to make this....................
"Jimmy, you used four sticks of butter and Julie is pissed-ok, why didn't you replace it?"
"Bro, i am so sorry I was going to go to the store but on my way I was...."
I walked away, he was in mid sentence but I just headed down the drive way, I shouted over my shoulder.
"Bro, I'll catch you latter, I gotta go to the store and the post office, and I want to get back in time for dinner."
"Oh, that's cool man, what's for dinner?"
I stopped dead in my tracks, my blood ran cold, at  the thought of Jimmy sitting down to dinner with me and Julie.
It could not happen.
"Bro...... " I motioned to Jimmy to come closer, as he walked towards me I decided on a plan, a lie that would get rid of him for awhile.
"Bro, really need some romantic time with my girl tonight, we both have been stressed at work, haven't."
"Oooo, gonna do the nasty!!!" Jimmy said.
"Ugh, yeah, if you could give us some privacy."
"Cool, cool, yeah no prob, its taco Tuesday at Henry's tonight Jace and Angie, maybe Mikey ya know that one eared mofo from Oceanside."
"Yeah, that would be so great, so cool of you, thank you so much."

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