Reflection in Pink Jade Meyer

Reflection in Pink Jade Meyer Watercolor

CORREY

I don’t want help, I want him! Mikey! I don’t need to be babied!

AUBREY

You live in a fantasy world! You think that Mikey is somehow going to magically come back! But he’s dead, Cor. He’s not coming back. And he would hate to see you this way.

CORREY goes silent, a deep frown sinking into her face. She turns to CAROLINA.

CORREY

You think I’m sick too, don’t you?

CAROLINA hesitates, unsure of what to say, before nodding.

Wiping tears from her eyes, CORREY stands up from the table and snatches the shells away from CAROLINA.

CORREY

It’s you two! You’re the sick ones! You’re the sick ones because you don’t understand what it means to love!

Without thinking, CORREY picks up a seashell sitting on one of the kitchen shelves and hurls it toward AUBREY. He dodges the shell, and it hits the wall. The shell hits the ground hard enough to break into pieces. CORREY lets out a sharp gasp.

MIKEY!

CORREY

CORREY dives for the shell, but AUBREY grabs her wrist.

AUBREY

(Calmly) That’s not Mikey. Let it go. Let him go.

CORREY stares up at AUBREY with tears in her eyes. Her hands are shaking, and her skin flushes white.

CORREY

(Quietly, almost a whisper) I need to go.

CORREY slowly stands up and begins collecting the broken shell pieces. She pushes past AUBREY, out of the kitchen, and out of the house.

SCENE IV

CORREY stands on the beach with her feet in the water. She clutches the broken shell pieces to her chest, a dead look in her eyes as she stares out across the audience as if they are the ocean. A wave crashes into her, rocking her back and forth, but she only takes a step forward. The setting sun reflects off of something in the distance, and it catches her eye. She thinks that it’s a seashell, and steps forward to retrieve it.

Waves battle CORREY as she trudges through the water. The water rises up from her ankles, to her calves, to her waist, but she doesn’t stop. The shell doesn’t seem that far out. She takes another step. It’s getting harder for CORREY to move her legs, but she persists.

Another wave crashes into CORREY, and she nearly drops the broken shell pieces. She groans, determined to continue onwards. She takes another step forward, and when she sinks her weight down, there is no sand to catch her. CORREY’S head slips under the water, but she doesn’t fight. She allows the current and the waves to rock her back and forth, pulling her out to sea. The broken shell pieces slip out of her grasp and sink to the ocean floor, where the waves will bury them under the sand to be forgotten about for a thousand more years.