Five Years & 7 Seven Days

“Happy birthday Sarah”, as I stand watching over your grave as the sky cries a thousand tears; “it has been five years since your untimely death, you would have been forty today. Ellis is doing well, she is fourteen and growing into a beautiful young lady, I can tell she misses you and despite the hardships we faced during our long colourful years we spent together, I miss you too” as I light my second cigarette. “my work you ask?, work is going very well, in fact you could say I’m quite famous, I know I say this all the time but the second film was very successful indeed, I was shitting myself so hard thinking I would fuck up the movie, now I realise that I shouldn’t have been so negative” “I have a new gig by the way, some gypsy woman from some local theatre has been making the news recently, a Lavinia Rosella, I’ll be taking Ellis to see one of her shows tonight”.

“Dan is doing well, he and Eric have adopted their first child, old bald headed Dan with his 3 surviving grey hairs is now a daddy, our daughter is good with kids so everybody gets along just fine: well that’s all I have for you this year, I will see you next year, look I even got you a card and flowers, you always had a thing for blossoms, not really sure why; Anyway see you around”. I leave the cemetery and sit back in my car, the flashbacks of her death still haunt me in my sleep, I turn on the ignition, pick up Ellis from school to drive to our father and daughter night at the theatre. I ask Ellis why she didn’t want to visit her mother’s grave?, however she remains silent, I think that today is important and she is suffering in her own way so I won’t press any further.

I park and we catch the show, it is a ballet mixed with action and opera, I can see why the crowd love her, not only is she very good, but also she is very unique. We meet up, Ellis and I in the back room with our VIP passes, Lavinia is very excited to meet me, entrusting I will do a good job to make her look stunning, wittingly I reply with spontaneous banter “I won’t make you look good, but my camera sure will, as long as you smile” she laughs, of course who wouldn’t, Ellis is too busy on her mobile phone texting her friends to really contribute to our meet and greet. We decide to end it there after many compliments on her performance, for sure we are buttering ourselves up ready for tomorrow to discuss direction for her chance to shine on the big screen.

The next day a gypsy woman, a banjo songwriter who performs at the local community centres for sick children and a star at the local theatre catches my eye after her agent calls up Mr Zing and passes on my details; got to love that guy. That was how I found out about Lavinia Rosella and agreed to produce a promo/demo for this oddly dressed lady on one condition, I meet her directly to discuss what she wants out of this experience. Following her show on the next day I arrive on set and there she is sat, alone drinking tea, I sit down beside her and begin to get to know her a bit more. She comes dressed in a vintage curtain style top/skirt combo. Crystal earrings and headdress. An oddly dressed woman for sure. We talk and I get to know her quite well, in fact she used to be in rehab for a drug habit, ketamine. She puts her hand on my leg and tells me that she's excited to be working with me on this project ever since I came to visit her show last night, she tells me that the image of me last night gave her quite the orgasm, she appears to be after the full experience. As our conversation ends; she whispers in my ear, telling to me swing by her trailer in a few minutes so she can show me what all those years of ballet practise can do in the bedroom.