TRAVIS:
I knew these people ,these two people
They were in love with each other
The girl was very young about 17 or 18 I guess
And the guy was quite a bit older, he was kind of raggedying...Wild,
And she was very beautiful you know??and together they turned everything into a kind of an adventure
And she like that,just an ordinary trip down to the grocery store was full of adventure
And they didn't much care for anything else,because all they wanted to do was be with each other
They were always together,and he…he love to her more than he ever felt possible
He couldn't standing away from her during the day when he went to work
So he quit.. just to be home with her,then he get another job when the money ran out,then he quit again
But pretty soon she started to worried …

JANE:
Ya what???

TRAVIS:
Money I guess…not having enough .. not knowing when the next check was coming in…

JANE:
Yeah!!I know that feeling

TRAVIS:
So he started to get kind of….torn inside …

JANE:
How do you mean??

TRAVIS:
well,He knew he had to work to support her,but he couldn't stand being away from her either

JANE:
Yeah!!I see

TRAVIS:
The more he was away from her the crazier he got,except now he got really crazy
He started imagining all kinds of things

JANE:
Like what??

TRAVIS:
He started thinking that she was seeing other men on the sly
He'd come home and accuse her of spending the day with somebody else
And yell her break things in the trailer ..

JANE:
In trailer??

TRAVIS:
Yes they lived in a trailer home…
Anyway he started to drink really bad,he'd stay out late to test her ..to see if she'd get jealous
He wanted her to get jealous,but she didn't,she just worry about him but that got him even madder.
Because he though if she never get jealous of him she didn't care about him ..jealousy was a sign of her love for him
And then one night ,one night ..she told him that she was pregnant,she was about 3 or 4 months pregnant
And he didn't ever know…and than suddenly everything changed, he stopped drinking he got a steady job
He was convinced she loved him now because she was carrying his child…
He was gonna to dedicated himself to making a home for her
But a funny thing started to happen ..he didn't even notice at first
She started to change,from the day the baby was born..
She began to get irritsted with everything around her.. She got mad everything.. even the baby seemed to be an injustice to her..
He kept trying to make everything all right for her
Buy her things..take her out for a dinner once a week but nothing seemed to satisfy her
For two years he struggled to hold them back together like they were in first met ..finally he knew it was never going to work out
So he hit the bottle again ,but this time it got mean…
This time when he came home late at night,she wasn't worried about him or jealous,she was just enraged
She accused him of holding her captive by making her have a baby
She told him that she dreamed about escaping..that was all she dreamed about escape, she saw herself at night..
Running naked down a highway, running across fields,running down riverbeds…
Always running and always just as she was about to get away he'd be there
He would stop her somehow..he would just appear and stop her
And when she told him these dreams he believed them
He knew she had to be stopped or she'd leave him forever…
So he tied a cowbell to her ankle so he could hear at night if she tried to get out of bed
But she learn how to muffled the bell with a sock into it and inched her way out of bed and into the night..
He call the one night the sock fell out and he heard her run to the highway
He bragged her back to the trailer and tied her to the stove with his belt..
He just lay to there back to bed..and lay there listening to her scream ,and he listen to her son of scream …
He was surprised at himself ..because he didn't feel anything anymore
All he wanted to do was sleep…and for the first time he wished he were far away
Lost in a deep vast country where nobody knew him,somewhere without language or streets…
And he dreamed about this place without knowing his name.. and when he woke up ..he was on fire
There were blue flames burning the sheets of his bed…he ran through the flames
Toward the only two people he loved…but they were gone…
His arms were burning ..he threw himself outside..and rolled on the wet ground
Then he ran ..he never looked back at the fire..he just ran…he ran until the sun came up
Then he couldn't run any further …then when the sun went down…he ran again..
For five days ran like this until every sign of man had disappeared