“Yeah, you heard that Harold came to the night club right?”
“Yes, Jimmy and I saw the security footage. And we saw the bar – he trashed it.”
“Well, I don’t remember much but, apparently he shot at Merrick’s car when he was trying to get me away – and my head got a piece of glass stuck in it.”
“Oh, Jana, I’m so sorry.”
“Yeah, well when I woke up in this strange house, I couldn’t remember anything. Not you, not my name, not what happened the night before.”
“So, you had amnesia, I get that – but that
doesn’t explain why you ended up here. Why didn’t your guy – what’s his name?”
“Merrick”
“Why didn’t Merrick make an effort to help you figure out who you were – why the trip to Atlantic City?”
“I don’t know,” Jana said honestly. “He told me that my name was Mona Lisa Van Dyke, but that everyone called me by my stage name.”
“Bombshell?”
“Yeah, exactly.”
“So, he also told me that I we’d met a few weeks before and that we were engaged. He said he was my fiancé and that I was to come work for him at the casino as a singer.”
“Holy shit. The guys so full of shit – you know that, don’t you.”
“Well, yes, I mean no – he’s a great guy. I know he was lying to me, but I don’t think he did it to hurt me.”
“So, you’re saying you haven’t slept with him?”
Jana felt herself blush.
“Jesus, Jana, can’t you see – he’s totally taken advantage of you. What a scum bag.”
“Don’t say that about him, it’s not true. Merrick Flynn is the most wonderful man in the world.”
Holly stopped in her tracks, then tossed the half eaten cotton candy into a trash can and licked some of the stickiness off her fingers.
“You’re in love with him, aren’t you?”
“Yes,” Jana said, as her eyes filled with tears.
“Jana, it’s not love – its brainwashing, plain and simple.”
“Where are you going?” Jana said as Holly headed towards the exit.
“I’m want to give that bastard a piece of my mind.”
“No,” Jana said.
Holly glared at her.
“Can we just do something first while we’re here? The carousel? Or,” Jana looked around. “Can we go in the funhouse, first?”
~~*~~
Holly and Jana paid for a ticket and waited in a line to get in the fun house.