The Lie Behind the Postcard - The Graveyard near the Utah line
On a graveyard in Sage near the Utah line, there is the place where the Del Mar family are buried there are three tombstones; each of them looks awful since the family didn’t had money and they were unable to afford good tombstones.
One of those tombstone is special, for the last eight years that tombstone had received a lot of flowers all of them with notes that said “I miss you” or “Forever yours” the Graveyard Keeper never says who sends them. He only says: “That Del Mar was lucky to found someone that still remembers him after all this years”.
“It was a really horrible accident, they said, he was on a ranch working’ and then his horse threw him and kicked out his face! He was unrecognizable, his brother and sister buried here. But they didn’t cry his Ex-wife came here also and pays me lots of money to never ask questions about him or to answer questions.
“Why?” said the new hired on the Graveyard who was spitting tobacco to a can while he was listening the story.
“Don’t know, I just know that his family never come here, only’ his brothers but they never bring him flowers just to their parents. I think that he did something wrong because nobody seems to like him, except the one that sends flowers” said the man taking a cup of coffee.
“I see, well I think that It would be the same to me once you retire then!” said the man who took from his bag a bottle of Budweiser and opened it with his teeth.
There’s a woman in the Riverton Hospital with a lot of cables and machines hook up to her the doctors are a worried she only had one heart attack and now she was in a very critical state. They are thinking that if she has another one she’ll not survive it that is why only the family can visit her. Her husband Monroe, her daughter Jenny, her son Monroe Jr., her daughter Alma Jr. and her Ex-husband Ennis Del Mar.
Alma Beers, is her name she is a very strong woman and likes to smoke a lot, she just had a Heart Attack as a result of a big anger while she was fighting with her daughter Alma Jr. once again they were discussing about her Ex-Husband Ennis Del Mar
“Mom, I need to talk to you” Said Alma Jr. while her mother was in the kitchen looking around the dispensers
“You need, to tell Kurt that you need more flour and sugar honey, I’ll tell Monroe to send you some bags” Alma said while she was looking around and smelling and pulling the things out.
“Oh! Dear indeed ya’re a lot like yer father! Look to all this mess! Good lord I’m here don’t worry Alma I’ll clean this for ya’ and Kurt” she said while took some gloves and a bottle of cleaner.
‘Mom, thanks but I think that everything is ok as the way it is!” Junior said trying to breathe, it was always like this since she decided to get married her mother just criticized he way she do everything, always comparing her to her father, who according to Alma was unable to do any king of job.
“Don’t be silly dear, ya’ don’t want to be like yer father who is 46 years old and lives in a trailer with no furniture and just a fridge that is full of alcohol!” she said pulling from the fridge a bottle of whiskey from which Junior used to offer a drink to her Father every time he was there visiting.
“Mom!” she screamed, which make her mother look at her with and angry look.
“Lower yer tone of voice when ya’ speak with me Alma Del Mar Beers, don’t forget ya’re speaking to yer mother” she said pointing her with her finger.
“I’m sorry mom, but to begin with my dad lives like that because it is easy for him he has what he needs and he doesn’t have his fridge full of alcohol. And now that you mention it I need to talk about him” She said after she took three deep breath, speaking to her mother was not easy since her half-brother Monroe was born they didn’t have a very strong relationship, actually the one that have it was her daddy and that is because she was like him.
“What ya’ need to talk with me about yer Father?” She said.
“Well to be honest I’m worried about my father, he’s so lonely there and it is really hard to make him come down. I’m afraid that somethin’ would happen to him and we won’t be able to know it until it is too late!” she said as she placed her left hand on a chair and looked a picture of her Father.
“Well honey, there are things that can’t be changed and there is also a time in which you got what ya’ deserve! I’m sorry Alma but yer father got himself into that situation I can’t do anythin’ fer him! Because that is what you expect me? Right?” Her mother said.
“Well yes, maybe if ya’ talk with him, mom ya’ can convince him to live with me” Alma Jr. told her mother.
“Enough! I’m tired of this now I don’t want to talk to yer father anymore! He is in that damn situation because of him! He did it to himself and I’m not goin’ to help him to go out! I’m not longer his wife so I don’t need to do anythin’ for him! It is because of him that this happen!” her enraged mother yelled.
“What ya’ mean with him mom? Ya’re saying that it is dad fault of course because is not true ya’ and him broke because ya’ and him were not in love!” Junior yelled.
“No! That was not the reason; it was for that friend of his Jack Twist! It is his fault that I loose yer father and it is his fault that he is alone!” Alma screamed, the was all over her veins her daughter had woken in her all the feelings she buried eight years ago.
“What did ya’ mean with that” Junior yelled Alma looking at her mother fiercely she was able tostand anything, however, when it was about her father she had no doubt to fight for him.
“There are things! Things that if ya’ know would make ya’ hate yer father! Those things would make him get kill! That is why I acted that is why I have to save him, Ennis needed to be saved from him! And I did it!” Alma yelled looking at her daughter.
“It is because my father didn’t love ya’ and Love Jack Twist!” Alma Jr. yelled and her mother got frozen her look was changed completely to a scary one.
“Or it’s because of that letter that ya’ received from Jack Twist’s wife! Tell me somethin’ Alma Beers why did ya’ receive a letter from her? Who is askin’ for my father? What have ya’ done?” yelled her daughter full of anger and rage it was the first time in her life that she was facing her mother all her life she kept quiet and listen her mother cursing her father. This was Enough Ennis Del Mar was so important to her, he was her father the only one that can understand her.
“What? How could ya’? Why? Ya’ don’t know noth…ing!” Alma cried and right after those last words she felt an electrical shot on her heart like she had touch fire.
“How ya’dare? Ya’ did something ya’ hurt my father ya’ are worst that all of those criminals that are in jail!” Alma Jr. as she walked to her toward her mother.
“Shut up! Ya’ don’t know anythin’! Ya’ don’t know how I felt, how we felt all those years, for six years he betrayed me with him and for sixteen years they betrayed her! Ya’ don’t know nothin' ya’ foolish girl we got to stop that! I was not goin' to be the shame of the town! I was not going to the shame of the state!” Alma yelled and then again she felt it that electrical shot in her heart, she felt her heart beating slowly until it stop. In front of her daughter that was screaming her eyes rolled up leaving the white part, and fainted and in the floor.
“Mom! What happened! Mom! Please come back!” Alma Jr. screamed while she was holding her and was crying.
“Kurt! Kurt! Please com’ere call the ambulance my mom! Somethin’ happened to my mom” she yelled crying
Kurt was trying to not be in the scene while they were fighting he was with Ennis Jr. and Francine, the two kids that he and Alma had, he was trying to make them not hear the fighting by making them watching Full house
“Oh Lord! Alma what happened here!” said Kurt worried and took of the phone and immediately called 911
“It is my fault! It is my fault!” Alma Jr. said to herself
Alma Beers woke up from her nightmare looking at the white ceiling of her room she was crying looking through the window how her Ex-Husband Ennis and Alma Jr. were entering to the hospital.
“It is not your fault Alma Jr. it is my fault, and it is time for me to face my daemons” she said to herself while the tears were dripping through her cheeks.