After going on several bizarre dates, Joe musters up the courage to ask out The Young Waitress at his favorite restaurant. His life is transformed from strange to insane as The Young Waitress puts Joe in a trance—his life spiraling out of control.
Alone; that was Joe after his divorce. Although he had moved in with a friend who already had a convict for a roommate, Joe had never felt more alone. His ex-wife, Connie, had come to Joe a year earlier and said, “I don’t want to try anymore, I want a divorce.” Those words still haunt him. On a cold rainy January day, Joe’s brother, Paul, and his ex-wife helped him move into his new home. After that, his wife and the life he knew were gone forever.
Devastated and looking to replace what he once had Joe goes on a dating frenzy. Twenty-five dates in seven months leave Joe hopeless and exhausted, that is, until he asked out The Young Waitress at his favorite restaurant who has wanted him for a long time. The problem: she is only nineteen years old, half Joe’s age. She is also a drama-queen drug-addict with a void that can never be filled. Although Joe tries to satisfy her, he eventually realizes he’s been sucked into a dark and evil place. The Young Waitress makes Joe do things he doesn’t want to do and say things he doesn’t want to say. Joe, once strong-willed and indomitable is now in a trance, put on him from this young blue-eyed and mysterious girl.
Complete opposites in every respect, the only true thing they have in common are their undeniable love and lust for each other. Joe realizes it can never last; The Young Waitress never wants it to the end. “I will never let any other woman have you,” she whispers into his ear. Joe does not know if this is threat or promise or maybe something much worse.
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Helen didn’t wait around to find out. She punched the gas pedal and maneuvered her car through the long six-mile road course with the precision of a professional race-car driver. The road was narrow and full of sharp hair-pin turns.
“I always drive fast down this road. That cop will never catch us.”
“I wouldn’t be too sure about that, he probably knows these roads just as good as you, maybe better.”
“Is there any other way out here?” Joe asked.
“Nope, this is the only road in or out,” Helen said as she screeched the tires around another curve.
“Where does it end?” Joe asked nervously.
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