Bonfire And Vanity

 

I got the idea for this story set in New York from a mini series called The Bonfire of Destiny on netflix.

Bonfire And Vanity 

In a nice area of the city the sun is shining, a row of homes is shown in the distance, The lawns manicured and trimmed to perfection. As Olivia drives down the road, she looks down at each of the houses, she is dressed in a white blouse, expensive sunglasses. She has an expensive watch on her left arm with 2 gold bracelets on each side of her watch. As she holds onto the steering wheel,she turns and pulls up to a gated home. Olivia drives up putting a code into the machine and the gates start swinging open. She drives down the long drive towards a white mansion, It’s one the biggest homes on the street. As she drives up to the house she parks the car in front of 2 very big doors to the front of the house.She turns the car off,takes a long look at the house, holds her head and just stares. She takes her seatbelt off and grabs her keys pushing the button to open the trunk. She grabs her designer handbag. She steps out of the car wearing brown wide leg trousers and brown boots. She walks to the back of the car taking some bags from the trunk with designer names on them. She pushes a button and walks up the steps to the front door. The trunk in the distance is slowly closing.  

Her housekeeper sees her on the camera, walks to the door and opens it for her to go through. Thank you Martha, could you get some tea sent to my room please! Yes Mrs Anderson! She walks the other way. Olivia walks up the White and black stairs, she holds on to the wrought iron banister as gets to the top of stairs she turns left down a long cream corridor there is a room with a very large wooden bed with matching furniture, ornate rug with oriental design, the plain carpet to make the rug stand out even more. The two double doors leading out to a terrace turn left to a very large bathroom turning left again into a walk-in wardrobe. All her handbags and clothes are neatly hung up in color order. Olivia puts her bags on a long gray marble vanity with a large gold antique mirror, all her makeup lined up on decorative mirrored storage with her perfume bottles arranged on it. It gives a 1920's feel. A large silver hand mirror laying on a wooden tray with a 3 glass section tray with rings and earrings in it. 

Olivia walks to the back of the walk-in wardrobe. She pushes the bookcase, it opens as a door and she turns the light on. Behind the door there is another section of her wardrobe, long items, winter coats and evening dresses. She moves to the back of the room. Where there are quite a few pieces of designer luggage on the back shelving unit lined up in size order.  Olivia grabs hold of the largest luggage case she has on the floor and as she walks back into the main wardrobe she opens it. she starts going through her clothes taking out jackets, trousers, blouses and hanging them on a rail that is next to her. She starts looking at all her clothes individually. She grabs piece by piece looking at them hanging them then back on the rail of the wardrobe after she has finished organizing them.  She moves down pulling the rail with her and starts again. she moves further down going through all her coats she can't decide between the two that she has so she hangs them both on the hanging rail. She starts grabbing hold of some of the clothes that are on the hanging rail and starts packing them in the suitcase as soon as she sees that she has enough space to put some more clothes on. She carries on going through the rest of her clothes. She comes across a couple of dresses that she doesn't want and throws them over an armchair in the walk-in wardrobe. She carries on all the way to the back to where the door is still open. She walks back into that room and grabs the next available piece of luggage she sets it on the floor and goes and grabs some of the coats from the back and hangs them on the empty Rail.  Olivia stares at all the clothes that she has. She has her hands on her hips not understanding why one person would need so many clothes. She starts packing the other suitcase and turns and goes and grabs another one as she goes to walk by she sees an old coat that she no longer wants, as she walks to the front of the window when a car door is heard slamming.  She looks out of the window to see her husband walking up to the front door. Olivia stands there for a moment looking to grab hold of the suitcases and put some back into the other side of the walk-in wardrobe and closes the door.

Olivia looks in the mirror at herself. She grabs a tissue and wipes off the lipstick that she has on. She grabs one of her lip balms and reapplies it. She moves her lips together, puts her hand through her hair and then grabs the brush to brush it. She stares for a moment in the mirror at herself. She's thinking to herself that she is older and could have something done with the Wrinkles but she likes the way she looks.