It is now the following morning. Melanie slept very little due to simply how much was on her mind. Matt, on the other hand, slept like a log because deep inside he is still a teenager. ALl Melanie could think about was everything she had seen the day before, with there being five almost completely different options available to her, but she was still somewhat unsure about what to go for. Matt couldn’t give a damn at this point.
Both Melanie and Matt sat down at the breakfast table in the kitchen-diner of their stately Brentwood home with large mugs of coffee and bowls of Cornflakes and started to discuss everything once more.
Matt: “Morning luv, how’d ya sleep?”
Melanie: “Just don’t”
Matt: “I take that as shit”
Melanie: “Why ‘ave I done this?”
Matt: “You were all like excited yesterday, what’s up?”
Melanie: “I’ve just ‘ad a shit night, alright!”
Matt: “Yeah. We need to work out what you want though luv”
Melanie: “I know, let me get this coffee down me and we’ll talk”
Melanie rapidly downed her coffee, still a little too hot for her liking, and chomped away on her cereal just staring blankly into the distance while her brain went at a million miles per hour, thinking about what she really wanted. She felt like she was getting close to a final conclusion.
Melanie: “Matt!”
Matt: “Yeah?”
Melanie: “I fink I’ve got it”
Matt: “Got what? You got a yeast infection again?”
Melanie: “Stop bein’ so fuckin’ stupid for once in your fuckin’ life and fink about what I just said again.”
Matt: “Uh?”
Melanie: “THE CAR!”
Matt: “Oh, yeah shit, sorry. Forgot about that for a moment.”
Melanie: “‘Ow could you fuckin’ forget… never mind”
Matt: “So?”
Melanie: “Look, I’m gonna write it down on a piece of paper and you can tell me what you fink”
Melanie quickly grabs a pen and paper, something she hadn’t done in quite some time. Struggling with spelling, she finally manages to write up a list of the cars in order of preference and shows it to Matt.
Melanie: “What do ya fink?”
Matt: “Uh… you’re askin’ me what you want?”
Melanie: “I just wanna make sure you feel the same”
Matt: “Babes, I just want you to be ‘appy”
Melanie: “Y’know what, sometimes you’re a right twat but I luv you to death”
Matt: “Ta luv. Anyway, I would change one fing.”
Melanie: “Yeah?”
Matt: “You remember that old style car with the real posh interior?”
Melanie: “I’ve changed my mind ya fuckin’ cunt”
Matt: “What? I just fought I would remind you that I liked it and kept the brochure”
Melanie: “I ‘onestly don’t know why I bovvahed askin’ ya”
Matt: “No, I’m only jokin’. Y’know I fink you’ve done it right.”
Melanie: “Ok, I’m gonna call the dealer, I’ll say we’re ‘eadin round to close the deal. OMG I so fuckin’ excited”
And with that, Melanie left the piece of paper on her desk, revealing the order of which she placed the final five cars and revealing the car she was heading out to purchase.
5th - Mosport Arrow Y2K - @thecarlover
4th - Erin Tauga Coupe Lex 3.0l - @DeusExMackia
3rd - Ninomiya XFR SSR-T (6MT) - @Urbanliner
2nd - Keika Twist 2.2+ - @BoostandEthanol
1st - Falcon Dynamo S+ - @Chipskate
Melanie arrives at the dealership, beaming to see a gleaming Falcon Dynamo S+ sitting in the centre of the dealership. She quickly ran over to the dealer, signed all the necessary paperwork and was handed the keys to her dark blue Falcon Dynamo S+. She left the dealership, allowing the V8 engine to roar as much as possible as she rapidly vanished into the distance.
Also, congrats to @Leonardo9613 for creating such an amazing entry for all the wrong reasons and making Melanie sell the other car and buy the Estate Roamer for the daily. A first in CSR perhaps?
Today…
Melanie and Matt have now been married over fifteen years and have since had two children, Nathan and Tiffany who are now teenagers and starting to get the real characters you would expect for anybody that lives in Essex. Business for Melanie only took off after opening her second store in London, and now owns a large empire of beauty salons throughout the UK. With 2018, Melanie decided it was time to reach further and start a new life elsewhere, and after taking numerous holidays in Benidorm she has decided it would be the place to open the next store and run it herself along with the family.
To this day, Melanie still owns her original Falcon Dynamo S+, as well as owning the latest generation of the Estate Roamer she so dearly loves, the car she instantly fell in love with the moment she grabbed the keys and took it on the first drive. At no moment did Melanie ever feel like it was time to sell the car, but with the move to Spain almost imminent, she knew it made no sense to take a RHD car over to the sunshine where they drive on the other side. It pained her, but the car was getting old, worn out and was almost at the point of complete death. It pained her greatly, but she knew that someday in the future, when she finally retires, she will find herself another one of these amazing cars.
A sunny day breaks in early May 2018 and she decides to take the Dynamo for a spin once more before she finally decides to sell the car to someone, and the memories of that time flood back, making her realise that she definitely made all the right choices back in the day and had zero regrets whatsoever. She smiles, as once more she drove off into the distance, singing along to her favourite song ever from Destiny’s Child.