The Red Dress Writing Prompt

So, I'm feeling brave and decided to join in the fun over at The Red Dress Club. It's right up may ally as they give you a prompt to write about. This week's prompt was to write a post using solely dialogue. Sounds like fun to me! This is an embellished story based on true events.

"I need you to listen to me now because I don't want grandma to hear us."

"I really don't have time to talk right now, Mom. I want to get in the kitchen and clean up the mess she made before she wakes up."

"She took a sedative, we'll have plenty of time to clean up after we talk."

"How long has she been like that? Why didn't you call me to come home sooner?"

"Listen, has grandma mentioned anything to you about her money?"

"Money? No, what money? We need to talk about her Dementia. She almost just burned down the kitchen. Do you see the mess in there, it was really scary to watch that happen. We need to put her in a home, this is just too much for us to handle."

"Shut up and listen to me, for once!"

"Let go of my arm, what's your problem?"

"This is important...has grandma said anything to you about her money? She's gotten so paranoid that I can't ask her about it."

"Uh, no, nothing about money, but she did confess that Grandpa cheated on her while he was in Korea. Did you know that?

"Yes, I know all about it, we need to focus on the money though."

"You knew? How come you never told me?"

"Look, we have more important things to talk about. You know about grandpa's back injury he got while he was stationed in Korea? Well, he received disability checks from the government and all of the checks that they sent were for too much money."

"Okay, so what does that have to do with us?"

"Grandma wrote letter after letter to the government telling them they were sending too much money. They never responded so she would cash the checks and put the extra cash under her mattress for safe keeping just in case the government came calling for it one day."

"How come no one tells me this kind of stuff?"

"Anyway, over the years she just kept collecting cash. In the end it turned out to over $300,000 that she saved. When grandpa died last year the government caught their mistake but excused Grandma from having to give them the money back because of her age."

"So...that means that she has $300,000 in cash under her mattress right now?"

"No, that's the problem, we talked her into putting in a savings account. Well, my friend Debbie works at the bank and told me that a few weeks ago Grandma came into the bank in a rage and demanded that they give her all of her money, in cash."

"Oh no, she must have been having some sort of dementia fit, or something."

"She left with all that cash in her purse and she has hidden it somewhere in the house, I think. I'm afraid that she's going to forget where she hid it and it will be lost forever."

"Oh my God, we have to find it!"

"I know, that's what I've been trying to tell you."

"I'll start looking in the floorboards and you look under all the cushions in her living room."

"Shh...I hear her coming?"

"What are you two talking about?"