I had a dream about a plot

[aliceinfairyland]

But I don't know where to take it.

Picture this:

Small town, niave girl with a "bad boy" boyfriend. She's pregnant. She thinks they are going away for a nice weekend, he uses it as a cover up to rob his workplace, someone dies accidentally in the process.

The run away, and she doesn't realize what happens until she hears about it on the radio and sees the money in the trunk of the car.

I think that he dies or disapears, and she's left with the money, but she's an accessory to the crime and can't go home or she'll be on tiral, so she tries to do something to make amends.

I'm not really sure. Like I said, it was a dream, and its the most legit thing I have in my head right now.

Thoughts?

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I think it has great potential. I think she would need a shitty family, maybe even a father who would flip his shit and thus the boyfriend felt like his only option was the rob the joint?

[aliceinfairyland]

Oh yeah, the family is going to be terrible, which is why she's in deep with this boyfriend.

I think that he tries to rob his workplace (some sort of warehouse) and sets in on fire to cover it up, and then someone is in the warehouse and dies. Maybe her father runs the warehouse and its some sort of crooked business and her father is the one who dies? Which would make it impossible for her to go back, and would completely demonize her to her hometown, so she would have no chance of ever getting a good/fair trial?

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If she's young and slightly dumb, it doesn't have to be plausible, only that she believes it. She also might not want to go back simply because she hates all their faces.

[aliceinfairyland]

Next is what she does while she's gone. I'm stuck on that. Crime solving? Random acts of kindness? Just running from the law?

And I think she's more niave than dumb. She's very trusting, but she has to be a smart cookie underneath it all. Or else I'll hate her by the end of the first week.

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I write romance for the most part so that where my thoughts go, like stumbling into a very nice family who is kind of sweet to her despite being broke as shit. One of them could be a nice broad shouldered hottie who makes her all weak in the knees.

Or she could accidentally become some small town champion of sorts, maybe she finds a local halfway housish that gives her a place to stay and in the end, she rewards them with the money. But that would work best if she didn't know she had the money and found it later after living it rough on the kindness of others?

If there's a huge sum of money involved though, I don't know if you want the business to be her father's since there's no way she wouldn't know about the money.

[aliceinfairyland]

I'm thinking its dirty money. That's why it doesn't automatically click.

Like he has to go check on the shop, then they go away for the weekend or whatever, and she hears about the big fire on the radio, and is upset that she can't go home. Then he dies (I guess he dies, because otherwise he'd take the money- but if he just disapears for some reason, he could come back later and make it more interesting) and she finds all the money, realizes what he did and then finds out she's wanted on her way home.

Maybe she finds herself in a small town or a church or something and lives under some sort of assumed identity and uses the money to help the town?

Then she's about given up with the boyfriend comes back looking for the money?