Loveless - The 90Day Conversation II
- Kemal Ebo
- Oct 15, 2018
- 5 min read
[ACT TWO]
[the dazzling stage lights are set. The camera pans panoramically on the audience cheering and clapping. Meanwhile the soft soul type theme music hums in the background. The stage is set with HIM and HER seated on opposite sides and THE HOST is sat in between the two. The atmosphere is more relaxed as the first half of the show went smoothly. There is some inaudible conversation as the camera zooms in on the three on stage.]
THE HOST: [To the audience] This is Boogie Time, thanks for re-joining us, on today’s show we are getting to know these lovely twenty-somethings [HIM does the 'one arda' pose and HER sticks a tongue out and waves] and their experience with the mysterious journey we call, love. And, before the break, we discussed the joys of intimacy and HIM and HER detailed the ecstasies of those feelings, but I want to get the other side of it all. [Now turning his attention to the two on stage] So, my first question, is how long were you two together for?
HER: I know we’re not together anymore but I know he definitely hasn’t forgotten the best period of his life [HER has a big mischievous grin on her face as she is clearly still happy about the half first of the show]
HIM: Ha ha! Of course I haven’t forgotten - how could I forget [HIM pauses to think] 3 years!
HER: 3 years? Really? [HER screws her face]
THE HOST: Ohh is that some tea? [Mimics sipping a teacup]
[A choir of “Ooo’s” and “Ahh’s” are heard from the audience]
HIM: [Now visibly shocked] did you want me to add the days as well or something?
HER: Boy bye! This is why we broke up - you are so thoughtless! How can you forget that we were together for FOUR WHOLE years! We left sixth-form together and even went to university together and I held it down even after you got dropped out to pursue your dreams!
HIM: [Rolls eyes] Ahh my bad [He says in an irritated manner] no need to blow up!
THE HOST: Now now, HIM, don’t dismiss, HER’s, feelings. Your time together clearly meant a lot to her. [turns to the audience] Is it just me or can you feel the temperature in here rising? [Back to the two on stage] So you two were together for four years?
HER: Yes
HIM: [nods] Mmm-hmm
THE HOST: Thats commendable four years is a long time! Enough time to get a degree. HER, you said you two were a couple from your college days up until youre university days - so you have really seen each other grow a lot. Things must have changed a lot over those years. I’m sure there times you wanted to leave, cheat or even kill each other so when exactly did you realise it was coming to an end?
HIM: [sharply] After she cheated!
[Audience ‘Boos’ and Camera pans in on HER but she defiantly screws her face]
THE HOST: See me see trouble [looks at the audience] Oh this is MESSY messy - HIM what are your version of events? And how did the cheating make you feel?
HIM: It rattled me mate I’ll be honest! [HIM shakes his head disappointedly] So, like she said, we were college sweethearts and we went to university together but it wasn’t for me. I couldn’t keep up the with the work and I was only there to please my parents but I felt like I was dying inside. And thats when I realised how much I loved, HER, she really held me down and always made sure I was okay - in my first year she even did most of my assignments and managed to get me 2:1 even though it was a course completely opposite to hers. By second year I knew I had to chase my dreams so I dropped and left - when we weren’t together some days were hard because university is a testing time, but honestly some of the days we were apart were the worst I just felt like we were never on the same page - if she missed my calls she didnt hit me back, aired messages, link-ups became scarce and some days when we did meet I could tell she just wanted me to be someone I wasn’t.
[Audience’s makes sympathetic sounds]
HIM: That third year she changed man, she started wearing less and going out more. She wasn’t the girl that I grew up with [pauses] But I couldn’t let her go every time I tried to leave something kept pulling me back me back. By the fourth year it was hardly a relationship…
THE HOST: [to the audience] when he said “she changed”, I felt that [does poetry claps or as clicks fingers] ah-hem sorry flashbacks [looks to HER] So, HER, how do you feel about this? Is this what happened?
HER: First all anyone who boo’d me, your mum’s a hoe! [Audience boos even louder] well I broke up with HIM after that fourth year because like he said it was hardly a relationship anymore… so yes!
THE HOST: Yikes! So you broke up with HIM?
HER: Yes! I was tired of his broken promises promises - and I know I did him wrong but I couldn’t keep pretending like our values were still the same. It was not easy to leave and I know I made a serious mistake don’t ever get it twisted. I loved that man! But he wasn’t the same guy I knew from college - I tried my best to understand his problems but he kept shutting me out so I did what I knew best and tried to keep him afloat. University was very important to me and my family I was the first in my family to go and I could not let my mother down! Not for no man so when he dropped out I was worried about him, about us, about myself… listen ive had enough men quit on me I wasn’t gonna let him do the same!
[Audience after a stunned silence begin to chatter quietly]
THE HOST: That was deep beloved, [sheds a thug tear] that right there, [emphasising] that right there, was #thepain.
HER: So yes I cheated! [HER is visibly upset - eyes full of tears] And I’m not proud of how it went down but [HER wipes her eyes] I need a brudda who gon swipe them visas [Women of the audience cheer emphatically] By the fourth year we were just different people…
THE HOST: It sounds like communication really became an issue for you two, but I can see this is taking a toll on you, HER, so I think we will use this as an opportunity to take a break! After the break we will delve into more emotions and whats next for these two.
[Audience cheering and clapping, as the theme music begins to flair up in the background. Cast crew seen running to HER, to give her tissues and HIM is seen getting up out of his seat. The camera zooms outs to the and the curtains are drawn.]
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