Scene 1
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two boys with the world sagging their shoulders so far down
they have lost sight of everything else
meet.
through all the chance and the luck that must have been present
for these two lonely boys
to cross paths so easily
neither were as lucky as they were meant to be.
for all the weight they had carried had a price
and they were due some just reward
and two lonely boys became one lonely mess
that were caught
by something they wanted nothing of.
we were tied together, andrewbut not by fate or luck. neither were on our side. i thought you knew?"
one boy hated to be chained to anything
let alone someone as lost as him.
and the other,
he was just happy to have someone to share his burden with.
the weight of the world could get very heavy.
"which was me?"
the chains grew tighter
"i hate to be alone. you know that. buti hate being forced together, by anyone. which is me, andrewwhich is you? do you even know?"
the minutes turned to hours
and the hours into days
and those days slowly folded into years
the deafening lonely in the alone started to get just a little bit quieter
and they grew just a little bit closer.
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Scene 2
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in a room crowded with people,
dark men with painted arms
girls wearing masks with knives for fingers,
our young captives sit.
"the girls wear masks? no more than we do..."
boy one
do you think it will rain?
boy two
not today.
it can't today.
i need to be away from all this today.
boy one
can i be away with you?
boy two
always.
"i remember that. it did rain! all the way to wherever it was we were going. i hated you for that!"
[the color shifts and blends from black to green
our two lost boys were in the woods,
surrounded by the great big nothing of a world.
boy one
this isn't an escape, you know.
we aren't away any more than we were there
surrounded by all those masks and paint.
boy two
but we are!
don't you see it?
we are so far away that if we decided to stay away for forever
the world would be none the wiser!
i want to be away with you.
alone with you.
always with you!
"you always were poetic."
boy one
and you are always with me,
you know that.
but the world will not let us be away like that.
you need to stop dreaming.
"andrew, why are you doing this? it doesn't make this any easier. it never has." boy two i will never stop dreaming.
[the scene fades into black
Scene 3
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our two captives to no one but each other
are locked away
in the quiet stillness of a hotel room.
out two lost boys are lost in nothing but each other
and arms and legs and feet and fingers
melt
into each other
all the little cracks and crinkles they might have had
are filled
with the other.
boy two
you see?
it could always be like this.
"no."
just like this.
always.
"no, it can't andrewi have listened to this for to long. it can never be like that."
just you wait.
we'll destroy the world
we'll make it ours and then
then we won't have to be those lonely lost boys anymore!
we can just be us!
boy one
we can be.
can we be away together?
boy two
always.
"nono. stop this. right now, andrewthis is not one of your stories! this is not some play you can direct towards that perfect ending. this is life. this is our lives. you and me. me and you. and we are not fading into anything other than another degree of ourselves. there is no storybook ending and you can not save me from myself and you most definitely cannot stop me from-"
and the two boys were so in love they couldn't breathe!
they just kept spinning
and spinning
and spinning
into everything there was to spin into!
"NO! stopthis is life, andrewyou have to stop changing things like this. one line from you will not stop whatever it is i might be feeling. you know i love you, andrew. i love you so much it does feel like i can't breathe. but that feeling, it doesn't start spinning into anything other than the horrible reality we are faced with. i am still me and you are still you and no matter how hard you dream the world is still filled with all those people it was filled with a second ago. andi hate it. god, do i hate it. buti live with it because there is no other way i can live.
so please, for me or for whoever it is you dream i am, stop building up this fantasy. it just makes reality hurt that much more."
[the scene fades into swirls of color