ACT 7- The Bridal Shop (the next day, or rather, night)

It's a hot afternoon as the late sun shines color into the normally dim room. There are two sewing machines by a male and female clothe making dummies. In the half open closet are wedding type attire. Joy is wearing a smock while sewing a wedding veil as Amy whirls in from the doorway, throwing off her smock.

"Well, it's after five, closing time!"

Maria smiled, "Finally, I'm so glad."

"So was this a good deal I worked out or what?"

"You mean working here part time? Yea, it's great, having a job finally put some excitement in my life. I'm glad we chose this dress shop to get our dresses made."

"Yea, I know."

"Tell you what, why don't I lock up? I won't be more than a half hour, I've got to finish this wedding veil."

"Oh come on, finish it tomorrow."

"Why? I'm in no rush, this is my first day on the job and I don't want to make a bad impression."

"Well I've got my night planned, I'm gonna relax in a bubble bath during dinner."

"Why won't you eat?"

"Ha? After all this fighting business JBL is dealing with?"

Joy sews furiously, "Why do they even need to fight? It only hurts us all."

"You saw what happened at the dance, how they did everything furious and quick. Since they can't attack the other physically, to avoid trouble, they fought like that."

"Yes, but why? Why fight?"

"Well I guess to get rid of something."

"To get rid of what?"

"Well, I guess in this case it's too much of a feeling rather than the person themselves. And so now they've decided to finally take action to get rid of it. But I wouldn't worry, if they choose Big Show, he'll win it easily." She leaned in. "And you know, JBL has had his eye on him, everyone's thinking if he does well… Big Show does have a crush on you, maybe JBL will set you two up." Joy froze and tried not to blush.

Just then there was a knock at the back door and Ric Flair entered, "Hello, good evening."

Amy scoffs at Joy, "You go, I will lock up." She turned to Flair. "It's to early to be saying good evening."

"Then, good afternoon then." He bows respectfully.

Joy intervenes, "He just came by to drop off something."

"Oh?" Amy folded her arms. "And what's that?"

"Asprin."

"You'll need it too."

"No, we're out of their world." Flair smiled.

"You're out of your minds, is what you are!"

"They can't reach us when we float up so high."

"High is right." Amy leers back at Flair.

Joy stood between the two, "Amy can see what's going on Ric." She turned to her friend. "You won't tell, will you?"

"Tell what?" She goes to open the door. "How can I hear what goes on floating up over my head?" She turns to Joy as she goes out, "You'd better be at the hotel by half past."

Flair smirked, "Don't worry Joy, she likes us."

"Well, maybe, but I can tell that she is worried… and that concerns me."

"Can't you trust her?"

"Normally yes, but with all what's been going on lately… I dunno."

"Foolishness. We're untouchables. We're in the air, we've got our magic."

"Magic, as in black magic? That's evil." Joy sighed. "Are you going to that fight?"

"No."

"Yes."

"Why?"

"You must go, to stop it."

"I have stopped it all I can, it's only a street fight, a fair street fight. Nobody will get…"

"Any fight, even fair, isn't good for us."

"Everything is good for us, we are good for everything."

"Stop speaking poetry and start sounding smart. Listen to me and hear my words, you must go and stop it."

Flair sighed and nodded his head, "Then I will."

Joy was shocked, "Can you?"

"You don't want there to be a fair fight? Then there won't be any fight at all."

"I believe in you, I believe that you do have that magic."

"Well of course, I have you." He brushed her up in his arms. "You go home and get dressed up all nice, then tonight I'll come by for you and show you a night on the town, like only The Nature Boy can!" He began to strut.

Joy laughed, but her smile turned to a frown, "You can't come by, my roommates…"

Flair pauses, "Then I will take you to my house."

Joy shakes her head, "But your roommates…" She pauses.

"Geez, they're like parents." Flair sees the female dummy and grabs it, pushing it over. "Mother comes running from the kitchen to welcome you, see, that's where she lives."

"In the kitchen?" Joy laughed. "Why is she dressed so elegantly in a wedding dress?"

"Because I told her you were coming. Mom, look at her pretty face." He smiled. "And she'll say, skinny but pretty."

Joy laughed at his feminine accent, "She's chubby no doubt."

Flair pulled out the dummy's dress, "Fat!"

Joy laughed again and grabbed another female dummy, "I take after my mommy, very small boned." Flair kissed her. "Not in front of my ma!" Flair turns the dummy around as she goes to get a male dummy, "Oh, I would like to see JBL, er daddy, in this. Mama will make him ask about your wealth and morals. But he might like you."

Flair smiles and kneels before the male dummy, "May I have Joy's hand?" He makes him nod. "Thanks!"

"And your parents?"

"I'm afraid of my mom."

"Then tell her she's not getting a daughter, but loosing her son."

Flair knocks the female dummy over, "She said ok."

Maria laughed, "Un-faint her." She gets the wedding veil she was mending and puts it on the dummy. "Maid of honor! Hmm, that color doesn't look good on Triple H… dah I mean your mother."

"Oh, then whose the best man?"

"That's my dad."

"Sorry Bradshaw, here we go." He puts a cowboy hat on him.

"Not at a wedding!" Joy laughts.

"Oh come on, knowing JBL, he would."

Joy turns to the female dummy and places it by the other two, "Now you see, Amy, I told you there was nothing to worry about." She walks over to Flair and they look at each other. They slowly turn around and kneel together before the trio of dummies.

"I, Ric Flair, take you Joy Giovanni…"

"I, Joy Giovanni, take you Ric Flair…"

"For richer, for poorer…"

"In sickness and in health…"

"To love and to honor…"

"To hold and to keep…"

"From each sun to each moon…"

"From today to tomorrow…"

"For now and forever…"

"Till death do us part."

They both took the other's hand, "With this ring, I wed you." And Flair began to sing:

Make our beings one body
Make our hearts one heart
Make our souls one spirit
Even in death won't we part

Joy sang, "Make of our lives one life, day and night as your wife." They both sang:

Now it begins, now it starts
Head in hand, in our heart
Even in death won't we part

They look at each other, then in the reality of their little farce, they smile warmly and gently at each other as they slowly return the dummies to where they belong, cleaning up the store for closing. Though brought back down to reality, they continue to sing:

Make our lives one life
Day and night, husband and wife
Now it begins, now it starts
Even in death won't we part

Very gently, Flair kisses her hand, and FADE TO BLACK.