Movie: Across the Universe

Revolution

Nagisa sat on a wooden bench in the middle of the local laundro mat. Shizuma stood placing various articles of clothing inside the dryer. "Well uh, I got a job." Shizuma told the young red head, trying to start up a conversation. "And uh they will pay me to do it." She stated flatly looking at the back of Nagi's head. "I thought you'd be pleased." She muttered turning away, back to the dryer.

"What job?" Nagisa sighed and turned to Shizuma for a split second before returning to her position.

"I its uh a logo for Saydi's echo company." Shizuma grinned while folding a pair of socks. "It's a strawberry," she put out her hands out as if to map out the strawberry in the air. Shizuma leaned over to Nagisa. "You know red, juicy, sexy…Get it? No?" Shizuma turned away bitterly and began to fold the clothes once again.

Nagisa turned around to face Shizuma. "Why were you so rude to Paco before?" (Haha ok there are no boys in strawberry panic so I had to use the guy straight from the movie) Nagisa asked. Her frail hands lying in her lap. Huge eyes hamming at her lovers back. "It wouldn't have killed you to talk to him you know! He's got a good mind. He's committed, he's involved, he's…"

"A shaga."

"A what?" Nagisa asked, raising her eyebrows.

"A shaga. A seducer of young venerable women." Shizuma looked at her clothes as Nagisa quickly began to lose her temper.

"Uh! Shizuma you know nothing about him!" She began, quickly storming over to her own dryer and throwing the door holding her clothes open.

"Well every time that I go to your place there's about fifty people there. There's one bloke and the other forty-nine, are, oh, All Female." Shizuma watched as Nagisa glared in her direction.

"Don't Exaggerate!"

"Oh trust me. I'm not." Shizuma muttered underneath her breath.

Nagisa threw her clothes in a pile and rushed over to Shizuma. "We're in the middle of a revolution Shizuma and what are you doing doodles and cartoons?…..I didn't mean it like that." Nagisa realized that this argument was quickly intensifying and really she rather wouldn't like to get on Shizuma's bad side right now.

"Oh, then what did you mean? I'm sorry that I'm not the man with the mega-phone but this is what I do…"

"You could at least hear what he has to say. I suppose you don't though because your never going to be drafted." Nagisa shook her head. Shizuma was being ignorant and it was getting on her nerves.

"Well neither will you Nagisa."

"I would lie down in front of a tank. If it would stop this war and bring Tamao home." Nagisa bit back the tears as her voice became shaky.

"Ok then. But it wouldn't." Shizuma coldly pointed out.

"What do you mean it wouldn't," Nagisa threw her arms away from her body and pointed outside with her right hand.

"I didn't mean that."

"Well maybe when bombs start going off here people will listen!" Nagisa turned away rushing out the door leaving her clothes and girl friend behind.

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Shizuma made her way into Nagisa's work. Slyly avoiding any curious people. Nagisa was staring at a piece of paper writing some nonsense on its surface about politics of some sort. But Shizuma could have cared less. Shizuma angrily threw her hands on the desk Nagisa was working so diligently on. "You say you want a revolution, well you know we all want to change the world." Shizuma sang staring in Nagisa's eyes.

"Shizuma, what are you doing? I cant do this right now." Nagisa sat up from her seat looking annoyed and frustrated.

"You tell me that it's evolution well, you know that we all want to change that world."

Nagisa walked around her desk and toward Shizuma. Placing her soft palms on the older girls face. "Shizuma, please, please, don't."

Shizuma returned the gesture but putting her hands on Nagisa's hot cheeks. "But when you talk about destruction," her hands lightly fell to her sides "well, don't you know that you can count me out?"

"What the hell are you doing here friend?" A man stepped out from behind closed doors. Confronting Shizuma.

"Shizuma please not now!" Nagisa pleaded.

"Yeah, you know its going to be all right," two men began shoving Shizuma towards the entrance door "you know its going to be alright, you know its going to be all right." Shizuma threw her hands up in the air. Making the men stop the pushing. She walked out the doors.

"I'm really sorry about this." Nagisa muttered to her boss. Sitting back down in her seat she turned to the girl working next to her. "I don't know, I've never seen her like this." Nagisa told her. Her mind deep in thought about Shizuma's sudden actions.

Shizuma came back in through the doors. Picking up peoples working papers and tossing them into the air. "You say you'd change the constitution well, you know…."

Some man stops Shizuma. "Look you have to leave buddy." Shizuma takes one look at him before quickly shoving as hard as she can. Knocking the man off of his feet and into a desk.

"we'd all love to change your head." She whirled around facing in Nagisa's direction.

"SHIZUMA!" Nagisa shouted, not believing her eyes.

"You tell me it's the institution," Shizuma picked up some random woman's work packet and began flipping through it "well you know," discards the packet across the room. "You better free your mind instead." Shizuma had her face inches away from Nagisa's bosses. "But if you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao, you ain't ganna make it with anyone anyhow." Nagisa's muscular, hefty boss grabbed Shizuma by the front of her shirt and got ready to punch. Quickly Shizuma got there first and knocked the guy clear in the nose sending him backwards into a desk. Hitting his head off a wall on the way down. Two men grabbed Shizuma harshly by the arms struggling as the tried to make there way out the door. "Don't you know its going to be alright. You know its going to be alright. You know its going to be alright." Shizuma was throwing her arms wildly around, trying to knock out anybody in her path. But those men were persistent and still they remained dragging her to the door.

"DON'T HURT HER! DON'T HURT HER!" Shizuma could hear Nagisa screaming as the two men began punching the platinum haired woman's back harshly. And bringing her closer to the door.

"Alright, Alright, Alright, Alright, Alright. IT'S ALRIGHT. IT"S ALRIGHT." Shizuma began crying as the two threw her out of the door. Sending her into a brick wall outside. Both men took one look in satisfaction and headed back inside. Leaving Shizuma to stumble her way down a cement staircase and onto the sidewalk.

Suddenly Nagisa erupted from behind the doors. Her cheeks stained with tears. "WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH YOU?! WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT?!" She asked, her voice shaking. Nagisa turned away. Leaving Shizuma to nurture her bleeding nose and walk down the streets of New York.