Five Months Later:
I walked back up the stone steps into the theater, dead tired after another five am fire call. I loved my job, loved being able to save people. Protecting, Liberty joked that I had a hero's complex. I started to believe I did. I had been talking a bit to her she knew of the nightmares, how I never know but she knew. So I told her of the stabbing, the part she missed. Told her of seeing my funeral and her crying. Slowly my nightmares began to fade and soon I would be having my winter wedding. (Liberty's idea not mine) But while afraid I was also excited. We had it so that my little brother (now age 2) would walk the isle and be a little ring bearer. My father and mother were remarried. We were working on the consept of an orginal screen play, and I hoped that it would be a class where I could drift off to sleep. I sat down in the back, and pulled out my laptop.
"Continue working on your screen play I will expect it on my desk in the next class." Nice a window to sleep. I sat back and just drifted off. I felt a hand on my shoulder and woke to my professor standing over my shoulder.
"James, asleep again?" I sighed rubbing my face.
"Sorry another five am fire." He nodded and looked at my computer screen. The page was blank.
"You do know that a ten page screen play is due next class. Write a story of the past, something that has happened to you." I drummed my fingers on the lap top, and it came to me. Turn the night of my stabbing into a play.
Shattered World.
By, James Tiberious Yorke. There page one done, if I kept this up I would have this written in no time.
Setting is at a birthday party, the main character is at his ex's party. He had planned it just for her. Curtian opens and there is a house scene, people croud around the table awaiting the birthday girl. The main character... Damn I had to think of a cool name for my self. Clark. Worked for superman it can work for me. Now a name for Liberty. Lane! Totaly works. Clark spots his ex lover Lane and walks up to her. Cross to left side stage, enter Lane.
Clark: Wow. Lane you look beautiful. Lane tucks hair behind ear and... An hour later once class had ended I was almost finished I had reached the stabbing scene. Hopefully this would get me an A. I packed up my things and noticed Annable behind me.
"Hey Jt, you busy?" I finished packing up my things.
"No not really why?" I looked at her and she bit her bottom lip tenderly. What was it with woman and biting their lips?
"I was wondering if we could go grab some coffee and look over each others screen plays." I was dead tired.
"How about you let me go home and get some sleep and later you can come over and we can work on screen plays?" She looked up at me and smiled. I walked her out to her car before I got into my Jetta and drove home.
"Liberty, I'm home!" I yelled into the house as I stomped off the snow.
"Liberty?" I walked into the kitchen where a plate was set out for me and I noticed a note. Went out for the final fitting, be home late. Love Liberty.
I grabbed the bagle and walked to our room. I stripped down to my boxers and turned the tap on the shower and placed the bagle on the counter in the bathroom and stepped into the shower. Once I was throughly clean I stepped out and threw a towel around my waist before finishing off the bagel and collapsing onto the bed, not bothering to change. I fast fell asleep. Soon I woke and heard a knocking on my door. I stood and tied the towel around my waist and opened the door. There stood Annable...
"Umm." Her face flushed red and I realized I was in a towel, I held up my hand and practically slammed the door in her face before I quickly threw on boxers, sweats and a t-shirt. I walked and saw her at the table.
"Sorry bout that Ann, I kinda fell asleep." She just nodded.
"How did you get in?" She gazed her blue eyes up at me.
"Your grandmother let me in." I sighed and pulled out my lap top and handed her what I had done of the screen play. I took hers and read it over, it was mediocre at best. Her directions often had characters bumping into another, and it looked like a bad broadway musical. She had finished reading mine and I pulled my seat closer so we both could look at her laptop.
"Ok so you see your directions? They have the characters bumping into one another. It will make for a bad broadway show, you want to clearly state the direction." She took her laptop and I guided her through so all the characters would not look like a bad fight scene.
"Now your characters is a little unbelieveable, add personal story to it to make them seem real." She nodded and set off to work as I took mine and continued with mine.
Clark crosses to car, turns back to thugs.
Thug 1- Oh Yeah mascot boy laugh at this.
Thug runs at Clark with a shiny dagger and stabs an unsupecting Clark in the back, puncturing the aorta. Thug backs off and Clark faces audiance as he slumps against the car.
Thug 2- Man what the hell did you do?
Thugs run off stage left. Clark is shown center stage laboring for breath as Lane enters stage left and drops purse at sight of Clark, She run over to Clark grabs him and sees the stabbing on his back. Screams for help.
Lane- Help! Somebody Help me! HEEELLLLPPP!
Scene fades and curtins close end of act 1...
I looked over to Annable who was staring at me.
"Whats up Ann?" She pushed her laptop away and faced me.
"How did you make your story real?" I sighed and took gentle hold of her hand.
"It happened to me, I am Clark and Lane is Liberty." She nodded, I knew she wanted details but didn't want to ask.
"All of it is as close as I can remember it happening." Then she leaned towards me and her warm soft lips were on mine. I pushed her back and stood, not facing her.
"What did you do that for! I am engaged! Annable, nothing is going to happen. I lost her once and refuse to lose her again." She quickly packed her things and left the house. I slumped in the chair, how was I going to tell Liberty!
A.N- Oh no.. things are going to get messy... Quick question does anyone want me to write out the full screen play- pretty much is rock this town episode in a play form. Please review! Thanks