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We’ll never see each other again if you don’t come and that hurts.
- excerpt from Hoodcats

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Hoodcats
A Play by Christina Calloway

Performance: February, 2004
Thornton High School, Daly City


Time: 5:30 pm
Place: At home, behind the dumpster
At Rise: HENNESSY the Cat is standing face to face with GIN.



Hennessy:

Mom you have to go. The storm is coming in two hours.

Gin:

Go Where?

Hennessy: To our home. I found us a home. Now we have to go before the storm.
Gin:

Hennessy, we been through this before. This is home. Either you follow my rules or you leave by yourself.

Hennessy:

Mom the storm is coming in two hours. We have to go.

Gin: I know how to survive a storm.
Hennessy: See you are just thinking of yourself. What about me and the babies?
Gin:

If you were so worried about me and the babies you would stay your butt here.

Hennessy: That’s pretty selfish of you to say Mom. Do you understand that we are going to die tonight if we don’t leave. The storm is coming in two hours. I’m not gonna keep talking to you for long ‘cause I have to get ready. 
Gin: If you leave Hennessy White I’ll disown you. I’m a mess up your life. I’ll make sure your life is a living hell.
Hennessy: Mom - think about it. We’ll never see each other again if you don’t come and that hurts. Cause you’re my Mom and I love you.
Gin: Yeah you’re my daughter. I love you too but I refuse to move at this point. It’s my way or no way.
(HENNESSY shrugs shoulders)
Hennessy: Well, feel me, that’s the way its gonna be. Mom, just instead of arguing can you please please come check the house out.
(HENNESSY gets on her knees and grabs her Mom’s paw and puts her face on her paw and gently rubs her face back and forth. HENNESSY starts to cry.)
I hope this isn’t the last time I get to do this.
(GIN looks down at HENNESSY with tears in her eyes. Gin’s voice is all chocked up.)
Gin: Me too.
(HENNESSY gets up, GIN and HENNESSY hold each other’s paws and they both turn and leap away. HENNESSY left with different feelings inside of her. She strolled to HP to find her imaginary friend Marijuana TT (aka Miss Tycoon). HENNESSY finds Miss Tycoon and begins to express her feelings.
Hennessy: I’m really stressing T. My Moms is trippin you know. Tonight a big ass storm and I’m tryin to get my fam a spot. But my Moms not goin for it and its makin me feel worthless. It hurts cause this is basically I’m gonna loose my Moms. But if she love me and the girls she might come through.
(GIN goes to lake and sits down, leans towards the water and starts to talk to the reflection of her dead husband E&J which she does on a daily basis)
Gin: Hey Honey, you may already know what I am going through with your oldest daughter.
(GIN closes her eyes and tears start to roll out.)
I need to know what should I do? If you are listening give me a signal.
(The water starts to ripple.)
Aaahh my Baby.
(GIN puts her paw on her chest and puts a big smile on her face.)
So baby now that you are listening, let me tell you. I feel like ending my life. I feel like I have nothing to live for. I feel helpless…I want to die. I want to die so I can connect with you again. I miss being cuddled at night, having someone to talk to. I miss you physically. I ain’t had none in a year. I am feelin like a dry desert.
I love my child Hennessy – she’s my oldest…but right now she’s makin me miserable lost and rejected. She’s just being a selfish hoodcat.
She actually said that she is gonna leave me if I don’t want to go. That’s being selfish.
I don’t want to go with Hennessy cause I want to wait so that I can pick the home when I’m done having the baby. I know how to survive in a storm.
(GIN leaves still undecided about her decision. HENNESSY give TT a hug and leaves still curious about her Moms decision. GIN and HENNESSY bump into each other walking down the street and immediately start to argue out of anger.)
Gin: Hennessy is this it? 
Hennessy: No Mom is this it?
(GIN and HENNESSY both look up to the sky and see the storm comin’)
Hennessy: MOM Lets GO! Any minute now we’ll get caught up in the storm.
(GIN pushes HENNESSY)
Gin:

No!
(The storm begins and HENNESSY runs off)

     
    The End.
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