| Sherly: |
|
What are
you? What are you doin’ here? Who are you? Do you
eat wire?
|
| Mikey: |
|
Hold up.
You are asking too many questions and I don’t understand
what you’re saying.
|
| Sherly: |
|
Sorry,
I’m scared. Answer my questions. Please. |
| Mikey: |
|
I am a free
star that has a lot of goals to reach. I’m trying
to be known. I was just exploring this beautiful room.
No, I’m a vegetarian. I’m very nice, I think
I am. Who are you?
|
| Sherly: |
|
I’m
Sherly.
|
| Mikey: |
|
What
are you doing here all messed up? Look at you. Your wires
are pulled out. Some parts look scraped as if you fell. |
| Sherly: |
|
It’s
a long story. |
| Mikey: |
|
I want to
hear it.
|
| Sherly: |
|
NO!
You’re a stranger. Your are a weird looking thing.
A star, if that’s what you say you are. |
| Mikey: |
|
You
got an attitude. |
| Sherly: |
|
NO. I don’t.
Stop being nosy.
|
| Mikey: |
|
I
can help if you want |
| Sherly: |
|
No
I don’t need any help. |
| Mikey: |
|
You
look like you do. You’re all beaten up. |
| Sherly: |
|
I
can take care of myself. |
| Mikey: |
|
It doesn’t
look like it.
|
| Sherly: |
|
Well
guess what, you don’t know me to tell me anything. |
| Mikey: |
|
Look,
I’m here trying to be nice and you’re having
a fit. |
| Sherly: |
|
How
are you trying to be nice? You’re butting in my business. |
| Mikey: |
|
Wait,
do you hear that? |
| Sherly: |
|
(wiggles
to Mikey)
What is it? |
| Mikey: |
|
The
closet doors are opening |
| Sherly: |
|
What’s
behind it? |
| Mikey: |
|
Oh
it was just the wind. |
| Sherly: |
|
Jerk.
You scared me half to death. |
| Mikey: |
|
You’re
rude. I would leave but I don’t want to leave you
alone. |
| Sherly: |
|
Go
ahead leave. See if I care. |
| Mikey: |
|
It’s
all in your face you’re scared. But I don’t
care what you say, I’m not leaving. |
| Sherly: |
|
Why
do you care so much? |
| Mikey: |
|
I
don’t. I just don’t want to leave you alone.
Why don’t you leave? |
| Sherly: |
|
I’m
scared of those dark corridors and the open windows. Something
might creep up and eat me or hurt me. Plus I can’t
leave. This place is my new home. |
| Mikey: |
|
How
did you end up here? |
| Sherly: |
|
It’s
a weird story you won’t understand. Well, my dad
brought me here. The rest is too complicated for you to
understand.e verge of crying) |
| Mikey: |
|
I’m
not stupid, even if I do look stupid. |
| Sherly: |
|
I
didn’t say you were stupid. You’re retarded.
Just kidding. |
| Mikey: |
|
Nice
joke. Ha Ha Ha. |
| Sherly: |
|
What’s
your name? |
| Mikey: |
|
Sorry
I didn’t tell you. It’s Mikey. (sadly) Just
Mikey. |
| Sherly: |
|
What
do you mean just Mikey? |
| Mikey: |
|
Why
do you care? |
| Sherly: |
|
Dang.
What’s wrong with you? |
| Mikey: |
|
What
do you mean what’s wrong with me? |
| Sherly: |
|
You
just had a mood swing. |
| Mikey: |
|
No
I didn’t. I just wanted to show you how you were
acting. |
| Sherly: |
|
Oh.
Sorry. |
| Mikey: |
|
No
problem dude. |
| Sherly: |
|
Why
did you say your name is just Mikey? |
| Mikey: |
|
Because
I want to be known. Not just Mikey the unknown star. I
want to be “Mikey the Ball player” or “Mikey
the Great.” |
| Sherly: |
|
What
makes you want to be known? |
| Mikey: |
|
Before
I used to live on a pole. I belonged to a flag. But I
didn’t know what I was. I was tired of seeing the
same old things. I wanted to become someone big so I left. |
| Sherly: |
|
Did
you like the flag? |
| Mikey: |
|
Yes.
I liked it but not loved it enough to be there forever.
I was proud to represent. But something was missing. |
| Sherly: |
|
What
was missing? |
| Mikey: |
|
Happiness,
and fame. |
| Sherly: |
|
What
do you mean happiness? I would love to be in your place.
You had a good life. |
| Mikey: |
|
But
not the life I wanted. |
| Sherly: |
|
You’re
nuts. I never had to represent anything. No one knows
me, or seen me. I’m an outcast. I have not been proud
of anything |
| Mikey: |
|
My
life was not so great. I saw the same things every day. |
| Sherly: |
|
Don’t
some things change? Things don’t stay the same forever.
And you see different faces. |
| Mikey: |
|
Some
things do stay the same. |
| Sherly: |
|
But
not all. You see new things. People look up to you, respect
you, salute you, and what else. You’re living like
a king compared to me. |
| Mikey: |
|
Like
I said, it’s not what I wanted. |
| Sherly: |
|
What
is there not to want? You are spoiled. Things like you
don’t see what they have. Me, I never had anything
that belonged to me. Look at me! Look how messed up I
look. Look how clean you are. |
| Mikey: |
|
You
don’t look too bad. |
| Sherly: |
|
Yes
I do! Stop lying. Be real. I hate fake things. I’ve
been hurt sooo many ways. How have you been hurt? I doubt
anything has harmed you. |
| Mikey: |
|
Guess
what, I didn’t grow up with a mom or dad. No one
besides my Grandma. It hurts seeing things with a family. |
| Sherly: |
|
At
least no one’s hurting you. Beating you up. Being
a tool to hurt someone else. Being around an alcoholic.
Doesn’t care about me. Says it does but doesn’t
act like it. |
| Mikey: |
|
You
act like you’ve been the only one that’s hurt. |
| Sherly: |
|
Guess
what, I’m not acting like I’m the only hurt
one. I know people have been hurt worse. But you didn’t
get beat almost every other day or been close to death. |
| Mikey: |
|
No,
I haven’t. |
| Sherly: |
|
My
dad hated me. He tried to do anything to kill me. But
still wanted me to suffer. It didn’t hurt on the
outside but it hurt on the inside. |
| Mikey: |
|
You
are right. I did have a good life. |
| Sherly: |
|
No.
You had a great life. |
| Mikey: |
|
You
know I was scared to leave. I didn’t want to leave
my Grandma. |
| Sherly: |
|
Wow.
I didn’t want to leave but I was forced to. I was
unconscious when I got here. |
| Mikey: |
|
Sorry. |
| Sherly: |
|
You
ain’t sorry. You don’t even know what happened. |
| Mikey: |
|
My
feelings are confused. I feel horrible for the way you
look and the things that happened to you. I didn’t
know what else to say. I now see that I did have a good
life. |
| Sherly: |
|
You
don’t have to say anything. I’m tired of people
always saying they feel bad. I’ve been lied to, too
many times. It hurts. Compare my life to yours. |
| Mikey: |
|
I’ve
been hurt, even if it’s in simple ways. I’ve
still been hurt. |
| Sherly: |
|
There
has been a lot of things in my life. |
| Mikey: |
|
Why
were you so closed at first then you just busted and opened
up? |
| Sherly: |
|
Because
I wanted to prove a point. Things like you don’t
appreciate what you have. It got me annoyed because you
bragged about wanting to leave when I wanted to stay. |
| Mikey: |
|
Why
did you want to stay? |
| Sherly: |
|
Because
I was with my lil brother Sam. I didn’t want to leave
him. I felt safe at home. A weird safe. The only thing
that could hurt me was my dad. Other than that, I had
what I wanted. Even if they were little things. |
| Mikey: |
|
How
did you feel safe when you were getting beaten up? |
| Sherly: |
|
I
had a roof over my head. I knew where everything was.
I saw any new thing that came into my house. I had food
brought to me. Here I’m scared, I don’t know
anything or anyone. I don’t have any food or even
Sam, the one person I confided in. |
| Mikey: |
|
I
thought you would be tired of the way you were being treated.
And how the anger of a person could be taken out on you. |
| Sherly: |
|
Guess
what, I might have been fed up with the way I was being
treated but I had a family. Most of all I had my brother.
I don’t really care about the rest. Beaten or not. |
| Mikey: |
|
I
wouldn’t think you would want to be around so much
violence just to be with one person. |
| Sherly: |
|
Well
that one person is very important to me. I would do anything
for him. |
| Mikey: |
|
All
my life I’ve wanted to be someone big. But things
were holding me back. I wanted everything for myself.
I left my Grandma just thinking about me! Now I feel angry
and selfish for only thinking about myself. |
| Sherly: |
|
Why
were you thinking only about yourself? |
| Mikey: |
|
I
thought no one cared about me. But now that I look at
it, my Grandma really cared and only wanted me to be happy.
She didn’t care if she was left alone. |
| Sherly: |
|
Why
else would she let you leave? Because she was tired of
you, or had no faith? |
| Mikey: |
|
I
never saw it that way. My Grandma wants me to succeed.
She didn’t want me to have the same lifestyle she
had. And wanted me to be happy. |
| Sherly: |
|
How
were things holding you back? You had lots of support.
I wanted to be a singer but now that I’m here I realized
that’s not what I truly want. |
| Mikey: |
|
I’m
still trying to become someone big, and famous. At first
I just wanted to be free. But now that I’m free I
want to make it big. |
| Sherly: |
|
I
really believe in you and I’m happy that you got
what you wanted.
(Sherly starts crying)
I really want to go home. I’m tired of this place.
I don’t know anything around here. |
| Mikey: |
|
Don’t
worry. |
| Sherly: |
|
(crying)
What do you mean don’t worry? I don’t know how
my brother is, or if he’s getting hurt. Maybe something
really bad happened to him. It’s driving me crazy
not knowing how he is |
| Mikey: |
|
I
think you should find a way to go home. |
| Sherly: |
|
What
do you mean go home? I can’t go home. This is my
home now. Whether I like it or not. |
| Mikey: |
|
You
can go home. Ask your dad to give you another chance.
Even though you didn’t do anything. |
| Sherly: |
|
It’ll
be hard to go home. My dad beat me up and left me here.
He was drunk and said he didn’t want to see me again. |
| Mikey: |
|
Don’t
think about your dad. Think about your brother. |
| Sherly: |
|
I
do. But my dad keeps coming in my head. |
| Mikey: |
|
Your
dad is not the main thing here, it’s you getting
back with your brother. |
| Sherly: |
|
That
is true. My dad is not so important. I can make a deal
with him or something. |
| Mikey: |
|
So
do you want to go home and ask your dad for another chance? |
| Sherly: |
|
Yes.
I really want to see Sam. |
| Mikey: |
|
We
need to make a plan. |
| Sherly: |
|
What
kind of plan? |
| Mikey: |
|
How
to get to your house and for you to talk to your dad.
You know what I’m saying? |
| Sherly: |
|
Kinda.
My house is not too far from here. I live in a small cabin
in a small town. We can get there in a day or so. |
| Mikey: |
|
First
we need sleep. |
| Sherly: |
|
Why
sleep? |
| Mikey: |
|
We
need to rest. |
| Sherly: |
|
Wait
I can’t sleep. I really want to leave this place.
I’ve been here way too long. Can we please start
going? I need to see Sam. Plus I really don’t trust
sleeping here. |
| Mikey: |
|
This
place is nice. It smells good. And it’s beautiful.
Everything is calm. |
| Sherly: |
|
There’s
something freaky about it. Stop the chit-chatting. Let’s
start leaving. Please. |
| Mikey: |
|
Okay.
Are we going to walk? |
| Sherly: |
|
Yes.
How else can we get there? |
| Mikey: |
|
Okay.
Let’s go. |
| Sherly: |
|
Thank
you very much for standing by my side. You have been very
helpful. Sorry I’ve been such a brat. |
| Mikey: |
|
Don’t
worry about it. Thank you for helping me realize the things
I had. You made me see things much clearer. |
| Sherly: |
|
You’ve
been helping me since we first met. I really appreciate
you staying. You are someone important. |
| Mikey: |
|
No
I’m not. |
| Sherly: |
|
I
think you are. You’re “Mikey the Great Helping
Star.” What else do you want? |
| Mikey: |
|
Finally
I’m someone. I don’t need anything else. (talking
to himself) Mikey the Great Helping Star. Sounds good. |
| Sherly: |
|
Ok,
let’s go.
(They start leaving) |
|
|
|
| |
|
The
End. |
