| Green
Eyes: |
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(turns
and faces Mijo)
Por la virjen Mijo. I did not know this was gonna
happen.
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| Mijo: |
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Get the
hell outta here. If you were there this would
have never happened. If you would just stop and
think about others instead of yourself. There’s
only one thing that I ask you to do almost every single
day is to stop drinking cactus tequila juice and eating
marijuana plants but you just can’t do it.
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| Green
Eyes: |
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I’m
sorry for everything I’ve done. You’re my cousin.
You’re older than me and you know better but who
would’ve thought you would’ve gone on a hunt
by yourself. |
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| Mijo: |
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If you would’ve
done what I asked none of this would have happened.
For a long time I thought I could trust you but your
addiction just seems to get the best of you. I
feel you care about the cactus tequila juice and marijuana
plants more than you care about your flesh and blood.
So get out of here. I don’t ever want to
see you again.
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| Green
Eyes: |
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Why you
so fast to kick me outta the cave? I’m your
cousin.
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| Mijo: |
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Why
so fast? Why so fast? I gave you more than
3 chances and you expect me to give you one more chance.
You’re nothin’ but a worthless cheetah. |
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| Green
Eyes: |
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(aside)
I know why Mijo’s being so harsh on me but I truly
want to change but he just doesn’t know that I got
caught by the rhinoceros and they stopped me. They’re
always out to get some cat. I just can’t tell
him cause I’m wrong either way. I should’ve
went to his tree first thing in the morning like he told
me to. Instead I went and got wasted. Right
now before I drink and eat I feel weak but when I do it
I feel nothing could hurt me. I feel powerful and the
sense of feeling relaxed, never to feel upset, all the
time being happy, until this happened. How could
I tell Mijo that I could change? I know in my heart
I could change. |
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| Mijo: |
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What are
you doing? You’re just sitting there. Don’t
you have anything else to say?
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| Green
Eyes: |
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I’ve
made up my mind. I’m gonna change. |
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| Mijo: |
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You
can’t change. You’re incompetent and a
fool. What makes you think you could change? |
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| Green
Eyes: |
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I’m
tired from always running from my problems. I’m tired
of being me. I needa fess up and get on with my life. |
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| Mijo: |
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(aside)
I don’t know what to do. I really need Green Eyes
right now but he’s a fool. He doesn’t want to
help himself. I don’t know if I should push him away
or give him one last chance. I need him to take care of
me and I need him so we can have the trust we used to
have. When I first seen him come out of his mom for the
first time I knew we were meant to be more than cousins
and more than brothers and nothing will be able to separate
us. Ever since then we never seen the light of day
without each other. I remember the first time we hung
out for the whole day by ourselves how many female cheetahs
approached both of us. It was like something you could
never imagine.He would never argue for which one he wants
and we both always respected each other for what we have
to say. That’s all I ever wanted from Green Eyes.
Since he is family, I guess I’ll give him one more
chance. |
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| Green
Eyes: |
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Watch,
you’ll see. I can do it. |
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Scene
2
TIME: 8 months later
PLACE: A lake. Smells like a hot summer
day, lot of tall grasses, looks like a new day for him.
AT RISE: Green Eyes is sitting by the lake
drinking water, watching the other animals. |
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| Green
Eyes: |
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I feel good
that I kept my promise to Mijo. I never expected
this to be that easy to quit. To me it feels like
it was just all mental, a mental addiction, not physical.
I didn’t really need it. We got back like we used
to be with all the trust and honesty and faith.
I feel good. But some reasons I’m kind of
glad that Mijo got hurt. That experience showed
me I could quit. It made me realize that the drugs
were taking more of my time and my life away from my
cousin. But at the same time I wish I would’ve
realized that sooner because if I did I think that would’ve
never happened to him.
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Scene
3
TIME: Same
PLACE: A new tree house in Santa Breezy.
Trees all over the place. Smells like fresh pine,
flowers, spring. A lot of cheetah females around
ready for male cheetahs.
AT RISE: Mijo’s on one side of the tree
house getting a gazelle that he killed earlier for this
occasion and there’s female cheetahs on the other
side.(starts to think) |
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| Mijo: |
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I’m
very proud of Green Eyes. I never would’ve
thought he would’ve gone through with it. He
actually proved me wrong. He made me feel that I
could trust him once again and never have a doubt in my
mind that he would never do anything from the past.
He hasn’t got in any trouble and tomorrow we will
both go on the hunt we were meant for before all the frustration
and anger and heartbreak that had happened. No other
two cheetahs ever got a grown giraffe and we’re gonna
be the first to ever do it.
(Mijo gives female cheetah the gazelle) |
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Scene
4
TIME: 7:25pm the next day.
PLACE: One of Mijo’s cheetah lady’s
tree houses
AT RISE: After they just finished doing what
cheetahs do. Lying in the tree cuddling and purring
to each other.
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| Mijo: |
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Oh no!
I gotta go!
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Scene
5
TIME: Sundown. The sun is barely
going down Just a little light left.
PLACE: On a plain with tall grass, few
trees. It’s cold and mysterious.
AT RISE: Green Eyes is on the floor of
the plain very hurt after his chase.He’s almost
dying. The prey, a giraffe, is dead right next to him.As
Mijo runs to Green Eyes,
he sees Green Eyes and he starts running faster. When
he gets there, it’s too late.
Green Eyes is taking his last breath.
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| Mijo: |
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I’m
sorry cousin.I never thought this would ever happen
to me. After all the time I nagged at you and told you
what to do, it backfired on me and now you’re here
bleeding to death. I should’ve remembered
that we were gonna go on this hunt together but my own
addiction on female cheetahs got the best of me.Now
I wish that I would’ve died at the hospital cave.
Now I would have to live alone with no one to trust.
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| Green
Eyes: |
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Don’t
feel sorry.This is a foolish act that I did.This is
my fault that I thought I could do this hunt without
you.When you didn’t show up I thought this would
be my chance just to prove to you that you would’ve
never gotten hurt if you would’ve done it carefully
but I guess I was wrong. Everything is my fault. Everything
always is. All I ever wanted to do is be just like you.
(he dies)
(Mijo
lies down with his paws over Green Eyes’ with his
head down.)
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The
End. |
