worlds apart act three

SCENE 3

ACT ONE:

SETTING:

Modern day earth.

JAKARI is alone in the  living room of his and JOHN'S apartment and he paces back and forth.

We can see that there is apparently something agitating him.

He looks behind everything, the bookshelf, he looks behind and under the couch, he even lifts the pictures off the wall and looks behind them.

We hear a car pull up and after a second we hear keys jingling as the front door opens and JOHN enters the room.

JOHN looks around at the state of the room and says "Man what the hell is going on here? 

You done fucked this room up.

JAKARI

stops looking around the room and pauses a moment before he says "Bro I know you like fucking around, and I don't know how you did it but I am gonna figure it out and when I do."

JOHN

"When you do what bro?

Man you done really lost yo mind. 

You really been trippin the last couple of days lookin all strange and stuff.

Man if I didn't know better I would think that you were on some hard drugs."

JAKARI

Man I ain't on shit. I just know this is the kind of thing that you are good for.

Thats all you do is live for the moment.

All these different women that you have sex with, its just a way of not really looking at your life.

You never slow down to confront anything, even pain.

JOHN

So what you do is better? Dude you live like a fucking hermit. You don't even open the blinds.

You dont even call your mom to see if she is okay.

Shit you dont even call her to tell her that you are okay.

When was the last time you even went to the mailbox?

In the backyard?

JAKARI

What does that have to do with you playing tricks on me JOHN?

Putting microphones and stuff around the house.

JOHN

Man I dont know what you talking bout but I hope you get some help for that shit.

Microphones and shit. 

I hope you ain't saying this shit to nobody else cause you sound crazy as hell right bout now.

JAKARI

I might sound crazy but I know you got something to do with this JOHN.

JOHN

Yo mama said to watch you cause you might start trippin, I told her you was okay but nowI wonder if she was right.

JAKARI

Stands and looks at him and asks "You been talkin to my moms behind my back? So ya'll think I'm crazy cause I got feelings? 

He sit down on the couch and places his head between his hands.

Man I dont know whats going on but I know I aint crazy bro.

JOHN

What you mean JAKARI?

JAKARI

Nothin bro... nothin.

JOHN

JAKARI I been trying to talk to you a long time bout what happened and you keep holding it in. Yo keep doing that and sooner or later you gonna bust bro. I feel it when I read your stuff now bro its like you about to explode but you holding it back.

I know I keep saying it but you got to get yo ass outta this house.

All prisons aint got steel bars, sometimes they are made out of flesh and blood and thought.

That is the worst kind of prison, the kind that we create for ourselves.

That where you are right now JAKARI trapped in the dungeons of your own prison.

JAKARI

Sits in silence as JOHN walks to his room and closes the door.