Life On The Streets

SCENE ONE

Setting;(Bedroom Illusion; Mike’s friend Dan calls)
Mike: hello
Dan: what up, what are you doinnng?
Mike: what are you doinng?
Dan: I’m doing your mother
Mike:(laughing) shut up, what you called for, I’m mad tired.
Dan: I need you to meet me at Sunset Park.
Mike: aight, in like an hour.
Dan: one
Mike: one
(Mike hangs up the phone and he starts to think what Dan wants to tell him, then his girlfriend Evonny calls)
Mike: Hello
Evonny: hey baby
Mike: what up girl, what going on?
Evonny: nothin, just thinkin about ya.
Mike: so your parents home?
Evonny: na, why?
Mike: I could come ova?
Evonny: yeah hun
Mike: I'll be there in a hour
Evonny: ok luv ya
Mike: luv ya to
(Mike hangs up the phone and the lights turn out)

SCENE TWO

Setting:(Street Illusion; Mike walks out of his apartment and makes his way to Sunset Park. He starts again to think about what Dan wants to tell him. He reaches Sunset park and see's his friend Dan)
Mike:(gives Dan a pound) what up
Dan: what up
Mike: what you gotta tell me?
>Dan: yo son, remember when you said you need a few
dollars to go to college, cause your mom's can't afford it.
Mike: yea why?
Dan: I told my dad's friend about your situation and he said he could get you more than enough money for college.
Mike: word, what kind of job?
Dan: he said all we gotta do is pick up some drugs from across the country, I think Mexico, and bring it back and we get mad money.
Mike:(getting nervous) I don't know, what if someone tries to kill us
Dan: He's given us both a heater
Mike:(relaxed)I'll call u lata and tell you
Dan: cool, so where you goin?
Mike: Evonny house
Dan: yo son, how long you guys been goin out?
Mike: I think 6 months
Dan: you smash yet?
Mike: na
Dan:(laughin)damn, that's good for you
Mike:(feeling embarrased) shut up
Dan: so do your thing when you get over there
Mike: I will
Dan: aight im out
Mike: I'll call you tonight at 9:00 and tell you everythin
Dan: peace
Mike:(gives dan a pound) lata
(Mike starts to walk to Evonny's house. He is thinking if she should have sex with Evonny or not. He is tired of being pressured and being made fun of. Lights turn off)

SCENE THREE

Setting(Bedroom Illusion; Mike reaches Evonny's house and rings the door bell)
Evonny: who is it?
Mike: It's me
Evonny:(she opens the door) hey sweetie, come in
Mike:(he walks up to the bedroom) Evonny?
Evonny: yea
Mike: I have to tell you something
Evonny: what?
Mike: you know how we been going out for 6 months,right
Evonny:(has a smile on her face) yeah
Mike: I think we need to take our relationship one step further
Evonny: what do you mean?
Mike:(mike pauses) you know
Evonny: you mean sex?
MIke: yeah
Evonny: listen Mike, I'm not ready to have sex right now
Mike: why not?
Evonny: when I choose to have sex with somebody I want to make sure I stay with that person forever, cause if i get pregnant and the man left, I don't know what the hell I do
Mike: I understand where you coming from, but
Evonny: but what?
Mike: but I would neva leave no matter what happened and you know that's true
Evonny: I know you would neva leave me, but I wanna be married
Mike: Girl, I already told you we going to marry eachother
Evonny: I know
Mike: let's just do this, I'll use protection
Evonny: I don't know
Mike: listen girl
Evonny: what?
Mike: I would neva eva leave you and I will definitley marry you and most important(pauses)I love you
Evonny: I love you to baby
(They move closer to eachother and go under the covers. The lights turn off and curtains close)

SCENE FOUR

Setting:(Bedroom Iluusion; Mike was laying on his bed thinking what to tell Dan, then his alarm clock rings and he calls Dan)
Mike: hello is Dan home?
Dans mom: yea hold up
Dan: hello
Mike: what up kid
Dan: what happened with you and Evonny
Mike: I smashed
Dan:(surprised) for real?
MIke:(excited) yea, if felt mad good
Dan:(laughing)I remember my first time, but forget about that, you thought about it?
Mike: yea, I'll do it, but this is just between me and you aight?
Dan: aight, we leave in a week, I'll call you
Mike: one
Dan: one
(Mike hangs up the phone with Dan and hopes he made the right decision. A week passes by and Mike gets a call from Dan)
Mike: hello
Dan: wut up, you ready?
Mike: yea
Dan: you told your mom you going Upstate right?
Mike; yea
Dan: I'll be there in a hour
Mike: aight
(Mike hangs up the phone and get dressed, then he get's a call from Evonny)
Mike: hello
Evonny: hey baby
Mike: hey girl, I'll call you back I have to go Upstate with Dan
I have to tell you something
Mike: what?
Evonny:(pause and speak in a low soft voice) I'm pregnant
Mike:(shouts) what?
Evonny:(crying) I'm pregnant
Mike:(relaxes) don't worry, I'll take care of everything when I come back
Evonny: hurry up cause my mom kicked me out the house and I'm in a hotel
Mike: I'll be back in a week and when I come back I'm coming with mad money
Evonny: can you call me?
Mike: no, but I'll call you as soon as I get back
Evonny: ok, luv you
Dan:(Dan arrives and beeps the horn)
Mike:(sticks his head out the window)shut up (sticks his head back into the window) luv you to baby
(Mike hangs up the phone with Evonny and gets in the car with Dan and he doesn't tell Dan that Evonny is pregnant because he don't want nobody to know)

SCENE FIVE

Setting:(It takes Dan and Mike 3 days to reach Mexico. They both go to the hotel to be informed, then they recieve a call)
Dan: hello
Voice: Is this Dan?
Dan: yea
Voice: Is your friend Mike their also?
Dan: yea, what are we supposed to do?
Voice: tomorrow go to 168st. and 8ave. and go inside the old warehouse
Dan: then what?
Voice: then pick up the drugs
Dan: so what time are we supposed to leave?
Voice: leave at ten pm and you should arrive here at 11 pm
Dan: aight peace
Voice: peace
(Dan hangs up the phone)
Mike: what happened?
Dan: yo son, all we gotta do is get the drugs on 168st and 8ave near some old warehouse
Mike: then what?
Dan: then we pick up the drugs and drive back idiot
Mike: shut up, what time we leave?
Dan: 10 pm
Mike: aight I'm going to bed
Dan: yea me to, luv u
Mike: yo son, you mad gay, get a girl
Dan: I got your moms
Mike: good night
(Mike lays in his bed thinking about all the things that could go wrong tomorrow, then he falls asleep. The lights turn off and the curtains close)

SCENE SIX

Setting:(Mike and Dan wake up at 9 and and get ready. the leave at 10 and it takes them an hour to get the old warehouse. They get out the and look around to make sure nobody sees them walking into the warehouse)
Voice: check them
2nd Voice: they got guns
Voice: who cares, just give them the drugs so they could get the hell out of here
2nd Voice: ok
Voice: if you guys mention this place to anybody, we'll hunt you down and kill you, you got that?
Dan: we promise we won't say anythin
Mike: I promise
Voice: and forget what we look like
Mike: we neva even saw you
Dan: yea neva
Voice: good, now get out
Mike: peace
Dan: we out
(Mike and Dan take the drugs and are on their way back to New York. They reach the warehouse in New York and they go inside)
Dan: yo Rob, here's the drugs
Rob: let me check them
Dan: we gonna get our money?
Dan: the drugs
Rob: this is sugar, not drugs you idiot
Dan:(scared) I didn't know man, I'm sorry
Rob: your sorry
Mike: yo everybody just calm down
(Rob pulls out the gun and points it towards Dan's head)
Dan:(crying) yo chill, I'm sorry
Mike: Rob we'll take care of it, we'll go back
Rob: to late
(Rob pulls the trigger and puts a whole in Dans head. He dies immediatley, then Mike pulls out his gun and shoots Rob in the head, then he drop the gun and runs away. 10 minutes later detectives arrive and fines the gun that Mike dropped. In 6 hrs they found Mike and arrested him. That same day he was put on trial and sentenced to 10 yrs. Mike calls Evonny from jail)
Evonny: hello
Mike: hey babyEvonny: hey sweetie I missed you so much, where are you?
Mike: I'm in jail
Evonny: oh my god, what happened?
Mike: ok listen up girl, I'm going to tell you the truth, cause I been lying to you to much. I didn't go Upstate I went to Mexico
Evonny: for what and why did you lie to me?
Mike: dont say anything let me speak.
(Mike tells the whole story about how they got the drugs and how his friend go shot. Evonny is stunned because she does not know what to do with the baby now that Mike is in jail.)
Evonny: what do we do with our baby?
Mike: as much as I don't want to do this, I think we should put it up for adoption, so it will have a better life
Evonny: I will (pauses) do it for the baby
Mike: it's the best thing
Evonny: I know
Mike: your going to visit me right?
Evonny: of course, we together forever, I'll visit you every week until you get out
Mike: I love you so much
Evonny: love you to
Mike: I gotta go
Evonny: bye
(Evonny's baby came out to be a son and she decided to keep it because Mike's mom said she help take care of it. Evonny got a job and she visited Mike every week. Mike never got over the death of his friend. When Mike got out, him and Evonny got an apartment, but then they started to live on welfare. They had enough to raise their son and put food on the table. Their son went to Arizona to go to college and then they started to get old and eventually the both died, happy.)