Ugly by Emma Adams

Author:Emma Adams [Emma Adams]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-84943-907-7
Publisher: OBERON BOOKS Ltd
Published: 2013-05-13T04:00:00+00:00

SCENE 8 – MRS MASON’S BASEMENT – MORNING

MRS MASON goes to her bookcase, pulls it and it swings free, revealing a secret cupboard behind the false wall.

MRS MASON: Darling! Come along! These are friends! Special Friends! Come and say hello!

MERT (19, African, stunning but painfully thin, dressed just like MRS MASON) walks from the cupboard.

MRS MASON: May I introduce Mert, my new daughter.

MERT: How did you do?

BEN and WOODY just stare, stare, stare.

MRS MASON: Mert my dear, you must try harder.

MERT: How did

MRS MASON: Do!

MERT: How do you very do?

MRS MASON: Perfect! Perfect! Isn’t she Ben? Isn’t she perfect?

BEN just stares.

MRS MASON: Now Mert my girl. Would you be so very kind as to give Benjamin the time of his life? If you do, he has promised to take a letter to Timothy!

BEN: No! I said I would look, but

MERT: For Tim! Oh but this is very fine! This is a good heart. A good heart.

MERT goes and takes BEN by the hand and starts to pull him towards the cupboard…

MRS MASON: Because you are the very most precious gift I could give him. The most precious.

WOODY: Wait!

MRS MASON: You can join them if you want Amy, I just assumed from what you said earlier that

WOODY: That is enough. Don’t. Stop touching him. Stop.

MERT begins to whisper unheard things in BEN’s ear.

WOODY draws her pistol and points it at MERT.

WOODY: Let go of him.

MERT immediately lets go of BEN. WOODY continues to point the pistol at her…

WOODY: You’re black aren’t you?

MRS MASON: No dear. Spanish. Dusky yes but certainly legitimate and Euro through and through.

WOODY: Illegal, ZeroSpec… Black filth… You are arrested. You will kneel down.

MERT: I kneel for no one unless I am choosing this.

WOODY slides the safety off her pistol.

BEN: Woody! Think?

WOODY: I am doing my job. She is ZeroSpec. She is here illegally.

MRS MASON: You don’t know that. You don’t know that.

WOODY: I can smell it on her.

BEN: But what if you’re wrong? You must do the slate work. It will not be proper.

Silence

WOODY: Jesus… Mrs M, do you have a spare slate that I could borrow?

MRS MASON: Amy I’m afraid that I only have one, and I need that to write to Tim.

WOODY brings the pistol down and looks at BEN.

WOODY: Do you want to fuck her?

BEN: No!

WOODY: You do! You want to fuck her but you don’t want me.

BEN: Please calm down.

WOODY: Why? What’s wrong with me?

BEN: There’s nothing… You know… You’re not an Extra Super Special.

WOODY: And a filthy ZeroSpec is better?

MERT: If I have to choose between you and me, I know who I am choosing, bitch.

WOODY brings her pistol back up.

MRS MASON: Amy and Mert, we will both talk nicely or not at all.

BEN: Woody! Let’s just calm down and talk. Ok?

WOODY: If you wanted me I could apply for Subsidiary Extra Special Status.

BEN: But we’re friends. Just friends.

WOODY: Why? Every man I know wants to fuck me apart from you.

BEN: I don’t know. I can’t change it Amy.

WOODY: Everyone else thinks we should be together.

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