Boys’ Locker Room. (Pinups, graffiti and team fight posters. Oscar suiting up in full quarterback regalia while Victor emerges from behind the open locker door to watch enviously)
Victor
So –
How’s it hangin’?
Oscar
(With relish)
I’m a man, bro!
Thought I was a grown but
I was only a baby;
I knew nothing.
Real manhood
Comes in the arms of
The most beautiful woman on earth.
Victor
Right you are! That’s
One hot chick.
(He makes certain Oscar can see the pic displayed. Oscar bites.)
Oscar
What’s that, my bro?
Where’d you get that?
Victor
(Very cool)
Everyone’s got it.
Clint’s got it
Rocky’s got it and
Cody sent it – all
From Darla’s phone.
Oscar
(Building rage)
Darla sent? That’s not
Possible!
Victor
Sure! Sent by Darla – with
Some hot message – I forget what
Why not ask him? Question
Everyone.
Oscar
No! I don’t believe it!
Victor
Hey – should a chick who looks like this
Keep it to herself?
She belongs to the world –
Once those pics escape –
They’re everyone’s treasure.
Stokin’ strokes
The universe around. I say
Long live the hotties
That keeps us a-boilin’!
Oscar
(Strikes the phone from Victor’s hand)
Callin’ Darla
A whore man?
Is that what this is?
Well? Are you?
(He’s scary but Victor calmly rescues his phone)
Victor
Oscar, you and I know
There’s two kindsa women.
It’s not rocket science
Telling them apart.
Oscar
(Still very distraught – looks away)
Darla was a virgin.
(Victor laughs – pretends to stifle)
Victor
Did she say that?
(Sniggers – what a hoot)
Victor
Can’t blame her my man –
That’s what they all say –
Trying to cuff you.
Oscar
(Struggling with his dignity)
She was a virgin
I can promise you.
She bled – there was
Pain.
Victor
(Dismissive)
God bless modern science!
They have cute little ways.
It’s only fun playing the game if
Everybody knows
The score.
Too late, now, huh? Right?
She safe NOW – can’t nobody
Prove her wrong.
(Touches his head)
But players in the know –
We know. And we’re the ones who
Never get played.
Oscar
You’ll never feel
What we shared.
(Struggling with emotion looks like he might cry)
Victor
(Grabbing him)
There’s ways to get wise, bro.
Was she all over you?
Did she know
What to do?
How’s a truly innocent girl
Learn that dirty stuff?
Oscar
She wanted to
Please me. We were
Sharing our souls!
Victor
Yeah she did!
(Looking at his phone)
This don’t look like
Soul-sharing to me!
Looks like
Ball dandling and
Booby sucking!
Thot tricks!
Someone’s got
A new booby tonight!
Oscar
Does EVERYONE have this?
Victor
It’s too good to keep private.
Community property
Keeps everyone fed.
(Oscar collapses on the bench, head in hands)
Oscar
We wanted
All of each other –
I thought –
We fit together so right!
Victor
(Very paternal – hand on Oscar’s shoulder)
Did she come, man?
That’s the key-
Virgins CAN’T come
The first time
It’s technically
Impossible!
Oscar
(Reeling from the pain)
I wanted to share
The bliss that she gave me.
(Breaks down sobbing – Victor is thrilled with power)
Victor
You been cuck’d, man!
(Fake commiseration)
My poor, hurting brother.
You trade yourself so
Cheap. Real men
Keep eyes open. Once
You let her rule –
Sacrifice manhood to pleasure
You’ve lost all control.
You’re cuck’d.
Oscar
Cuck’d!
(This is worse than he’d figured)
Victor
Hear the bros laughing?
You sucked on her
Titties like some monster big baby
You went down
Till lockjaw set in
Tossed her salad
Licked her taint
For the world’ entertainment.
Oscar
(Rises up raging like a crazy gorilla – throws Victor off – banging between the metal lockers – making animal noises –
like he’ll pull the place down)
Argh!!! Argh argh argh!!!!
Victor
(Thrilled – afraid and amused – he wants on this wild ride)
Whoa, Nellie!
Hang on to
Your reason,
Get a grip on
Your manhood!
Exercise CONTROL my brutha.
Oscar
(shaking him like a rat)
I’m cuck’d
My manhood’s GONE!
Cuck’d!
I gave it away!
Victor
(Teeth chattering, he tries to calm his beast)
Seek revenge, Brutha!
Stand up for who you are!
No man’s cuck’d
Without his
Permission.
Oscar
What’s left for me
In this world?
I’m a dead man!
Victor
(abracadabra hands)
Throw it back in her face!
Tell her
She “fell” for your
Quarterback strategy –
Tell her YOU made that
Movie – YOU were the one
Determined to score.
Turn the tables!
Who is king? Be
Your father and his father
Your grandfather before you!
You know what they stood for.
Women are like ponies
Made to be broken.
Oscar
(Drops Victor, collapses, clutching his heart)
Too late.
It’s all gone.
She took my manhood.
I got no honor left.
Victor
(Impatient)
Rise up my brother
Throw off this oppression
Tell her she’s DONE.
Stand tall! Take your life back.
Be a man! Your brothers
WANT to look up to you.
Oscar
(Rising slowly)
Take my life back.
A life for a life.
Victor
(Dancing a little jig – he has no idea where this is going but he’s happy to go along)
Counting coup, brother!
Take a scalp! Take
A trophy!
Oscar
She needs to PAY!
Victor
(Crowing)
She’s gotta be
SCHOOLED – schooled by
(Trying to high – five an unseeing Oscar)
The Master!
Oscar
She must
KNEEL
Victor
(Dancing)
She’s gotta KNEEL!
Oscar
Time for her to
PRAY
Victor
(Boo-ga-loo)
She’s gotta
PRAY!
Oscar
(Pulling open switchblade)
Then she DIES
(thrusting, stabbing moves)
Victor
(Incredulous – frozen – hides a giggle)
She DIES?
Oscar
A man fights!
Men seek revenge!
Women must pay!
Victor
(Rapid recovery – loving what he’s hearing)
Time to
Get your manhood back!
‘Cause otherwise you’re
(They say it together, staring out at the audience)
Victor & Oscar
Cuck’d!
(Fadeout)
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