Sunday, October 27, 2013

The Play. Act Two.

Act Two.  Scene One.

SETTING: A PARTY IN A LIVING ROOM, COUCH, BIG CHAIR, TV, DINNER TABLE (SMALLER), KITCHEN CHAIRS AND EXTRA MISMATCHED CHAIRS.  THE MOBSTER IS NOW DRESSED IN A BLACK SUIT LIKE A REVEREND/MINISTER.  EVERYONE IS IN GROUPS TALKING AND SNACKING.  THE REVEREND IS TALKING TO A GROUP OF PEOPLE AND A SERIOUS LOOKING OLDER LADY PUSHES HER WAY THROUGH.

LADY ALPHA:  Pardon me Reverend, I've heard the rumors and scuttlebutt and now I want you to tell me how you heard the call.
REVEREND (FORMER MOBSTER):  I was wondering who would ask me first.  It's really simple actually, after high school I thought about the clergy but decided to see the world so I went into the Army...
GENTLEMAN 1:  What did you...
REVEREND:  11 Bravo, First to go last to know.  Our Uncle Sam taught me a lot of things but it really taught me to love God.  After the Army I used the GI Bill to go to college, I majored in Religious History with a minor in Accounting, by the way.  While in college I did some work for friends of the family, when I finally graduated the company I worked for "made me an offer I couldn't refuse", to use a quote I despise.  I worked for them for years, did rather well if I say so myself, but then the company changed and I didn't change with it.  So there I am, adrift, not sure what to do and I got a phone call than changed my world.  My mother had died.  Things happened pretty fast after that, I got my act together, well my spiritual act that is and realized that everything in my past was to make me a better shepherd of my flock.  I was raised Catholic but the Catholic church and I don't see eye to eye on everything, I started looking around at the "competition", I remember some of the priests calling the non-Catholics that, and I liked this one, it just fit me like a good suit.

Act Two.  Scene Two.

SETTING:  SAME LIVING ROOM, DIFFERENT GROUP OF PEOPLE.  SOME ARE POPPING UP THEIR HEADS TO WATCH THE REVEREND.

LADY 1:  He is cute.
LADY 2:  Yes he is.  But he seems a little off.  Whenever he's talking to you he's always looking around.  I'm used to guys talking to my chest but he'll look at my hands a lot and over my shoulders.  I'm not used to guys not looking at my chest.
GENTLEMAN 2:  Sweetie, I've known you for years, most women talk to your chest also.

That's it for the night.  I'm not too sure about the last two speaking parts for act 2 scene 2.  I want the gossipy feel but I would also like to avoid the whole bust part.

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