A lovers Mistake

A Stage Play by Jared

I wrote this peice for my online class! I am quite proud of it. It is one of my first writings that I havn't had something gay happen in. I mean the literal gay. Tell me what you think of it please!

Scene 1

(Dim lights on the stage, a dirty, motionless cellar awaits quietly. XZAVIER, a young man around the age of 25, walks into the cellar, looking around.)

XZAVIER

(To himself)

Yes, yes this will do!

(Xzavier walked around the dirty room looking around while muttering to himself. Xzavier walks off stage and returns struggling to pull a body of a young woman around the age of 21 with him.)

XZAVIER

(to the body)

You will feel safe her, sweetie. This room is secure and…yes the environment is a bit musty and gross but I’m sure you can get used to it MIKA.

(Mika had a knife stuck in her chest. Her white silk night gown was now red.)

(Mika rises with the knife sticking straight out of her chest. Her eyes are bold and her hair is clumped up in places do to the blood but the rest is straight and brown.)

(Xzavier looks to Mika as she rises and his mouth drops. He runs over to her and slides on his knees grabbing her around her legs.)

XZAVIER

Oh! Sweetheart your alright! Thank you God!

(Mika looks around the cellar in confusion. Her eyes widen to as far as they can. She looks down at Xzavier watching him smile as he hugs her legs. She pulls her hand back and brings it down smacking him on the forehead.)

(Xzavier flies back smashing into the wall on the other side of the cellar.)

(Mika watches him as he lands on his butt and sits on the ground groaning in pain.)

MIKA

You did this to me! You stuck this knife in my chest and you run to me as if everything is okay!

XZAVIER

No! Sweetheart No! I didn’t mean too, It just happened!

MIKA

So while you were making love to me you accidentally slipped a knife into my chest!

XZAVIER

No!

MIKA

Then how was it an accident!

(Xzavier sat cowering in the corner he’d been thrown in as Mika walked closer to him.)

MIKA

How could you possibly make such a stupid mistake as to bringing a knife to bed with you!? How!? How!? How!?

(The stage goes silent, the lights dim into darkness and then one light shines down on Mika)

MIKA

(to the darkness)

I loved you! I gave up my life for you and this is how you repay me?! What kind of man are you!

(Another light hits Xzavier; he is sitting on the ground still)

XZAVIER

I am a good man, I took care of you! I treated you with respect!

MIKA

Then why did you murder me!?

XZAVIER

I know you were cheating on me! I found out just today! I couldn’t lose you to another man! So I stopped that from happening!

MIKA

I did not cheat on you! He was a friend! Not a lover!

XZAVIER

You lie!

MIKA

(Thundering her voice.)

No! I don’t you killed me for no reason! You killed me because of your paranoia.

(Xzavier balled up in his corner and started to sob and mumble.)

XZAVIER

I di… I didn’t do it! I didn’t know!

(The lights go black and silence fills the stage as the curtains close)

Scene 2

(curtains open the lights are bright and Xzavier is sitting on his bed. Mika is no where to be seen.)

(Xzavier stands from the bed and paces around the room as if nervous about something. A phone rings from the bedside table. He rushes over and picks it up and puts it to his ear.)

XZAVIER

Hello?

You ready?

Now?!

I’ll be there!

(Xzavier slams the phone down and runs out of the room.)

(Mika enters the room looking for Xzavier.)

MIKA

Xzavier honey, do you….

(She sees that Xzavier is not in the room as she looks around.)

(She walks around the room looking at papers on the desks and table tops.)

MIKA

(to herself)

I wonder where that man has gone now! I can never keep him in one place, he’s always on the move.

(She turns and walks out of the room. The lights dim to black and the curtains close.)

Scene 3

(Lights dim in and we see Xzavier sitting at a table in a coffee shop waiting and nervously sipping his steamy hot coffee. The tables are wooden and the bar is glistening from the cheap yet beautiful chandelier shining its lights through the glass surrounding them.)

(The bartender is wiping the bar off and the waitress is going around wiping the tables off. A man walks up to Xzavier and sits in the seat across from him.)

CHAVEZ

Hello Xzavier, I have some information for you!

XZAVIER

What do you have?

CHAVEZ

Everything I have is in this folder. But lets not worry about that right now lets just have some coffee and have a civilized conversation.

XZAVIER

I am not paying you to have a conversation with me. I am paying you to give me information about where Mika has been going for these past few weeks.

(Chavez looks Xzavier in the eyes and knows that he is not fooling around. Chavez pulls the folder out of his brief case and lays it on the table, sliding over to Xzavier. Xzavier picks up the folder and opens it to look at the contents inside.)

XZAVIER

What am I looking at?

(The pictures in the folder confused Xzavier, even though it should have seemed pretty obvious.)

CHAVEZ

I am sorry, You are now looking at your own relationship falling apart and ending

XZAVIER

What proof is there, there are no pictures of them kissing or even hugging.

CHAVEZ

Do you think the two of them are stupid enough to do that in public where you may see them or your friends. No… They are not idiots.

XZAVIER

But I can’t do anything if I have no proof!

CHAVEZ

Let me ask you something… Have you ever met this man?

XZAVIER

No!

CHAVEZ

Then why fight it! Your wife is spending time with a man you’ve never met before. It’s pretty obvious.

(Chavez stands from his seat and walks out of the coffee shop.)

(Lights fade out into darkness.)

Scene 4

(Back at Xzavier place in his room later that night, he has the bed flowered with rose peddles, candles lit all around the room and soft music playing.)

(Xzavier takes off his shirt and jumps in the bed pulling the covers over top of him. Mika knocks on the door.)

MIKA

Honey, are you in there?

XZAVIER

Come on in!

(Mika turns the knob on the door and walks in. She sees the candles and the roses on her side of the bed. She walks across the room with her white nightgown floating behind her. She walks over to her side of the bed and reaches down to grab a rose peddle.)

MIKA

Oh, my gosh, what is the occasion.

XZAVIER

To show you how much I love you

(Mika smiles and turns the covers down and slides her legs in first. She lays on the bed underneath the covers and turns over on her side to kiss her husband. She has her hand on his face and he rolls on top of her and stops kissing her to look her in the eyes.)

XZAVIER

Close your eyes!

(Mika does so. Xzavier reaches underneath his pillow and pulls out a knife. He lifts the knife above his head and brings it down slamming it into her chest. The blood from the wound stains the white night gown as soon as it touches.)

XZAVIER

Now no one will have you!

(Xzavier moved off of Mika and sat on the side of the bed trying to think of what to do with the body. Xzavier looks straight out into the audience and all that is shown in his eyes is nothing more than he whose gone completely mad. He thinks for a moment and decides.)

(Xzavier walks around the bed and grabs Mika by her hands. He pulls her off the bed and onto the floor. He pulls Mika out of the bed room. The light fades to black and the curtains close.)

Scene 5

(The Curtains open and Xzavier is on the floor in the corner that Mika knocked him into. She is standing above him. The knife he stuck her with is in her chest and blood is still dripping from the wound onto her nightgown making it even redder. His sobbing is becoming hysterical crying and he begins to shake as well.)

MIKA

I did nothing but try to make you happy. Nothing!

XZAVIER

I know. You did make me happy. That’s why I didn’t want to lose you.

MIKA

You didn’t even trust me! How do you say I made you happy? How?

XZAVIER

I love you, Mika! More than anything.

MIKA

You may have loved me, then you may have hated me, but now I’m going to make you fear me!

(The lights dim more and smoke begins to fill the stage. Thunder sounds and the walls begin to crumble. Xzavier tries to tighten up into a smaller ball but the attempt fails. Mika’s eyes glow with red and her hair turns fire red as well.)

XZAVIER

No!

Please!

No! I beg you! Please!

(Mika stops glowing red and the smoke clears away. The walls stop crumbling and Xzavier stops shaking. Xzavier looks at Mika.)

XZAVIER

Mika, honey, I’m so sorry for what I’ve done to you! I just didn’t want anyone else to take you from me. I’m sorry.

(Mika begins to cry putting her face in her hands.)

MIKA

I don’t know what I did to make you think I was cheating on you. I was a loyal wife.

(Xzavier manages to stand up holding onto the wall. He looks around the cellar making sure no harm was done to the room and he steps away from the wall and walks toward Mika. He wraps his hands around her waist.)

XZAVIER

I know sweetie, I’m so sorry for betraying you, for not trusting you. I guess I’m just the jealous type. Please forgive me, Mika.”

(Mika’s white hands fall from her face and she looks Xzavier in the eyes.)

MIKA

I gave my life to you and you took it. Just like that, you didn’t have to think twice about it. You made me think you loved me and then you ruined me. You murdered me. The only way I could ever forgive my murderer is if my murderer were murdered. (pause) But in this case I will make an exception.

(Xzavier’s face filled with joy and thankfulness.)

XZAVIER

Thank you Mika!

MIKA

Instead, I will not forgive you at all!

(Mika waves her arm and a rock that had fallen from the cellar wall begins to float and she waves her hand toward Xzavier and the rock flies to hit him in the head, killing him instantly. The lights fade to black and the curtains close.

THE END