Gun  girl

Actors or Singers 

Helena.   25- 30

Kindness  35

Love        35

Future      50

Gun girl is standing alone keeping a gun in her right hand and one bullet in her left hand. 

Helena-   How lonely I feel

Like Desert

My loneliness is getting bitter and bitter

You left me father !

You left me !

I was not able to keep you

You left me mother !

You left me !

I was not able to take care of  you

Now I am standing here on my own ....like a prisoner

Oh You relentless weapon !!

Oh You! Forgotten bullet !!!

Oh You !  My dear, my Honest loneliness

The girl arms the gun with the unique bullet,  in one of the fifth empty cases.

Helena-  

How am I suppose to live ? 

Feels like Am not

Me or these ??

My days are black

My  nights are bitter

Erinnyes always in front of me.

Always here

I can not stand it anymore

I can  not

I feel the cold

(Broken voice) my heart is hurting me

Helena Lifts the gun, Helena marks her head, _she is triggering the trigger.  

The first blank

Helena - Oh God...Im so luckless even at last.

Something  thunders behind.  Helena moves to look

Helena - Who is there?

Oh my God...What is it ? Is it a dream? Is it a fairy? Is it a ghost?? It is like a beautiful woman, like Snow white

Helena - Who are you? Are you here for me? Are you here for my soul?

Ghost  - Hello. My name is kindness. I see you. I know you. What are you about  to do Helena? Why??

Helena - Please leave me.

Kindness - No way !!

Helena- You should

Kindness -but  I know you....I see you.

Helena-. Who send you here?

Kindness - I'm yours Helena. I am your own Kindness.

Helena - Do not try to stop me, I've taken a decision

Elena raises up the gun.

Kindness flies as far as to grab Helena' s  hand

Kindness- Don' t you love me ?

Helena - Mother !!  ??? Why are you doing this??? That was my Mother' s  voice. Stop hurting me !!

Goodness - I'm your own  kindness Helena. It is not  pain that you feel....Love it is.

Helena - Why? Why are you trying to stop me? Dont' you see it is my fault? I killed them. I couldn' t  take care of them.

Kindness - Listen to me. Stop thinking like that. You  have too much to give

Helena - I don' t want to be saved

Kindness-  But don ' t you understand??  If you act like that,  you' ll  be lost.

Helena - Please see me not...I am in pain. Leave me. Please. Go away .

Helena raises up again the gun, Helena marks her head , put her hand to scandal and  .....Chuck, second bullet blank

Helena -  Second time to none,  three more opportunities for me to reach the Kingdom of Deads....but...why?  How unfortunate I am ....oh my God!! how unlucky!!!

 Even now....at the end of my life, even now on this last hour, how misfortune I seem to be. Neither Life wants me nor Death.

Helena remembers Kindness. Helena turns to see Kindness but Kindness is not there.

Helena - She left me too, no one loves me. My presence is  insuffarable. My bad fortune is like a  snake tightens everyone, choke them  like a viper

Elena hears sounds again

Helena: Sounds again. But what's going on in my house?  !! Who is there? 

A woman like a fairy comes out of curtains.

Helena - Who is there again? I don' t understand how do you walk in and out of the walls so easily? !!!

Ghost 2:  We're ghosts. The ghosts do not have a body...you silly girl..!!

Helena :OK OK , Now please  tell me who are you and what do you want from me ? Did you come to stop me too ? Put it in your mind. This is never going to happen.

Ghost 2 :  Well, we see about that. May I ask you something ?  The mad is gonne ?

Helena - What do you mean?  Who is the  mad?

Ghost 2 - That ...kindness thing... This mad thing every time, but every time it is my turn to visit someone she goes there first , that ugly witch is so fast!   I want half an hour just to dry my hairs with the hair dryer.

Helena - But who are you ?

Ghost 2 : Who am I and who am I ...!! Everybody is wondering.  Dont you see my label?!! don' t you know how to read? View what is written down here ...

Helena:  L A V E.  what is  that?  Informal state life insurance ?

Ghost 2 : Are you stupid? Love it is the writting.

Helena: But love is with an O

Love: Yes now we are stuck  to how is O. What does it matter? I am LOVE

Helena: Did you  write it? Haven' t you attended school? How did you learn to write?

Love: Shoot your curiosity please !  I came to prevent you from committing suicide and now I'm about to kill myself!! I see !! I see !! Does that kindness mad thing turns you against me? If I see her anywhere, I shoot her image !! You see she thinks she's better than me. But you know something?   she is a low class.

Suddenly another ghost, another woman pops up like a cat.

Ghost 3  - so here you are !! Are you crashing with people again ? Get out of here and keep the blame for your views.

Love - I do I not, I ...

Ghost 3 _ Who knows what fantasies you set up again !!! Do you blame your sister again ??

Love - No, Mom,no 

Ghost 3  : Go home quickly to lay your bed, before I make you green. Go now

Love - Okay, okay

Love disappears.

Ghost 3_   oh my God these girls..!!  Not only they do not listen to me, they are between a quarrel all the time.

Helena: Are you their mom?

Ghost 3 : Yes

Helena : What is your name ?

Ghost 3 : Call me Future. You are a teacher....right ?

Helena: Yeah, how do you know?

Future: I saw your ad in the newspaper.

Helena: The ad? Do you mean the advertisement?

Future-  yes The ad you are looking for a job as a teacher.

Helena: But since this ad goes a long time. No one cares.

Future: You are wrong. At this moment we are talking, a young man is down at your front door looking at the written name next to the bell.

Helena: Ha, ha ....its funny

Future: I don' t  know whether he is funny or not but he seems like a student.

Helena: Someone reads the ad I put two years ago. That seems like a miracle.

The bell.....

Future: here it is.

Helena: I don' t believe it, I'm going to look out of the balcony.

Helena :  oh no, oh my God, it is real,  there is a young man, he holds a school bag on his shoulder. But how did you know ?

Future: Me?  I love you too girl. You are a good girl. Now I leave you my sweety. I let you do your job, I have many kids  to take care of. Oh, and please give me this.

Helena gives Future the gun

Helena: I am  Sorry

Future takes the gun

Future: I think that this belongs to me

The End:

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