CHARACTERS

The Glam Rockers:

Talha

Zeynep

The Hippies:

Bahar

Başak

Çağla

Mehmet

Father: Mehmet

Mother: Honey

Principal: Talha

Friend 1: Zeynep

Friend 2: Çağla

SCENE 1

(Bahar’s mother gambles with her friends and Bahar comes from the school.)

Bahar: Hello mum. Mummm ! I’m hungry mum. Is there anything to eat?

Mother: Go to the kitchen. Prepare something for you.

Bahar: I’m fed up with this. The same thing everyday.

Friend 1: This is the last game. We should finish it.

Friend 2: Yes, it is late. Let’s go.

(Mother lets her friends go and then Bahar’s father comes.)

Father : Hey , honey !

Mother : Hi welcome.

Father: I am really hungry. What’s for dinner?

Mother: I didn’t cook anything. Your daugther is like you. I’m fed up with both of you.

Father: What happened again? Where is Bahar?

(Bahar comes down.)

Father: What happened in this house?

Bahar: I came from the school. My mother was gambling with her friends. I asked her    for dinner. She shouted at me.

Father: But you’re old enough to prepare your meal.

Bahar: When I came from the school, I was tired. Why didn’t she cook?

Father: Shut up! She is your mother. Be respectful. How can you speak like that?

(Father holds his hand but doesn’t hit her, Bahar goes upstairs by crying.)

--The Lights Go Out --

SCENE 2

(While Bahar is crying in her room, her phone rings.)

Çağla: Hi Bahar, how are you?

Bahar: I am not fine Çağla. I quarelled about me with my parents as usual.

Çağla: Why? What happened again?

Bahar: Noone cares about me. I feel very lonely. I’m in a bad mood.

Çağla: Don’t worry. I will meet my friends today. If you want to come, join us.

Bahar: I don’t want to go out. I feel tired.

Çağla: Come and join us. You can relax.

(Bahar gets ready and goes out.)

Mother: Bahar! Where are you going? Answer!

(Bahar hits the door and goes. Çağla and Bahar meet in the park.)

(Çağla’s phone rings.)

Çağla: Hi Mehmet. I and Bahar are sitting at the park. Come and join us. Buy something to drink. See you.

Çağla: Hi Bahar. What’s up?

Bahar: I’m bad, I’m upset. I feel alone. My parents never understand me. They don’t have time for me. My mother always gambles, my father is usually late. They don’t care about me.

Çağla: Never mind, my parents are the same too. Now my friends are coming.You will forget your problems. What about the boy you like?

Bahar: I always think of him. I can’t sleep at nights.

Çağla: I saw him with another girl. I think he likes that girl.

Bahar: Are you sure Çağla?

Çağla: I’m sorry but I’m sure.

Bahar: I don’t believe in you. I think about him day and night.

(Their friends come.)

Talha: Hello friends, how is it going?

Çağla: We are good. This is Bahar. She is my best friend in our school. Bahar these are Başak, Talha, Mehmet and Zeynep.

Bahar: Nice to meet you all.

Çağla: Have you bought drinks which I want?

Mehmet: Here you are.

Çağla: Would you like to drink, Bahar?

Bahar: No, thanks.

Çağla: Try once, you will relax some.

Zeynep: She doesn’t even drink. Go home and drink ‘’milk’’.

Başak: Join us and let’s fly together.

Çağla: Try it. You will see what’s gonna be.

(They drink some and then.)

Çağla: Bahar plays the guitar very well. Please Bahar, sing a song.

(Bahar plays the guitar.)

--The Lights Go Out—

SCENE 3

(At the school)

Bahar: Oh my god! I failed my maths exam. How will I pass it?

Çağla: Don’t worry! There is a final exam. You can study that one.

Bahar: I can’t study because of thinking Emre.

Çağla: Look! The girl who was with Emre is coming. Her name is Ceren.

Bahar: I’m angry now so I can beat her up.

(They go near the girl.)

Bahar: What’s the relationship between you and Emre?

Ceren: It’s none of your business. Why are you asking?

Bahar: If we aren’t at the school now, I know what I will do to you.

Çağla: Shout up! We will beat you now.

(Girls start fighting. The principel comes.)

Principal: What is happening here? Stop it now. What is your problem? Get out and do what you want outside.

Bahar: You are right, Madam! It won’t happen again.

Principal: If you do this again, I will expelled you.

Bahar: We won’t do again. I promise.

Çağla: Why are you begging her? Let’s go.

--The Lights go out--

SCENE 4

(Bahar comes home and principal calls Bahar’s parents.)

Mother: What did you do at school?

Bahar: I did nothing.

Mother: You fought with girl, didn’t you? What is your problem?

Bahar: I don’t have any problem.

Father: I can’t know you anymore. Why did you change so much?

Bahar: I didn’t change. I’m the same.

Mother: If you continue like that, you will be expelled from the school. Your marks are awful. I don’t want you to see Çağla.

Bahar: What!? It’s impossible for me not to see Çağla. She is my best friend. She is the one who understands me.You don’t care about me.

Father: Speak to us respectfully.

Bahar: Indeed, you speak to me carefully. Stop telling me what to do. I’m not a little girl anymore.

Mother: We want you to be a good person.

Father: If you fight at school again, I won’t let you go to school and I will send you to your aunty in İtaly.

(Bahar goes her room and Çağla calls Bahar.)

Çağla: Hi Bahar. Did your parents hear about the fight?

Bahar: Yes, they did. If I do this again, they will send me to Italy.

Çağla: Really? What will you do?

Bahar: I don’t know. I’m so bored that I want to go somewhere else.

Çağla: I know a good bar. We can go there. See you in the evening.

--The Lights go out--  RED LIGHT opens, SLOW MUSIC starts

SCENE 5

(They meet at the BAR.)

Çağla: Hi Bahar. How do you feel yourself? Are you fine?

Bahar: No, I’m still same Çağla. Let’s order something to drink.

Çağla: Let’s drink.

Bahar: I’m in a bad situation because of Ceren. I hate Ceren!

Çağla: God damn her. Don’t care about her. What do you think about Italy?

Bahar: My father is very serious about Italy. I don’t wanna go to Italy. I don’t wanna      go home too.

Çağla: Tonight, stay at our house. Maybe they will be calm.

Bahar: I don’t think so they’ll be.

Çağla: I think your parents don’t love you. If they love you, why will they send you Italy?

Bahar: You’re right. I’m fed up with this life. Every bad thing finds me.

Çağla: Don’t worry. Everything will be good.

Bahar: Do you know that we were a happy family until the accident?

Çağla: Which accident?

Bahar: It was three years ago. It was Christmas and we decided to celebrate it at home but    I insist on going out.

Çağla: How did it happen?

Bahar: Suddenly it happened. Our car crashed into a lorry. The thing I remember was my sister’s eyes and bloody hands.

Çağla: What happened then?

Bahar: An ambulance came and took us to hospital. My parents stayed at the hospital for   a long time. When they learnt my sister’s death, they became very sad. A few days later   my mother started to gamble and my father started to work a lot. The accident was my fault.

Çağla: This can’t be your fault. It is destiny.

Bahar: She died because of my insistence. I won’t see her growing and falling in love with anybody…

--(The Lights go out—

SCENE 6

(Hippies sit in a park smoking weed. Bahar passed out, the other Hippies keep smoking. The Glam Rockers arrive.)

Zeynep (to Bahar): How you’re doing?

Çağla: Wazzaq !

Talha: Gimme. (reaches for something)

Zeynep (to the Hippies): What did she take?

Başak: I don’t know, all there is.

Mehmet (laughing): She is wasted.

Zeynep: I want the same stuff she had. (laughs)

(Everybody is quite for a while. Characters sit around and drink something.)

Talha (with emphasis): This is so lame. Let’s go somewhere else.

(Everybody starts leaving. Bahar still lies passed out on the ground.)

Mehmet (kicking Bahar): Come on, get your lazy ass up.

Çağla (starting to wonder why Bahar does not move and bends down to her): Hey !

Talha (careless): Is she ok?

(Çağla tries to find Bahar’s pulse.)

Talha: Let’s just leave her. She’ll be fine later on.

Çağla: I can’t feel her pulse !

Zeynep: Are you sure?

Başak: Is she breathing?

Çağla: No… She is dead.