“Down On One Knee” (serio-comic) 1-2 minutes

Monologue Description: “Down On One Knee” is about a man who found his girlfriend sleeping with another woman, before he was about to propose to her.

Character Description:  Enzo is in shock over discovering that his girlfriend has been cheating on him with a woman.  He drove to his best friends house to discuss this embarrassing state of affairs and seek out advice from not only his best friend, but his best friends wife as well.

ENZO:    

I had the ring in my pocket.  I came home.  I was overcome with excitement, feeling like this was going to be the greatest day of my life.  I saved every last penny for months and months, to buy the perfect engagement ring.  I feel like such an idiot.  To top it off, I had my cousin stay on my cellphone with me.  I put the phone in my pocket because I wanted him to hear this amazing moment.

Now, I am spontaneous, I didn’t want to wait and make special plans and all that…I wanted to take my girl completely off guard.  So, she was home and I was supposed to be at work but I took off from work so I could, you know, propose to her.

I get upstairs and I call her name.  She comes running over to me from the bedroom, all frazzled looking.  I didn’t think anything of it, she always looks frazzled.  It’s just her look.  Some people look mad all the time, others look happy, she always looks frazzled. 

So anyway, I get down on one knee, my heart was pounding, I thought I wasn’t going to be able to get the words out.  And finally, as they say, I popped the question.  But then I noticed a sudden movement behind my girlfriends legs, while I was down on one knee.  At first I couldn’t make it out at first but the image started walking towards me. 

It turns out that it was another woman…NAKED…in my robe no less.  She walks right over completely casual and I couldn’t get up from my one knee.  I was frozen stiff cause I didn’t know what the hell was going on.

Next thing, my girl says, “Enzo, this is Samantha.”  I say hello Samantha, what are you doing in my robe?  And Samantha says, that she likes the way it feels.  My girlfriend looks at me and says that she has been having an affair for the past year with another woman.

(beat)

What did I do?  I collapsed.  I sat on the floor like a five year old boy in boyscout class, staring up at two woman, who had complete power over me. 

I was devastated and wanted to die.  I did.  So, I passed out.  When I woke up, I was still on the floor, with a pillow under my head.  Both women were still in their robes, well, my robe and believe it or not I wasn’t that mad.  I mean,  don’t get me wrong, I was beside myself but the initial shock, I think, numbed my brain. 

I got up and didn’t say a word.  I just left the house and came here.  I have no clue as to what I should do.  This shit is unheard of.  What would you do if you were in my shoes???