Third Stage of Sean
In this short dramatic scene for two people, MALLORY talks with her boyfriend SEAN about not stressing over his loved ones as much. Â
Third Stage of Sean
Mallory: You can’t be all things to all people. Â You have to stop guilting yourself over your father. Â It’s not your fault.
Sean: It is my fault if I could have stopped it.
Mallory: You couldn’t have.
Sean: That’s where you’re wrong, Mal. Â I know I could have but I was to busy doing drugs and being a clown all those years. Â Not putting in the time like I should have and now look…
Mallory: But that shouldn’t be on you, it’s all in your mind.
Sean: …Maybe it is because maybe it’s supposed to be. Â Maybe if it was in my mind sooner I could have changed a lot of people’s lives. Â I could have done a lot more good.
Mallory: Â Don’t you know how to put yourself first?
Sean: You see, that’s the problem right there…before you met me, that’s all I ever did, that’s all I ever was…I came first. Â I was self-absorbed, selfish, didn’t care about no one and nothing but whatever was going to get me wherever it was I thought I was going…the no where road.
Mallory: You’re right. Â I didn’t know you, this other self you go on about but I know who you are since I did meet you and how you torment yourself over others. Â It’s not healthy and it’s too much.
Sean: I deserve it.
Mallory: Deserve?
Sean: I deserve to be abused. Â I deserve the stress. Â I deserve the anguish damn it.
Mallory: Now you’re talking like a real idiot.
Sean: Because I am. Â Whatever made you think I was smart. Â I’m as dumb as a goldfish.
Mallory: No you’re not. Â You’re stupid for saying that.
Sean: See?
Mallory: Stop it. Â I don’t like you talking like that about yourself.
Sean: But I am. Â Open your eyes! Â Don’t you see what I am? Â I am a man who missed out. Â Get it? Â I missed out because I was too stupid to get in on the action when I should have. Â Had I gone in, I would have been able to change things. Â But my mind was in the toilet…always in the toilet.
Mallory: Stop it!
Sean: I don’t expect you to understand. Â I’m sorry. Â I shouldn’t have to put this on you.
Mallory: You’re not putting anything on me Sean. Â Okay? Â I just want you to come to your senses. Â You always go through these demon spells. Â You get down about yourself and your life for two or three days before you snap out of it. Â It’s been longer than I’ve ever seen and–
Sean: So what? Â Maybe this is who I’m becoming now. Â Maybe I’m evolving into a third stage of Sean. Â First there was the inconsiderate-I-don’t-give-a-sh’t Sean, then the I-care-too-much-about-everyone Sean and now it’s the I’m-jinxed-let-me-be-miserable Sean.
Mallory: No, it’s the you need to calm down Sean. (pause.) Are you done now, drama queen?
Sean: I’m aright. Â I just don’t want to see him struggle. Â I don’t want to hear about my brother losing his leg or my sister having a miscarriage or my cousin dying of aids or my…my…ah, man…I miss my dog.
Mallory: Honey, it’s okay. Â This is all part of life. Â There’s, look, it’s–these things happen.
Sean: I feel responsible for everyone.
Mallory: You shouldn’t.
Sean: I want everyone I love to be alright all the time.
Mallory: I know. I know. Â I want my family to be alright also. Â Looks what happened to my dad…right?
Sean: Yeah, I know.
Mallory: This is the way it is sometimes. Â All any of us can do it bind and hold.
Sean: You don’t mind if I hold a bit tighter from time to time?
(Mallory nods)
(Sean hugs Mallory)
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