(Play 4) - ACT 2 SCENE 3

Lights on.

Another week has passed. Amy is painting on her 'soon-to-be-finished' portrait of Sean where she is doing some final touches to it. Then someone comes in. It is Nichol White.


Nichol: Sean! Sean! Where are you? .....oops.....I'm
sorry.....I didn't know there is someone here....

(Nichol stares at Amy for a long time. Amy looks at her
and then to her own dress.)

Who are you?

Amy: (Feeling shock.).......I'm Amy Henderson.
And you?

Nichol: (Still staring at Amy tentatively.)

I'm........I'm.... Nichol White, a friend of
Sean's.......mmmmmm where's Sean?

Amy: He's not around but he will be back soon.

Nichol: So.....who are you actually?

Amy: I'm an artist and I'm painting a portrait of Sean.

Nichol: An artist, huh? (Still gazing at Amy.)

Amy: Excuse me, is there anything wrong with my dress?
Everyone seems to gaze at me ever since I step my
foot into this mansion.

Nichol: Sorry! I don't mean to make you uncomfortable. How
do you do?

(Nichol shakes Amy's hand.)

Amy: Fine, and nice meeting you.

Nichol: Say you look like ....

Amy: Like who?

Nichol: Nothing! I was just hallucinating. Forget what I've
just said. So, what do you actually do again, Amy?

Amy: I paint..... Sean wants me to paint a portrait of him.

Nichol: ...... A portrait…huh?

(Nichol looks at the right corner of the wall and is
shocked to see the empty space where the portrait of
Cassandra used to be.)

Oh! My God! Where's Cassandra?

Amy: You mean the portrait?

Nichol: Yes, where's Cassandra's portrait. It used to be here.

Amy: ....Sean gave it to her sister.

Nichol: Oh! Did he?....... I see.....

Amy: Yeah! Do you know Cassandra?

Nichol: Cassandra? Yes, of course. She was a beautiful
woman and she was as beautiful as Michelle.

Amy: Michelle? Who's Michelle?

Nichol: She's my bloodsister.

Amy: Sean's too, isn't it?

Nichol: Well! Yes.

Amy: Sean told me before that he has a bloodsister called
Michelle. Are you his so-called bloodsister too?

Nichol: Yeap. We were great last time....Where we used
to be like a gang. An identity of our own.

Amy: What about now?

Nichol: ........(sighs) it's sad that things are not the same
as before.

Amy: Why? Why is it so, Nichol?

Nichol: I don't know.....it's just that .......

Amy: .........

Nichol: Say........ You look so familiar and I seem to know
you before. You speak like Michelle and look like
her too as a matter of fact. (sighs) .... If
only Michelle is here...

Amy: Why, isn't she around here?

Nichol: No...not anymore. She disappeared a year ago
after Cassandra...... (sighed)

Amy: After Cassandra's death.

Nichol: Yeah! .....hmmm....you seem to know a lot about
Sean's past.

Amy: Well! Not really! There is so much about him that
seems so mysterious to me.

Nichol: (chuckles) Sometimes it makes you feel that you
want to know more about him isn't it? (chuckles)
This is what Sean always do. Loves to keep people
guessing.

Amy: He also seems to have a lot of his family secrets
and also about his so-called bloodsisters he used to
have?

Nichol: Yeah! his so-called bloodsisters, huh? Well not
anymore.

Amy: Why? Why not?

Nichol: It's long story, Amy?

Amy: Tell me.....Please I love to know.....Please.....

Nichol: Well it all started about three years ago when we
formed our gang and named ourselves the
Bloodsisters and the Bloodbrother. Bloodbrother is
of course, Sean. I remember it was one month
before our exam at the Princeton University.

This is where I used to sit and study during our group
discussion. (chuckles,) It's my favourite couch. Oh!
It's still look the same. (pointing at the couch.)

Sean used to sit there. (pointing at the study table.)

.....and here's where Michelle used to stand .....the
spot that you're standing now....... She loves to stand
here and look at the scenery behind this glass window.
(pointing at Amy.)

.....(chuckles.) I still remember her laughter....Her
cute little and childish laughter..........


(Nichol narrates to Amy about the past.)