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The Journey - Scene III
by
Lisa Whelan
Based on fleeting moments in the lives of Anne and Lisa
Photography by
Anne Carr
REUNITED...
INT. DARK ROOM.
Scattered papers cover the bed as Lisa excitidly checks her phone. She looks up at the sound of the door opening.
LISA
Oh my god! You look amazing!
Anne giggles, as Lisa leaps up.
LISA (CONT’D)
No! You look so Amazing!
Anne gigggles harder as Lisa joins in. They stand giggling. Anne throws her arms around Lisa.
LISA (CONT’D)
I can’t believe you are here it feels like ages.
Anne giggles.
LISA (CONT’D)
Oh shall I get tea? water? mint tea? what? I need a wee. Yes, I’ll go to the wee and get the drinks.
Anne sits down on the bed, calm, a strong energy surrounds her, as Lisa fumbles in her bag for coins.
LISA (CONT’D)
I’ll be back in a min.
Lisa runs down the stairs almost tumbling down them.
INT. BAR
LISA
Can I have two teas and lots of sugar.
WAITRESS
I didn’t think you took sugar.
LISA
I don’t. Anne has just come back from Jordan and I know she will want to munch on the sugar cubes.
WAITRESS
Jordan! Wow! That must have been incredible.
LISA
It is so incredible I went there last year and you just cannot begin to describe the energy there, it’s too powerful. Maybe that’s why they are always fighting in the middle east, the energy is all consuming. It’s so intense.
The waitress places the cups onto a tray, with a bowl of sugar cubes.
LISA (CONT’D)
Thank you!
Lisa picks up the tray, as the spoon drops onto the floor. The waitress picks it up opening the door.
INT. DARK ROOM.
The door opens as Lisa enters with the tea, placing them down on the table.
ANNE
Sugar!
Anne takes one, then two cubes munching away. Lisa smiles.
LISA
You seem so different. So so different.
ANNE
I am. I feel this immense power.
LISA
I can feel it. It’s so strong. I can feel your whole energy has gone to another level.
ANNE
Everything is simple we have to live our lives and enjoy them, I take everything day by day.
LISA
I can feel you are in another place. You aren’t here.
Anne grins.
ANNE
It feels like we have never been apart.
LISA
I know. It’s strange isn’t it. So much has happened. I have had so many realisation’s about so many things. I have been so focused on the documentary that I haven’t engaged in anything else. Absolutely nothing. I have been totally in the world of work which is really strange for me. It’s like I have nothing else in my life but that but I totally understand things.
Lisa reaches for the tea as Anne takes another sugar cube.
LISA (CONT’D)
Anyway, I want to hear what happened. Tell me, tell me, tell me!
ANNE
No, you talk.
LISA
No. I want to hear all about it.
ANNE
No. You were talking.
They giggle.
LISA
Oh my god! What are we like. You first.
ANNE
It was so amazing! So so amazing. Petra was incredible. My friends there are the essence of what we believe. The pure essence, but there is so much fear within the village itself.
LISA
People are consumed by fear here. So many people I deal with daily are absolutely petrified and yet they think they are free.
ANNE
People trap themselves in an endless circle of restrictive thoughts, no one is living their life.
LISA
It’s because they don’t understand. You and I were the worst, we were consumed by those emotions.
ANNE
The energy is different there, it’s pure power.
LISA
I know. I have never felt anything like it, with that energy you can do anything, it is that same force of being in love. Pure power.
ANNE
The way they live is incredible, the simple life. To live your life and enjoy it you must be free from all restrictions, not worry or think about what anyone thinks or does but to live your life and be unaffected by others. I met people like that out there, my friends out there are all like that and that's true freedom.
LISA
You mean like us, become a couple of mad loonies.
They both laugh.
LISA (CONT’D)
We are mad! The main thing about that is if you are going to do that live in the moment you have to take full responsibility for the consequences of your actions, trust me I have had some big consequences.
ANNE
Me too.
They laugh again.
LISA
It’s different though now because I know I am living in the present and I know that whatever the consequences it is what I am meant to experience. I have no fear at all.
ANNE
Me neither.
LISA
We are mad!
ANNE
Oh! Let me show you the photos, you will love them.
Anne switches on the laptop as they flick through the photos.
LISA
Who’s that?
The man in the photo has a strong presence, dark intense eyes, thick mane like hair.
ANNE
He is incredible. He's like a stallion, I watched him tame a wild horse. It was amazing. Animals just respond to him.
LISA
Oh god that is so weird. Stallion. My friend called himself that once, and he was.
ANNE
He has the most beautiful spirit...he's all heart
LISA
There is something about him.
ANNE
Yes, It’s pure.
LISA
Oh! I can see it. I can feel the core of him, i can feel that he's been through a lot.
ANNE
He has but he is amazing the total essence of nature. He is a bedouin, spends most of his time in nature & sleeps in the caves which was where he was brought up, he learned about life through the people by sitting and talking to the elders, he began with herding goats and then he began to train horses and now he also takes people on tours but he is at one with nature.It's like we came into each other's lives to learn from each other. oh you know what's funny? another friend thought that i did magic! He called me magic woman!
Anne reaches out touching Lisa’s leg. They sit silent, looking at each other.
LISA
Wow! I can feel that. It’s different.
Lisa’s voice has dropped. Anne continues to stare.
LISA (CONT’D)
Oh!
Anne continues to stare, hand tensing on Lisa’s leg.
LISA (CONT’D)
Oh!
Anne’s hand presses firmly.
LISA (CONT’D)
I can’t..I can’t speak.
Anne smiles a calm smile, as she removes her hand.
LISA (CONT’D)
That is so different. I could feel your energy immediately.
ANNE
I did my healing work out there. It just sort of happened and I just absorbed the energy around me and it transformed me.
Lisa is quiet for the first time all day. A first. Anne starts giggling.
LISA
I am in another place.
ANNE
I can see.
Anne giggles.
ANNE (CONT’D)
You are funny!
LISA
No seriously I cannot put my words together. No, I can put...(pause) I am in another place.
ANNE
It’s amazing we have such a soul to soul connection, it’s like our journeys are parallel.
LISA
It is strange, me going to Jordan, then you going, similar things happening to both of us.
LISA (CONT’D)
Oh! I want to take away the worlds fears.
ANNE
Me too. I want to heal people.
LISA
We do anyway because of the journeys we have been on, we understand. Just by listening to another human being you take away their fears, and by touching them if you are “Magic woman” like you.
Anne laughs.
LISA (CONT’D)
I feel free.
ANNE
Me too.
They both laugh, again, harder, harder, uncontrollably they are both speechless, and then together they burst....
ANNE/LISA
We are mad!

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