MY HATCH POCKET JOURNAL - BILLY COY (ebook reader 7 inch TXT) 📗

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Dr. Marco sits down beside her bed looking straight at her, critically, but still, with a smiling-comforting face.

Dr. Marco

Tell me Mrs. Jerkins, do you believe you can get through this trying moment in your life?
Mrs. Jerkins

You’re the doctor, Marco, you tell me: will I get through this painful mystery?
Dr. Marco kind of loses it: he immediately gets up from Mrs. Jerkins bed
looking so disappointed and angered. He continuously rubs the back of his head with his hand as he walks about the room. Mrs. Jerkin is looking at him sadly and concernedly; she realizes he’s not happy about her reply.

Mrs. Jerkins

Son, have I…

Dr. Marco suddenly turns from where he is facing and points at her critically and angrily; the look on his face is really strained; wrinkles formed beside his eyes and on his forehead.


Dr. Marco

(Angrily)

Will you stop calling me ‘son,’ I

am not your son!

Mrs. Jerkins

(Serious)

I am fit to be your mother, Marco.

Dr. Marco tensely touches on his head with both his hands and angrily screams at her:

Dr. Marco

But you’re not my mother! You’re just my patient!
Mrs. Jerkin is not fazed; she continues assuring him in a calm motherly
way.

Mrs. Jerkins

If you have a problem Marco, just talk to me, I’ll understand….
Dr. Marco looks at her with anger-amusement: he smiles painfully. He’s
got on a calm composure, but he’s visibly still filled with anger.


Dr. Marco

(Talks calmly/dug deeply) You don’t understand crap.
Mrs. Jerkins is looking at him concernedly; with calm eyes.

Dr. Marco - continues

(Boldly and painfully)

It is people like you Mrs. Jerkins, who don’t give life another chance. You just think it’s premeditated when you get
in such a condition like you’re in.

Mrs. Jerkins stays quiet and looking at him concernedly and attentively.

Dr. Marco - continues

(Calmly and painfully) It’s such a pity.
Without another word said, Dr. Marco right away walks out of the
room. Mrs. Jerkins’ eyes follow him sadly. After he’s gone, she starts crying. She wipes her tears with her hand.

CURTAINS ROLL OVER


SCENE TWO (Still in the hospital) CURTAINS ROLL AWAY:
IN DR. MARCO’S OFFICE

Dr. Marco is seated behind his desk, leaned back on his chair; he’s relaxed but looks to be deep in thought; he keeps sipping on the wine in the glass that he has gripped in his hand. The bottle of wine is right there on the desk too; it’s half-way drunk.

Without first knocking, a young female doctor (Sabrina) walks into the office. He sees her but doesn’t pay her any attention or move even an inch.

She stands in front of his desk.

Dr. Sabrina

Ever since she came in, you’re hooked to the bottle as if there is more to this patient that you just don’t want to reveal or admit.
Dr. Macho calmly leans forward onto his desk and puts the glass down
on the desk too. He looks up at Sabrina.


Dr. Marco

(Calmly)

Do you have a problem with the way

I’m doing my work Sabrina?


Sabrina rolls her eyes.

Dr. Sabrina

That’s not what I said.

She then, immediately, pulls forward one of the two visitors’ seats that are before Marco’s desk and sits down close to the desk, looking him straight in the eyes.

Marco then leans back onto his chair.

Dr. Marco

Then what were you trying to say, Dr. Sabrina, enlighten me please…? Dr. Sabrina
(Smilingly)

No, you tell me what’s going on?

All of a sudden Marco strongly bangs his fist on the desk as he gets up from his chair screaming with rage.


Dr. Marco

What’s wrong with you people!

Sabrina is taken by surprise; she totally freaks out; she literally moves a little backwards with the chair she’s seated in: her eyes are dilated. Marco moves about his office complaining angrily.


Dr. Marco - continues

I never put my nose where it doesn’t belong in this hospital! Why can’t you just get off my back, huh!
Sabrina gets up from the chair in protest and angered too.


Dr. Sabrina

(Yelling)

If you don’t want anybody on your back, why don’t you just cut to the
chase and tell the woman the danger she’s in?

Dr. Marco

I don’t need your big mouth telling me what I should or should not
do with my patients.


Sabrina is silenced; she for awhile quietly stands back looking at him;
she looks hurt; her face is dull.


Dr. Sabrina

(Nods her head up and down in disappointment) Big mouth, huh!
Marco walks to the back of his desk, grabs the glass and pours down his
throat all the wine in it and then bangs it back down on the desk; he remains bent forward, with his one hand touching on the desk and the other pointing at Sabrina. He looks ‘kind of drugged’ for a moment.

Dr. Marco

You brought it all onto yourself.

Dr. Sabrina

(Calm/but still sad)

No hard feelings Marco, but soon or later you’re going to have to tell her the truth.
She starts walking out of the office.


Dr. Sabrina - Continues Let me hope by then you would have remembered your hypocritical oath,
or it won’t be too late.


After she has gone out of his office, Marco furiously grabs the glass off the desk and throws it at the back wall.


Dr. Marco

(Screams furiously, aloud) Damn woman!
The whole glass smashes up on the wall. CURTAINS ROLL OVER


SCENE THREE (In the hospital) CURTAINS ROLLAWAY:
IN MRS. JERKINS’ HOSPITAL ROOM

She’s seated up in her bed crying so miserably. Dr. Marco is standing beside, saddened too.


Mrs. Jerkins

(Whining)

Doctor, why does it have to be me?

Dr. Marco

(Calmly/concern)

Mrs. Jerkins, it’s hard to answer such a question, knowing what you must be going through right now. But all I can ask of you is to be strong for you; it’s always better that way.
Mrs. Jerkins

How am I supposed to be strong for me when my inside has already let me down?
Dr. Marco

It has not Mrs. Jerkins. Your mind is the sole controller of your inside, out.
At that same time, Mrs. Jerkins’ elder daughter (Maria-32years old)
walks in and sees her mother in tears. She straight away walks up to her looking taken aback.

Maria

Mother, what’s wrong now?


She (Maria) holds one of her mother’s hands in hers and wipes her tears off her face with the other of her (Maria) hand. She looks so saddened too. Meanwhile Marco is standing back and he’s quiet.

Mrs. Jerkins

Everything in my life now, is wrong.

Maria

Don’t say that mother. Maria then turns and looks at Marco.
Maria - Continues

(Forcefully)

Doctor, are you just going to stand there when my mother is in pain?
Dr. Marco

(Assertive)

I am sorry ma’am. There’s nothing much

I can do now.

Maria loses it. She lets go of her mother and confronts Marco.

Maria

(Yelling)

Oh my God! Are you listening to yourself doctor.


Marco remains silent. Maria is heated up; her body movements: the swinging of her hands up and down, pointing fingers and her furious suggesting facial expression says it all, she’s mad.

Maria – Continues

(Yelling)

Will you tell me why you’re standing there doing nothing. I don’t pay the bills out of charity money, do you hear me doctor?
It’s hard got money for me.

Still Marco remains unshaken, with no retaliation.

Mrs. Jerkins

(Bitterly/aloud) Maria, will you stop!
At once Maria turns and gives her mother attention, with a rather calm
and somewhat protesting facial expression.


Maria

Mother…


Mrs. Jerkins

(Still angrily)

I said stop! Is that how I brought you up: to yell at people just because you can’t control yourself?


Maria walks back, closer to her mother’s bed; but she (her mother)
suggests something to her along the way.


Mrs. Jerkins – Continues

(Still bitter) Apologize to the doctor!
Reluctantly, Maria turns round to apologize to Marco.

Marco

It’s okay Mrs. Jerkins, I understand where she’s from with all the anger. I’ll for now leave you two to talk
over everything.


Marco gently walks out of the room. Mrs. Jerkins’ eyes are on him all the way. Maria turns and looks at her mother; tears are sadly rolling down her (Mrs. Jerkins) eyes.

Mrs. Jerkins

He’s such a good boy. I can tell he’s hurting, but he stubbornly won’t say why.
Maria sadly walks up close to her mother’s bed and holds her hand in
hers, and starts caressing it comfortingly.

Mrs. Jerkins (Miserably/calmly) Honey, I’m dying.
Tears begin running down Maria’s eyes too.

Maria

No you’re not, mother! You’re not going to die.
Mrs. Jerkins

(Whining)

The doctor just told me that I have severe cervical cancer.


Maria bursts out in tears and shock.

Maria

(Whining)

No mother! It can’t be!

She immediately bends over and she and her mother embrace, while both are in tears.

Mrs. Jerkins

It’s true my daughter. It’s true… They keep in embrace and crying profusely.
CURTAINS ROLL OVER


SCENE FOUR (In the hospital) CURTAINS ROLL AWAY:
IN MRS. JERKINS’ ROOM

She’s lying down in her bed; she starts coughing bit by bit and it sticks on her and becomes severe; she coughs continuously and discomfortingly. She then reaches for the bell beside her bed that is attached on the wall, and rings it for emergency. Dr. Marco rushes in first and finds her coughing uncontrollably; she’s moving uncontrollably in the bed too. Immediately one male and female nurses rush in too, pushing a stretcher, and they place it right beside the bed. Out of a quake, Mrs. Jerkins happens to touch into the blood on the bed that she had not realized was flowing from her. When she sees her hand filled with blood, she screams out loud, and in shock.


Mrs. Jerkins

Oh…!

Dr. Marco

Hang on Mrs. Jerkins, we got you.

Most of her front and back downer parts of her nightdress and on her legs are stained with blood; even on some inner parts of the bed covers and on the bed itself. It all looks ‘a mess of blood.’ She’s already crying profusely.

In a rush still, Dr. Marco holds Mrs. Jerkins under her arms and the male nurse, her legs.

Dr. Marco

On my count: one, two… They then carry her onto the stretcher.
Dr. Marco

(Orders)

To the operation room!

Immediately, with no time wasted, the two nurses push Mrs. Jerkins, on the stretcher, out of the room. Marco rushes after them too.

CURTAINS ROLL OVER


SCENE FIVE (In the hospital) CURTAINS ROLL AWAY:
IN THE WAITINGROOM

It’s only Maria and her young brother (Peter-25yrs old) seated there. They’re both looking