The Captive

3. Intervention

Paul is tied up and is sitting in a chair when Lily enters the room.

PAUL
Fucking unbelievable! 🙄

LILY
How are you feeling? 🥺

PAUL
Untie me and I'll tell you! 🤨

LILY
I wanna talk to you! 🥺

PAUL
After you have untied me can do whatever you want! 🙄

LILY
We want to help you, but ... 😟

PAUL
Jesus, is this going to be another speech how wicked I am! 🤒

LILY
I know you don't want to hurt anyone! 😥

PAUL
There you are wrong! I wanted to hurt you, you especially! 😈

LILY
Why me? 😥

PAUL
Because of your way! You are always so nice and friendly! I wanted to ruin you! That's the truth! 😈

LILY
This is serious, Paul, you need help! 😟

PAUL
Says the woman who abducted me and tied me to a chair. 🙄

LILY
I didn't do anything! 🥺

PAUL
Of course, you are always so fucking nice! 😡

LILY
Why are you so mean to me?! 😥

PAUL
Look at me, I am tied to a chair and your predecessor is into hardcore sex. How would you feel? 🤔

LILY
You hurt us! 😥

PAUL
And we couldn't talk about it? 🧐

LILY
You won't listen! 😟

PAUL
Have you tried? 🙄

LILY
We are trying now! 🤔

PAUL
Seriously, Lily, I lost any love I had for you? 😤

LILY
You never loved me! 😐

PAUL
I loved your stupid way! 😐

LILY
You call me stupid, that's not how someone speaks about the person he loves! 😥

PAUL
You are special!

LILY
That's why you cheated on me? 😐

PAUL
You are too good-hearted for this world! I didn't think I can be with you! 😥

LILY
You never tried! 😐

PAUL
I tried to be with you, but you are beautiful, good-hearted, and fucking nice to everyone. I couldn't get this one image out of my head that I am not enough for you and that you run off with another man! 😥

LILY
I never cheated on you! 😐

PAUL
It was only a matter of time! I wasn't sure to tell you how beautiful you are, I feared you would get conceited. 😥

LILY
I am a down-to-earth girl! 😡

PAUL
Stop it, Lily, no one believes you, you are just gorgeous and women like you know that! 😣

LILY
😊

PAUL
The day we met, I was immediately charmed by your beauty, but I didn't dare to talk to you. I said to myself that: "She must have a boyfriend, she is out of your league!" I couldn't talk to you, I was afraid that you would reject me. 😣

LILY
I didn't remember you holding back ... 🤔

PAUL
But then when we started talking, you immediately seduced me! I fell for you. I was joyous and excited, but that feeling didn't last long. I couldn't stop the voices in my head: "She is out of your league!" 😣

LILY
Why didn't you talk to me! 😡

PAUL
How could I? You gave me the impression that you like confident men and I didn't want to be the guy with self-doubt! 😣

LILY
But why did you betray me! I don't like, I hate cheaters! 😡

PAUL
I couldn't live with it anymore! I wanted to push you away! Being with a beautiful woman is exhausting. I had enough, I wanted to break up with you! 😣

LILY
You didn't give me a chance! We could have worked it out! 😡

PAUL
No, we couldn't, because I couldn't bear the thought that anyone is looking at my girl, I couldn't bear the thought that you would be with someone other than me! I am jealous, Lily, I cannot share you with anyone else. I am mad, I am not someone you wanna be with! 😣

LILY
There are no other guys! Only you and I! I wanted to be with you! I wept because you did all these things! You hurt me, you destroyed our love! We could have made it work, why, why, didn't you talk to me?! 😢

PAUL
Lily, please! Do yourself a favor and leave me! I don't have any love for you or anyone! I cannot be with a woman, I am jealous, I am possessive, I am sick! Go get yourself a nice boyfriend and be happy. 😣

LILY
I don't want a nice boy! 😡

PAUL
I cannot make you happy! I will hurt you because I cannot deal with my issues. 😣

LILY
We want to help you! 😊

PAUL
No one can help me! 😐

LILY
You have a great heart, Paul, I won't give up on you! 😘

PAUL
Please, leave me! 😥

LILY
Never! 😘

Lily gets up and kisses Paul.

PAUL
Teach me how I can hold this beautiful butterfly! 😘

LILY
You must not hold a butterfly. A butterfly has sensitive wings. 😘

PAUL
I want to be someone you can like and love, but I don't know how! 😟

LILY
Just be yourself, don't be afraid of anything, I want to be with you! 😘

PAUL
Untie me! 😘

Lily kisses Paul again and starts untying him when Diane and Meg storm into the room!

MEG
Don't do it! 😳

DIANE
He tricked you, Lily!

LILY
This is going too far! 🤨

DIANE
He will never learn his lesson!

MEG
He is a cheating ass! 😡

LILY
I don't care!

DIANE
Lily, he doesn't love you, he gives a shit about you!

LILY
I don't wanna hear of it anymore!

DIANE
Do you know how he calls you behind your back?

LILY
🥺

DIANE
He calls you "dummy". Look at the messages he wrote to his friends! 😟

PAUL
I didn't write to anyone about you, Lily! 😡

Diane shows Lily messages Paul wrote to Steve.

LILY
Is this real? 😥

DIANE
For him, we are only boobs and ass! 😥

MEG
He is an asshole! 😡

LILY
😥

PAUL
Girls, this is going too far! This is madness! Untie me! 😡

LILY
Did you write this about me! 😥

PAUL
I never called you "dummy", Lily! You have to believe me! 🥺

MEG
Don't bother, no one believes you anymore! 😐

DIANE
We have proof, you are a cold-hearted scumbag! 😡

PAUL
Lily, please! Look at me! Lily! 😟

Lily, Diane, and Meg leave the room.

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