Pʟᴀʏ ᴏғ Aɴᴛᴏɴʏᴍs || 2Sᴇᴏᴋ

Act I, Scene 1

A story that comes with this words is, contrary to appearances, trivially unusual. Someone, who doesn't want to sink into the histories of main characters of this drama, that will be happening with every next word, every next sentence, can tell that this is another story of teenagers with dilemmas, nothing special, nothing, that can make you stop to think for a longer while. And they will treat this story like that, not wanting to lose their precious time to get to know something more. Weighing up every event from the very beginning, not having any idea of it, thinking that they are not worth any attention.

If you are one of those people, then think about it once again. Maybe you will give a chance to the young actors on a stage of life and take a look at how they play a role of their own lives, while using immensity of various masks through the whole spectacle, colorful masks dictated by experiences and emotions. Maybe you will see yourself among them. Maybe you will understand, that you too are hiding your true self behind a facade of false words, stares and gestures. Maybe you will realize that you too can be a character in a history, which someone can get to know, just a puppet that flounce, trying to get away from the hold of a puppeteer, trying to show that you have a power over a scenario of your own life. Maybe right now someone is looking at you and wonders, just like you now, if it is worth to learn your story, which seems trivial to them, similar to hundreds of others. Maybe in fact all of us are just a spectacle to someone, a spectacle that will be forgotten when our lives go off, like the spotlights go off when the curtain falls. And maybe we too will have a worth and someone will look at us for a little longer, considering deeply what they witnessed.

Many questions will forever remain unanswered. But you yourself have answers for those few. Will you give a chance to our characters? Will you let them show you, that their lives are worth more than just some words written on a white, clear page day by day filled out with their personal experiences? Will you think about what is happening with them, when they leave the stage for a while, just to show in another act? Will you understand that this story doesn't have to be a fiction? Even if for you those are worthless words, these people are existing one way or another and those words are their lives.

So what will you do? The choice is yours. If you decided to stay here, let me introduce the protagonists of this drama to you. This duet, because we will give a special attention to their fates. Who knows, maybe in the future, someone from their surroundings will be a main character in other play. But we will leave it for another occasion. Now let's look at our protagonists.

Classical oppositions. This is the thought that comes to the mind instantly, when someone looks towards them.

The first one, a boy from a good family, financially stable, one can say that he was born with a silver spoon in mouth. What more can a child desire?

The second one, a boy from a family which is struggling to make ends meet, day by day trying to survive. In the others opinion, he seems to be living in poverty.

However, what if I tell you that it's completely opposite? That the one, who because of the family's wealth should consider himself as a lucky one, is one of those people who's heart is day by day systematically broken, without any chance to be saved, from any direction, and the one, who sometimes spends the whole day without a single meal, is walking around happily as always, because he has people who give this joy to him, no matter if he's starving or eating to be sate.

Let's give a closer look to each one of them separately.

The rich boy, right from the moment he came to this world, he was already burdened with a batch of misfortune. Being the fruit of an affair between well known businessman and his secretary, he was supposed to stay as the most hidden family secret, though this whole planning didn't helped at all, when the mentally weak women decided to strike out her role from the rest of scenario, leaving only a few drops of dark, red ink behind her. In the bathtub, full of colored water she was found by her brother, who couldn't stand the crying of a few week old baby, left without care on the bed, in the room connected to the bathroom, where his mother fell into an endless sleep. Her brother, with an aching heart, had to admit, that he had never saw her so happy and relaxed. She got rid of the burden, that she was carrying for last few months. Now the little being, who's only guilt is to appear in this hellhole, isn't her worry anymore.

The uncle of this small creature also didn't want to be involved in the live of his sister's offspring. He had the information that allowed him to literally force the boy into his father's arms, just before disappearing for good, not caring for the small baby, who's watching the big world around him with curiosity and fear, who's childhood would end, not long after he grew up enough to understand what's happening in his life, with the moment when he cried for the first time, because of the physical pain caused by that one person in which a small human, instead of executioner, should see a safe place, full of warm and love.

That's how started the life of our seemingly lucky wretch, who never felt motherly nor fatherly love.

A story of a poor boy in the other hand is full of those things that the first boy is lacking.

Long awaited by his parents, who welcomed him in this world with enormous joy. Surrounded by care and love from the very first days, even if from the others perspective his parents weren't in condition to rise a child. It didn't bother anyone in this small, warm family, because they had each other.

Thats how years passed, one of the boys always lonely, while the other always in presence of his beloved.

However, they have one in common, despite the differences between them. Both of them are doing their best to study hard. The first one, to fulfill impossible to fulfill expectations of his father and to hear, just for once, that the man is proud of him. The second one, to help his family get out of the poverty.

That's how days, month and years passed for them, until both of them, already teenagers, found each other in the same school.

"A son of the toff and a son of the pauper in the same school?" you will ask surprised.

Yes, our lucky protagonist, thanks to his persistence and hard work, was gifted with the possibility to attend this highly esteemed facility, where those from upper class send their children. Against the stereotypes, he quickly got used to the, at first foreign, society, finding between a bunch of spoiled kids a few true friends. His family is so proud of him, believing that he will change their fate, so they do everything to ensure him, that even in the hardest times they will support him.

The rich boy wasn't as lucky. And impression that hus older brother left in his school, haunted him and everyone, not knowing him, looked at the wretch like on a copy of his brother. Everyone, students and teachers, turned their back to him, leaving him all by himself. He has no one to rely on, when he is fighting his problems, being more and more crushed by expectations and ambitions that he is placing on his own self.

They passed each other on the corridors, they sit not so far from each other in the classroom, however, while the sad boy looks with silent jealousy at the joyful stipendist, he himself is completely unnoticed. He knows that there is no place for him in that happy circle. The family jinx successfully separates him from any chance.

While the poor boy is blooming day by day socially and emotionally, the rich boy is hungering for a closeness of other person, for the feeling that he's important to someone, even if it is just for a short moment.

That's how three years past, on an aware unawareness of the both protagonists about each other and who couldn't forseen what will happen in the future.

A meeting will happen between those too, they will be forced to keep in touch. To find a common ground despite their differences. But what consequences will it cause?

Maybe it won't change anything, but maybe it will change everything.

After all that much different personas affecting each other can cause a catastrophe, but they can also make the hurricane leave, making place for a peaceful time.

But this is not the right place to tell about the results of their meeting and getting to know each other. This is just a moment, when the first school of this history comes to end, a prologue for the whole spectacle.

The second act, first scene, will begin soon.