Nobody Gets Used to Hell

Scene 6

INT. SPRING HILL MENTAL HOSPITAL, BRENT’S ROOM – NIGHTTIME

NARRATOR (V.O.) 

when I was little, I used to look up at the bright moon when I couldn’t sleep. I would ask my mom, could we go there someday? She said that it was hard to get to the moon, and we could only do it during our dreams. I had told her I wanted to go to sleep and never wake up. That I wanted to go to the moon and get away from here, because this place was scary. The place I was talking about was my life.

INT. SPRING HILL MENTAL HOSPITAL, THE GROUP ROOM- THE NEXT MORNING

MR.CORPS

Okay, so today I want everybody to share one thing about him or her that we don’t already know. What are your hobbies, favorite band, something like that? Victory why don’t you start us off.

VICTORY

I was a cheerleader before I came here. The popular girl in school, someone everybody loved. I didn’t have many true friends that I could talk to. But whatever I started to like someone, they would push me away.

MR.CORPS

Brent do you have something to say?

BRENT

Um…. Yeah. I uh.., was on the football and basketball team. I was popular as well. I had tons of friends. We would hang out, go to parties. I would have a different girl each day of the week, hooking up with the left and right. But when one got to close, I would push them away. I was always afraid of getting hurt. I mean, my mother hurt me, why should anyone else? (Looks a victory then looks to the floor.)

MR.CORPS

And how did your mother hurt you, Brent? 

BRENT

She... just did.

MR.CORPS 

She must have hurt you bad not to trust another girl.

BRENT

(Crosses and leans back in his chair.)

Yeah. But it doesn’t matter, it’s over now.

MR.CORPS

Brent, you can talk to us were your friends.

BRENT

None of you are my friends. YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND WHAT I WEN THOUGH! My mom claimed to care about me. BUT SHE NEVER ONCE STOP HIM AS HE HIT ME. Or beat me with his belt. She NEVER did she once cared, so why should anyone else? (Starts crying and glances at VICTORY. He looks away and runs to MRS.SCARLETT office.)

INT. SPRING HILL MENTAL HOSPITAL, MRS.SCARLETT’S OFFICE- MORNING

(BRENT burst into the door. Hugging MRS. SCARLETT.)

MRS. SCARLETT

Brent, it’s ok. Here sit down…

BRENT

(Sits down)… my dad... used to beat my mom and me. He would often return home drunk and take out all his rage on us. One time he took a baseball bat and hit me with it. He didn’t stop until my back bled. (Crying heavily) he stabbed my mom when I was ten. Stabbed her right in the stomach. My grandma took her to the emergency room and she told the doctor she ran into the edge of the counter. He didn’t believe her, but what could he do?

MRS. SCARLETT

Oh...my.

BRENT

He’s why I shot myself. The day before I did it, he almost killed my mother. When I came home from school, she was lying on the floor with blood coming from her head. He had hit her with a pan because she didn’t have something ready for him to eat.

MRS. SCARLETT

Do... you want to talk about it.

BRENT

Yeah, I think I’m ready… After my dad would beat me, he would come to my room. He would tell me his reasoning for hitting me. It was always something like he just got mad and he was sorry or he had a rough day at work and had to take it out on somebody. He told me to grow up and take it like a man or else I would be a pansy. 

NARRATOR (V.O)

Everyone has a reason for something. It doesn’t matter what it is, it’s just a masked excuse given to hide the lies they say. They want you to think they are perfect. When the truth is…..nobody can be perfect until you admit you are imperfect.