SCENE 1
(LUCY COMES IN QUIETLY, HOLDING HER STOMACH AND CRYING, INTO THE HOSPITAL, SHE MEETS TWO NURSE DISCUSSING)
LUCY; good morning, please I want to see the doctor
(they did not answer her)
please is the doctor around?
NURSE 1: please the doctor is not around and it is lunch break please go and come back
LUCY: but am seriously in pain and I need to see the doctor
NURSE 2: you don't understand English eh, it is lunch break, go and come back after the break, so Nurse Mary what were you saying?
NURSE1: you that useless man in ward 22, he is always throwing up on me, God knows that i will not go back there again
NURSE 2: i don't know why they keep sending us to the wrong people
(a senior nurse and the doctor comes in discussing and sees Lucy one side crying)
SNR NURSE: Nurse Mary and Nurse Helen, is that not a patient sitting down there?
NURSE 2: ma we told her that it is lunch break
SNR NURSE: what useless lunch break, you peoples rubbish attitude towards patients is getting out of hands and i will see to it (turns to Lucy) come here dear
DOCTOR: where you the girl that came for test last week?
LUCY: yes doctor
DOCTOR: ok just wait for me here, let me get your result (He goes into his office)
SNR: come on both of you should get out of here
(the two nurses left)
my dear sit
(the doctor comes back)
DOCTOR: dear, you have blood cancer
LUCY: doctor blood what! (sits on the floor) blood cancer?
DOCTOR: we can help you out, just bring 500 thousand naira, we would help you out
LUCY: doctor please help me, I don't have 500 thousand naira, where will i start from? i don't have anybody who can help me out, doctor please, please help me out
DOCTOR: sorry dear that is the only solution (he left)
LUCY: nurse please help me beg him, I don't have such money, please
SNR NURSE: dear, you just have to get it, don't worry God will provide
(she went inside, leaving only Lucy)
LUCY: (in tears) God why me?
(she left the hospital)
SCENE 2
(LUCY'S MOTHER AND FATHER QUARRELLING IN THE SITTING ROOM)
MOTHER: useless man, so you don't want me to go out and flex, did you pay my school fees for me, did you?
MOTHER: useless man, so you don't want me to go out and flex, did you pay my school fees for me, did you?
FATHER: your mates are out there going to work to support their husbands but your own is to go out and waste your already wasted rotten life
MOTHER: how dare you talk to me like that, your mother that died because she was a well known prostitute nko
(Lucy comes in unnoticed)
FATHER: (Slaps her) how dare you call my mother a prostitute
(she carry's a stool and hits him to death)
MOTHER: useless man, you have the right to slap me
(Lucy holds her father)
LUCY: mummy what have you done?
MOTHER: (holds him) honey I was just joking, please wake up, awooooh, somebody help oh
LUCY: (screaming) every time you and dad will be quarrelling over nothing, this is the end of it, you have killed him, how do I bear this, how do I bear this oh God, mummy i have blood cancer (she stands up) why is my life just miserable?
(they rushed him out to the hospital)
SCENE 3
(Lucy goes to her friends house)
AMINA: Lucy welcome, sit down, what should I offer you?
LUCY: don't bother, Amina please I need your help
AMINA: tell me the problem
LUCY: (in tears) I have blood cancer and the doctor said I need 500 thousand naira for treatment, please can you help me with 50 thousand naira (Kneeling) Amina please, you are my last hope
AMINA: oh dear stop kneeling, see Lucy the 50 thousand naira i have now, i want to use it to make my hair, so I cant give it to you because making my hair is really important
LUCY: so Amina, so-so-so (uncontrollable tears) so Amina your hair is more important than my health, Amina remember I sacrificed my kidney for you as a best friend when you were at the point of death
AMINA: tell the whole world that you gave me kidney oh, I don't have money to give to you, the money i have now is for my hair and not to give to a dying person
LUCY: Amina why are you this wicked? my best friend
AMINA: please leave my house
LUCY: ok, I will leave
(Lucy left)
AMINA: useless girl, go and die, let me see how all those men will follow you again
SCENE 4
(Lucy went to her boyfriends house and saw him having sex with her best friend AMINA)
LUCY: Amina, what is wrong with you (holding Amina's cloth) why are you treating me like this, why are you this wicked
JOHN: Lucy leave her alone, although you are lifeless, your mother is a murderer, you want me to marry you so that you will murder me too
LUCY: john we have been dating for 5 years, this is how you want to pay me for my faithfulness, God, what is happening to me?
JOHN: oh fool, you think I will marry you? I have been dating Amina for 4 years now and you never noticed, I was only using you as a sex tool
(Lucy slumped down)
AMINA: what is wrong with her?
LUCY: please I need water
JOHN: from which house, better go to your house with this your useless sickness, child of a murderer
(Lucy left the house)
SCENE 5
(Lucy in the sitting room, with a bottle of poison)
LUCY: (looking at the mirror in the sitting room) look at me, for a month now, I have been a shadow of life, nobody cares about me, no help, my father is dead, my mother is in jail, where do I start from, what is life without happiness, I have to end it (she drank the poison)
(the doctor and senior nurse comes in)
DOCTOR: good afternoon dear
LUCY: have you come to remind me that I have 500 thousand naira to pay?
DOCTOR: no dear, please that test result we gave to you was not yours, we mixed it up, you have chronic typhoid and pneumonia, and it can be treated fast, for compensation we would treat you for free
LUCY: (holding the doctor) how dare you mix up my result (she slumps to death)
SNR NURSE: (picks up the bottle) O my God, doctor she drank poison
DOCTOR: what! lets take her to the hospital
SCENE 6
(JUDGEMENTAL SIT)
GOD: is her name in the book of life?
VOICE: no my lord
GOD: depart from me, for I know you not
LUCY: but why?
VOICE: what right do you have to take your life?
LUCY: i was in distress, didn't God see me then?
VOICE: some times he allows some things to happen to test your faith and steadfastness
LUCY: please am sorry, forgive me, am sorry, please have mercy on me
VOICE: there is no mercy after death
GOD: depart from me, you daughter of no faith
(Lucy was pushed into the pit of hell, and she woke up from sleep, screaming)
LUCY: (sleeping on her bed) Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, have mercy please
(her mother runs in)
MOTHER: Lucy what is it?
LUCY: am alive, oh i t was just a dream, thank God: mummy where is daddy?
MOTHER: he is in the room sleeping
LUCY: I had a terrible dream
MOTHER: just pray and sleep, tomorrow you will tell me about it
LUCY: ok mummy
END
