MORENA
Episode 29
(Next Day)
Morena: Good morning uncle.
Uncle Roberto: Good morning Morena, You’re re-ady to leave?
Morena: Yes sir.
Uncle Roberto: Here… (He gives her $50) plea-se manage it, I’m broke.
Morena: It’s alright sir, I really appreciate. Thank you very much.
Uncle Roberto: My plea-sure…
(At Chuks restaurant)
Andrew: Hey Morena. What’s up?
Morena: I’m good. Where’s Nina?
Andrew: She just went into the sto-re.
(Just then, Nina returns to the kitchen)
Nina: Morena!
(She goes to hvg her)
Morena: Hmm, You’re overly excited this morning, What’s the secret?
Nina: I’m still basking in the euphoria of last night’s p@rty.
Morena: Yeah, Me too.
(Pascaline enters the kitchen)
Pascaline: Where’s Cecilia?
Morena: We don’t know and we don’t care.
(Cecilia angrily hisses at Morena)
Cecilia: (To Pascaline) I’m over here. Any problem?
Pascaline: You have a client.
Cecilia: (excitedly) Okay. I’m coming.
(Pascaline and Cecilia leave the kitchen and she goes to meet her client)
Nina: (scoffs) So she still has clients requesting her services?
Andrww: Why would you say that?
Nina: Isn’t it obvious? Morena has overthrown her.
Morena: (smiles) You know that’s not actually true, You’re just flattering me… Where’s Daniel?
Andrew: He didn’t come to work. Today’s his day off.
Morena: Ohhh
Nina: Awwnn, I’m sure you miss him.
Morena: (smiles) You’re not wrong…
(Meanwhile)
Cecilia: Good morning sir. May I take your order?
Man: I’d like a medium sized plate of chilaquez.
Cecilia: Ok. Your order will be with you in 10 minutes.
(Cecilia goes back into the kitchen and Alicia who has been watching her, follows her)
Morena: I wonder where Rafael is. He hasn’t come to work yet
Nina: Forget about that guy. You have Daniel now.
Morena: But Rafael is still my friend.
Nina: To you, He’s a friend. But to him, He wants something more.
Morena: I alre-ady told him that can’t happen. I wish he’d just un-derstand.
Nina: What’s his beef? It isn’t by f0rç£ to d@t£. He should un-derstand that!
(Meanwhile)
(Cecilia finishes cooking for her client)
Cecilia: (thinks) Ooohh! Perfect! This looks so appetizing, I should get a spoon for him….
(When Cecilia goes to get the spoon, Alicia intentionally bu-mps into her)
Alicia: (angrily) Why did you hit me?
Cecilia: But you were the one who hit me.
Alicia: (furiously) WHAT THE fv¢k DID YOU JUST SAY?!!!
(Cecilia becomes silent)
Alicia: bit-ch, Have you forgotten we have unsettled scores? I swear to God, if you don’t watch your ton-gue, I’mma rip your head off!
(Morena, Nina and Andrew turn their attention to Cecilia and Alicia)
Nina: Wow, Cecilia has finally stepped on the mad woman’s toes.
Morena: (laughs) This is gonna be fun to watch…
(Andrew goes to meet them)
Andrew: Alicia, What’s the matter?
(Alicia ignores him)
Nina: Andrew! Leave them alone!
Morena: Yeah, What’s your business?
Andrew: What are you guys saying?
Morena & Nina: Words!
Andrew: Have you forgotten that there’s a no fighting policy?
Morena: (laughs) Who cares?! (To Alicia) Alicia, Haven’t you seen a knife? Someone nee-ds to be slaughtered.
(Cecilia attempts to leave but Alicia blocks her path)
Alicia: bit-ch, Because everyone here takes you $h!t doesn’t mean I’mma take it as well, I ain’t gon’ do that!!!
Cecilia: What’s all these? Excuse me!
(Alicia violently gr-abs Cecilia but Andrew breaks them ap@rt and goes in between the two of them)
Andrew: Alicia, plea-se leave her alone.
Alicia: (To Cecilia) bit-ch, You better take you time in this goddamn restaurant!
Andrew: Alicia, St©p this!
Morena: (angrily) Andrew leave them alone! Alicia plea-se continue….
Andrew: Morena, What’re you saying? So you want them to fight and alert Mr Rodriguez?
(Andrew holds Alicia ti-ghtly, allowing Cecilia to pas-s freely and she takes the food to her client, leaving the kitchen)
Alicia: (angrily) Leave me alone.
(She breaks free from Andrew’s hold and leaves the kitchen as well)
Nina: You spoiled all the fun.
Andrew: Oh really? What if they start fighting and Mr Rodriguez comes in here and decides to suspend all of us.
Morena: That might actually be possible.
Andrew: You see…
Nina: And how is that possible when we’re not the ones fighting?
Andrww: We might get suspended as well for not breaking up the fight.
Nina: Ohhh. Right.
Morena: Well I hope she won’t cause trouble in the dining area.
Nina: That’s their problem…
(Rafael enters the kitchen just then)
Morena: Hey Rafael.
Rafael: (angrily) What is it?
Morena: Rafael come on…
Rafael: You’ve alre-ady made your stand clear to me. What else do you want?
Morena: Can’t we just stay as friends? I mean there’s….
Rafael: (angrily) Excuse me….
(Rafael leaves the kitchen)
Nina: (To Morena) You’re just bothering yourself over nothing.
Andrew: Yea. You’re not the only girl in this restaurant. He should look for someone else.
Nina: (laughs) Which other girl would he possibly have feelings for?
Andrew: Pascaline?
Nina: She has a b©yfri£nd.
Andrew: Alicia?
Nina: She’s d@t!ngMr Rodriguez.
Andrew: Cecilia?
Nina: Speaks for herself.
Andrew: (smiles) You?
Nina: No way. I’m alre-ady taken.
Morena: (despondently) I’ll see you guys later.
(Morena leaves the kitchen)
(That evening)
(In the meeting room)
Alicia: (thinks) I still find this $h!t ha-rd to believe, Why would Rodriguez be datin’ me and havin’ an affair with that Cecilia bit-ch at the same time? Or is he just doin’ all these $h!t to get on my nerves? (She ban-gs her fist on the table angrily and it breaks) Man, I’m damn confused!
(Andrew enters the meeting room just then)
Andrew: Sorry to cut into your brooding time.
Alicia: (angrily) What do you want?
Andrew: Look Alicia, I’m really sorry about what I did earlier. I just didn’t want you both to fight and put everyone else in trouble…But you are on point, Cecilia nee-ds to be taught a lesson!
Alicia: (suprised) You thinkin’ the same thing too?
Andrew: Yeah, Everyone is. Cecilia has done terrible and unspeakable things to every single person in this restaurant – Me, Morena, Nina, Daniel and even some of the cooks that were here before….We’ve all been keeping quiet and ignoring her for the sake of our jobs.
Alicia: Ohhh…
Andrew: Listen, If you have any opportunity of dealing with her OUTSIDE the restaurant, DO IT.
Alicia: Bro, I don’t even give a fv¢k if we’re inside or outside the restaurant, Anytime I have that bit-ch’s time, I’mma deal with her on the sp©t!
Andrew: (excitedly) That’s the spirit!
(Andrew gives Alicia a fist bu-mp)
Andrew: I love that.
(Andrew notices the broken table)
Andrew: Were you the one who broke it?
Alicia: Yeah bro, I was really angry.
Andrew: (suprised) With your ba-re fists?
Alicia: Yeah…
Andrew: Woah, If you can do this to a table, I wonder what you’re gonna do to Cecilia’s face.
Alicia: Just keep watchin’
Andrew: (smiles) I trust you. You won’t disappoint.
(Pascaline enters the meeting room)
Pascaline: Andrew, What are you doing here? Aren’t you aware you have a client waiting?
Andrew: Ohh sorry. (To Alicia) We’ll talk later.
Alicia: No worries bro.
(Andrew and Pascaline leave the meeting room)
Alicia: (angrily) Cecilia. I’m out for you.
MORENA
Episode 30
(That evening)
Aunt Maria: Welcome back darling.
Uncle Roberto: Thanks but I’m still going back to work. I c@m£ back to get some do¢v-ments to do some pres£ntations to my boss.
Aunt Maria: Alright honey. Wish you luck.
(Uncle Roberto leaves the house, Few minutes later, Morena returns home)
Morena: Good evening aunty..
Aunt Maria: What’s good about the evening? Why’re you returning home by this time?
Morena: We had numerous clients today. So I had to attend to all of them before leaving work.
Aunt Maria: Do you know you’re very stupid?! Who’s going to pick up my kids?
Morena: Ohhh, I didn’t know.
Aunt Maria: Drop your bags and go and pick them up. (hands her money and a grocery list) When you get back, Go to the supermarket and buy all the items on that list.
(Morena collects the money and the list and leaves the house)
Aunt Maria: Stupid Idiot!
(That night)
Aunt Maria: Welcome back darling. How was work today?
Uncle Roberto: Really stressful. I’m famished.
Aunt Maria: Don’t worry, I alre-ady have your favorite meal prepared….
(Later that night)
(After dinner, Morena washes the plates and Juanita and Juan sneaks into the kitchen)
Juan: (quietly) Juanita, Why did you bring me to the kitchen?
Juanita: (quietly) I want to show you a very funny prank.
Juan: What prank?
Juanita: Watch this…
(Juanita throws her doll at her Morena. Out of fright, She drops the ceramic plate she was washing on the floor and it breaks into the pieces)
Morena: (shocked) What the… Juanita! Why did you do that?!
(Alerted by the noise, Uncle Roberto and Aunt Mara rush into the kitchen)
Aunt Maria: What happened in here?!
Juanita: Mom! Morena just broke one of the expensive ceramic plates you bought from overseas.
(Morena looks at Juanita in shock)
Juan: (angrily) Juanita!
Aunt Maria: (she looks on the floor and sees the broken pieces of the ceramic plate) Oh my God!!!
Morena: Aunt, it wasn’t intentional. Juanita threw her doll at me and out of fright, The plate fell from my hands….
(Without listening to Morena’s side of the story, Aunt Maria gr-abs a long wooden plank and attempts to walk to Morena but Uncle Roberto pu-lls her back)
Uncle Roberto: What’re you about to do?!
Aunt Maria: I want to beat her! How dare this girl destroy my costly ceramic plate?
Uncle Roberto: You want to beat her? Maria, Is she a child?
Aunt Maria: But she broke my plate and she won’t go scot free!
(Aunt Maria breaks free from Uncle Roberto’s hold and walks to Morena)
Uncle Roberto: Maria don’t t©uçh her! Like she said, It wasn’t intentional. Didn’t you hear when she said Juanita threw her
doll at her?
Juan: Yes Daddy. It was Juanita who caused it.
(Juan picks up the doll and shows it to Uncle Roberto and Juanita looks at him in anger)
Uncle Roberto: Juanita, Is this true?
Juanita: Daddy….Umm…It was just a prank….
Uncle Roberto: What kind of silly prank is this? You know what? You’re grounded for two days!
Juanita: But Daddy…
Uncle Roberto: There are no buts! Go to your room!
(Juanita sadly leaves the kitchen and goes to her room)
Aunt Maria: So what’re we going to do about the broken plate? (looks at Morena) Besides, She was the one WHO broke it. She can’t go unpunished!
Uncle Roberto: Maria, plea-se its too late to constitute a nuisance…
Aunt Maria: But darling, She broke my favorite plate.
Uncle Roberto: Don’t worry, I’ll get you a plate similar to that. Besides there are many other expensive ceramic plates similar to that one in this house.
Aunt Maria: (conceals her anger) Okay no problem…
(She drops the wooden plank and leaves the kitchen)
Uncle Roberto: (To Morena) Just pack up the plates.
Morena: Ok Sir.
(At Midnight)
(Aunt Maria barges into Morena’s room)
Aunt Maria: What’re you doing?
Morena: Umm…I was doing some research on my l@pt©p.
(Aunt Maria drops a heap of dirty clothes on Morena’s be-d)
Aunt Maria: I want you to wash all the clothes sparkling clean and when you’re done, I want you to iron all of them.
Morena: But Aunty, It’s midnight. I can do it tomorrow morning since tomorrow’s day off.
Aunt Maria: Are you telling me how to run things around my own house? You must be very STUPID!
Morena: I’m sorry ma.
Aunt Maria: Foolish girl. (checks the time) You better be done washing them before 1am.
(Aunt Maria attempts to leave the room)
Aunt Maria: Lest I forget, The washing machine is faulty so you’ll wash them…With your hands.
(Aunt Maria leaves the room and slams the door behind her)
(Later on)
(In the ironing room)
Morena: (sighs) I’m sleepy alre-ady… At least I’m done with the clothes, I just nee-d to iron them.
(Aunt Maria enters the room)
Aunt Maria: Take this… (Hands her another iron)
Morena: Don’t worry Aunt, I’ll use this one… (points at the iron on the ironing board)
(Aunt Maria replaces the iron on the ironing board with the one she brou-ght)
Aunt Maria: Use that one!
(She leaves the room)
Morena: (angrily) Oh God, I’m tired!!! (she rolls on the floor)
(Aunt Maria enters the room and Morena immediately gets up)
Aunt Maria: What is happening? Why’re you crying and rolling on the floor?
Morena: (cleans her tears) Nothing ma. I’ll start ironing right away.
(Morena puts the cloth on the ironing board and when she presses the iron on the shi-t, it gets burnt immediately)
Aunt Maria: What the heck? You burnt my husband’s shi-t!
Morena: No Aunty, it wasn’t intentional. I don’t know how this happened, Something must be wrong with the iron you gave me.
(Aunt Maria sl@ps Morena)
Aunt Maria: Shut up! Are you now trying to blame the iron? You purposely did this and you will pay!
Morena: I’m really sorry ma…
(Aunt Maria notices the n£¢klace on Morena’s n£¢k)
Aunt Maria: And who gave you that n£¢klace on your n£¢k? It’s your b©yfri£ndisn’t it? Give me that!
(Aunt Maria reaches for Morena’s n£¢k and attempts to cut the n£¢klace but Morena holds her hand firmly)
Morena: Enough! You have abused, insulted, provoked and maltreated me and I’ve been keeping quiet but I will never ever allow you to t©uçh my late mother’s n£¢klace!
(Aunt Maria frees her hand from Morena’s grip and when she does, She staggers backwards and falls down)
Aunt Maria: (breathes heavily) You’re now challenging me? Fine. Let’s how bold you can be….
(Aunt Maria swiftly gets up from the floor and attacks Morena, Agitated, She immediately frees herself from Aunt Maria’s grip)
Morena: St©p!
(Morena attempts to leave but Aunt Maria violently pu-lls her back by her hair and gr-abs the ravaging h0t iron then presses it in her back)
Morena: (screams in agony) AHHHHHH!!!!!
Aunt Maria: You can scream as loud as you want, Everyone’s asleep, No one will come to your rescue! (She says this as she rams the h0t iron into Morena’s back)
(Meanwhile)
(Juan goes to Uncle Roberto’s room and wakes him up)
Juan: Dad. I can’t sleep. I keep on hearing screams.
Uncle Roberto: It’s probably some raccoons. Why don’t you go back to be-d?
Juan: But Dad, I can’t sleep.
Uncle Roberto: Don’t worry, I’ll follow you to your room.
(On their way to Juan’s room, Uncle Roberto and Juan hears loud screams)
Juan: Dad?
Uncle Roberto: I hear it too. This way…
(Meanwhile)
(Satisfied, Aunt Maria re-moves the iron from Morena’s back and drops it on the ironing table)
Morena: (furiously) I’VE HAD ENOUGH OF THIS!!!
(Morena attacks Aunt Maria and hits her severally, Aunt Maria attempts to retaliate but is overpowered quic-kly, They knock down the clothes, iron, ironing table, mirror amidst their fight. Morena eventually gets Aunt Maria to the floor, She straddles her and pummels her severely. Few seconds later, Uncle Roberto and Juan enter the ironing room and sees Morena beating Aunt Maria)
Uncle Roberto: (shocked) Morena?
To be CONTINUED