Tale #3: Play Come True

"Babe! Babe! Please don't jump, please live... for me." She managed to say between sobs. "Please, don't take your life. Please live for me, with me." She persuaded her fiancée while crying.

"I'm sorry sweetie, but – I can't take this anymore. I – I can't bear the pain!" he replied back, tears streaming in his cheeks, holding the rope in his neck. "I can't bear the pain anymore." He said as he took one foot of the balcony rail. "Then share the pain with me." She said to him. "You were my shoulders to cry back then, it's my turn to be yours. Please darling -- if you're gone, then I might as well die. Because I can't bear life either without you." She pleaded, tried to reason to her fiancée. "Please darling, please. Come back to me! I – I – I – forgot the lines again!" she shouted.

"Cut! Oh please Clem! This is the third time you forgot your lines! Please, I beg you, remember your lines. It's only one week until the performance." Shouted Vlad, the director of the play, he worries about his cast Clementine because she's slowing them all down. There is still so much more to do. The pressure on him and on everyone is getting heavier.

"Don't worry V, I'll help Clementine to memorize her lines, I'm her leading man after all." Ethan volunteered himself – based on his looks – he is the perfect man, if not for his attitude. He is one hell of a playboy. Known to date a new girl per day and Clementine is his new target.

"Thanks Eth. But no need, I don't want to bother you, you have somewhere else to be right? I can do this myself, thanks for the concern." Clementine said with concern. Some say that she is an angel because of her character: polite, kind, generous, and helpful. Things that you could find in a Good Samaritan. She's also called 'Little Miss Perfect' because of her perfect body, pretty face and good attitude. Ethan said okay right away, there goes his chance to get Clementine to attend his party, he really wants to introduce her to his friends as his girlfriend. Besides, he knows Clementine, she won't ask for help if she doesn't really need to.

"I'm really sorry Clem if I'm putting too much pressure on you, but we really need to perfect this play by Friday. You know we still have dress and final rehearsals. So please Clementine, give your best to remember your lines." Vlad begged. Vlad is known to be a perfectionist. He wants everything perfect and in place. He also wants this play to be perfect too.

This is going to be their big step to Showbiz. Two days went by and Clementine miraculously remembered all her lines into perfection. Of course, Vlad is very happy and so does everyone. They practiced everything and all is set for the performance.

On the day of performance, Vlad first had an opening statement, thanking everyone that came. After his short speech, the stage lit up and the narrator began telling the story about 2 people, both with serious mental illness. The boy has PTSD and the girl has ADHD. They met once during their appointment for psychiatric counseling back at college, and somehow – fell in love with each other. The counselor thought that this may be a good thing because they improved with time. The boy cured his PTSD and the girl has no ADHD anymore. Everyone thought everything is okay now, until the girls' illness came back, turns out, she faked her recovery. Now she wants everyone's attention to herself, especially her boyfriend. She would go crazily jealous if her boyfriends' attention is diverted to anyone or anything else. This also traumatized the boy for this is the same thing that caused his PTSD. His last girlfriend is so obsessed with him that she killed every girl that tried to approach him, the worst is she killed his sister in front of him.

The boy can't take it anymore and decided to take his life. The girl pleaded and convinced him to not take his life. The boy still decided to do it, the girl – with so much panic, run to him before he could jump and grab him back into the balcony. Her mind is fully in disarray that the only emotion that is clear to her in anger.

"How dare you do this to me?! How dare you cause me so much pain?!" Clementine said with so much emotion as she pulled out a knife from her side pocket. The knife is supposed to be a prop, but Vlad noticed it glint like a real knife. Vlad looked in the prop table and saw the knife supposed to be used in the play. It's a real knife! He panicked. He tried to get Clementine's attention but failed. The narrator stopped speaking and the audience gasped in shock as real blood spurred out of Ethan. "CLEM STOP!" Vlad shouted but did no effect to Clementine.

Clementine kept on plunging the knife in and out of Ethan like a lunatic. Vlad tried to get her attention but failed again. Everyone went into panic as they saw Clementine pull out Ethan's heart beating weakly.

"Now I have all of their attention."