Asher: wow where did you get all this stuff.
Moomba: I bought them from the shop
Asher: Which shop
Moomba: Err Do you want it or not
Asher: I do
Moomba: then stop asking so much question O yeah Listen you can’t tell mum about this ok
Asher: why not
Moomba: give me back those things
Asher: ok, ok I would not ask any more question
Moomba: that’s right
Asher: thanks brow
Moomba: its all right
(Moomba goes on to the telephone and calls his girlfriend and her voicemail comes up so he leaves a message)
Moomba: hello Amarachi I’ve got a present for Ill bring it to your house tomorrow by.
Act 1 scene 4
Narrator: the next morning Moomba goes to see Girlfriend at her house
(Knock, knock)
Girlfriend: hold on; hi
Moomba: could I come in?
Girlfriend: sure so what was so important that you had to tell me
Moomba: Oh yeah here it is
Narrator: Moomba gives her money
Girlfriend: Oh thanks, I’m just going to put it away (she walks away and then turns back). Moomba do you mind me asking where you got this
Moomba: Well, uh…
Girlfriend: Because I know that you don’t work.
Moomba: Well err…no err
Girlfriend: You’ve been stealing again haven’t you?
Moomba: Nah
Girlfriend: Look I’m sick and tired of you giving me dirty money! (Throwing money in his face)
Moomba: Nothing I ever do please you! Know what I’m gone
Girlfriend: Yeah go (Moomba kisses his teeth, walking out slamming the door behind him)
(Moomba goes home)
Mum: so where have you been all night, didn’t your father tell you to be home at 9.
Moomba: I had things to do
Mum: Boy how many times must I tell you, if you nah hear you go feel! You lucky your father is not home tonight
Moomba: yes mum
Act 1 Scene 5
Narrator: The next morning Moomba walks out side his house to see his friends they are hanging on the corner and goes to join them.
Ricardo: where have you been bruv?
Moomba: Yeah I was at my girlfriend’s house
Friends: (rate him)
Ricardo: so what happened?
Moomba: We had an argument
Ricardo: You idiot, you’re always doing that. By the way have seen Kacey’s girl, she’s buff (All the friends laugh at sarcasm).
Moomba: Nah
Ricardo: She’s like miss universe.
Kacey: Look guys I can see the beauty within and that’s what matters to me…
(Friends laugh louder)
Ricardo: whatever man, look, look over there, the universe its self
Rebecca: Hi Kacey (happily)
Kacey; Hello (bashfully)
Rebecca: Kacey, I would really like to invite you to worship with my family tonight and I know you keep saying you will come so please come tonight. (Everyone smirked)
Kacey: Yeah you know I got a lot of coursework to do, so I don’t think I can make it, to be honest.
Rebecca: All right see you later, yeah?
Kacey: Rebecca hold up I’m coming (Everyone burst into laughter as they turn the corner)
Ricardo: oh Moomba look what I got (he pulls out a gun and show Moomba)
Moomba: where you get that
Derrion: you know my cousin that shot,
Moomba: the one that lives do sommerleyton
Derrion: yeah him
Moomba: so what are you going to do with it
Derrion: you know that shop in Camberwell next to the one we stole from before
Moomba: What that Indian store?
Friends: Yeah where rob that to coz
Moomba: nah am not involved
Narrator: after long discussions Moomba join them in the robbery of the shop.
Act 1 scene 6
Narrator: two casual dress officers were patrolling the streets
PO1: there’s has been a dramatic increase in crime in this area over recent days, don’t you think?
PO2: Yes anyway pull over right here I want to get something from this shop.
(He get out of the car and walks into the shop, a few seconds afterwards a group of boys run into the shop with weapons screaming don’t move)
Friend: Get the till (repeat)
Ricardo: Get some more stuff.
Moomba: lets get out of here.
Ric: nah, nah get some more stuff….
PO2: (he comes from round the corner and sees what is going on he shouts) Freeze if you move I will shoot.
Narrator: Everyone runs to get out of the store when PO1 see this he rushes to the store to try and stop them everyone has escaped who has dropped some money on the floor as he goes to pick it up he hears the voice saying freeze, so without looking up he makes a dash for the door he glances back and when he looks forward all he saw was a fist coming to his face then a fraction of a second later everything went blank.
PO2: Right your nicked mate!
Narrator: Moomba woke up in a in a white dirty room with writing all over the walls, he was in a prison cell. Moomba his trial he was convicted for armed robbery and went down for 15 years when he was in prison only three people came to visit him his parents, girlfriend and Kacey. After a while he realised what his mother has been telling him for all these years and now it’s haunting him that the saying is true friend will carry you but they wouldn’t take you.
Scene 7
10 yrs later as time past on Moomba’s sentence had been shortened by five years because the magistrate had come to the conclusion that he had learnt a valuable lesson and also because of this continual good behaviour in prison. After his released his parent came to pick up at the police station.
Mum: Son I am happy to see you again
Moomba: me to mum
Mum: now tell me why you did it
Moomba: I don’t really know why
Dad: answer your mother boy
Mum: Did we never provide for you son
(Moomba remains quiet)
Dad: Did you not here your mother
Moomba: Yeah
Dad: Well then answer her
Moomba: I don’t know why I did it
Dad: I don’t know? I don’t know, ten years in prison and you don’t know
Mum: calm down dear. Son did they hurt you in there?
Moomba: No mum, dad stops the car.
Dad: why
Moomba: I not a little boy anymore just stop it (his father stops the car)
Moomba gets out of the car and yells I’ll meet you at home
Mum: All right, I’ll stop asking so many questions
Moomba: No, it’s not that I just need some time to think
Mum: come on Jack lets go
They drive off
Narrator: Moomba walks to a park and sits down on the nearest bench. Pondering on what’s happened to him in the past
(Miming in the background)
Moomba: where are they now? Ricardo… He never came to see me or even see if I was alive. They probably laughed when I went down.
Scene 8
Ricardo: what happened to Moomba?
Andrew: He got nabbed. Oi Ricardo your boy’s some idiot. (every body laughs)
Ricardo: How could he get nabbed? (Shaking his head)
Scene 9
Moomba: why didn’t I listen to my mum
Narrator: a few weeks later, Moomba was baptised. He realised no matter what he did, there would always be one person who would always love and forgive him.
You can figure out who that is.
On a serious note, teenagers you need to set you self-straight with God before it’s too late. Stop thinking that you have time you don’t own because God is in control of our lives.
