(Honey’s home. Mthembeni and Honey walk in. Honey is drunk and Mthembeni is helping her to the bedroom.)

Mthembeni: Watch your step.

Honey: (whispering) Shhhh gogo will hear you.

Mthembeni: What? Your grandmother is in the house? Are you crazy?

Honey: (laughing) Got ya!

Mthembeni: Honey!

Honey: Relax, she’s away for the weekend.

Mthembeni: Good. Let me get you to bed.

Honey: But it’s too early!

Mthembeni: You’re too drunk to stay up late.

Honey: Oh, you’re such a fun killer.

(Mthembeni helps her to the bed.)

Mthembeni: Okay…take off your shoes.

Honey: What? Why?

Mthembeni: (taking off her shoes) Didn’t your grandmother tell you that sleeping with shoes on is bad luck?

Honey: (laughing) That is ridiculous.

(Awkward silence.)

Mthembeni: I guess I’ll see you around then.

Honey: Where are you going?

Mthembeni: What do you mean? I’m leaving.

Honey: But you said your wife kicked you out.

Mthembeni: Yes but I cannot stay here.

Honey: Why not? Where will you go?

Mthembeni: I’ll make a plan.

Honey: Come on! You can crash here for a few days. At least until gogo comes back.

Mthembeni: I don’t think that’s a good idea.

Honey: You have nowhere else to go. And why are you standing all the way over there? Come join me!

Mthembeni: No, I’m alright.

Honey: Ahh Mthembeni…must I beg for everything? Come on.

(She pulls him to the bed. Mthembeni is uneasy.)

Honey: (laughing) Would you relax!

(He drops his guards down.)

Honey: I had a great time today.

Mthembeni: Yeah me too.

Honey: (turning and facing him) Mthembeni listen…I’m sorry for what I did to you and for dumping you like that. You are the best thing that have ever happened to me.

Mthembeni: Then why did you do it?

Honey: I guess I was scared of ending up marrying a poor guy and being poor for the rest of my life like my grandmother. So I thought that marrying a rich person would be the solution. I wanted to be happy. I wanted to live happily ever after. I thought that money was the only thing that would make me happy. What I didn’t realise was that I was already happy. I had the thing that made me happy right in front of me. I was already living my happily ever after.

Mthembeni: Did you really love me?

Honey: Yes. I still do.

(Mthembeni turns his head and looks at her. They gaze deeply into each other’s eyes. Bit by bit, their faces come closer to each other and kiss.)

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Tell us: Mthembeni and Honey have kissed, what do you think of this?