My Turn to be an Old Friend

by Ezra May 2nd 2010, 8:04 pm

Bobby Ocean climbs out of a taxi with a suitcase in hand. He stares up at the tall apartment and gasps. The taxi pulls away. Francesco Rossi appears in the doorway in trenchcoat.

Rossi
Come on man.

Bobby acknowledges Rossi trots over to him. They shake hands as we fade to a shot of Rossi and Ocean in an apartment room.

Rossi
Put your things down, it's Sunday and we're going to church.

Bobby
Yeah sure, why not?

Rossi
We're going to a special service though.

The scene changes to St. Peter's Square in Vatican City. Thousands are standing, looking toward a balcony, a balcony they expect to see Pope Benedict appear from. We zoom in on Rossi and Bobby who are standing towards the rear of the crowd.

Bobby
I'm not Catholic. You aren't either?

Rossi
Right, but one of the securtiy guards in also a steward at the San Siro so I can get in here anytime. Maybe I'll introduce you later. He is like the closest thing to God on the earth apparently.

Bobby
Except when he's with little kids. I perfer Billy Graham

Just then we see Pope Benedict appears in his white dressing. He waves to the crowd as a large bible is open on the podium in front of him.

The scene changes as we hear the Pope begin to speak in Latin. Bobby and Rossi are walking down the street, as many people are doing. Rossi pulls out a blue and black scarf from his coat and hands it to Bobby.

Rossi
Here take this.

Bobby takes it and wraps it around his neck.

Bobby
We're not walking back to your house are we?

Rossi
No, we don't have time Inter are playing Lazio today at the Stadio Olimpico. It's only about fifteen to twenty minute walk.

Bobby
Even though we're visiting fans do we get an executive box?

Rossi
What hell Bobby?! I'm the Vice-Chairman of the biggest football club in Italy! Of cousre I get a box anywhere we play, I'm even getting a box for the Champions League Final.

Bobby
Dude, that's awesome, too bad I'm not able to go.

Rossi
Those are the breaks my friend. All we'll have to do is go to a certain gate in the rear of the stadium, and tell them our names. I assume they'll have someone escort us up to the box.

Bobby and Rossi continue walking as they come to a parking lot full of average, mid-class cars. They make it to the end of the parking lot and walk up to the gate where a rather large guard is standing with a clipboard.

Rossi
Francesco Rossi and Bobby Ocean

The guard skims about halfway down the page makes two marks on the list. Then, he shoots a glance at Bobby Ocean.

Guard (broken English)
Bobby Ocean? NLWF?

Bobby
I don't know Italian but yes.

Guard
King of the Throne. Classic.

Bobby shakes the guard'ss hand and smiles.

Guard
autograph clipboard?

Bobby
Sure.

Bobby takes the pen from the guard and scribbles his on the back.

Bobby
Name?

Guard
Roberto Bappa.

Bobby finishes the autograph with "to Roberto Bappa, best security guard ever." and hands it back Roberto.

Roberto
Thanks, Enjoy match.

Rossi motions Bobby to hurry up as he's already standing with the escort at the opposite end of the corridor.

In the box both men take a seat with a near midfield view of the pitch. Both teams are prepared to start, several players jogging in place, waiting for the opening whistle.

Rossi
How about that? You lost at King of the Throne and yet people still love you.

Bobby
Yes, but it would've been a lot nicer to win and not had to have my brother come out and help me. I think I may need to do something about him because he's not helping much.

Rossi
Anything in mind?

Bobby nods yes. We take a shot of the scoreboard:
Lazio 0
Inter 0
1:00

We translate to the scoreboard again:
Lazio 0
Inter 2
92:00

Rossi
Any moment now.

The referee blows the whistle as a roar can be heard from a small section of fans at the left end of the stadium.

Bobby
Congratulations, Rossi.

Rossi
Thanks, nearly there.

Bobby
Do you get medals when the team wins trophies like the players do?

Rossi
I'm actually given a small replica of the trophies a few months after we win them. Hopefully I get three over the summer.

Bobby
The league looks good, you're better the Roma so you'll win the cup, and you're the best team in Europe.

Rossi
Yes, but there's plenty of work yet to do. That sounds like your situation.

Bobby
Let's just celebrate intsead of talking about me.

We fade to black. We then see Bobby sitting on a stool in front a powder blue backdrop.

Bobby
As many expected, I failed once again to win a World Title, and once again I had the title in my hands, quite litterally this time. However, five worthy men entered that and I don't think any of us have anything to be emabrassed about. Obviously, Matt Gray and I were the two longshots, but we both threw everything we had at the match and were rewarded with another championship match. Only this time it'll be a North American Title Match. To me though it seems that I'm stepping into other people's problems. Rawrlurb and Derek have been going back and forth so much you would've thought that elastic condon would just snap. The latest in the saga is that Derek is running around with Rawrlurb's belt as if he were a little fairy. He'll need to bring it with him so that he can actually, I don't know, maybe, fight for it instead attacking champions and running away with it. Hey ass-hole look at the name on the plate, it ain't yours, it's no big secret that you stole that. I'd get a kick out of it if someone would call the cops on you for theft.

Bobby snaps his fingers and a bottle of Dolphin Energy flys in from the left. Bobby catches it and pops the can open.

Bobby
By the way, don't forget, pick your Dolphin Energy Drink today.

Now where was I? Ah yes, Rawrlurb, we've had several encounters with each other recently and I've beaten you. Granted, you are one the fiercest women I've ever seen in the ring. Unfortunately, because you're a woman you're rather exposed when you're not in the ring. I mean, Derek had been coming and attacking you and you can't fight back because you're not as strong as him. Honestly, you're a better fighter than him, but when someone sneak attacks you, strength is all you can hold onto. We'll have more fights between us, but I'm so high after King of the Throne that you just can't bring me down.

Bobby finshes off the can, crushes it with his hand and tosses off to the side.

Bobby
Now Matt Gray, you my friend have been pissing me off a whole hell of a lot lately. You ramble on about people every week, and it's just so boring. Look you think it's not fair that I took advantage of the rules last week and had my brother help me? Yeah, an extra person didn't help Corey a lot did it? He won the fucknig match because of outside help. Look man, no matter what the result of the match this week, I want you in a match of my choice at One World Nation. Look brother, I don't care if you talk like Hulk Hogan, show Monday and prove it to me. Prove to me that you're as good as Hulk Hogan. I gurantee though that I will do anything to win this match. No rules, only limits. You may forget I'm there, but that's all part of being the X-Factor of this company. Watch yourselves, all three of you.

Ocean puts his hand over the lens and the screen goes black.