Short story ( a script - I said No)

 

A Memory Care Hospital Visit

I said NO 

by Goodadvicecha

SETTING: A private room in a memory care hospital. A female patient, aged about 63, is lying on a bed. Two vases of roses are on the side tables; one is full of red roses, the other yellow. A man is standing next to the patient bed.  FADE IN: INT. PATIENT'S ROOM IN THE HOSPITAL  GEORGE  Do you like the flowers?  ROSE  No.  GEORGE  Don't you like red roses?  ROSE  No.  GEORGE  I bought you yellow roses too. Do you like them?  ROSE  No.  GEORGE  OK. I'll bring you pink roses tomorrow?  ROSE  No.  GEORGE  Ok. No pink. I'll bring multi-colors. Do you know who I am?  ROSE  No.  GEORGE  I am your lover.  ROSE  Hey... Lover.  GEORGE ( smiling)  I'm glad you called me lover. So you do know me.  ROSE  No. You said you are my lover; I called you lover.  GEORGE  Do you know my name?  ROSE  Rose.  GEORGE  No. Rose is your name.  ROSE  No, no. My name is George.  GEORGE  No, no. I am George and you are Rose.  ROSE  NO. No, no, no.  (Rose started to cry. George held her. She pushed him away.)  GEORGE  OK. I am Rose...Do you remember the first time you made love? It was with me.  ROSE  No. He was a handsome young man.  FADE OUT:  ( end of scene 1)