[Nic Totopoulous is seen sitting in the back seat of a car. He is dressed in his usual black T-shirt, blue jeans, and sneakers. His long blonde hair is tied back. He is leaning forward, his elbows on his knees and his hands on his head. Then a man walks past the car. He is Nic's friend Joe. They are sitting outside in Joe's driveway on a nice sunny day.]
Joe - Hey man, you look like you're gonna yak. If you do, don't do it in my car all right?
Totopoulous
- Nah man, I'm not gonna puke.
You got a headache?
No.
Then what's
up?
I'm just thinking.
Well don't
think too hard. Don't want you to hurt yourself. I've heard
that when people with low brain activity try to think to hard, they spontaneously
combust. So if that's the case, get out of my car so you don't make
a mess.
Ya, I'll get
right on that.
But seriously,
what's the matter?
[Nic
sits up and looks straight in front of him.]
I don't know
man. I just haven't been myself lately. Usually I'm brash and
arrogant, it seems that some how I've been humbled in a way.
Good thing
to. You were starting to piss me off.
Starting to?
I known you for twenty years. If you had a problem you should have
just...
Hey!
Hey! Just relax man. I'm only joking. You know that when
we were kids, when you used to be a pain in the ass to people because you
were so arrogant, you know I used to love it. Everyone thought it
was great.
Ya, but I'm
not a teenager any more.
No, but that
doesn't mean you have to stop going around being an ass. It was so
much fun.
Ya, it really
was wasn't it.
Do you remember
in grades nine, ten, eleven, and twelve, before we were old enough to drink.
Every Friday after school we got Scott's sister to go and get me, you and
Scott a sixty?
Ya man good
times. Then Andrew would come and pick us up to take us to a movie.
He was so pissed every week that we got hammered without him. Oh
man. We'd go get the Burger King cups, fill them up half way and
fill the other half with rum. Man, we could never mix drinks very
well. They were always so strong.
You bet they
were man. And just last year. Don't think I don't know about
all the trouble you were getting yourself in to.
What are you
talking about?
Oh come one,
with Wall2K? You and he got hammered and went out with the potato
cannon?
Oh right, ha
ha ha! That was too funny. I was so hammered I almost can't
remember.
Ya, then you
called me after to tell me all about it. Problem was you were so
hammered I couldn't figure out what the hell you were talking about.
Then you hung
up, jackass!
Hey man, how
am I supposed to talk to someone like that?
Ya, that's
a good point.
Now you see,
right now you're being a wise ass, just like before. That's what
I like about you Nic, always acting like a jackass to cause trouble.
Now you say you've been humbled? What happened to the man that used
to go up to random girls and just to give them a hard time? What
happened to him? You used to be the king man.
Well I've grown
up a little. I need to focus on wrestling.
But man, when
you were at your best, that's when you were having a good time, and being
the ass that we all know and love, when am I going to get that back?
I just don't
know if I can.
Don't know?
The old Nic would have told me to go jerk off in the corner if I said that
to him. He would have taken me out and we would have had a great
time. We would have gone to a bar or something, and we would have
made asses of ourselves, and it would have been great.
You know what
you might be right. But I have a match this Sunday. It's against
Aussie Wonder. I can't afford to go dick around before a match with
him.
Oh please,
that's the worst excuse I've ever heard. What's he got that you don't?
Well, he has
a title.
The T.V. Title,
big deal. You held the World Title for five months.
True, but I'm
no longer a champion.
So what?
You are the king man. You are, and I'm quoting a very arrogant me
here. A man whose arrogance I thought had no boundaries. You
are, "God".
Ya, right.
That was before. Listen, I know what you're trying to do here and
I appreciate it. I know that I have to win on Sunday. I have
a pretty poor record against Aussie Wonder. I need to break out of
that funk.
So do it the
way you used to. Listen, this is what we'll do. We'll go out
and get drunk, You'll hit on girls the way you used to, you'll be
an ass the way you used to. You'll have fun again for the first time
in who knows how long.
All right.
But this had better work. If it doesn't, then I'll probably just
be hung over for the match.
Don't worry,
it'll work.
That's funny,
even when I knew it wasn't going to work, I told you that all through high
school.
Ya but I'm
not you. Listen, get in the front and we'll get going to get some
lunch. It's three in the afternoon and I haven't eaten all day.
Sounds like
a good idea.
[Totopoulous
get's out of the car and moves to the front seat. Joe walks around
the car and gets into the driver side. He starts the car and puts
it into drive. They pull out of the driveway and the scene fades
to black.]
