Recovery
Act 3 of Amnesia
Scene 1: The home of Dir en grey
Roxanne: So, this is your home, is it?
Kaoru: (Shrugs) Well, it�s not much, but yeah.
Roxanne: Not much? It could fit my house in it three times over!
Toshiya: Does that mean you remember your house?!
Roxanne: (confused) um�no, not at all.
Die: Curses.
Shinya: It�s ok. It�ll all come to you in time.
(all walk stage left, looking at the boys� rooms)
Roxanne: Why is this room completely red?
Toshiya: (proudly) That�s mine. Isn�t it great?
Roxanne: Um�not really. It hurts my head.
Toshiya: (disappointed) But, but it�s creative, you see! Because I�m blue, and it�s red, and that would mean that there�d be a blue colored me in a red colored-
Kaoru: Toshiya, will you shut up with that, already? We hear about your stupid room every day, and about how creative and artistic it is, and how kakoii you think it makes you. It�s a red room, for crying out loud! How creative is it to make everything red?
Toshiya: You just don�t understand my artistic genius.
(all walk on, to shinya�s room)
Roxanne: Wow, your room is so clean.
Shinya: Well, I vacuum it daily.
Die: Not the vacuum cleaner again!
Shinya: Shut up, Die. That vacuum cleaner happens to come in handy, I�ll have you know.
Roxanne: Hey, this book looks familiar.
Shinya: (looks over at Roxanne) What book? Raw Egg Paradigm? Oh, it�s a wonderful book, by my favorite author! I read her work all the time.
Kaoru: Have you read it?
Roxanne: (shakes her head) I don�t know. Maybe. It seems very familiar for some reason.
Kyo: Maybe you threw it at someone, once, and it hit them on the head, and their blood started flowing out, and maybe some brains, too, for good measure. And then they got amnesia.
(suddenly, Lindsay enters stage left, wielding salmon)
Lindsay: Here I come! (swings salmon at Roxanne�s head)
Roxanne: Ahh! (falls over unconscious)
Scene 2: Hospital (again) Boys are all surrounding the still unconscious Roxanne
Shinya: What did you go and do that for, Lindsay?
Die: Yeah, why�d you hit her on the head? She didn�t do anything to you!
Lindsay: well, you see, she has amnesia.
(pause)
Shinya:�yes�and?
Lindsay: Well, don�t you know that if you get amnesia, the only way to get your memory back is to hit them on the head again?
Toshiya: Oh, yes! That happens all the time in movies!
Kaoru: Lindsay, that�s just on tv, you idiot. You can�t do that in real life! It doesn�t work that way.
Lindsay: Just you wait and see, mr. Smarty pants guitarist. You think you�re so great.
Shinya: Oh well, I might as well read my book. (picks up book)
Kyo: Shinya, how can you just sit there and read calmly at a time like this. After that salmon attack, there could be internal bleeding or something. She could be dying right in front of our eyes and we don�t even realize it! Wouldn�t that be great?
Shinya: (rolls eyes) Kyo, you really are a sick freak.
Kyo: Of course I am. I�m funner that way.
Shinya: Funner isn�t a word. (reaches the end of his book) Ah, I�m finally finished. (pauses, looking at the page intently) Hey, wait a second�
Die: What is it?
Shinya: This picture looks like�
Kaoru: What? What does it look like?
Shinya: It�s Roxanne! She�s the author of the book! (hugs book tightly) She�s my favorite author! I can�t believe I met her right in person and everything! Oh, I�m so excited!
Kaoru: (snatches book) Let me see that! (looks) He�s right, it is Roxanne.
Die: Wow, she�s pretty young to be a published author.
Toshiya: Now, when she wakes up, we can tell her who she is, and she�ll remember!
Lindsay: And it�s all because of the salmon.
Kyo: Are you really that stupid? Have you hit yourself on the head with that salmon of yours lately?
Lindsay: Shut up.
Scene 3: Still in hospital, a bit later.
(Roxanne wakes up)
Roxanne: Where am I?
Shinya: You�re in the hospital in Japan and you�re my favorite author and you wrote Raw Egg Paradigm and I�m so happy to meet you hello my name is Shinya and I�m your biggest fan!
Roxanne: Raw Egg Paradigm?
Toshiya: Do you remember it?
Roxanne: I�yes, I do remember it!
Lindsay: Thanks to the good old salmon.
Shinya: Thanks to me.
Roxanne: (looks at them more closely) Hey, wait a minute�you�re Dir en grey, aren�t you?
Kaoru: Yep! We�re your obsession, aren�t we?
Roxanne: You�re my inspiration! Where do you think I get the ideas for all my novels?
Shinya: Are you serious? You really use us as the inspiration for your brilliant writing? I�m honored! I can�t believe it!
Kyo: Shinya, stop acting like a fan boy. It�s embarrassing.
Toshiya: Did you fly here from America just to see us?
Roxanne: Well, actually, I was planning on coming to Japan anyway. Coming to see you was just an added bonus.
Toshiya: Oh. I thought maybe you were a dedicated fan who came just to see us in concert.
Roxanne: Oh, trust me, I am as dedicated as they come. When it comes to fans, I am it. I had to sit through a five-hour narration of Ernest Hemmingway to come see you.
Kaoru: Wow, you are dedicated.
Roxanne: You�re darn right.
Kyo: And you survived? Without any physical damage? No bleeding, no broken limbs, nothing? How disappointing!
Shinya: Kyo, sometimes you are too bloodthirsty for your own good.
Die: But I like Ernest Hemmingway.
Kaoru: Die, do you even know who Ernest Hemmingway is?
Die: Yeah, isn�t he in that movie?
Toshiya: What are you talking about?
Die: You know�he goes to camp. Stuff like that?
(all sigh in despair at Die�s never ending stupidity)
END
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