The scene opens showing a bedroom. A girl, Marilyn Sparrow, dressed in black pajamas is sitting at her table, writing in a black book. It's her diary. She does not have crazy "Goth" makeup or hair, but it's apparent she's dark and gloomy, There is a simple bed, drawer, dresser, and a small window at the side but the walls stand out the most because they are covered with posters of many bands. Three posters stand out the most and are at the forefront. They are of Marilyn Manson. Her voice plays overhead as she writes.
Marilyn: Dear Diary. School was good as always, sometimes I wonder how someone like me can have that many friends but I do. But it could've been better. The teacher asked us what music we liked and I said "Marilyn Manson". Then my classmates started making fun of him and called him weird and all for a good five minutes. I know they don't mean it because they're my friends but I was hurt. I waited until class was over and then I ran to the bathroom and cried.
Marilyn stops writing and looks at the poster on the wall. She closes the book and walks to her bed. The lights dim as she lies down on her bed, facing the audience. Suddenly a spotlight shines on her and a deep storyteller's voice speaks overhead.
Storyteller: Marilyn Sparrow was a girl. She liked dark things. Dark clothes, and dark books, and dark shoes and dark animals, but the thing she liked that was the darkest of all, was Marilyn Manson.
Marilyn sits upright on the bed, shocked and confused. She turns around, looking for the source of the voice. The storyteller continues.
Storyteller: When he best friend Nicole was murdered, she listened to Marilyn Manson every day and made the pain lesser. She had her friends, and her family, but it was Marilyn Manson she looked up to the most. She only wished that Marilyn Manson knew.
Marilyn's shoulders slump at the sound of her best friend and she lied back down on the bed, turning the other way to sleep. The storyteller's voice fades and the lights black out completely. A five second pause and they come back on again. The sounds of birds whistling can be heard. Marilyn wakes up, angry. She storms to the window and shuts the blinds on her window. The sound of birds stop and the lights dim a little when she shuts the blinds. Her mother, Sylvia comes in with her breakfast and the newspaper. She turns and sees Marilyn Manson's poster on the wall.
Sylvia: He's a freak, Marilyn.
Marilyn: So am I.
Sylvia: Take those down before the exorcist comes tomorrow. I think we have ghosts in the kitchen.
Sylvia shakes her head and walks out, leaving Marilyn in the room. Marilyn takes a bite of her toast. The storyteller's voice plays overhead again. She stops halfway through biting her toast and rolls her eyes when she hears the voice, unfolding her newspaper.
Storyteller: Marilyn's mother did not like Marilyn Manson. Marilyn unfolded her newspaper and read the news like she did every Saturday morning. What's this? Marilyn Manson is on the front page?
Marilyn scans the front page in shock, she throws it down on the floor and slides off her chair, on the floor beside it. The glass of milk she has for her breakfast spills on her and she's crying really badly.
Storyteller: The headline was "Shock Rocker Kills Ex-wife's Boyfriend". Marilyn Manson has finally done the unthinkable, he's killed someone. Marilyn won't have it. Someone had killed her best friend and she knows how Dita must feel. How could Marilyn Manson do that?
Marilyn throws her glass at the side of her room and yells at the voice.
Marilyn: SHUT UP!
Marilyn stands up and rushes to the Marilyn Manson posters on the wall. She tears them off and throws them on the floor, falling beside them and ripping them up into pieces. She grabs all her Marilyn Manson CDs as well and breaks them, throwing the cases everywhere. She sits among the mess, crying. Sylvia comes back in taking as she opens the door.
Sylvia: What was all the noise, Marilyn?
She looks at Marilyn and exclaims.
Sylvia: Marilyn, you didn't have to do that? If you didn't want to take them down you could have just told me.
Sylvia crouches beside Marilyn and picks up the pieces. Marilyn continues crying and helps her. They both leave the stage through the door carrying the remains of Marilyn's Marilyn Manson collection. Marilyn comes back in a different pair of black pajamas, clean. She sits on the bed hugging her legs and stays there. the storyteller's voice comes back on but Marilyn ignores him.
Storyteller: Marilyn would never listen to The Golden Age of Grotesque again. She wasn't a Disposable Teen anymore, or one of The Beautiful People, or a member of the The Nobodies. She didn't want to be in the mOBSCENE, or buy another pair of Heart-Shaped Glasses. Never will she have anymore Sweet Dreams because she thought, "Rock is Dead". Or at least, Marilyn Manson was to her.
The lights black out and turn back on. Marilyn is sleeping. Sylvia comes in is wearing different clothes. She walks towards Marilyn and shakes her.
Sylvia: Time to wake up. You have school today.
Marilyn gets up and rubs her eyes. She nods and picks up her towel, going out of her room. Sylvia goes out behind her. Marilyn comes back after a while, wearing her school uniform and picks up her backpack, leaving again. The lights dim and the scene ends.
The scene opens. It's a classroom. Students are gathered, talking and laughing. Marilyn walks in and puts her bag on a table, sitting down. One of the students, Sally, walks to her and starts talking loudly.
Sally: Did you hear the news about Marilyn Manson? I told you he's a weirdo.
The rest of the students start laughing. Marilyn smiles a little awkwardly and starts reading a book, trying to block them out. Sally returns to the rest and they start talking about Marilyn Manson.
Gabby: It's just the way he is. I was wondering when he would kill somebody. It's about time.
Alexandra: He's a poor thing though. Sick, twisted.
Victoria: You bet.
Sally: I wonder what he did with the body, I bet he ate it.
The students laugh.
Beatrice: Maybe he fucked it.
Sally: Maybe he fucked it and then he ate it! Or ate it while fucking it. He's disgusting.
Alexandra: He's going to jail though.
Sally: I hope he gets the death penalty. I'd like to see a video of him in the electric chair.
Sally starts making spastic jerking movements. The students start laughing. Marilyn loses her temper. She picks up a sharp pencil and storms to Sally, stabbing her in the chest. The rest of the students scream and run away. Marilyn stabs Sally hard and as many times as she can and blood is spurting out everywhere. Marilyn screams at her in between stabs.
Marilyn: DID HE? DID HE? HE'S NOT DISGUSTING, YOU ARE.
The principal rushes in and grabs a struggling Marilyn, pulling her away from Sally's dead body. Two more teachers rush towards her and take the pencil out of her hand. The rest of the students file into stage to stare. The school nurse comes as well and she stabs a syringe into Marilyn, who faints on the floor. They all stare down at her. The lights dim and the scene ends.
The scene opens. It's a jail cell. The whole cell is grey and there's a white bed in the corner. Marilyn is sitting down on it wearing prison clothes. There's a sound of doors banging shut. The storyteller's voice come on. Marilyn ignores him again.
Storyteller: They put Marilyn in jail for killing the girl named Sally. Marilyn Manson got the death penalty for what he did. He's going to be hung in the prison today, at the guillotine. Marilyn's going to die in the same guillotine next year.
Suddenly, a bell chimes. Marilyn goes stiff, staring at the floor in shock.
Storyteller: There's the bell. Someone rings it every time someone dies at the guillotine.
There's a bang of a door opening and a Prison Warden comes in carrying a tray.
Prison Warden: Your dinner.
The Prison Warden throws the tray in front of her and turns around to leave. Marilyn interrupts him. She does not move her eyes away from the floor.
Marilyn: Can I have a pencil?
The Prison Warden turns back and shouts at her
Prison Warden: To what, stab me? Stop making stupid requests.
The Prison warden leaves the room. The bang of the door shutting jerks Marilyn and she takes her eyes away from the floor. She sees the tray in front of her. She picks up a butter knife and uses it to slit her arm. She moves the bed aside and sits cross legged in front of the wall behind it. She starts writing on the wall with her blood using her finger. The lights flicker on and off as days and nights pass.
Storyteller: Marilyn wrote a word a day for a year till it became a song for Marilyn Manson. The only thing she did for her idol. But it was sad, the day after the day she finished it, they brought her to the guillotine. The same guillotine Marilyn Manson died in.
The lights fade out and the scene ends.
The scene opens. It is a dark, grey room again. Marilyn is standing in front of the guillotine. A priest is there, and they are preparing the black sack to cover her face. Marilyn starts singing.
Marilyn: "Will you come back?
Because without you, my world's not black.
They can bury me, with my head in a sack
But they can't bury my soul, it'll come back."
Marilyn keeps singing the same chorus. A faint white figure walks up in front of her. It's Marilyn Manson's ghost. He sings another verse over and over again in symphony with her.
Marilyn Manson: "This is where it starts.
This is where it will end.
Here comes the moon again.
This is where it starts.
This is where it will end.
Here comes the moon again."
Both Marilyn Manson's and Marilyn Sparrow's voices join to become one song. They continue singing, even when the Prison Warden puts a black sack over Marilyn Sparrow's head. Marilyn Manson stops singing and says one final verse.
Marilyn Manson: I know it's the last day on earth.
Marilyn Manson disappears. They pull the lever and Marilyn falls through the trapdoor. She does not struggle, but goes still. She's dead. The priest bows his head. The storyteller's voice comes on again.
Storyteller: And that's the story of Marilyn Sparrow, who's last wish, to see her idol Marilyn Manson, came true right before she die. The end.
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