Season 1 - Episode 10
Our story picks up this week in the McClung dormitory where Natalie and Sheena have just returned to Natalie’s room from the gym.
Natalie: Girl! I am tired!
Sheena: I know right! That workout was fierce!
Natalie: That’s okay, soror. We gotta make sure we are in top shape if we’re gonna win this year’s homecoming step show!
Sheena: Yeah, I know! So...... Taylor didn’t mind goin’ to the NPHC meetin’ for you?
Natalie: Soror, please! You know that girl is always tryin’ to get on my good side. She’d do anything I told her to do.
Sheena: True!
Natalie’s cell phone rings
Natalie: Hey Nate!
Nathaniel: What’s up.
Natalie: What you up to?
Nathaniel: Nothin’. Hey Nat, what are you doin? I need a favor.
Natalie: What’s wrong?
Nathaniel: I need you to go pick up a prescription for me. My knee is givin’ me problems again.
Natalie: Nate, you really need to go ahead and have that surgery.
Nathaniel: Can you please spare me the lecture and just get my prescription?
Natalie: Sure. You in your room?
Nathaniel: Yeah. Just knock on the door. Brian is downstairs. He'll let you in.
Natalie: Okay. So uh………..where’s Laray? Don’t girlfriends normally do this kind of thing?
Nathaniel: She had some assembly business to take care of tonight.
Natalie: What kind of assembly business? Demetrius ain't mention no meetin' to me.
Nathaniel: I don’t know! Nat, are you gonna bring my prescription or not?
Natalie: Of course, little brother!
Nathaniel sighs: Nat, you are 3 minutes older than me. That hardly qualifies me as your little brother.
Natalie: Whatever, Nate! I’ll see you in a little bit.
Nathaniel: Thanks.
Nathaniel hangs up the phone.
Sheena: What was that all about?
Natalie gets up and starts putting on her shoes.
Natalie: Nate’s knees are bothering him again and he needs me to pick up some medicine for him.
Sheena: Why ain’t you know who goin'?
Natalie: She’s in the assembly office or somethin’…….hey…….I just had a thought. Why don’t you go pick up Nate’s prescription for him instead?
Sheena: Huh?
Natalie: Yeah..... this is perfect! You been wantin' to get some alone time with Nate anyway. This is your chance, Sheena. Laray is so busy with assembly business that she can’t even tear herself away to take care of her man.. But you on the other hand………
Sheena: I see where you are goin……..
Natalie: Oh Sheena this is it! Just don’t blow it!
Sheena: Hey!
Natalie: I mean I know you won’t but seriously soror, if this is ever gonna happen, it’s gotta be now. This would be so great! My twin brother and my best friend dating! I would be so happy!
Sheena: Oh I would too! (laughing) Soror, do you really think this will work?
Natalie: Of course it will! But first we gotta do somethin’ with that hair! If you show up like that, it definitely ain’t happenin’!
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Off campus, at the diner, a group of the Ahpla University Greeks have gathered for an informal meeting.
The door to the diner opens and Kashawn and Taylor walk in together and over to the table.
Taylor: Hi everyone! Natalie couldn't make it so she asked me to come.
Jovan: Okay that's no problem. How you doin' Kashawn?
Kashawn: What's up fellow Greeks!
Everyone says hi.
Dashia: That's funny seeing you two show up together. Did you happen to pull up at the same time or something?
Kiaterria: That's true.......I didn't even know that you two knew each other. Did ya'll come together?
Everyone at the table looks up at Taylor and Kashawn, waiting for a response.
Taylor: Yes, we came together.
Taylor smiles and reaches out for Kashawn’s hand and Kashawn steps away quickly towards the booth.
Kashawn: Yeah, um we came together. Ya’ll know gas is high! So we decided to carpool over here together.
Kiaterria (sarcastically): Greek unity at it’s finest, huh?
Kashawn: Yeah, somethin’ like that
Taylor gives Kashawn an angry look, and takes a seat on the other end of the table.
Kiaterria sees this exchange and looks back and forth between them with a suspicious look on her face.
Jovan: Alright let me try to get ya’ll updated. Basically what we’ve been talkin’ about is this whole thing with Mona and tryin to figure out some ways to get our power back.
Kashawn: Okay that all sounds good. Those rules were a terrible reflection of the true essence of greek life. We have to fight back and stand up for what we believe in.
Taylor (mumbles): How would you know about standing up for something?
Kashawn looks at Taylor out of the corner of his eye and continues speaking.
Kashawn: So yeah, we definitely need to come together on this issue. This is no time for the greeks on campus to be divided.
Taylor rolls her eyes and mumbles again: You wouldn’t know how to come together on somethin’ if your life depended on it.
Jovan: Taylor, did you want to say something?
Taylor: Nope, not at all! Just being supportive of my good ol' car pool buddy, Kashawn!
Patrick walks back over to the table.
Patrick: I just talked to Krystalyn. She’ll be here in a few minutes.
Jovan: Okay cool. Okay well I was tellin’ everybody what we had been talkin’ about. Basically what we are plannin’ is goin’ down on Homecomin’ weekend. All the old heads will be back then and we’ll have the alumnae support we need to make this thing happen….
Kashawn: Well whatever you need the Iota’s to do, we’re down-you can depend on us for anything you need.
Taylor (mumbling): I’m glad someone can depend on you.
Kashawn hits the table and snaps at Taylor.
Kashawn: Taylor! Will you just stop it!
Taylor looks up angrily and her face begins to turn red.
Taylor (loudly): Excuse me? Will I what?
Kashawn (in a hushed tone): I said……..just stop it. If you have somethin’ to say, just say it.
Taylor: Oh trust me, Kashawn, I have a lot of things to say but you do not want me to say them here!
Kiaterria: Well, we do!
Taylor (ignoring Kiaterria): You know what! I’m outta here. This is B.S.!
Taylor gets up and begins to storm out of the diner.
Jovan: Taylor, wait! You know the Ahpla chapter rule! If there isn’t a rep from each organization, the meeting is cancelled. We have a lot of stuff we need to discuss!
Taylor: I’m sorry, Jovan, but trust me…….you don’t want me at this meetin’ tonight.
Taylor continues walking out the door.
Everyone turns to look at Kashawn who is sitting calmly in the booth.
Kiaterria: Well what was that all about, Kashawn?
Kashawn: None of your business, Kiaterria.
Kiaterria: Well excuse me! Well aren’t you at least going to stop her? I mean if she rode with you, how is she gettin’ back to campus? It’s too late for her to be walkin’ by herself!
Kashawn: That’s why I’m not worried. I know she’ll be back in a few minutes after she calms down.
Patrick looking out the diner window
Patrick: Actually, Kashawn…….I don’t think she will be back. She just got in somebody’s car. Look like she found her a new ride.
Kashawn jumps up and runs over to the window.
Kashawn: What? Who’s car is that?
Jovan looks out the window
Jovan: Playa! Playa! That’s my frat brother’s car……..DeVaughn.
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Sheena shows up at the Jewel house to bring Nathaniel his prescription. She is dressed in some fitted black pants and a low cut baby blue tank top. Her hair is pulled into a low ponytail and her face is freshly made up. She rings the doorbell, holding the prescription in one hand and a black duffle bag in the other…..
Brian comes to open the door.
Brian (with a surprised look on his face): Hey what’s up Sheena.
Sheena: Hey Brian.
Brian: Um…….
Sheena: Oh sorry! I know you are wonderin’ what I’m doin’ over here! (holds up prescription bag )Nathaniel needed a prescription and Natalie asked me to drop it off.
Brian: Oh alright. Come in. You can go on up. He’s expecting you right?
Sheena: Oh sure. Which one is his room?
Brian: Second one on the left.
Sheena: Okay, cool.
Sheena begins to walk upstairs as Brian closes the front door and returns to the living room.
Sheena taps lightly on the door.
Nathaniel: Come in…..
Sheena slowly pushes the door open and tip toes into the room.
Nathaniel lifts his head up off the pillow and quickly pulls the blanket up to cover his bare chest.
Nathaniel: Sheena?! What are you doin’ here? Where’s Nat?
Sheena: She forgot she had an appointment, so she asked me to bring this over. I hope you don’t mind.
Nathaniel: Yes. I mean no, I don’t mind but I wish she had called me. I would have put a shirt on at least.
Sheena: Oh, that’s okay. You don’t have to go through any trouble for me. So how long has your knee been bothering you?
Nathaniel: It bothers me off and on. It's a high school football injury.
Sheena: Oh you played football? That's my favorite sport!
Nathaniel: You watch football?
Sheena: Yeah! I never miss an Ahpla game! So what position did you play?
Nathaniel: Pick one. (laughs)
Sheena (laughing): Okay......
Nathaniel: Well uh……….thanks for bringing my medicine, Sheena. I guess you can just leave it on the nightstand.
Sheena takes the prescription over and puts it on the nightstand and sets her duffle bag down on the floor.
Sheena: Well I guess I’ll be goin’……..
Sheena starts towards the door and then turns around.
Sheena: You know, Nate………my major is occupational therapy. I could probably massage your knee for you if it’s really bothering you.
Nathaniel: I don’t know………..
Sheena: Nate, it’s my major. It’s what I am gonna do for my job. Just let me look at it and see how bad it is.
Nathaniel: Well……..okay…..
Sheena walks over and sits on the side of the bed. She pulls back the cover and Nate is laying in some basketball shorts only. Sheena tries very hard not to focus too long on Nate’s chest and arms. She lightly touches Nathaniel’s knee and he begins to wince.
Sheena: Oh Nate. This is swollen! You might need to go to the ER
Nathaniel: Really?
Sheena: I think so…….there might be fluid or somethin’ in there. Well, let me try to massage it a little and see what happens.
Nathaniel: Sheena, I don’t know…..
Before he can say anymore, Sheena begins to massage Nathaniel’s knee lightly and slowly. At first, he winces and tightens up, but after a few minutes, he closes his eyes and begins to relax. After he closes his eyes, Sheena’s eyes graze his body from head to toe. She feels her heart beginning to beat a faster and her breathing becomes slow and deep. Sheena reaches over to Nate's nightstand and grabs some body lotion to put on his knee for better lubrication. She continues to rub and massage his knee as he lays with his eyes closed enjoying the relief that he is experiencing. She watches the way his chest slowly moves up and down with each breath and notices how the muscles in his arms contract each time she presses deeply into his skin. Before she knows it, her hand starts to make its way up Nathaniel’s thigh and inside of his shorts. She stops and begins to massage his thighs with intensity and force. Nathaniel lets out a low moan and Sheena begins to move her hand up a little higher........