Season 2 - Episode 12 We resume our episode this week with the ladies of Alpha Kappa Alpha, who are gathered at the AKA house when Camille walks in. Camille: Sorors! Kennedy: Skee-Wee! Camille: What are you all up to? Sydney: Nothin' much, soror. Just spendin' a little quality time with the neo's. Camille looks around. Camille: Neo's? Dashia: They went to get us somethin' to eat. Camille: Uh...do I need to remind you all that they are not on line anymore? The Sorors start to laugh together. Kennedy: We remember! Besides, they volunteered. Camille: Mmmm Hmmm..... Sydney: Where you been, Camille? Camille: Hmm? Sydney: Uh.......I said where have you been? We been callin' you for hours! Camille: Oh....no where. Camille smiles and turns away. Dashia: No where? That sure sounded like somewhere to me! Kennedy: Sounded like there might be a man involved to me. Camille starts to giggle Sydney: Wait a minute! Somebody actually has Camille giggling? Oh I definitely need some info on this one! Camille: It's nothin', you all! Just stop it! Dashia: Soror, please! I ain't seen you smile like that since......well I don't think I've ever seen you smile like that! Camille: Okay fine....maybe there is...someone.... Dashia: I knew it! Spill it soror! Who is he? Give us all the gossip! Camille: Well I'm not sure yet. It's still in the beginning stages so I don't want to say too much just yet....but don't worry.....you all will be the first to know, okay? Kennedy: Oh come on! You have to tell us somethin'! Sydney: Leave her alone, sorors....she'll tell us when she's ready. Camille: Thank you, Syd. Now I do have somethin' I want to talk to you sorors about before the neo's get back. Kennedy: Oh okay. What's up? Camille: The Alpha's called me. They wanna throw a party for the girls.....sorta like a second chance at having a probate. So..........what do we think? ______________________________________________________________________________________________ Over at Melinda's home, she is relaxing on the back porch with the newspaper when her phone begins to ring. Melinda, surprised by the phone gets up to answer. Melinda: Hello? Valerie: Melinda, hello. It's Valerie. Melinda (in an excited tone): Diva! Valerie: Mm hmm. Melinda: Um, Val, is everything okay? Valerie: I'm afraid it's not. I need to speak to you about something very urgent. Melinda: Oh my gosh! Is something wrong? Are you sick? What is it, Val? Melinda gets very upset and sits down on the couch. Valerie: No, no it's nothing like that, Melinda. Please....calm down. Melinda let's out a sigh of relief. Melinda: Oh....good. You had me so worried there for a second. I've never heard you sound so serious. Valerie: I do need to speak to you about something serious, but no one is hurt. At least not yet... Melinda: Excuse me? Valerie: You know, there's no easy way to say this so I'm just gonna come right out with it. Were you aware that your daughter was running an illegal line for Alpha Kappa Alpha last semester? Melinda: What? Valerie: You heard me. Please answer the question. Melinda: Valerie, I have no idea what you are talking about. Valerie: Ok. Ok, I believe you. Melinda: You believe me? Why on earth do you think I would know about something like that? And what on earth are you talking about anyway? Valerie: Melinda, Mona was pledging an illegal line of Alpha Kappa Alpha last semester. Melinda: How do you know that, Valerie? Valerie: How do I know? I know it because my daughter was on that line and if you don't do something about this, Melinda, you can bet that I will! ______________________________________________________________________________________________ Scene 1 Continued.. Camille: Thank you, Syd. Now I do have somethin' I want to talk to you sorors about before the neo's get back. Kennedy: Oh okay. What's up? Camille: The Alpha's called me. They wanna throw a party for the girls.....sorta like a second chance at having a probate. So..........what do we think? Kennedy: Oh that's what's up! Dashia: And nobody throws a party like the Alpha's! Kennedy: Okay! Kennedy gets up to give Dashia a high five. Camille: Syd? You haven't said anything... Sydney: Um....I dunno. I'm not really sure. Camille: What do you mean? Sydney: Well.......after what happened, the girls were humiliated enough. Why put them through that again? Kennedy: I don't think anything like that would happen again. Besides, I heard one of the girls doesn't even go here anymore. Sydney: Well no.....I don't mean that. I just mean.....maybe the neo's would rather put that whole thing behind them. Having them try to recreate their probate show or come up with a new one in this short amount of time....it might just bring up a bunch of bad feelings that they are trying to forget. Camille: Hmm...I didn't really think about that. I think I'm with you now, Syd. Dashia: Oh Camille, come on! Camille: Well I think Syd has a good point and as the president of the chapter, it's my responsibility to protect all of the members of the chapter. Kennedy: I think the girls would love it! I say we Par-tay! Dashia: Me too! Besides, I just finished teaching the neo's the Set it Off Stroll and I know they ready to try it out! Sydney: I been a soror for two years and I still don't know the whole Set if Off Stroll! Dashia (laughing): That's okay soror! I'll have a remedial session with you before the party. Sydney (laughing): Thanks a lot, soror! Just then the neo's begin to come back into the house with bags of buffalo wings. Tierra: Skeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee-Wee! Melanie: Skeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee-Wee! Chandra: Skeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee-Wee! Camille: Neo's just never get enough of that, do they? All of the sorors start to laugh. Sydney: Hey Camille.....why don't we ask the girls what they want to do? Camille: Okay, sure. Uh neo's....come in here for a second. Melanie, Tierra, and Chandra step out into the room with the other sorors. Camille: Got a proposition for you. I got a call today from the Alpha's and they would like to throw a party next weekend......in your honor....sort of like a second probate show. Melanie: Oh my gosh! Really? Chandra: I'm so excited! I can't wait. Melanie: We have to start practicing right away! Tierra: Well........you're gonna have to do it without me, sorors.....cause I'm not goin'.... ______________________________________________________________________________________________ Over at the Omega House, Kyle is finishing up a paper, when there is a knock on his bedroom door. Kyle: Who is it? Armani: It's me, dawg. Kyle: Oh what's up dawg. Come in. Armani opens the door. Armani: Roo! Kyle: Sup. Armani: You got somebody here to see you. Kyle: Who? Armani: Stasha. Kyle looks up in surprise. Kyle: What? Are you sure? Armani: Yeah, I'm sure, man. I just opened the door. I would have told her to just come up but I know ya'll been havin' some problems of whatever. Kyle: Yeah somethin' like that. Armani: Look, dawg....whatever it is, it can't be that bad. Kyle: It's complicated. I don't really wanna get into it. Look just tell her to come up. Armani: No problem, dawg. Kyle: Thanks. Armani closes the door behind him and Kyle jumps up and goes over to the mirror to check himself out. He realizes he still has on the tattered t-shirt and basketball shorts he wore to the gym earlier but has no time to change. He quickly grabs a bottle of cologne and tries to spray it on himself before Stasha gets upstairs. Just as he is finishing up, he hears the door open. He turns to see her walking in. Stasha: I told you before that cologne does not help funk. Kyle smiles Kyle: Yeah, I remember. So um what's up? You finally ready to talk? Stasha: Somethin' like that. Kyle: What you mean? Stasha: I mean I stopped over here on my way to the health clinic. Somethin' you wanna tell me? ______________________________________________________________________________________________ Scene 2 Continued... Valerie: Melinda, Mona was pledging an illegal line of Alpha Kappa Alpha last semester. Melinda: How do you know that, Valerie? Valerie: How do I know? I know it because my daughter was on that line and if you don't do something about this, Melinda, you can bet that I will! Melinda: Now you wait a minute, Valerie Edwards, you don't call my phone yelling and screaming at me like some mad woman! Valerie: I will yell and scream all I want when it comes to my child! Melinda: If you would just hush up for a second and listen, I told you I have no idea what you are talking about so what in the name of all that is good are you yelling at me about it for? Valerie: Because I wasn't so sure you didn't know! Melinda: Excuse me? You think I would let some alleged fake line go on and not stop it? Give me some credit, Valerie! Valerie: Alleged? So now you don't believe me? Melinda: This has nothing to do with me believing you, Val. I have to do some research. I mean honestly! You call me and start shouting out some nonsense about a fake line and what do you expect me to do? I didn't become the President of Ahpla by being a hot head! Valerie: Oh sure.....that's fine, Melinda. This is exactly what I expected you to do, anyway....nothing! Melinda: What? Valerie: Melinda, I swear that Mona has the wool pulled so far over your eyes, sometimes I don't even know who you are anymore. So no I didn't expect you to do anything that would reflect negatively on your precious Mona. Melinda: That is ridiculous! Valerie: I agree, Melinda. It is ridiculous. It's ridiculous how you are always willing to sacrifice your career and your integrity to protect your daughter. Mona is a grown woman and it's time you started treating her as such. Melinda: Now you listen to me, Valerie Edwards....I have never....not once given you any advice or critique on the way you raise your daughter and I'd appreciate the same from you. Valerie: When it affects my daughter, I'm sorry Melinda but I have to say something. I want a full investigation launched about this incident. Melinda: Did you forget that Mona is your god daughter? Valerie: No I have not. Which is why I came to you first. Handle this, Melinda. I mean it. If you dont, I will. Goodbye. Valerie hangs up the phone before Melinda can respond. Melinda furiously begins to pace around in her kitchen when the phone rings again. Without looking at the caller ID, she picks up the phone. Melinda: Oh you're calling back so soon, huh? More insults to throw that you forgot? Joseph: Hello? Melinda? Melinda: Yes, hello? Hello? Who is this? Joseph: Baby it's me....Joe.... ______________________________________________________________________________________________ Scene 3 Continued... Armani closes the door behind him and Kyle jumps up and goes over to the mirror to check himself out. He realizes he still has on the tattered t-shirt and basketball shorts he wore to the gym earlier but has no time to change. He quickly grabs a bottle of cologne and tries to spray it on himself before Stasha gets upstairs. Just as he is finishing up, he hears the door open. He turns to see her walking in. Stasha: I told you before that cologne does not help funk. Kyle smiles Kyle: Yeah, I remember. So um what's up? You finally ready to talk? Stasha: Somethin' like that. Kyle: What you mean? Stasha: I mean I stopped over here on my way to the health clinic. Somethin' you wanna tell me? Kyle: What you mean? Stasha (getting angry): Let me ask you again.....somethin' you wanna tell me? Kyle (sighs deeply): Stasha....I swear I was gonna tell you...that day but you got so mad and you just ran out of here so fast.... Stasha (yelling): You tried to tell me that one day? Kyle: Baby, you have to believe me! Stasha: First of all, I am not your baby! Secondly, this is my health we are talkin' about, Kyle! You tried to tell me that one day? You should have kept on tryin' to tell me until you got through to me! Didn't you think maybe it was important for me to know this? Kyle: How did you find out? Stasha: The health center called me and said I needed to come down to be tested for S.T.D's. So which is it, Kyle? Which nasty disease did you pass back and forth with my so called sorority sister? Huh? What is it? Kyle: They didn't tell you. Stasha: Didn't tell me what? All they said was I needed to get some testing done, so I did. I'm on my way now to get the results. Kyle: Oh........(Kyle let's out a deep sigh).....Stash....you better sit down. Stasha: Kyle, cut the crap and just be honest with me for once in your life! Kyle: Stash...I....I don't even know how to say this but....I....... Stasha: Oh what is it Kyle? Just spit it out! Kyle: Stasha......I'm HIV positive.....
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