Filed under: Season 2
Sudirman today: Na entered the garden of the church in Menteng. She sat down in the benches put in front of the statue of Mother Mary. Looked at it. It looked right through her. She wonder what it felt like being her. Never having sex. This woman really inspired the Juno’s of the world. In a more holy and purposeful way. Then a breeze rushed and blew Na’s hair in the wind. Na felt the breeze. It was calming. She wondered if she could just live here in the Church complex and never have to worry about not showing up at Celebrity Fitness in the latest Nike shoes, university, school, parties… How calming it would be she thought. But just not this church. To many people will spot her. But she was here to meet someone. And not think about a life as a nun. “Good to see you again Na,” says a man coming from behind her. Na was waiting for him. He sat down next to her. Na leaned her head on his shoulders. “What’s wrong this time Natalia?”
Na sighs. “Joshua Tanuwijaya, my boyfriend.”
“The guy who bailed on you at the debutante ball?” asks the priest.
“Yes father,” Na replies. She sighs again. “He never came back. As you might already heard. Or not cause he’s a Protestant. But,” Na begins. She sighs one more time and looks at the priest in the eye. “But he wants to meet me this summer Father Nico. He…he want’s to privately talk to me and I just can’t wait another month for that time to come. I want to know why fuck (oh I’m so sorry) he left. I… I… I have a play coming up father. I have the Spring Play where I have a significant part and I have exams too. I- I just can’t get my mind off Joshua to really focus on these two things… It’s frustrating but I- I don’t know father. How should I focus on the play and the finals with this Joshua thing. I’m going to Bali for the summer and he has a tournament there. He wants me to meet him there.”
“Na… Joshua has a very good reason to tell you why he bailed. It must have taken something very very significant for him to leave like that. But he did not tell you. He just left. He was the one who wronged you Natalia darling,” the father tells her. He puts a hand on her shoulders. “He wronged you. And you agreeing to meet him is partly forgiveness in the works. So you’re right and he’s wrong. Yes, I know, waiting in patience might not be one of your strongest fortes. But he is the one who should be anxious to tell you his reason. Not you. In fact, if he really was sorry and he really wanted to justify his bail on you, he should be here, now, to tell you instead of keeping you waiting.” Na nods her head.
“Well…I think you’re right. Yeah, he should be the one coming here to tell me actually. Thanks father,” Na says as she gets up from the bench.
“Anytime Nat,” he replies.
Later that night: “So,” G asks his sister Georgi. “What part did you get?” The two were eating dinner at Oyster Plaza Senayan. G had just finished a business meeting and his car and driver went to pick up Georgi at school so G decided they have dinner together. “I got the part of Chihiro in the play Spirited Away by Hayao Miyazaki. And why is your name on the script?” asks Georgi confused. “Don’t tell me you wrote it?” she continues after another bite of her oyster topped with melted cheese.
“Yes I did Georgi,” G replies. “So, which Chihiro did you get? The one who only shows up in the very beginning and the very end or the Chihiro in the spirit world who is practically in every scene?”
“I got the spirit world one. Guess who got the Chihiro in the human world?” asks Georgi with a slightly irritated tone in her voice. “Oh…know what? Mikki Saunders got the part. Which Mikki? The Mikki that sang with Mark Ronson dj-ing. Guess what? Now she’s gonna show up in the beginning and in the end of the play. So I’m fucked. Everyone’s first impression will be on her and what if she does a really great Chihiro for the first five minutes of the play and then I show up and people start leaving the theater?” Georgi drops the oyster meat on her shirt. “Mother fucker.”
“Well them leaving five minutes into the play will be highly impossible since they’ll be paying 200,000 per ticket,” G replies. “And I’m sure that you’ll steal the show. I mean, you’re singing almost all the songs while she has only like one song in the beginning…”
“And guess what? She’s saying the last sentence of the finale song when Chihiro finally goes home from the spirit world. That’s the like cherry on top of the whole fucking sundae that I’m gonna eat and get fat from,” Georgi tells her brother. “And Mikki will perform at the Chanel Private Party the night before the show so everyone at the Chanel Private Party who’ll watch the play the next day (which I’m sure will be almost everyone-except the celebrities) will be waiting to watch her and not me. I mean, if Mikki got the part of Rin the sidekick, I’ll be fine but she gets to play the same part I’m playing only for a shorter time. I’m so pissed, defeated and pissed and defeated. So fuck her, fuck the play, fuck everyone. Oh my God……why did she have to get that part. I mean, her getting that part is like a step away from her getting my part.”
G shakes his head. “Here, let me tell you the real reason why she got the part. Her father is the ambassador of the United Kingdom. If he comes, then the ambassador of Spain, Portugal, France, Germany and Italy might come because I heard they’re really tight, so I heard. And this Mikki girl loves theater. She loves it to death. So it was necessary to have her given a significant part. Though only five minutes, I heard they’re giving her the Solo.”
Georgi drops her spoon.
“What? The Solo? I thought the Solo was mine? I thought that Ruben Studdard song in the finale was mine? The one where she only sings the last sentence?” Georgi asks worriedly.
G shakes his head. “They’re adding another song. For Mikki. The song will come after your solo finale song. I heard after that the ‘Celebrate Me Home’ song in the end where all the cast sing for the last chorus, they’re closing the curtain and adding Aly and AJ’s song ‘Like Whoa’ with a whole new set. They told me its a more upbeat contemporary song to end the play with. To sum up Chihiro’s whole experience at the Spirit World they chose a song titled Like Whoa. So it should match the play.” Georgi was bewildered.
“I-I need to go to the bathroom…” Georgi left the table and as she walked to the bathroom, on the fourth floor of the parking building of Plaza Senayan, she saw Dania Simanjuntak, her best friend and Mikki Saunders laughing as they were about to go down the escalator. They spotted her looking at them. They stopped walking as they were a few steps from the escalator. Georgi’s face saddened and with a disappointed face immediately ran for the bathroom. “Wait here,” Dania said to Mikki.
“No,” Mikki said. “I’ll go,” she continued. “Wait for me at Sushi Tei.” Mikki walked fast toward the bathroom and Dania went down the escalator. Mikki then reached the bathroom and opened the door. There was no one except for Georgi who was on the floor sitting down with her back on the marble wall of the toilet. “WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU WANT?! WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING HERE?!” shouted Georgi.
Mikki was stunned.
“What is your problem with me?” Mikki said in the middle of the bathroom looking at her. “Look Georgi, if you have a problem with me you should tell me right now. And for your information, I have been nothing but nice to you and this is how you treat me.”
“I DON’T TREAT YOU LIKE ANYTHING! YOU’RE THE ONE MAKING ME TREATING MYSELF LIKE THIS! YOU THINK THAT I LIKE MISTREATING YOU?! YOU THINK THAT I LIKE HATING YOU?! NO MIKKI!” shouted Georgi. She got off the floor and began to shout some more. “I WANT YOU TO BE MY FRIEND! I WANT YOU TO BE MY GODDAMN FUCKING BEST FRIEND! BUT I ALWAYS FEEL SO DEFEATED WHEN I’M WITH YOU MIKKI! I YEARN TO BE YOUR FRIEND!” Georgi took a moment to breathe. “I YEARN FOR US TO SING TOGETHER WHEN NO ONE’S WATCHING! I WANT US TO BE BFFS AND HAVE A SLEEP OVERS WHERE WE MAKE VIDEOS OF US SINGING FUCKING DEMI LOVATO TOGETHER BUT I JUST CAN’T STAND IT! I CAN’T STAND FEELING DEFEATED AROUND YOU!” Georgi walked closer to her. “And if I become your friend and we start doing things together, I’ll just be lying to myself. You and I are competition. I can’t lie to myself. I can’t be your best friend. Because then there’ll be this Georgi inside of me dying to shout and scream at you. A Georgi that will want to rip your heart out when you get chosen to sing at a school event or what not….” Georgi scrunched her hair. She slammed her hands on the marble wall. “SO I JUST CAN’T STAND YOU! WHY THE FUCK DID YOU EVER HAVE TO COME?!” Georgi looked at her to find an answer.
“Well you know what Georgi,” Mikki said to her ear. Mikki had moved closer to her and was now centimeters away. “I’m not going anywhere. So you’ll just have to deal with all the singing parts I’m going to get. Like that solo in the end of your play? I bet you’ve heard of it…or not. But one thing is for sure.
“I’m going to steal the show from you. And make you suffer, like you’ve never suffered before. Watch out bitch, Mikki’s in town.”
Mikki walks out of the bathroom.
Oh my god
Did you hear (yeah)
About that bitch
And what she did?
I don’t believe it
Aw, aw
What a ho
What a tramp
What a slut
I bet you think we didn’t know
Didn’t even see the tides change
But it’s a small, small world, girl
Getting even smaller every day
I bet you think we didn’t know
Didn’t even see the tides change
But it’s a small, small world, girl
Getting even smaller every day
You can fake that smile
For a hollow while
But the kids all learn
Once those bridges burn
Ssssssssssssss
The trash washes up to shore
Even in this landlocked place
The shit gets thicker
It’s toxic
Get it out my face
The trash washes up to shore
Even in this landlocked place
The shit gets thicker
It’s toxic
Get it out my face
And don’t be surprised
If they don’t buy your lies
Some of us can see through
Your stained glass eyes
Song used:
Tilly and the Wall -Pot Kettle Black
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