SFX: FARIDA TRIES TO LIFT THE BAG OF FERTILIZER BUT FALLS DOWN SCREAMING IN PAIN. JENNY: (WORRINGLY MOVES IN TO HELP FARIDA) Farida! Are you okay? FARIDA: (GROANING IN PAIN) It’s okay; I just slipped. Okay, let me help you up. FARIDA: No, I’m fine; I can manage. SFX: HELPS LIFT FARIDA UP, BUT SHE SCREAMS IN PAIN AND JENNY NOTICES SOME INJURIES. JENNY: (CONCERNED) Farida, are these bruises on your arms? FARIDA: (TRYING TO BRUSH IT OFF) No, it’s nothing. JENNY: Nothing? What do you mean nothing? FARIDA: I just slipped and fell in the bathroom. JENNY: It’s him, isn’t it? He has been hitting you again? SFX: THERE IS AN AWKWARD SILENCE BETWEEN FARIDA AND JENNY WHEN SUDDENLY SIFA AND ZUHURA COME RUNNING IN FROM THE STABLE AND ZUHURA IS CRYING. ZUHURA: (CRYING AS SHE APPROACHES THE MIC) Mama! Sifa took the orange that Aunt Jenny gave me. SIFA: (RAISING HER VOICE) She’s lying! She’s lying! I did not take her orange! FARIDA: Sifa! Why do you like bothering your little sister, eeh? SIFA: (IN A TONE) But I didn’t take her orange. I have my own. FARIDA: (TRYING TO COMFORT ZUHURA) Stop crying, my I will buy another orange, okay? ZUHURA: Okay. CONTROL: Farida
SFX: FARIDA TRIES TO LIFT THE BAG OF FERTILIZER BUT FALLS DOWN SCREAMING IN PAIN. JENNY: (WORRINGLY MOVES IN TO HELP FARIDA) Farida! Are you okay? FARIDA: (GROANING IN PAIN) It’s okay; I just slipped. Okay, let me help you up. FARIDA: No, I’m fine; I can manage. SFX: HELPS LIFT FARIDA UP, BUT SHE SCREAMS IN PAIN AND JENNY NOTICES SOME INJURIES. JENNY: (CONCERNED) Farida, are these bruises on your arms? FARIDA: (TRYING TO BRUSH IT OFF) No, it’s nothing. JENNY: Nothing? What do you mean nothing? FARIDA: I just slipped and fell in the bathroom. JENNY: It’s him, isn’t it? He has been hitting you again? SFX: THERE IS AN AWKWARD SILENCE BETWEEN FARIDA AND JENNY WHEN SUDDENLY SIFA AND ZUHURA COME RUNNING IN FROM THE STABLE AND ZUHURA IS CRYING. ZUHURA: (CRYING AS SHE APPROACHES THE MIC) Mama! Sifa took the orange that Aunt Jenny gave me. SIFA: (RAISING HER VOICE) She’s lying! She’s lying! I did not take her orange! FARIDA: Sifa! Why do you like bothering your little sister, eeh? SIFA: (IN A TONE) But I didn’t take her orange. I have my own. FARIDA: (TRYING TO COMFORT ZUHURA) Stop crying, my I will buy another orange, okay? ZUHURA: Okay. CONTROL: Farida
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