7 Millon Sunsets

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You know they sent me to kill you, right?

Yeah. Yeah I'know. What are you waiting for

If you gon kill me, kill me

Cleo please... I-

[giggling]

I should've shot you asshole.

Still can.

You wanna have a talk?

Will you actually listen to-

[talking over her loudly] ONCE UPON A TIME.....

"When I was a girl....I thought that maybe I would grow up & be

a news

anchor or a doctor or maybe even a goddamn senator/she chuckles]..I didn't really have a clue, I just wanted to help....to change the world.. I wanted to be a difference maker, do something important. I guess I thought those were the kind of people that meant something Y'know. I thought those were the forces that kept all the bad shit from our front door. Little did we know- little

did I know- that we were living on a foundation of our own

ignorance. that the real horrors of the world weren't some distant monsters but a disease manufactured by the same people sworn to

protect. Then I grew up & learned that this fucked up world doesn't change if we don't change and as long as we feel like we don't have a reason to change this hell goes on forever-"

Cleo stop! This is the world we live in & it's always been this way! It's never been for us and it never will be! Yeah. it's unfucking fair but not you or I can make a change big enough to save us from what we were born into.-

[Over lapping] Bullshit.

-How many people have died so far trying to fight the inevitable? People we care about?

A whole fucking lot & you know it, so why are you racing towards an

outcome that will lead to me burying the only person I've

ever loved in this world?

[Pause]

Baby, anyone who's ever dreamt of changing this miserable world was killed before they even woke up and I love you too much to

let that happen to you too!

Do you? because if you loved me like you say you do you

wouldn't be asking me to go back to that BULLSHIT. You see it's

people like you that feed this machine! It's people that think Like you that feed the same belly that eats our fucking children Janet! How can you not see this!? The kids they've bombed. The families they've ripped limb from limb! Innocents in prison.

Think of the women whose graves we're probably standing on right now that died for us to even has this fuck ass conversation!

I don't want to die for a dead cause Cleo! You are my sun & my moon. My blood & my tears. I breathe for you. I wake up for You! This world-my world..is an empty void if I lose you. Babu

Nothing else matters. Why can't you see that!

Honey That's the thing. There are other things that matter. Things that matter so much more than us. A future where girls like us can be girls like us. A world where we don't have

to hide who we are just to fucking stay alive Janet. That world is attainable. Maybe not in this life or the next 20 lifetimes but & I'll be damned if I continue to lay on my back & let this

establishment fuck me without making sure I point my desert

eagle right at its shriveled up little-

Cleo this isn't our fight-

The fuck it isn't Janet!-They rape us, they kill us, they treat us like property and you're asking me to fucking coexist with these people? NO JANET. I wanna die on my own terms, I wanna live[!!!] on my own terms and so do you-

([Janet overlapping at 'fucking coexist'] "I'm not asking you to coexist! I'm asking you to survive-")

How the fuck do you know what I want? Don"t you think I get tired? Tired of running, tired of having to pretend that I am praud of where we come from? Tired of pretending that the history of this world isn't just nightmare fuel for people like us? Tired of having to smile in the face of the people that put our ancestors in fucking chains. No, you think I'm just some

dumbass broad who is too coward to be a martyr for the cause.

Well my stamp on the world is not dying. And making sure that

'girls like me" can actually live to see "girls like me"

BREATHING!

[Softly, Gently] I did not call you a dumbass broad... but you not wrong

Jakckass

Ho

Only for you

Forreal? Cause I seen the way you was looking at Tonya

McFadden-

That was 4 years ago miss jealousy

Damn.. we've known each other a long time huh

7 years 4 months & a thousand moments I'll never forget

That's about 7 million Sunsets if my math is correct

you always were the smarter one

Hey baby I love you so much but you know one of us has to die right.

Yeah. I' know.

[Long pause]

[on the brink of tears] would be a shame if we didn't have

one more dance before we bloody up this beautiful moment.

I wouldn't want to have it any other way. Wait here I'm

gonna go get my things ready alright?

Alright.