The Coño Boy 1 & 2: Love What You Will

Chapter Thirty: This Deserves a Montage!

[Author's Note: Montages. They do that in movies with music and lots of cuts or transitions of scenes. Think of this chapter as that part. I'm asking you to also play the music to get the feel, relish the chapter and let your imagination take you into Sean's journey. I picked "You Get What You Give" by the New Radicals. Credits to the late National Artist Rolando S. Tinio for the Filipino translations of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.]

🎶 One, two
One, two, three 🎶
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Rehearsal, Rehearsal, Rehearsal...

Jerome/playing Duke Orsino: "Kung musika'ng bumubusog sa pag-ibig, tugtugan ako ng labis, nang sa pagsasawa manghina ang hilig at tuluyan nang mapawi."

🎶 Wake up kids
We've got the dreamers disease
Age fourteen we got you down on your knees
So polite, you're busy still saying please
Frienemies, who when you're down ain't your friend
Every night we smash their Mercedes-Benz
First we run,and then we laugh 'til we cry 🎶
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During Free time at the bench.

Sean/memorizing Sebastian: "Ipinakikiusap kong huwag na. Mapanglaw ang sinag ng aking mga bituin; baka madamay ka sa mga kamalasan ko. Kaya't hihingin kong iwanan na ko at nang mag-isa... nang mag-isa... nang-"

Sean grasps his thoughts to remember the next line

Joaquin: It's "nang mag-isa kong mabata ang aking kapalaran."

Joaquin's still reading his Filipino in a cutesy accent that's still off.

Sean/memorizing Sebastian: Right! "Nang mag-isa kong mabata ang aking kapalaran. Napakasama namang sukli sa 'yong pagmamahal kung isasali pa kita sa ganitong kasamaan."

Sean continues reciting the lines while looking at Joaquin. His eyes are expressive; smiling eyes if that was ever the term for it.

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During first company call when actors and production staff are gathered to take notes from the director before rehearsals.

Sir Ricky: Now, I want you to think at what this unravelling is all about: APPEARANCE versus DESIRE.

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Swimming P.E. Class.

Sean is seated by the bleachers near the pool wearing his swim trunks. A towel is draped on his back. He's holding a script, obviously memorizing and reciting his part. Joaquin is seated to the right of him, holding the class beadle's clipboard and a plastic tumbler of post it notes. Guys from the class are taking turns to draw lots from the plastic tumbler for some class activity.

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The director continues to explain the the play to them during company call.

Sir Ricky: That's why the play is also called "What You Will" or "Kung Anong Ibigin". We should be able to bring our audience to ask for themselves, "Will you follow your heart's desire? Will you love the person whom the very fibre of your being calls for, longs for, who is in your every thought or breath? Or will you follow the dictates of society? Will you follow what society deems acceptable or what it perceives to be normal?"

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Sean comes out from the glass door of FB Hall lobby.

He sees Nerissa ride Joaquin's car.
Joaquin lowers the car window on the driver's side and gestures with his iPhone.