"The Move" Monologue by Benjamin Rivera

Walks in the door throws his backpack on the bed.

“Sometimes I just can’t with this woman yo , it’s always something with her”

“She really be drawn, I ain’t bouta be in this cracker ass school. My mom’s got me chopped if she thinks I’m moving. Harlem is the life I wanna live, may not be the safest but this is my home and she got the nerve to tell me we moving after New Years.”

“Why can I never have anything for me, Huh? I follow all her rules, go to school, and get good grades for what?”

“It’s crazy because she never even talks to me I feel like I made my own life already”

“I go to one of the best schools in New York. I have a huge opportunity and she still won’t even listen to me, I just feel like I’m a ghost in my house, they show envy to my success and show lies through smiles.”

“I’ve created something big, a foundation where there's a big future and you want to move me 2 hours from my home.”

Looks down in sorrow

“All my friends, all my teachers, all my relationships… For nothing. I love my life in the the city. I don’t get into problem, I don’t do drugs, and I’m never in the streets so why take me out because of someone else’s doing”

“She won’t let me stay with my grandma, like c’mon she would look after me for so many years  so why can’t I stay with her. I could still go to the same school I do now, there’s no reason why you should be here trying to dictate my life like I’m your slave or some”

“She’s really confusing though”

“When she told me I was just in shocked because she never thought of moving until he got here, and I can never say nothing about it,

“He took my spot as the man of the house, it’s crazy because I’ve been looking after everyone for 16 years and he got the nerve to be here 6 months and start taking over shit”

“I ain’t even gonna pay him no mind because I lose everything when I open my mouth, that’s why I stay in my room all the time, it’s my solitude from her and the world.”

“She may think that when I snap it’s out of disrespect but it’s not, it’s out of sorrow because I can never even get an I love you from her”

“Is it really hard to say I love you to her oldest son, the person who always stood by ya’side”

“That’s not how she sees it though, so instead of giving you my love I give it to what I want most, my dream”

“She’s not going to shoot me in the foot like I’m a dog and do as she pleases, I’m a human the same as you.

“So when she tried to say we moving to east bumblefuck she knew damn well I wasn’t going to be happy.”

“She keeps telling me that the school is good and I’m going to like it even more than here but I don’t believe it”

“Since she’s at work right now so it gives me sometime to actually think, maybe I should look at the school”

Searches up the school through his computer

“ I mean the school looks good, they have everything I want from a school it’s not the city but it could work”

“I just don’t know if it is the right thing to do right now though.”

“Hopefully things workout for the best of us”