Creating My Characters World

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This is a script I’ve written of how I imagine the conversation between mr and Mrs Lyons went when she suggested they adopt a baby. 

Mr and Mrs Lyons are in the kitchen

Mrs L- why don’t we adopt? give a child a nice life that they wouldn’t have otherwise.

Mr L - adopt? I want my own son, not someone else’s. I’m not having a child that’s created by filth.

Mrs L: but it wouldn’t become filth, we’d raise them to be exactly how we want them to be, to be a polite, sweet, loving child. (Pause) Richard please, this could be the only chance I have of being a mother. I just I want a baby, that’s all I’ve ever wanted. Please Richard, just think consider it.

Mr L: I already told you no, don’t bring it up again Jennifer. I’ve had enough of your absurd fantasies. The only way we will have a child as if it has been grown in your womb…If it is my own.

Mr L exits

Mrs Lyons sits down

Mrs L- I wish it was that simple. I wish I could just grow this baby, for you… for me. My whole life I’ve longed to be a mother, to raise the perfect child who I can love and will love me back dearly. But everyday I see that dream of mine slip away more and more. I look out in the street and I see kids playing, I’m so envious of their mothers for being able to have a child so effortlessly. There are some women have five children 6-7 even and here I am, I can’t even have one. Eventually, my husband will realise there is no hope for me having a child of my own you’ll find somebody that can. And there I’ll be, childless and alone. Poor Mrs Lyons, when did her life become so tragic.