Post by London Carter on Dec 26, 2020 2:26:29 GMT -5
December 17th, 2020
Hollywood Hills, CA
Hollywood Hills West/Sunset Plaza
Carter-King Mansion
“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and oftentimes we call a man cold when he is only sad.”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The scene opens up outside the beautiful home Anthony and London share, Anthony is shown setting up a playhouse while London sits on the ground with his feet dangling in the pool located near the back entrance of the house sipping on some wine while watching Anthony struggle to get the playset up.
LONDON CARTER-KING: Damn babe, struggling much?
ANTHONY KING: Yes, and while I’m struggling you're over there watching shows and sipping on some wine.
LONDON CARTER-KING: Babe, my flight was delayed and I sat in the airport for hours before I could leave, I am exhausted.
ANTHONY KING: I guess sitting and waiting is exhausting huh?
LONDON CARTER-KING: Don’t try me, you never said you were getting this nor did you tell me I was going to have to help you set it up. I don’t understand why you didn’t pay someone to do this.
ANTHONY KING: If I told you then you would have complained from the beginning so that’s why I didn’t mention it and excuse me for wanting to experience this moment setting up a playhouse for our kids.
LONDON CARTER-KING: Now you're being dramatic, I think you are trying to start an argument with me.
ANTHONY KING: Nah, that’s the last thing I want to do.
LONDON CARTER-KING: I’m just playing babe, I’m going to help. I was just trying to let my body rest since you didn’t give me time to get in the door before ripping my clothes off. Luckily the boys were asleep or you wouldn’t be getting any.
ANTHONY KING: I made sure it was nap time when you got here.
LONDON CARTER-KING: I bet you did.
London smiles as he gets up from the couch, he walks over to Anthony and wraps his arms around Anthony’s waist and starts kissing on his neck.
LONDON CARTER-KING: I’m just happy to be here honestly, it was getting kind of lonely in Miami. I know I got my sister, but I rather be here with you and the kids.
ANTHONY KING: We miss you here, but I won’t even get into that topic because we're having a good time, but you know it would be a lot better if you would just permanently move here and stop the back and forth travel.
London lets go of Anthony.
LONDON CARTER-KING: You know most of my work is in Florida, I really only come here to stay with you guys and that’s it. LA is done and even if it was coming back I don’t think I would sign on again, I’m tired of MIL using my personal life as a punching bag for ratings.
ANTHONY KING: It’s your show, you started that mess.
LONDON CARTER-KING: True, but it became a problem once I stepped down from my executive position. I’m sorry I just couldn’t allow them to continue making a fool out of me and my relationship.
ANTHONY KING: Well that's over and done with, the show isn’t important anymore.
LONDON CARTER-KING: I just wish you would move to Miami and get away from California, there's nothing here for you. Your parents stay in Texas now and the rest of your family lives all throughout the united states, the only person here is Madison and I’m sure she’ll be okay.
ANTHONY KING: Bruh, your saying leaving my sister alone in California is ok, Brooklyn has a husband so it's easy for her to be left there, Madison is single and I’m all she has minus the few friends she does have here.
LONDON CARTER-KING: You're missing the point and you're taking it the wrong way, your sister has even said she would be fine with you leaving LA and moving to Miami so I don’t understand what the issue is.
ANTHONY KING: Alright yo I’m getting frustrated, I don’t want to talk about it anymore. The good thing is you are here and that’s all that matters, I don’t want to ruin this time forreal.
LONDON CARTER-KING: Look at some point we have to meet in the middle, but right now let's just focus on what's happening now and I’m sure we will figure it out. We’ve been through much worse so this is nothing compared to the other stuff we’ve been through.
Anthony turns and looks at London, he pulls London closer to him and the two share a long kiss before pulling back.
LONDON CARTER-KING: I’m thinking round two?
ANTHONY KING: Shit it's more like round 4, bring that ass here boy.
Anthony grabs London’s arm and pulls him inside the house, the scene fades.
December 19th, 2020
Los Angeles, California
Dr. Vivianna Greene PHD/Therapist’s Office
The scene opens up in front of Dr. Vivianna Greene’s personal practice, a red blacked out Porsche Panamera pulls up to the front entrance and smoothly pulls into a parking space that someone just left out of it. London puts the car in park and leans back in the seat a little bit before jumping out of the car.
SHARON CARTER: Did you walk in yet?
LONDON CARTER-KING: No I just parked, I really don’t need this.
SHARON CARTER: Honey you’ve been dealing with depression for a while now and I think it's time for you to talk to someone, I wish it was more we can do to help but maybe someone who doesn’t know you will be able to help you better.
LONDON CARTER-KING: I don’t need the help, I can figure it out on my own. I just think with the new babies, the distance with me and Anthony and the fact I've been struggling with what I want to do as far as my career has been really bothering me.
SHARON CARTER: I’m here to help you every step of the way, but just give this a go and call me once you leave, I’ll be ready to listen.
LONDON CARTER-KING: Ok ma, I love you.
London disconnects the facetime call with his mother and he jumps out of the car, he slowly walks in the building acknowledging the secretary while adjusting the mask on his face. The secretary informs London he would have to wait a few minutes before being seen by the doctor. London turns and walks over to one of the chairs in the waiting room and sits down.
LONDON CARTER-KING: I hope this isn’t a long wait because I don’t have the time, damn I can be so impatient.
A few minutes go by and Dr. Vivianna walks out to greet London, the two walk into her office and Dr. Vivianna closes the door behind her, London takes a seat on the couch 6 feet away from the doctors desk while Dr. Vivianna sits down in her own chair.
LONDON CARTER-KING: Can I take this mask off?
DR. VIVIANNA: Yes of course, my apologies. The masks are required while waiting in the lobby.
LONDON CARTER-KING: It's fine, I figured as much since covid doesn’t seem like it’ll be going anywhere.
DR. VIVIANNA: Looks like that huh? Well I’m happy that you decided to meet with me today, from my understanding you’ve had previous sessions with therapists so this shouldn’t be hard for you.
LONDON CARTER-KING: I have, but it's not something I enjoy doing. It’s something about telling your darkest secrets or your business to a complete stranger, I get you guys can’t tell anyone but it’s still weird and with me being a public figure it's kind of hard to trust people with your business nowadays, people are always looking for a come up.
DR. VIVIANNA: Well trust me when I say this I’m not looking for a come up, I think the money I make as a doctor is good enough for me and plus I enjoy being out of the public spotlight, takes too much energy and patience for me.
London nods in agreement, he pauses for a second before taking a deep breath and speaking again.
LONDON CARTER-KING: You can say that again, i think that's why I’m so scared to get back out there, I’ve enjoyed living under the radar. I mean people still notice me and come up to me while out in public but it's good to stay out of the headlines.
DR. VIVIANNA: What is the reason for your visit today?
LONDON CARTER-KING: I don’t know to be honest, I think I’m going through this funk right now, I don’t know if it's because I’m getting older, maybe it's because I’m a father now and this experience is just new to me and I’m having a hard time adjusting to it or maybe I’m just stuck in life.
DR. VIVIANNA: I need details.
LONDON CARTER-KING: Some days I find myself crying or getting upset for absolutely no reason at all, I’ll be in the house just staring at the ceiling and thinking to myself (“Damn, should I just scream right now, will that help me?”). I’ve tried to find things to keep myself busy but that isn’t working, and with Covid going on business hasn’t been the greatest and it just sucks.
DR. VIVIANNA: Yes Covid has affected a lot of people, it's a sad situation and with everything going on right now I’m sure it's hard being stuck in the house and I’m sure businesses are suffering whether it's private, franchise or corporate. I’ve told my other clients that maybe they should find something to keep them busy in the house, it could be a hobby, maybe painting, something that will ease the mind and bring a little peace while dealing with the craziness in the world today.
London shakes his head annoyed by the doctor's response.
LONDON CARTER-KING: That may work for a few hours but then back to being sad, I don’t think art is going to bring me out of this deep depression.
DR. VIVIANNA: But you have to do something that is going to help you “try”. Depression is hard, I mean you have your good days, you have your bad days and then you have your REALLY BAD DAYS but in the end if you're strong enough to conquer those bad days then I don’t see any issue of you conquering this depression you're going through. I want to dig deeper in your life and ask you where did all this depression stem from? Did you have issues in your life growing up?
LONDON CARTER-KING: My childhood was crazy but in a good way, it was a lot of back and forth between my parents, they were married then divorced but then remarried so it was a lot of drama with my parents growing up but that didn’t stop either one from loving me and my two sisters and my other brother. I think as I grew older and started dealing with the emotions of being a young teenage boy I think that's when the problems started.
DR. VIVIANNA: Explain.
LONDON CARTER-KING: My family never had an issue with my sexuality, I was the one who had an issue with it, but as I grew older I became more accepting of it. I’ve had successful relationships so that was never the issue, and then I met my husband now Anthony and fell deeply in love, we went through hell and back during the relationship but now we are at a “ok” place.
DR. VIVIANNA: Does he add to the depression?
LONDON CARTER-KING: In a way he does, he lives in Cali and I’m still in Florida.
DR. VIVIANNA: Ah, see now we are getting somewhere.
LONDON CARTER-KING: And for years we’ve been going back and forth about who is going to move and where we’re going to live full time and I’m sick of it. He wants to live here in California while I on the other hand want to live in Miami, and I want our kids to live there too.
DR. VIVIANNA: And I’m guessing you two can’t come to a resolution.
LONDON CARTER-KING: Nope!
DR. VIVIANNA: You know eventually you two will have too and you might want to do it before your kids get older because at that point it might be a problem.
LONDON CARTER-KING: I’ve been saying the same thing.
DR. VIVIANNA: And what is his response?
LONDON CARTER-KING: Sometimes he says he’s ok with the distance but then I always find myself in an argument about it with him, so to be honest I don’t know how he feels and I hate that he won’t be honest with me about it.
DR. VIVIANNA: He probably does that to avoid an argument, and that's not always a good thing because conversations should always happen in a relationship. I’m pretty sure you know that you two have to come to an mutual agreement at some point because you have two sons that are going to grow up soon and you don’t want these issues to still be around once they hit that certain age, once you have kids then it isn’t about you anymore, it's what works best for them.
LONDON CARTER-KING: And living in miami is what's best for them.
DR. VIVIANNA: And you two have to be on the same page about that.
London rolls his eyes.
LONDON CARTER-KING: I guess.
DR. VIVIANNA: What else has been bothering you?
LONDON CARTER-KING: I’ve been playing with the idea of maybe returning to the ring, I haven’t wrestled in years and I’ve been having that itch to like to do it again.
DR. VIVIANNA: Why is that making you sad though? I would think that would be a good thing, I saw on the questionnaire that wrestling was a previous profession and then I also noticed on there you have a sock and underwear line too.
LONDON CARTER-KING: I do, but that hasn’t been doing too good lately either, it's not that we’re not selling but I haven't been able to get new products or designs and that's been messing with me too.
DR. VIVIANNA: Understand that we are in a pandemic right now so everything may not be the way you want it to be, I'm sure once everything starts getting better then it’ll be a different story but right now the only thing we can do is sit back and be patient. Trust I'm not a fan of wearing these masks everyday but the virus is serious and we’ve been losing people left and right because of this pandemic.
LONDON CARTER-KING: I think with all the stuff that's happening personally in my life, the pandemic is only adding more stress, maybe once it's over then things will go back to normal.
DR. VIVIANNA: I don’t think you need to be medicated or anything, I just think you're going through some rough patches in your life and you don’t have a clear vision on what it is you want to do. Some meditation would probably help and maybe some time away from all the madness.
LONDON CARTER-KING: I’m tired of taking vacations because once it's over then it's back to reality, but at the same time you could be right. I’ve been doing a lot of Yoga and soul searching and it hasn’t gotten me anywhere yet but I won’t give up.
DR. VIVIANNA: That's what I like to hear.
LONDON CARTER-KING: I don’t know if talking to you today helped solve anything but it was good to let that pain out.
DR. VIVIANNA: I always say people should keep their feelings built up inside, it's okay to let them out and talk to someone who is willing to listen and help solve whatever issue you have going on. I think we should meet up again in two weeks just to see where your head is at and I also Zoom meetings to just in case you're not here in California.
LONDON CARTER-KING: I’m not against that.
DR. VIVIANNA: Good, well London I hope you and your family have a wonderful Christmas and happy new years, i’ll send you an email with my availability and we can go from there.
LONDON CARTER-KING: That’s fine, and thank you Dr. Vivianna.
DR. VIVIANNA: No, thank you.
London gets up from the couch and he waves “bye” to Dr. Vivianna leaves out of her office and heads to the parking lot as the scene fades to black.
December 19th, 2020
Later that evening
Hollywood Hills, CA
Yung Fetish Clothing Store
The scene opens up inside of Brandon Young’s clothing store “Yung Fetish.” Brandon is shown inside moving some items around trying to make room for some new products he has coming in. The scene cuts to the outside where London is shown pulling up in his red Porsche. London parks in front of the store and hops out, he makes his way inside greeting Brandon with a hug.
BRANDON YOUNG-ANDREWS: I said London’s ass better not come to California and not stop to see me.
LONDON CARTER-KING: Now you know I wasn’t going to do that.
BRANDON YOUNG-ANDREWS: I’ve missed you so much, these months that you have been gone at the time isn’t sitting with me, I need you here everyday.
LONDON CARTER-KING: I don’;t know about all that, I don’t think our men would like if we were together every single day, we might end up single.
The two laugh.
BRANDON YOUNG-ANDREWS: Yeah knowing our crazy niggas, they may end up shooting us and burying us somewhere in the valley.
LONDON CARTER-KING: Shit I wouldn’t put it past them, but I just left my therapy session and it really didn’t do shit.
BRANDON YOUNG-ANDREWS: I didn’t know your depression was that deep Lon, are you sure you're okay?
LONDON CARTER-KING: I’m ok for now, I was just in a mood earlier but I’m a little better now, and it wasn’t because of that stupid therapy session. On my way over here I just was thinning that my life is to damn good to be this depressed and I need to figure out what I can do to get myself out fo this fucking sadness.
BRANDON YOUNG-ANDREWS: I told you we should take a trip to Puerto Rico or something, get away for a few days and not let the bullshit get you down.
LONDON CARTER-KING: That sounds nice but when I get back it’ll just be the same, I need to figure out this move and then figure out what I’m going to do with this underwear and sock line.
BRANDON YOUNG-ANDREWS: Your shit is still selling here in my store and our online sales have been high too, I told you if you needed any help that I would help you, we can collaborate on something.
LONDON CARTER-KING: Shit I may take you up on that offer.
London walks over to the section Brandon has specially for his items, he picks up a pair of the socks and stares at them for a couple seconds.
LONDON CARTER-KING: I remember when I first got the idea to do a clothing line, I wanted jeans, sweaters, cardigans, I wanted everything but then Anthony told me to start small and then go big, I was so mad at him in the beginning because I felt like he was downplaying my dream but then Covid happen and I guess I'm kind of happy I listened to him. But now it's like if it doesn’t continue to sell then what else can i do?
BRANDON YOUNG-ANDREWS: Keep trying until you succeed, the same thing you told me when I thought about giving up on opening this store.
London stands there silent, he places the socks back on the rack and turns and looks at Brandon.
LONDON CARTER-KING: I gotta fix my relationship first, I really think Anthony might be seeing someone else. I have this gut feeling.
BRANDON YOUNG-ANDREWS: Wait what? Are you sure?
LONDON CARTER-KING: Yes.
BRANDON YOUNG-ANDREWS: Do you want me to ask Drake? I can ask him.
LONDON CARTER-KING: Anthony is Drake’s best friend, I doubt he will give his best friend up like that, but I was thinking about asking Anthony about it when I get home. I know we haven’t been in the best place because of me not wanting to move to LA but I would hope he wouldn’t step out on me especially now that we have kids involved.
BRANDON YOUNG-ANDREWS: He wouldn’t be that stupid.
LONDON CARTER-KING: Why wouldn’t he? Niggas are stupid in general, so It wouldn’t surprise me.
BRANDON YOUNG-ANDREWS: Well it would surprise me, I don't think Anthony would do that to you, that boy loves you too much to mess up his happy home.
London shrugs not giving Brandon a response, he turns and walks over to one of the lounge chairs inside the store and takes a seat. Brandon follows behind him sitting in the chair on the opposite side of the room.
BRANDON YOUNG-ANDREWS: But then again my man had “break babies” on me.
Brandon rolls his eyes.
LONDON CARTER-KING: The difference is y’all wasn’t together, i know it still hurts but it's not much you can really say about that.
BRANDON YOUNG-ANDREWS: It hurt me for a while and I almost left him for it, but then i realized that we both made some mistakes and even though we were broken up, I can’t get mad at him for something he did while we were apart, plus the good thing is we have a family now so I guess in the end it wasn’t so bad afterall.
LONDON CARTER-KING: You two have been through alot, I’m happy that you guys continue to work through your issues and stay together.
BRANDON YOUNG-ANDREWS: And I’m sure you and Anthony will too, hell if we can beat the reality tv curse of being in a relationship on tv then I’m sure you guys can make it through this.
LONDON CARTER-KING: I appreciate that Brandon.
London gets up out of his chair and walks over to Brandon, he leans down and gives Brandon a huge hug.
BRANDON YOUNG-ANDREWS: OH NO BITCH, we SOCIAL DISTANCING. 6 FEET ME PLEASE!
LONDON CARTER-KING: Boy shut up, I tested negative for COVID, I’m good.
The two laugh.
BRANDON YOUNG-ANDREWS: I’m almost finished here, why don’t we go and grab some drinks at this spot down the street, they’re still open for outside drinking and the way they have the tables set up is so cute.
LONDON CARTER-KING: I’m down, I guess I could use a few drinks before I head home.
BRANDON YOUNG-ANDREWS: Great!
Brandon gets back to doing what he was doing inside the store while London walks towards the back to sit in Brandon’s office, the scene fades to black.