(Soft fade.)
"Tomorrow, maybe I’ll speak. But tonight, I just exist." ayaka oishi monologue 6 13
(She turns away from the window, hugging her knees.) (Soft fade
"You know what I realized? I’ve been so scared of being alone that I forgot how to be with myself. Every word I said, every smile—I was shaping it for someone else. ‘What will they think? Will they stay? Will they leave like the last one?’" (Soft fade.) "Tomorrow
"But tonight… I’m not asking that. For the first time, I’m asking: What do I want? And the answer scares me more than silence. Because I want something I can’t fake. I want to stop performing."
(She laughs softly, bitterly.)