Two rooms, Pati's house and Bella's house, each lying on her couch, in her pajamas, drinking a cup of coffee and talking on the phone.
Pati: Good night Bella, how are you, how was your day?
Bella: good night love, my day was fine but now that I can finally hear you, I can say that my day really is perfect.
Pati: I really want to see you, it's been 4 months of just calls and messages, I need to know that you are real, to touch your hands, to reflect in your eyes and not just settle for seeing your pictures.
Bella: If we could see each other right now, would you let me caress your skin?
Pati: I would let you caress my skin only if you would give me a smile.
Bella: Just having you around would make me happy, it would make me smile.
Pati: It would be the most beautiful thing I've seen in a long time.
(Sighs and is silent for a few seconds). I really need to see you. I propose to see you tomorrow on Valentine's Day.
Bella (hesitates and also sighs): Tomorrow? Oh... Oh... Well, all right, love, tomorrow we'll be face to face for the first time. I confess I'm very nervous, I don't want us to damage our beautiful connection.
Pati: believe me, if we don't see each other, it will be as if all this never existed.
Bella: it's ok love, I understand. Tomorrow I will wear white and bring a blue rose to make our meeting even more special and even though we have already seen each other in pictures it is never the same as seeing each other in person.
Pati: ok babe, I still don't know what I'm going to wear. I propose that we meet at 7pm at the plaza.
Bella: Perfect love, see you tomorrow then.
Pati: I can't believe you finally agreed to see me, I'm so excited, see you tomorrow.
(Artificial grass and flowers, a beautiful bench under the dim light of a beautiful lantern. Pati is sitting, she has decided to wear a normal outfit like when she goes to college, she looks at the clock many times and tries to call Bella but the phone seems to be turned off. A white rose seller walks by, dressed in a blue jacket, white pants, black hat and huge glasses.)
Rose seller (turns to Pati): good evening miss, please buy me a rose, I've had a bad day and haven't sold any yet, everyone is buying red roses.
Pati: no thank you (while wiping away a tear).
Rose seller: can I help you with anything?
Pati: can you tell me the time, please?
Rose seller: it's 8:00 pm.
(Pati looks at the floor sadly, tries one last call, unsuccessfully, and leaves. The salesman calls out to her and hands her a white rose, she subtly takes it, turns her back to him and leaves).
(A prop wall simulating Pati's house, a mirror inside the house, a wooden door separating Pati's house from the outside space.)
Pati (looking in the mirror with the white rose in her hand, talking to herself): I thought that today I would see myself reflected in Bella's eyes with a blue rose in my hands and I only see my own reflection and even the color of the flower has changed, it's not the same as I dreamed. You are my true love, it's you, I don't have to look for anything else out there anymore.
(She began to cry and withdrew from the mirror, leaned against the wall and bent down like a scolded child to sob, threw the rose on the floor...). Suddenly there was a knock on her door.... It was the rose seller...)
Pati (wiped her tears and opened the door): What are you doing in my house, have you been following me?
Rose seller: Please excuse me, there has been a mistake with the rose I gave you.
Pati: For God's sake, what mistake can there be in such a beautiful flower?
Rose Seller: I need it back if you would be so kind, it is very important to me and I apologize for the inconvenience and the strangeness of it all, it is hard to explain.
Pati: I would not like to have an argument tonight with anyone, please take your rose and leave (picks up the flower from the floor and gives it to the saleswoman).
(With a nice piano melody playing in the background, the salesman pulls a floral spray from his jacket pocket, starts to apply it on the rose and it starts to dye blue, Pati keeps looking at him tenderly. He finishes dyeing the flower, hands it to Pati without saying a word and they stare at each other. The seller takes off his jacket and underneath he wears a beautiful white shirt, takes off his hat and his huge glasses, takes Pati's hands gently and takes the rose between his own.)
Rose seller: now do you know who I am?
Pati (in a soft voice): Bella? why so?
Bella (rose seller): all the pictures you have seen of me, are from more than a year ago, since then I am transsexual, I was afraid of your rejection, some things in me have changed.
Pati: What else were you not honest about?
Bella: I was always honest, there was just something I didn't say.
Pati: I like who you are, I like the connection between you and me. I don't care what you do with your gender.
Bella: That's good to know because now that I finally see you, I never want to stop.
(Pati stretches out her arms, Bella too, they hold hands for a few seconds, they look into each other's eyes tenderly, they hug each other tightly...)
