Been There All Along: Audition Script

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Missy: ENTERS FROM THE LEFT ANGLE

Meghan: ENTERS FROM RIGHT ANGLE Hey, Missy wait!

-SEES THAT SHE IS TEARFUL

Missy: -DEPRESSED Hey Meg

Meaghan: So how'd it go at the psychology?

Missy: AWKWARDLY HUSHED

Meaghan: Missy? Come on CeCe tell me

Missy: -TEARING UP I have a Dysthymic Disorder

Meaghan: -LOOKS AROUND CAMPUS, GRABS MISSY'S WRIST AND BRINGS HER TO A BENCH Is it serious?

Missy: -CRYING I don't know you tell me! I never sleep anymore, I hardly eat, I've lost 23 pounds, all my friends think I'm a buzz kill, I can't ever do anything right anymore, I'm talking back, I can't ever stop crying! -SOBBING LOUD My boyfriend won't admit that he's tired of me and that he's been cheating on me for 2 whole months. Meaghan my best friend won't even look at me. What am I supposed to do? I can't pay for the Meds or the Therapy, and it wouldn't even matter because I'm not 18! My life is fucking hell! The only people who care about me is you, and my brother who's a million fucking miles away

Meaghan: You're damn right I care for you. Missy I'll stand right by you through everything, you got that?

Missy: -NODS, AND THEY BOTH HUG Thank you

Meaghan: No problem Ce

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Missy: -WALKS INTO THE CLASSROOM ATTRACTING EVERYONE'S ATTENTION

Teacher: Good Morning Miselia, so glad you could join us

Missy: -MISSY GETS TO HER ASSIGNED DESK AND FORCEFULLY SLAMS HER BOOKS ON THE DESK For the 10 billionth time, I don't like it when people call me Miselia, so call me Missy

Teacher: I prefer to call you by your birth name. Missy sounds like a dogs name

Missy: -GETTING FRUSTRATED And Mrs. Pitch sounds like Mrs. Bitch

HALF THE CLASS 'OHH!'S, CAMERA THREE GOES ON DREW

Ms. Pitch: Ms. Rodriquez!

Missy: Mrs. Bitch

Ms. Pitch: -FIRMLY POINTS TO THE DOOR Office

Missy: Who said I had to listen to you?

Ms. Pitch: two weeks of detention!

Missy: -LOOKS BACK AT THE GIRL BEHIND HER I bet she only gives kids detention, so she has something to do. You know, cause she's old and lonley

HALF THE CLASS LAUGHS

Ms. Pitch: What was that?

Missy: -LOOKS BACK AT HER Um I didn't stutter

Ms. Pitch: That's it I'm calling the office!

Missy: Good, and could you tell them that you reached one thousand on the old chart?

HALF THE CLASS LAUGHS AGAIN

Drew: -SHAKES HIS HEAD

Ms. Pitch -GROANS ANGRILY AND WALS TO THE PHONE

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