OK. Sorry for the long wait. I got really lazy and didn't want to do anything. Plus I quit college and am going to be moving soon. I plan to finish this before I do though.
Still don't own anything.
Firefly: Ok everyone. I hope to finish this soon and then we can all get on with our lives.
Santino: How come I was not in this?
Firefly: Because I don't like you. Now shut up. On with the play.
BASEMENT
Vince:What did you want to be when you were young?
Coach:When I was a kid, I wanted to be John Lennon...
Vince:Coach don't be a goof! I'm trying to make a serious point here...I've been teaching, for twenty two years, and each year...these kids get more and more arrogant.
Coach:Aw bull shit, man. Come on Vince, the kids haven't changed, you have! You took a teaching position, 'cause you thought it'd be fun, right? Thought you could have summer vacations off...and then you found out it was actually work...and that really bummed you out.
Vince:These kids turned on me...they think I'm a big fuckin' joke...
Coach:Come on...listen Vince, if you were sixteen, what would you think of you, huh?
Vince:Hey...Coach, you think I give one rat's ass what these kids think of me?
Coach:Yes I do...
Vince:You think about this...when you get old, these kids; when I get old, they're gonna be runnin' the country.
Coach:Yeah?
Vince:Now this is the thought that wakes me up in the middle of the night... That when I get older, these kids are gonna take care of me...
Coach:I wouldn't count on it!
Hunter: Neither would I.
Vince ponders that statement for a moment.
LIBRARY
They are sitting on the floor in a circle.
Shawn:What would I do for a million bucks? Well, I guess I'd do as little as I had to...
Trish:That's boring...
Firefly: Hang on a moment. How good are you guys at crying on the spot.
Trish: We can do it, don't worry.
Firefly: Ok.
Shawn:Well, how'm I s'posed to answer?
Trish:The idea is to like search your mind for the absolute limit. Like, uh, would you drive to school naked?
Shawn laughs.
Shawn:Um, uh...would I have to get out of the car?
Trish:Of course...
Shawn:In the spring, or winter?
Trish:It doesn't matter...spring...
Shawn:In front of the school or in back of the school?
Trish:Either one...
Shawn:Yes...
Lita:I'd do that!
They all look at her.
Lita:I'll do anything sexual, I don't need a million dollars to do it either...
Trish:You're lying...
Lita:I already have...I've done just about everything there is except a few things that are illegal...I'm a nymphomaniac!
Trish rolls her eyes.
Trish:Lie...
Kenny:Are your parents aware of this?
Lita:The only person I told was my shrink...
Shawn:And what'd he do when you told him?
Lita:He nailed me...
Trish:Very nice...
Lita:I don't think that from a legal standpoint what he did can be construed as rape since I paid him.
Trish:He's an adult!
Lita is relishing this attention.
Lita:Yeah...he's married too!
Trish notes her disgust.
Trish:Do you have any idea how completely gross that is?
Lita:Well, the first few times...
Trish:First few times? You mean he did it more than once?
Lita:Sure...
Trish:Are you crazy?
Kenny:Obviously she's crazy if she's screwing her shrink...
Lita:(to Trish) Have you ever done it?
Trish:I don't even have a psychiatrist...
Lita:Have you ever done it with a normal person?
Y2J: How would you like that one answered.
Trish:Now, didn't we already cover this?
Cena:You never answered the question...
Trish:Look, I'm not gonna discuss my private life with total strangers.
Lita:It's kind of a double-edged sword, isn't it?
Trish:A what?
Lita:Well, if you say you haven't... you're a prude. If you say you have...you're a slut! It's a trap. You want to but you can't but when you do you wish you didn't, right?
Trish:Wrong...
Lita:Or, are you a tease?
Shawn:She's a tease...
Trish:Oh why don't you just forget it...
Shawn:You're a tease and you know it, all girls are teases!
Cena:(to Shawn) She's only a tease if what she does gets you hot...
Trish:I don't do anything!
Lita:That's why you're a tease...
Trish:Okay, lemme ask you a few questions.
Lita is suddenly defensive.
Lita:I've already told you everything!
Trish:No! Doesn't it bother you to sleep around without being in love. I mean don't you want any respect?
Lita:I don't screw to get respect...That's the difference between you and me...
Trish:Not the only difference, I hope.
Cena:Face it, you're a tease.
Trish:I'm not a tease!
Cena:Sure you are! You said it yourself sex is a weapon, you use it to get respect!
Trish:No, I never said that, she twisted my words around.
Cena:Oh then what do you use it for?
Trish:I don't use it period!
Trish is on the verge of tears.
Cena:Oh, are you medically frigid or is it psychological?
Trish:I didn't mean it that way! You guys are putting words into my mouth!
Cena:Well if you'd just answer the question...
Kenny:Why don't you just answer the question?
Shawn:Be honest...
Cena:No big deal...
Kenny:Yeah, answer it!
Shawn:Answer the question, Trish!
Cena:Talk to us!
Shawn & Kenny:Come on, answer the question!
Cena:It's easy, it's only one question!
Trish silences all of them by screaming.
Trish:(screaming) No! I never did it!
Silence for two beats.
Lita:I never did it either, I'm not a nymphomaniac...I'm a compulsive liar...
Trish:You are such a bitch! You did that on purpose just to fuck me over!
Lita:I would do it though...If you love someone it's okay...
Trish:I can't believe you, you're so weird. You don't say anything all day and then when you open your mouth...you unload all these tremendous lies all over me!
Shawn:You're just pissed off because she got you to admit something you didn't want to admit to...
Trish:Okay, fine, but that doesn't make it any less bizarre...
Shawn:What's bizarre? I mean we're all pretty bizarre! Some of us are just better at hiding it, that's all.
Trish:(to Shawn) How are you bizarre?
Lita decides to field that question.
Lita:He can't think for himself...
Shawn:She's right...do you guys know what, uh, what I did to get in here? I taped Larry Lester's buns together. (N/A: I would change the name but I don't really know who to put.)
Trish laughs.
Kenny:(to Shawn) That was you?
Shawn:(to Kenny) Yeah, you know him?
Kenny:Yeah, I know him...
Shawn:Well then you know how hairy he is, right? Well, when they pulled the tape off, most of his hair came off and some, some skin too...
Trish:Oh my God...
Shawn:And the bizarre thing is, is that I did it for my old man...I tortured this poor kid, because I wanted him to think that I was cool. He's always going off about, you know, when he was in school...all the wild things he used to do. And I got the feeling that he was disappointed that I never cut loose on anyone, right...So, I'm...I'm sitting in the locker room, and I'm taping up my knee. And Larry's undressing a couple lockers down from me. Yeah...he's kinda... he's kinda skinny, weak. And I started thinking about my father, and his attitude about weakness. And the next thing I knew, I uh, I jumped on top of him and started wailing on him...And my friends, they just laughed and cheered me on. And afterwards, when I was sittin' in Vince's office, all I could think about was Larry's father. And Larry havin' to go home and...and explain what happened to him. And the humiliation...fucking humiliation he mustuv felt. It mustuv been unreal...I mean, (he's crying) I mean, how do you apologize for something like that? There's no way...it's all because of me and my old man. Oh God, I fucking hate him! He's like this...he's like this mindless machine that I can't even relate to anymore..."Shawn, you've got to be number one! I won't tolerate any losers in this family...Your intensity is for shit! Win. Win! WIN!!!" You son of a bitch! You know, sometimes, I wish my knee would give...and I wouldn't be able to wrestle anymore. And he could forget all about me...
Cena:I think your old man and my old man should get together and go bowling.
Shawn laughs briefly.
Kenny:It's like me, you know, with my grades...like, when I, when I step outside myself kinda, and when I, when I look in at myself you know? And I see me and I don't like what I see, I really don't.
Trish:What's wrong with you? Why don't you like yourself?
Kenny:'Cause I'm stupid...'cause I'm failing shop. See we had this assignment, to make this ceramic elephant, and um...and we had eight weeks to do it and we're s'posed ta, and it was like a lamp, and when you pull the trunk the light was s'posed to go on...my light didn't go on, I got a F on it. Never got a F in my life... When I signed up, you know, for the course I mean. I thought I was playing it real smart, you know. 'Cause I thought, I'll take shop, it'll be such an easy way to maintain my grade point average...
Cena:Why'd you think it'd be easy?
Kenny:Have you seen some of the dopes that take shop?
Cena:I take shop...you must be a fuckin' idiot!
Kenny:I'm a fuckin' idiot because I can't make a lamp?
Cena:No, you're a genius because you can't make a lamp...
Kenny:What do you know about Trigonometry?
Cena:I could care less about Trigonometry...
Kenny:Cena, did you know without Trigonometry there'd be no engineering?
Cena:Without lamps, there'd be no light!
Trish:Okay so neither one of you is any better than the other one...
Lita feels left out.
Lita:I can write with my toes! I can also eat, brush my teeth...
Trish:With your feet?
Lita:...play Heart & Soul on the piano.
Kenny:I can make spaghetti!
Trish:(to Shawn) What can you do?
Shawn:I can...uh...tape all your buns together...
Cena:I wanna see what Trish can do!
Trish:I can't do anything.
Cena:Now, everybody can do something...
Trish:There's one thing I can do, no forget it, it's way too embarrassing.
Cena:You ever seen Wild Kingdom? I mean that guy's been doing that show for thirty years.
Trish:Okay, but you have to swear to God you won't laugh...I can't believe I'm actually doing this...
Trish takes lipstick out and opens it. She places it between her breasts and applies it from her cleavage. When she lifts her head, her lipstick is perfect. Everyone claps. Cena's clap is sarcastic and slow.
Shawn:All right, great! Where'd you learn to do that?
Trish:Camp, seventh grade...
Cena:That was great, Trish...my image of you is totally blown...
Lita:You're a shit! Don't do that to her you swore to God you wouldn't laugh!
Cena:Am I laughing?
Shawn:You fucking prick!
Cena turns to Shawn. As he speaks, we can see his words hitting home.
Cena:What do you care what I think, anyway? I don't even count, right? I could disappear forever and it wouldn't make any difference...I may as well not even exist at this school, remember? (he turns to Trish) And you...don't like me anyway!
Trish:You know, I have just as many feelings as you do and it hurts just as much when somebody steps all over them!
Cena:God, you're so pathetic! (furious) Don't you ever...ever! Compare yourself to me! Okay? You got everything, and I got shit! Fuckin' Rapunzel, right? School would probably fucking shut down if you didn't show up! "Queenie isn't here!" I like those earrings Trish.
Trish:(quietly) Shut up...
Cena:Are those real diamonds, Trish?
Trish:(angry) Shut up!
Cena:I bet they are...did you work, for the money for those earrings?
Trish:Shut... Your mouth!
Cena:Or did your daddy buy those?
Trish:(furious) Shut up!
Trish starts crying.
Cena:I bet he bought those for you! I bet those are a Christmas gift! Right? You know what I got for Christmas this year? It was a banner fuckin' year at the old Cena family! I got a carton of cigarettes. The old man grabbed me and said "Hey! Smoke up Johnny!" Okay, so go home'n cry to your daddy, don't cry here, okay?
There are a few beats.
Shawn:My God, are we gonna be like our parents?
Trish:Not me...ever...
Lita:It's unavoidable, it just happens.
Trish:What happens?
Lita:When you grow up, your heart dies.
Cena:Who cares?
Lita is on the verge of tears herself.
Lita:I care...
Kenny:Um, I was just thinking, I mean. I know it's kind of a weird time, but I was just wondering, um, what is gonna happen to us on Monday? When we're all together again? I mean I consider you guys my friends, I'm not wrong, am I?
Shawn:No...
Kenny:So, so on Monday...what happens?
Trish:Are we still friends, you mean? If we're friends now, that is?
Kenny:Yeah...
Trish:Do you want the truth?
Kenny:Yeah, I want the truth...
Trish:I don't think so...
Lita:Well, do you mean all of us or just John?
Trish:With all of you...
Shawn:That's a real nice attitude, Trish!
Trish:Oh, be honest, Shawn...if Kenny came walking up to you in the hall on Monday, what would you do? I mean picture this, you're there with all the sports. I know exactly what you'd do, you'd say hi to him and when he left you'd cut him all up so your friends wouldn't think you really liked him!
Shawn:No way!
Lita:'Kay, what if I came up to you?
Trish:Same exact thing!
Cena:(furious and screaming at Trish) You are a bitch!
Trish:Why? 'Cause I'm telling the truth, that makes me a bitch?
Cena:No! 'Cause you know how shitty that is to do to someone! And you don't got the balls to stand up to your friends and tell 'em that you're gonna like who you wanna like!
Trish:Okay, what about you, you hypocrite! Why don't you take Lita to one of your heavy metal vomit parties? Or take Kenny out to the parking lot at lunch to get high? What about Shawn for that matter, what about me? What would your friends say if we were walking down the hall together. They'd laugh their asses off and you'd probably tell them you were doing it with me so they'd forgive you for being seen with me.
Cena:(furious once again) Don't you ever talk about my friends! You don't know any of my friends, you don't look at any of my friends and you certainly wouldn't condescend to speak to any of my friends so you just stick to the things you know, shopping, nail polish, your father's BMW and your poor--rich--drunk mother in the Carribean!
Trish:(furious and sobbing) Shut up!
Cena:And as far as being concerned about what's gonna happen when you and I walk down the hallways at school, you can forget it! 'Cause it's never gonna happen! Just bury your head in the sand...and wait for your fuckin' prom!
Trish:I hate you!
Cena:Yeah? Good!
There is silence until Kenny speaks.
Hunter: You know they are very good. That whole scene was almost believable.
Firefly: Thats something, I guess.
Kenny:Then I assume Lita and I are better people than you guys, huh? Us weirdos... (to Lita) Do you, would you do that to me?
Lita:I don't have any friends...
Kenny:Well if you did?
Lita:No...I don't think the kind of friends I'd have would mind...
Kenny:I just wanna tell, each of you, that I wouldn't do that...I wouldn't and I will not! 'Cause I think that's real shitty...
Trish:Your friends wouldn't mind because they look up to us...
Kenny laughs at her.
Kenny:You're so conceited, Trish. You're so conceited. You're so, like, full of yourself, why are you like that?
Trish:(crying again) I'm not saying that to be conceited! I hate it! I hate having to go along with everything my friends say!
Kenny:Well then why do you do it?
Trish:I don't know, I don't...you don't understand..you don't. You're not friends with the same kind of people that Shawn and I are friends with! You know, you just don't understand the pressure that they can put on you!
Kenny is shocked.
Kenny:I don't understand what? You think I don't understand pressure, Trish? Well fuck you! Fuck you!
Kenny hides his head in his arm because he is crying.
Kenny:Know why I'm here today? Do you? I'm here because Mr. Ryan found a gun in the locker...
Shawn:Why'd you have a gun in your locker?
Kenny:I tried. You pull the fuckin' trunk on it and the light's s'posed to go on...and it didn't go on, I mean, I...
Shawn:What's the gun for Kenny?
Kenny:Just forget it...
Shawn:You brought it up, man!
Kenny:I can't have an F, I can't have it and I know my parents can't have it! Even if I aced the rest of the semester, I'm still only a B. And everything's ruined for me!
Trish:(with pity) Oh Kenny...
Kenny bashes a chair over.
Kenny:So I considered my options, you know?
Trish:No! Killing yourself is not an option!
Kenny:Well I didn't do it, did I? No, I don't think so!
Lita:It was a hand gun?
Kenny:No, it was a flare gun, went off in my locker.
Shawn:Really?
Shawn starts to laugh.
Kenny:It's not funny...
They all start to laugh, including Kenny.
Kenny:Yes it is...fuckin' elephant was destroyed!
Lita:You wanna know what I did to get in here? Nothing...I didn't have anything better to do.
Everyone laughs.
Lita:You're laughing at me...
Shawn:No!
Lita starts to laugh too.
Lita:Yeah you are!
Firfly: Ok everyone thats it for now.
Hunter: They are getting better.
Firefly: Yeah and the play is almost over.
Shawn: You know I am haveing a lot of fun with this.
Firefly: (Grinning) That is good to know.
Shawn: Why?
Firefly: No reason.
I think the next chapter will be the last. Hope you all injoyed it. R/R bye.