Smoking Beauty - Scene 3 - The Montage

[Since this is a play, actors would have to perform quick costume changes, possibly onstage.]

1999: [The fairies have rented a U-Haul truck, and Flora and Lizbeth are loading boxes, while Fauna sits in a lounge chair and sips a margarita.]

2002: [4 year old Auroura is frolicking.]

2003: [King and Queen are having intimate sex.]

2006: [A man, Jerry, is sitting at his desk in his boring office job. He eats a pretzel from a small bag. He continues typing.]

2008: [Auroura is 10, and getting "The Talk" from the fairies. Flora is reciting shit verbatim from a book. Lizbeth is actually talking to Auroura. Fauna is using her finger and a bagel.]

2009: [Three men in hazmat suits stand around a large pile of drugs. One man has a crown on top of his helmet. The other two are of identical height. The crowned man (King) has a blowtorch.]

King: This is it. The last drugs for miles. [Uses blowtorch on the pile. Before long, the pile catches. The fire roars. An angry scream is heard offstage and Queen enters, fuming.]

Queen: [while walking, to King:] You have some explaining to do mister- [Queen trips on a dime bag since she's wearing high heels. She falls into the fire, and screams in pain. King tries to pull her out, but it's obviously too late. The screams stop, and so do the Queen's movements. The only sound left is the cracking of the fire.

Twin 2: Wow, it sounds like you really dodged a bullet there, huh? [Twin 1 and King look at him] Too soon?

2010: [The King is with a new woman. Another woman spots them together. She smacks him on the face and walks off. The other woman leaves the King, too. King shrinks down in sadness.]

2014, Marina Era: [Auroura is teenager. 15, and a junior in high school, to be exact. She's on the phone with someone.]

Auroura: Yeah, so my sweet 16's in a couple weeks. It's just going to be a small little get-together with a few of my friends so you'd better be one of them, biotch. [hangs up]

Fauna: [calling from offstage:] Auroura!

Auroura: Yeah?

Fauna: AUROURA!

Auroura: YEAH, I SAID YEAH! [Exits]