a/n: Sorry I've been out of town so I couldn't update, I feel really bad.

Scene Five:

(GRACE'S house—GRACE'S bedroom. LUKE and GRACE)

GRACE: Luke, I've already talked about my mother.

LUKE: Grace, seriously, let's be big about this—

GRACE: Dude, I've been big about this, now I want to be a child and pretend for one night, that my mother doesn't exist.

LUKE: (Eying her suspiciously) Okay, fine. But…umm, are you going to go to the—

GRACE: Alateen? Yes, okay? Let's drop it!

(GRACE leans in to kiss LUKE, LUKE resists the kiss turning his face away from her. He looks hurt.)

GRACE: Luke, I didn't…didn't mean it.

LUKE: Mean what? For it to come out that way? Grace, it seems as of lately, that you don't mean a lot of things to come out the way they do!

(GRACE looks at LUKE as if he had just slapped her in the face finds no words. Now fade to front of St. Matthew's church where JOAN is seen walking in. A PRIEST is sitting at a table where confirmation sign registrations are.)

PRIEST: Hello, Joan.

JOAN: You know, God, the whole 'keep it on the D.L.' thing really isn't your forte.

PRIEST: Joan, I have to stress, the confirmation class is a choice. You have to choose to enroll.

JOAN: You, of all people, should know how I respond to your speeches of freewill.

PRIEST: Take a pamphlet, and think about it.

JOAN: You already know what I'm going to do.

PRIEST: I don't all the time, sometimes, you humans shock me. Watch out for the puddle Joan!

(JOAN slips and begins to fall backwards until she is caught by a rather handsome boy her age.)

BOY: Hey, are you okay?

JOAN: Er…yeah, I'm fine, thanks.

BOY: I'm Jacob.

JOAN: (clearly flustered and embarrassed) H-Hey, I'm Joan. Joan Girardi.

JACOB: Well, Joan Girardi, it was nice meeting you. If you decide to do this whole confirmation thing, take the ten a.m. class…I'm in it.

JOAN: Okay…haha…well I gotta go.

(Fades to GRACE and LUKE.)

GRACE: LUKE! I've said it enough! I just don't want to talk about it! I've talked about it—I've been talking about it!

LUKE: No, you've been putting it off for weeks now!

GRACE: No! It's been at the forefront of every conversation as of lately! I'm sick of talking about it…you know just leave! Seriously go!

LUKE: Grace…

GRACE: No, I'm done with this! Get out of my house.

FADES TO BLACK, END OF EPISODE ONE!