SCENE 1
(Driver looks over a few times and focuses back on the road and the rain.)
Passenger: What do you want?
Driver: What do you mean?
Passenger: You keep looking over at me… Do I have something stuck in my teeth?
Driver: No
Passenger: Is my make up smeared? Is my hair messed up?
Driver: No, nothing is wrong with how you look. You look fine to me!
Passenger: Then why do you constantly look at me? It makes me think that there is a stain on my shirt or something.
Driver: It isn’t that, it’s just I don’t really know what to say or where to go from here.
Passenger: What’s wrong?
Awkward silence
Passenger: Well?
Driver: I don’t know, it’s just been a tough year. My dad got sent to prison for his second time, he broke his parole, my brother had a drug bust and is going to juvi, my mom, well she is hardly around. I just, I just am not sure. And on top of that, my dog got ran over. That put the icing on the cake. The red icing…
Passenger: Blaine, I am so sorry! I had no idea what had been going on!
Driver: its fine I guess. I mean, you didn’t do anything wrong.
Passenger: I know but still! I feel bad.
Driver: I pretty much have lost my family. All I have left is you. I am scared to lose you now. I know that probably sounds queer or femme but it’s true and you know how much I hate sounding all emotional or whatever, Heather.
Passenger: You won’t lose me. I will always be here for you. I love you, Blaine.
Driver: I love you too.
Passenger: What do you want?
Driver: What do you mean?
Passenger: You keep looking over at me… Do I have something stuck in my teeth?
Driver: No
Passenger: Is my make up smeared? Is my hair messed up?
Driver: No, nothing is wrong with how you look. You look fine to me!
Passenger: Then why do you constantly look at me? It makes me think that there is a stain on my shirt or something.
Driver: It isn’t that, it’s just I don’t really know what to say or where to go from here.
Passenger: What’s wrong?
Awkward silence
Passenger: Well?
Driver: I don’t know, it’s just been a tough year. My dad got sent to prison for his second time, he broke his parole, my brother had a drug bust and is going to juvi, my mom, well she is hardly around. I just, I just am not sure. And on top of that, my dog got ran over. That put the icing on the cake. The red icing…
Passenger: Blaine, I am so sorry! I had no idea what had been going on!
Driver: its fine I guess. I mean, you didn’t do anything wrong.
Passenger: I know but still! I feel bad.
Driver: I pretty much have lost my family. All I have left is you. I am scared to lose you now. I know that probably sounds queer or femme but it’s true and you know how much I hate sounding all emotional or whatever, Heather.
Passenger: You won’t lose me. I will always be here for you. I love you, Blaine.
Driver: I love you too.
Ha ha. This was a weird scene. It started out very funny and then got dramatic. "Do I have something stuck in my teeth?" And then the driver drops the monologue about everything that's wrong with his life. Poor sucker. The ending seemed forced.
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