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Author: Fayth Bounarotti
Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Drama/General - Reviews: 6 - Published: 08-17-03 - Updated: 08-20-03 - id:1382797
Act 1

(Jill is sitting on a bench, right side of stage, writing in her diary; she puts the book down and then looks up)

Jill: I sometimes wonder when I realized it, realized I was different. Abnormal if you wish to call me it. Maybe I realized it when I was young playing with the other kids or maybe I realized it when I was in high school. I use to think what's the difference when I realized my life is one big lie anyways! That's before IT came out.

(2 girls enter from stage left coming towards Jill. One notices Jill)

Sam: Jill! (Girl runs over to Jill and sits down next to her)

Jill: Hi Sam. (another girl comes and stands behind the bench)

Sam: What'cha doing? (Jill picks up her diary once again and smiles)

Jill: Just writing. Where you two heading?

Britt (girl standing): To the football game, Tim's playing.

(Lights go out all but a spotlight on Jill, she holds out the diary, everyone else perfectly still.)

Jill: If it wasn't for this little diary then I wouldn't have been able to live. I poured my whole soul into it. I even revealed the secret of IT. I guess if I really wanted to know when I realized IT I would only have to look in here. And it was also my diary that betrayed me. (Lights comes back on Sam tosses her hair back to show that it's back in the past)

Sam: Come with us to the game. It'll be fun!

Jill: (puts diary down on the other side of her and looks at the girl in back of her) I don't know the last football game I went to Tim got hurt I might be bad luck.

Britt: Your not bad luck for Tim! You're his girlfriend!

Jill: I don't know, I don't want him to get hurt again.

Britt: Your coming, now! (She takes Jill's hands and pulls her up) Come on Sam to the car!

Sam: Hold on a minute I need to call Bobby I'll be there in a minute (takes out cell phone and dials a number then puts phone to ear after a minute she says) Hey Bobby I'll be at the football game with Britt and Jill. Britt's actually taking Jill against her will. She thinks she's bad luck or something. Call me back when you get this bye! (Pockets the phone and turns around about to leave when she notices Jill left her diary. She picks it up and puts it in her pocketbook and exits the side the other two girls went)

Next Scene:

(Jill runs on stage and looks around the bench for the diary, there are kids talking off to the other side of the stage)

Jill: I know I left it here I know it! Where is it! (She sits on the bench defeated lights go out and a spotlight on her again) How could I have left something so important as my diary, something so important as my deepest darkest secret, lying around? I went to look for it after the football game when I noticed it missing. I almost yelled at Britt to drive me back to the bench. I told her that I left something there. I felt horrible! What if someone read it! They would know about IT and my abnormality! I felt like dying! A few days went by no sign of my diary. (She gets up and starts walking away from the bench the lights go out totally bench is removed and in it's place is a table with 4 chairs in the dark Britt, Bobby, Sam and Tim are sitting around the table, Bobby actually standing behind Sam so the last seat is empty. Lights go on again. In Sam's hands is the diary they are all peering into it reading it. Jill turns around to walk over to them and Sam quickly pulls the diary under the table)

Jill: What is everyone staring at me for?

Tim: How could you? (He gets up away from Jill)

Jill: How could I what?

Sam: (takes the diary out from under the table) Why didn't you tell us you where, you where.(Jill cuts her off)

Jill: You read my diary! How could you! I thought you were my friends.

Sam: You're not our friend! You didn't even tell us you were.(Jill cuts her off again but this time the lights go out and the spot light on Jill comes on)

Jill: That I'm a lesbian. (Lights go on and Jill is back at looking at her "Friends")

Sam: How could you do this to Tim! He really liked you! You're so selfish! Didn't you even think of how your decision would affect everyone?

Bobby: Liking other woman isn't normal! (Jill moves towards Britt who was the only one not to speak but Britt moves away)

Britt: Don't come near me you filthy dyke! (Lights go out again and Jill turns to the audience)

Jill: The truth, what was I suppose to do. Sam was utterly disguised but Britt. looked more frightened then anything else. My friends wanted nothing to do with me. The same friends I grew up with. (Total darkness the table and chairs are removed and 3 girls suppose to be younger Jill, Britt and Sam. All of them playing with a doll or something and laughing)

Young Britt: No matter what we'll be friends forever right?

Young Sam: No matter what. We'll even go to our Proms together.

Young Jill: I don't want to go to my Prom.

Young Sam: Jill! You have to! We're going together.

Young Jill: Why?

Young Sam: If you don't come with us to Prom that means we're not going to be friends forever! Friends that go to Prom stay friends forever! My mom told me that.

Young Britt: My mom never told me that (Sad tone and expression)

Young Jill: Fine I'll go.

All: Friends forever! (Little Jill looks at the audience and sighs. Light out, they stop moving and then the spot light on older Jill comes on)

Jill: Prom was the next weekend; Tim broke up with me and went with some girl we weren't really friendly with. Britt and her boyfriend Allen went together but fought there and broke up, which was surprising because we all thought they were going to be the first to get married. But Allen was seeing someone else and couldn't take it anymore. Sam and Bobby went together, no surprise there. Britt didn't graduate and because of that and Allen she broke down. She was never really stable to begin with. Her mother put her in a hospital. Sam totally abandoned her. I heard that girl that Tim went with got pregnant because of that night, married Tim and was soon left by him when the kid turned 2. Sam, last I heard broke up with Bobby their freshmen year in college and she became a nurse and moved out of this town. As for me, I stayed after graduation feeling horrible about my self. There was no place for me to go during the summer. I had no friends left and no one in the town wanted anything to do with me. That summer was the worst anyone could imagine. I was alone utterly alone. Waking up each morning got harder and harder. I use to lie there in my bed and just staring at the ceiling thinking. (The bench is back on the stage with Jill's diary on it she walks over to it with her diary picks it up and pretends to write in it)

(A boy walks onto the stage and spots Jill and sits next to her)

Brandon: Why you sitting here all alone?

Jill: Because I want too. (Emotionless)

Brandon: Hi I'm Brandon.

Jill: Jill. (Emotionless)

Brandon (Puts arm around the top of the bench): So you go here?

Jill: I did (not looking up from the diary)

Brandon: You graduate last week?

Jill: Yes? (Emotionless)

Brandon: That's cool my cousin did too.

Jill: That's nice. (Emotionless)

Brandon: Are you Jill Smith?

Jill: Why do you ask? (Finally looking up)

Brandon: My cousin told me about a Jill who was a dyke in his school. He thought it was a pity such a hot girl liked other girls. (Jill gets up and turns to Brandon)

Jill: Leave me alone!

Brandon: So you're the dyke.

Jill: Why won't people just let me be! (Jill punches Brandon in the face he rolls off the bench and when he hits the ground the lights go out. Bench is removed and Brendan leaves. Spot light on Jill sitting Native American style on the floor)

Jill: It felt good to let my anger out like that! I really had a lot. By the middle of the summer I had gotten even more depressed. All my thoughts were hollow and angry. I was supposed to go to Stanton College in the fall but I didn't really care anymore. (Lights totally go out. Table is put out on stage with a pill bottle and a glass of water spot light on her and the lights go back on) I had to end it. I had to end all the pain. (Takes some "pills with the water spot light widens to the area around her she falls and the glass falls from her hand, knocking the table over with her. Sirens and police lights. Lights totally go out, Jill and table are removed. Two people come on stage, her mom and dad, dad's arm around moms shoulder)

Dad: I found her like that just lying there in her room when I came up. I don't know how long she was out. Will she be ok? Is she dead? I told you I don't know how long she was out.

Mom: Just please save her! Yes I called the cops. We were downstairs and heard a loud crash like Jill had fallen.

Dad: I went up to check on her. Just in case. She can be a little clumsy at times. Mom: He called down to me to call the police but I didn't instead I ran upstairs to see what happened and I saw her just lying there. I thought she was dead. I hope my mistake didn't cost Jill her life! I ran back downstairs and called. (Lights go out. But you can still hear the crying of Mom and soothing of dad, along the lines as: she'll be ok! They said she'll live. She'll be ok.)

Author Note: I wrote this a while back. I'm lazy tonight and don't feel like editing the other act and posting it tonight I'll be posted tomorrow



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