10-minute play

[Chatfield, Minnesota. A small farm on the outside of town where there is only one neighbor around. The moon is high and the only light is from the house and a lamp pole.]

Kelsey
[sits down on a rock next to her uncle]
What are you doing?

Marvin
Just taking a break. That bathroom is so small that it gets super hot and mucky in there.

Kelsey
Your bathroom looked great before, why are you redoing it?

Marvin
There was a lot of cracks and holes where you couldn't see. Eventually, they would've gotten worse.

Kelsey
Well, your bathroom will look great when you are finished!

Marvin
Thanks. I hear you started school yesterday. How was your first day at your new school?

Kelsey
It was fine; I was really scared. They all just looked at me when I walked in.

Marvin
People only look at you to either see if they recognize you or to see what you look like.

Kelsey
Yeah, but I thought I was so cool wearing my new tweetie bird shirt and my brand new shoes my mom bought me. Then no one talked to me. The teacher talked to me about my old school but no one in the class talked to me.

Marvin
They will talk to you, they are just shy. I bet if you talk to them, they will talk to you. You will have friends before you know it.

Kelsey
[with a cute, confused tone]
Are you sure?


Marvin
I'm positive! You are a great girl and I bet you will have friends by Monday. Don't worry about it.

Kelsey
Okay, Thank you Uncle Marvin.

Marvin
Your welcome. Now.... WHO'S READY FOR THE TICKLE MONSTER!?!!

Kelsey
NO! Uncle Marvin, Don't!

[Marvin tickles Kelsey in the stomach and she rolls over, laughing hysterically until...]

Marvin
Dang it!! Sean just went to the bathroom, now I got to wait ONE HOUR until I can go in there!

Kelsey
Hehe, I went in there after he went one time and I almost puked. I smelled like a skunk who had eaten rotten eggs just died.

Marvin
Yep, that's my boy!! I just wish he would learn to not play jokes on people so much. He thinks they are funny but he has hurt people. He needs to be taught a lesson.

Kelsey
Well, your his dad. Shouldn't you teach him?

Marvin
Yes, I suppose your right. I guess I'll just have to be the mean Dad for once. I don't like that.

Kelsey
Don't be mean to him. You can be nice, can't you?

Marvin
Yea, maybe I'll just have to have him learn on his own.

[There is a long pause and they are just looking out into the distance]

Marvin
[looks at the house and in a agitated voice...]
What's Sean doing now?

Sean
Hey, Kelsey come here I have something to show you.

[She walks over slowly as if she already knows it's something dumb.]

Kelsey
Yea... what do you want to show me?

Sean
[as he moves his arms from behind his back]
SNAKE! Kelsey here's a snake, your favorite animal!

Kelsey
OMG!! Sean get it away from me, right now! NO, SEAN DON'T!

[Sean starts chasing her with the snkae around the barn while Kelsey is crying]

Marvin
SEAN ALLAN KLEMA! Stop that right now!

[Sean stops dead in his tracks and Kelsey runs beside the barn to hide.]

Sean
You said my full name!

Marvin
And I better not have to again. Where'd you find the snake?

Sean
I was going to the bathroom [he laughs], and something was moving in the fan, it wasn't the fan cuz I know what it sounds like.

Kelsey
[pops her head from behind the barn]
I bet you would, stupid!

Marvin
Kelsey, don't call your cousin stupid.

Kelsey
Well [she pauses], he does stupid things.

Marvin
Oh, I know that but you shouldn't call people stupid.

Kelsey
Fine, but I still think he's stupid.

Marvin
Well, don't say it out loud. Anyways, Sean finish your story.

Sean
As I was saying before I was rudely interrupted [looks at Kelsey and sticks his tongue out], I looked inside the fan and there was the snake.

Kelsey
You did all this for that short story?

Sean
Yea because I have never seen a snake in a fan before.

Kelsey
NERD!

Marvin
Kelsey! Okay well go by the barn and throw it n the side to let it go.

Sean
[with a smirk on his face]
Okay, Dad. Whatever you say.

[Sean throws the snake on the side of the barn where Kelsey was hiding]

Kelsey
SEAN!! YOU DID THAT ON PURPOSE!! [running from the barn] It's gonna get me![She screams while running]

[Kelsey, then, trips on a rock and falls face first into the mud. She starts crying while still lying there in the mud.]

Marvin
[runs to her]

Kelsey!!! Are you okay?

Kelsey
[sobbing]
No! A huge snake was just thrown at me, my cousin is a jerk, and now I hurt my knee.[sarcastically] Sure, I'm okay.

Marvin
It looks like you cracked your knee cap. We have to go to the hospital. Kelsey, your knee may always hurt you.

Kelsey
For the rest of my life!!!?

Marvin
Sorry, Kelsey.

[Kelsey starts crying her eyes out]

Marvin
Sean i hoped you learned your lesson.

Sean
Kelsey, I'm really sorry! I didn't mean for you to get hurt badly, I was just messing.

Kelsey
[still crying]
It's.. okay..Sean...I.. know..you...didn't....mean....to.

[all of a sudden kelsey starts laughing]

Sean and Marvin
[confused]
Why are you laughing?

Kelsey
I bet it was funny to see me fall face first in the mud [laughing]. Plus, the snake wasn't even close to me!

[They all are laughing while they go to the hospital to fix Kelsey's knee]

THE END!!