Roommates

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Monday, Sep 5, 2011

4:00 p.m.

Roommates

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(Alex and Jamie enter the apartment. There is a tall man in his early twenties with short red hair. He has tattoos on his biceps. This is Jared. He is unpacking clothes out of a suitcase.)

Alex- Hey man, you must be Jared.

Jared- Yah, hey. (They shakes hands.)

Alex- I’m Alex.

Jamie- Jamie. (He shakes hands with Jared.)

Alex- You just get here?

Jared- Yah, a couple of minutes ago.

(Jared unpacks four gigantic containers of Whey Protein Shake.)

Jared- You guys have been here a while, haven’t you?

Alex- Uh… yeah, a week.

Jamie- Yeah… a week.

(A small young woman, age 20, named Laura enters.)

Alex- Hey! You’re Laura!

Laura- …hello…

Alex- I’m Alex.

Jamie- Jamie.

Jared- Jared.

Laura- … hello…

Alex- You just get here?

Laura- …yeah, a couple of minutes ago…

(Laura exits.)

Alex- Cool… Cool...

(Jared takes a set of weights and barbells out of his backpack. Jamie watches him.)

(A young woman, age 20, named Kathleen enters.)

Alex- Hey! You must be Kathleen!

Kathleen- Yeah! Hi!

Alex- Great to meet you. I’m Alex.

Jamie- Jamie.

Jared- Jared.

(They all wait for Laura to say her name.)

(They keep waiting.)

(And wait some more.)

(Then…)

Laura- (from the other room.) …Laura…

Kathleen- Well—It’s great to meet all of you!

Alex- Yeah, this is great.

Jamie- Who’s making dinner?

(Nobody laughs.)

Alex- Well, you guys are probably tired…

Jared- Yah, I’m beat.

Kathleen- Yeah! Me too!

(Laura can be heard snoring.)

Alex- So… I guess we’ll just leave you to it.

Jamie- To what?

Alex- (to Jamie) What?

Jamie- ‘To what?’ What are we leaving them to?

Alex- To… to, ya know… unpack and get settled in and stuff…

Jamie- Yeah, but if they’re tired why would they unpack? Why wouldn’t they just go to sleep? Why didn’t you say ‘We’ll leave you to go to sleep’?

Alex- …I don’t know…

Jamie- Hm.

(Silence)

Jared- Is there a grocery store close by?

Alex- Um… yeah, there’s the Dill Pickle next door and there’s a Target, quite a way’s away, over by Logan Blvd.

Kathleen- Great! That sounds great!

Jared- Okay, well, I’m gonna go to Target.

Kathleen- I’m going to go set up my room! Hey! Who has dish duty tonight!

Alex- Um… we’ll figure that out later?

Kathleen- Grrrreat!

(Kathleen exits.)

(Jared exits.)

(Laura can be heard snoring.)

(Alex and Jamie look at each other.)

Jamie- Who’s going to cook dinner for me?

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