Curtain Call - The Morning After

THE MORNING AFTER729Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7GgEd2gtlq

A pharmacy, early morning. Its windows are completely shattered, surroundings ruined. Lights on a bleary college STUDENT blinking himself awake. He is only half-dressed, remaining clothes comically torn, and is surrounded by toppled medicine bottles, broken glass, and gossip mags. An empty beer bottle is clenched in his fist.

A weathered POLICEMAN enters and strides towards the STUDENT without a word.

STUDENT729Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaDZZBGj3c8
(desperately)

This isn’t what -

POLICEMAN

Hands.

After a moment, the STUDENT reluctantly sticks out both hands and is handcuffed. This should be slow but thorough and deliberate; the only sound is the clinking of locks and chains. The POLICEMAN helps him up and starts leading him out. The STUDENT tries again.

STUDENT

It really isn’t -

POLICEMAN

Of course not.

STUDENT

I mean, I -

POLICEMAN

I’m sure.

STUDENT

No, you don’t -

POLICEMAN

I already know.

STUDENT729Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3XTpN5pYJ6
(frustrated)

You can’t possibly -

POLICEMAN729Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwmPP6TQhYQ
(abruptly)

You were drunk?

STUDENT

Why - yes, I -

POLICEMAN

Out with friends?

STUDENT

Yes, in fact -

POLICEMAN

Final exams over?

STUDENT

They are, and -

POLICEMAN

Things got rowdy?

STUDENT729Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9U3jDoZwYZ
(hopeful and excited)

Yes! How did -

POLICEMAN729Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8QL5PhK6eF
(long-suffering)

No.

STUDENT

...what?729Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCQVTVNcXzr

POLICEMAN729Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxCoLAfCl0p

Not hearing it.

STUDENT729Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa9kEgVeIGu
(crestfallen)

What? But I -

POLICEMAN

No.

STUDENT729Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmlxaKJTRzd
(after a brief silence; resigned)

...okay.

Blackout as STUDENT is bundled into a police cruiser.

A/N: We were challenged to write a script in which each line of dialogue was no more than three words long. This was the result!

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