I really need to come up with a title for this play. Is it a full play? Not sure yet. Fleshing out the story and characters at the same time, and timid to really get stuff going, but the end of this scene did not go where I thought it would. Something is there.
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Scene 3: Lamps on in the living room with more boxes in
various conditions. There are three wine glasses and a bottle of wine on the
coffee table.
(SHEILA ENTERS and puts down a box. KATIE ENTERS and moves the same box. JAMIE ENTERS with an ( other box, sets it down, sees the box that KATIE just moved, and starts to move it)
KATIE
Ut-huh.
(points)
SHEILA
No, don’t listen to her. I want it there.
KATIE
That makes no sense.
SHEILA
My house, it makes sense to me!
JAMIE
Whatever.
(JAMIE sets down the box where it was and sits on the couch)
Are we done yet?
SHEILA
Halfway.
(groans)
JAMIE
If I’d known Sutton had all this crap…
(KATIE gives her a look)
Sorry, I mean stuff stored in every nook and cranny of this
house, I …
SHEILA
Yes, what would you do?
JAMIE
I’d… I don’t know. This is overwhelming.
SHEILA
Yes, it is. You don’t need to add to it.
JAMIE
Sorry.
KATIE
Sorry.
SHEILA
Why are you apologizing?
KATIE
I was thinking the same thing. I knew Sutton had a lot of
interests, but all these boxes and who knew you had so many little storage
spaces in this house!
SHEILA
Yep, they don’t make them like this anymore. This was
pre-1950 and you didn’t want anything to be left out of show, so there are
spaces everywhere to shove things.
JAMIE
Boy, he shoved a lot in there. Wow, I mean the stuff! The
boxes filled with CDs and pictures. What is this one anyway?
(hands her a picture)
SHEILA
Let me see. That is pre-Sammy. We are in Rome, I think.
JAMIE
She says it so casually, Rome. I’ve never been to Rome.
KATIE
And yet you’re never home when I call you.
JAMIE
I don’t travel to Rome, but I do get in my car and go places.
KATIE
I don’t.
SHEILA
You used to.
KATIE
I did.
SHEILA
I thought I’d never get caught up with your list of places
you’d been.
KATIE
Then you met Sutton and went even further.
SHEILA
We did, didn’t we?
JAMIE
Pre-Sammy.
SHEILA
No, he went with us when he was portable.
JAMIE
Portable, what’d ya do, shove him in your suitcase?
SHEILA
No!
KATIE
(looking at a picture) Here, here’s him portable. Aw, it
looks like he’s asleep in that big backpack thing Sutton would wear. Where are
you?
SHEILA
Probably taking the picture. I took many of these. Sutton
just liked the pictures and having them taken. I took them. He put these with
his stuff because it got too many pictures to keep track of once Sammy got
bigger. I threw them in boxes, and he was tired of tripping over them.
JAMIE
Where was this? Sutton doesn’t look happy.
SHEILA
No, he doesn’t. Oh, because Sammy had just broken his glasses
and we were in a remote little town in Spain. It was siesta and I was trying to
take their picture and Sammy was not having it. Sutton swung him up over his
head because he could always get him to laugh doing that, and he said, “Take the
picture quick!” I was still using film and had to finish changing it out. By
the time we tried it again, Sammy had Sutton’s glasses in his chubby little hand
and threw them hard on the cobblestone.
KATIE
Oh, no!
SHEILA
Oh, yes, we heard them crack just as I took this picture. He
was so mad. Well, as mad as you can be at a two-year-old that you adore.
Getting his glasses fixed, though, was another adventure during siesta time in
Spain, with very little Spanish between us.
JAMIE
It is a great picture. No, I mean it!
SHEILA
Ok.
JAMIE
He didn’t always seem normal, normal and this one of him
angry seems human.
SHEILA
No more wine for you!
KATIE
No, I get what she means. Sorta. Sutton was…
JAMIE
Not normal.
KATIE
She doesn’t mean, not normal bad.
JAMIE
Right, good, just not normal.
SHEILA
I’m cutting you both off.
(SHEILA scoops up the wine glasses and takes them into
the kitchen)
KATIE
Way to go, Miss subtle.
JAMIE
Well, I was trying to.
KATIE
Why couldn’t you just come out and ask her?
JAMIE
I don’t see you broaching the subject.
KATIE
“Angry is a good look on your husband”, by the way, he’s not “normal”.
Not subtle just making it weirder.
JAMIE
Either shut up or put up. You’re not doing any better! Your
turn!
(SHEILA re-enters carrying snacks)
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