(Strong headlights across the stage)
OLD JEREMY
Where are we?
OLD SECILY
I don’t know.
OLD JEREMY
It doesn’t look like…
OLD SECILY
Wait, that hill…
OLD JEREMY
At dusk…
OLD SECILY
No, turn back…
OLD JEREMY
Can’t, watch.
JEREMY
Where?
SECILY
I am not sure.
JEREMY
There?
No.
JEREMY
It has to be here.
SECILY
I am sorry.
JEREMY
Don’t give up. It is alright. We’ll find it.
SECILY
We will not! It is all my fault.
JEREMY
No, I should have… it is my fault.
SECILY
Okay, yes, it is your fault!
JEREMY
Whoa, whoa, whoa… You… okay… Let’s both take a deep breath
and a step back. You want this?
SECILY
Yes.
JEREMY
Me too. We’ll find it.
SECILY
When you knelt out here, I thought what is he doing?
JEREMY
I thought it would surprise you.
SECILY
It did surprise me. Too much.
JEREMY
I got that. Keep looking.
SECILY
What if it is gone?
JEREMY
Keep looking.
SECILY
Your mother…
JEREMY
Keep searching, please?
SECILY
Ok, I look some more.
(SECILY screams and picks up something)
It here!
JEREMY
Really?
SECILY
No, no, it not. Pop bottle ring.
Well, that could be your ring.
SECILY
No, no, no…
BOTH OLDS AND ORIGINALS
Keep looking!
SECILY
I thought it was joke. Not real.
OLD SECILY
It never seemed real.
That’s why you threw it?
OLD SECILY and SECILY
No, I did not think.
OLD JEREMY AND JEREMY
No, you did not.
SECILY
The ring so unexpectedly there in your hand and the question
rings beautifully in my ears. I float away. Like a dream or a joke not sure
which so I turn around and throw it away, why?
You don’t want it or me.
SECILY
Wrong. I want.
JEREMY
I want too.
SECILY
JEREMY
Pinch?
SECILY
To wake me, I dream.
JEREMY
You… we are awake. No dream.
SECILY
Good. That is good. It be a strange dream.
(SECILY steps forward into the road)
Ah, there, I think. See it?
(SECILY bends to pick up the ring as headlights swerve,
break sounds)
JEREMY
Secily!
(Scream and blackout)
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