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I feel like you leave stuff up to me all the time, and I don’t appreciate it.
- excerpt from The$e Are The Teen$ Tale$

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The$e Are The Teen$ Tale$
A Play by A$hley Hvizda

Performance: May, 2003
Thornton High School, Daly City


Time: spring, late night creeps…. 2003
Place:Frisco, the Mission in front of the smoke shop

At Rise: Smalls, a turtle, and Ace, a rabbit are both upset.  Smalls is mad, pushing Ace.  Ace is mad, yelling and cussing. People are passing by, looking at them cuz they’re yelling.

 



$mall$:

Ace, look I don’t want to be in this relationship if this is all we’re going to do is fight and play games.  I want us to start acting like adults about this situation we’re in right now.  Cuz I feel like my mentality is higher then yours is.

 
Ace:

Look Baby…

 
$mall$: Don’t give me that Baby stuff.
 
Ace:

Look, I’m not playing games with you, and you need to stop trippin about us.

 
$mall$:

I’m not trippin about nuthin. I’m just letting you know that you never have time for me anymore.  You always say stuff but then you go and do another.  I don’t like that.

 
Ace: I want to be with you its just, what do you want me to do about it?
 
$mall$: Man, noth’n just like you always do.  You never have noth’n to say and always never know what to do when stuff hits the fan. It’s like every time we get into it, you just put it all on me, like it’s always my fault.  I feel like you leave stuff up to me all the time, and I don’t appreciate it.
 
Ace:

Like, look I wanna work this out with you.  Wait.  You have to understand it’s hard for me to express the way I feel about you. You have to understand that.

 
$mall$: it’s not just a lot about that.  It’s about you flakin on me all the time.  Most of the time you say you’re going to call me and you don’t.  It’s like if you don’t wanna be with me, let it be known so that I can find someone who does want to be with me, and who’s not gonna waste my time.
 
Ace: Well then screw you! If you wanna sit there and be like that, you don’t wanna give me no more chances, then do what you gotta do.
 
$mall$: I didn’t say that I didn’t wanna be with you. I just said I don’t wanna play your games and I know you don’t want to play mine.  So let’s just do it like this.  It’s over. Don’t want to be with you no more. Bye bye.
 
Scene 2
 
Time: 4 days later – spring 2003, daytime.
Place: Over the phone, we’re at both our houses.
At Rise: Just talking, Ace calls
 
Ring ring ring….
 
$mall$: Hello.
 
Ace: We need to talk…
 
$mall$: About what?
 
Ace: Me & you
$mall$: Start talking.
 
Ace: Baby I’m sorry that I never said nothing the other night when you left.  I wanted to, it’s just – I don’t know.
 
$mall$: Its coo. I’m not even trippin off of it.  Obviously it was supposed to happen.
 
Ace: No, that’s not how it was supposed to go down.  I want to be with you still, I don’t want us not to be us anymore.
 
$mall$:

I don’t know about all that.  I’m not saying that I don’t want to be with you cuz I do. It’s just I want it to be different.

 
Ace:

Like how?

 
$mall$:

You need to have more time for me, and for you to stop flakn on me.  If you have things to do just tell me. Don’t just not show up.  You feel me. I don’t do that to you.

 
Ace: I’m sorry for flakn on you. I don’t mean to.
 
$mall$: Then why do you?
 
Ace: I forget to call you and let you know.
 
$mall$: it pisses me off. How can you forget to call your own girlfriend? It hurts. How can you just sit there & say I forgot.
 
Ace: Next time something comes up I’ll make sure and call you to let you know. I’m sorry I didn’t know you felt like that.
 
$mall$: I accept your apology but I’m not gonna believe it until I see it.
 
Ace: That’s fine. So look , do you want to get back together or what.
 
$mall$: No, cuz stuff has to be better. It has to change.
 
Ace: We can work it out baby. I really missed you though.
 
$mall$: Yah I know. I missed you too. But I need to know what you want in this relationship. I need to know how you feel.
 
Ace: I want to be with you. You make me feel happy when I’m with you. I want this me & you thing to work out. Cuz with out you in my life I feel lost.
 
$mall$: R you sure you want to be with me? You have to be sure. I mean it. I’m not playing anymore games.
 
Ace: That means if I have 2 change, you have to change too.  Like 4 starters you have to stop talking to all them little twerks and you just have 2 stay with me.
 
$mall$: I can try to stop talk’n to other females.
 
Ace:
No, if you want to be with me, you have to stop.
 
$mall$: Okay baby.
ASIDE ( Man, she ain’t gotta know nothn. Just keep it on the D.L.)
Well I got to let you go now. Hit me up in a hour. Kisses.
 
Ace: Yah. I’ll hit you up.
 
$mall$: Bye.
Ace
Bye.
     
    The End.
     
     
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