A Time Twist

Scene 3: Alley

Rina:   (Checks time.  4:44) Wishing time!  (Closes her eyes unaware of Oscar.)  I wish what I always do:  to find my family. 

Oscar:   Find your family?

Rina:   Yeah.  Never knew who they were. 

Oscar:   So you just live out here?  Alone?

Rina:   Yeah.  It isn’t so bad if you— wait a second!  Where did you come from?

Oscar:   School.

Rina:   Where you following me? 

Oscar:   No.  I just— (cue rustling in the bushes) Are there rabbits around here?

Rina:   Not usually.

Alice:   Trust me!   This way is a shortcut.

Jack:   I have a bad feeling about this…

Alice:   What is there to be scared of?

Jack:   There are rabbits around here!

Rina:   You guys, too?

Alice:   Why are you guys here?

Oscar:   This is where Rina—

Jack:   Sabrina.

Oscar:   Sabrina lives.

Rina:   It is a shortcut to where I live.

Alice:   Really?   Well it’s a shortcut to Jen’s office.

Jack:   Mom’s office.

Alice:   Jen’s office.

(Cue bushes again)

Rina:   (Mumbles)  I’ve gotta hide.  (Spoken) Um, if anybody asks if they have seen me say no!  (She runs behind a bush and watches)

A big man walks through

Man:   Any of you seen a Sabrina?

Jack/Oscar/Alice:   Nope, haven’t seen her, nuh uh, etc.

Man walks away.

Rina:   (walks back to the group, necklace gets caught on a bush and comes off her neck) Thanks, guys.

Oscar:   What was that about? 

Rina:   Oh, he is just the guy who brings kids to the orphanage and for some reason he thinks I am an orphan.  I think he is mentally sick.  (Nervous laugh)

Jack:   Okay then.

Alice:   (Catches glimpse of necklace.)   Hey, Sabrina, your necklace is on there.

Oscar:   I’ll get it.

Jack:   No I will.

Alice:   Let me.

Rina:   I can get it myself

(They are walk towards it, bickering about who gets it.  Their hands touch it at the same time and there is a bright glow.  Suddenly they are in a dark room and they are all running into each other)