(Scene opens in a hallway of a modern mansion, with many things to suggest the wealth of its occupants, such as a large chandelier and a cabinet going along the wall that is filled with expensive china. Je Sus crouches at the top of a flight of stairs, scrubbing the floor with a sponge. She wears a tattered, faded old dress. Mo Ses and Eli Jah stand over her, jeering and occasionally poking at her. The narrator steps up from the side and faces the audience.)
Narrator: Je Sus lives with her mother, step-father, and two step-sisters, Mo Ses and Eli Jah. Her mother and her real father got divorced when Je Sus was a young child, and she lives with her mother due to custody laws. Je Sus's mother, step-father and step-sisters treat Je Sus like a servant and force her to cook and clean for them and do all the chores around the large mansion they live in. Her biological father can't help her because his ex-wife is so rich she can buy off any court. The only friends Je Sus has ever had are two magical animals, a red-tailed hawk and a white mouse who sometimes speak to her. However, Je Sus has always longed for human companionship. She has lived a miserable life for several years... but now, shortly after her sixteenth birthday, something amazing will happen.
Mother: (Yelling from the bottom of the stairs) Je Sus, quit stalling! Get down here now! I want these dishes cleaned stat! Then take out the garbage and do the laundry. And I mean all of the laundry this time, including your step-father's clothes! I don't care if they reek of his cologne, they need to be washed!
Mo Ses: (Holding up a very slightly wrinkled dress) MOM! Je Sus didn't finish ironing my clothes! There are wrinkles all over my new dress and it's all her fault!
Je Sus: Coming mom! Oh and Mo Ses, that dress isn't new! It's like, so two weeks ago!
Eli Jah: It is not! I think it looks beautiful on Mo Ses. Plus I picked it out myself. Mom! Je Sus is pretending she knows everything about fashion again!
Mo Ses: Yeah, come teach her a lesson for telling me my dress is ugly!
Je Sus: I never said it was ugly... I was only joking!
Mother: For that, Je Sus, you can oil the chain on your step-father's bicycle, and pump up the tires while you're at it, and I don't want any more funny business.
Je Sus: (Miserably) Alright...
Narrator: (Speaking to audience) If you've begun to think of this story as a fairy tale, you are somewhat right. You probably assume that Je Sus's step-sisters are ugly and stupid. If so, you are a horrible human being. Actually, Mo Ses and Eli Jah are both beautiful and intelligent, and so is Je Sus. You know the saying, don't judge a book by it's cover! (Speaking of which, I bet you already judged this play by it's title. Nice job. You are so prejudice). Anyway, Mo Ses and Eli Jah are actually fair minded human beings. They simply treat Je Sus the way they have been taught to by their father and step-mother since they were little children. So don't judge them so harshly, you petty know-it-alls.
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Je Sus Goes to the Mall
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