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CHARACTERS
COOKIE: SENIOR CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT
MOUSE: COOKIE'S BEST FRIEND
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EXTERIOR. BEHIND 7-11 DUMPSTER. AFTERNOON.
Cookie and Mouse lean against a green dumpster in an alley behind a 7-11.
Cookie and Mouse are 18. They are wearing tartan Catholic school girl kilts rolled at the waist to shorten the skirts above their knees, white short-sleeve button-down shirts, and cardigans. Cookie wears black high-top converse and striped athletic socks. Mouse has shiny loafers and white knee socks. Both have army surplus backpacks slung over their shoulders. They are a study in contrasts.
Cookie's entire appearance is slightly frayed. Mouse is small, sturdy, and clean.
Cookie is hand-rolling a cigarette. She finishes and passes it to Mouse, beginning to roll another for herself.
MOUSE It's like saying all Amazons want Hercules.
COOKIE Don't they?
MOUSE It's a fucking philosophical trap.
COOKIE I read, yesterday, that Freud used cocaine to treat smack addicts.
He also believed it relieved "digestive weakness."
MOUSE It's a diuretic. It has diuretic properties.
COOKIE You should try it out, on your fat ass brother.
MOUSE pointedly You're so ... physical. Feral, really.
THEY WALK LAZILY OUT OF THE ALLEY INTO THE SUNSHINE.
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