(Enter GREGG sitting on the counter with cups on his ears, drinking a slurpie and humming)
GREGG: Eight thirty and nobody has shown up… Not yet…
(Enter MAE, yawning and rubbing her eyes)
GREGG: (To self) I always speak too soon.
MAE: (Yawning) Morning Gregg.
GREGG: I got cups on me ears!
MAE: Indeed you do...
GREGG: Mae, you’re thirty minutes late!
MAE: I still came… Didn’t I?
GREGG: Yeah?
MAE: And nobody else came… Did they?
GREGG: (Sipping his slurpie) No…
MAE: Exactly, therefore you can’t be mad at me…
GREGG: Fair enough…
(Enter ANGUS, looking around)
ANGUS: Uhm… Is this the right place?
GREGG: Angus! You came!
ANGUS: Yeah… Nobody was coming into the shop today so the boss let me take the day off.
MAE: Nice… And Bea?
ANGUS: She still has to work but she said she’ll text us when she’s off and we can meet up.
MAE: Dumb jobs… If only we were still in high school…
GREGG: Right.
ANGUS: So… Doesn't your job end at midnight?
GREGG: Yeah…
ANGUS: Then why are we here?
GREGG: Cuz I told you to be here, now.
ANGUS: Okay….?
GREGG: ANGUS! Come with us to investigate the missing people that Garbo and Malloy mentioned on their show last night!
ANGUS: When are you doing that?
GREGG: Now!
MAE: So when are you planning on getting off?
GREGG: NOW!
(GREGG starts to put more cups on his ears)
ANGUS: Your idea sounds dangerous…
MAE: Obviously!
ANGUS: I don’t know if I’m in…
GREGG: Angus! Come on, you’re supposed to be the cool nerd type!
(They both look at GREGG and notice the big stack of cups on his ears)
GREGG: I’ve got cups on my cups!
ANGUS: Why?
MAE: Because he’s Gregg…
GREGG: No, it’s because I’m beating the world record!
(He puts one more cup on each of the stacks over his ears)
GREGG: Accomplished!
ANGUS: (Whispers to MAE) I’m pretty sure he only beat his own record, not the world’s…
MAE: (Whispers to ANGUS) Agreed… Nobody stacks cups on their ears…
(Enter Germ, Saleem and Selmers)
MAE: Selmers!
SELMERS: Hey Mae, you’re home early. Something happen with college?
MAE: My parents weren’t able to pay anymore.
SELMERS: That’s a real shame.
SALEEM: I told you brother, Mae is not a very good role model.
SELMERS: Says the person who wants to marry, Gregg!
SALEEM: Shhh!
GREGG: What?
GERM: Don’t mind these two weirdos. Give me some gum!
GREGG: What flavor?
GERM: Lemon lime delight!
SELMERS: He dropped out of college, he’s not a good role model!
SALEEM: Whatever!
(GREGG grabs lemon lime delight flavored gum off the counter and hands it to GERM)
GREGG: Anything else?
GERM: Give me some chips!
GREGG: Flavor?
GERM: Barbecue beef ribs!
(GREGG gets the chips and hands them to GERM)
GREGG: That’d be two bucks and fifty-eight cents.
(GERM hands the money to GREGG who puts it in the cash register. GERM opens the chips which explode. There’s now chips around the whole store)
GERM: Bad chips…
GREGG: Don’t worry about it.
(GREGG hands GERM another bag of chips. Exit GERM)
MAE: He seemed a bit rude…
GREGG: He’s always like that…
ANGUS: I’m sorry.
GREGG: It’s fine… Nothing beats my free slurpies!
SELMERS: I just wrote a new poem! Wanna hear it?
SALEEM: No!
MAE: I like his poems!
SELMERS: I live and laugh, Every day and a half. I fly and fail, while I watch the hail. Long live the convenience store clerk…
ANGUS: That's….. Deep.
MAE: Nice one, Selmers.
GREGG: That. Was. So. SWEET!
ANGUS: Very cute…
SALEEM: I’m out!
(Exit SALEEM)
SELMERS: It’s a work in progress.
MAE: It was awesome.
SELMERS: Thanks Mae.
MAE: Pleasure.
SELMERS: Well… I should go, Saleem’s my ride… Saleem, wait up!
(SELMERS runs out the door, exit SELMERS)
ANGUS: (Looking around) Gregg… Are you going to clean this up?
GREGG: One moment… (Takes the cups off his ears then picks up a phone) Bobbi! I have a mess for you to clean up… No I didn’t make it!… Hurry up, I got places to be! (Hangs up) They’ll be here soon.
MAE: Who?
GREGG: The Janitor.
ANGUS: Who’s that?
(Enter The Janitor)
THE JANITOR: What happened this time?
GREGG: Exploding chips!
THE JANITOR: (Sighs) That’s what I thought… I could be outside enjoying the riot but I’m stuck in here cleaning up after someone…
ANGUS: Riot?
MAE+GREGG: Let’s check it out!
(MAE and GREGG grabs ANGUS’s hands and drag him out the door. THE JANITOR starts to clean up. EXIT ALL)
YOU ARE READING
Midnight In The Forest
RandomThis is a script I wrote inspired by the video game "Night In The Woods" I do NOT own the game. I changed some species and some of the story trying to make it more original (Its also supposed to be kid friendly) There are some really cringe worthy...
