Ten Years Ago, Today

One Act Play

     SCENE 1

(A living room of a house in Long Island. A high school party is going on. There are a few chairs and a small table in the room. Disposable cups are lying around the room. Music can be heard in the background and a few people are standing around. Paige is walking towards the stage left of the room. Brad puts down a cup and starts to step away from stage left of the room.)

Lights Up.
Music Starts.

PAIGE:     (PAIGE walks over to a chair and sits down, picking up the cup on the table next
to the chair)  Oh good, my drink is still here. (Takes a sip from the cup)  Huh, this
soda seems a little sweeter... Maybe I'm just imagining it. (PAIGE drinks the rest
of the roofied soda and immediately feels groggy) God, I should get home...

BRAD:     (Walks over to PAIGE, looking concerned) Hey, are you okay? You look a little
pale.

PAIGE:     (Looks up at BRAD and tilts her head, giving a confused smile, still dazed. Paige
starts to stumble over her words, finding it harder to think clearly) Huh? Oh... Yeah, I'm fine. I j-just... feel a little funny.

BRAD:     (BRAD helps PAIGE up from the chair) Here, let's get you to someplace to rest.
(BRAD leads a disoriented PAIGE off stage)

Blackout.
Music Stops.

SCENE 2

(Paige's bedroom. There is a bed in the room and posters on the wall. The bed is filled with stuffed animals, pillows, and notebooks. Paige sitting on the bed and writing into her diary.)

Lights Up.

PAIGE:     (Quietly) Dear diary, I can't believe that I'm... writing this right now. My head
feels like lead and my body is sore. Slowly bits and pieces of last night are
coming back to me. I remember my drink tasting funny, then being taken to a bed,
then walking home. I still can't remember the full details but I know for a fact that
I was taken advantage of at that party last night. (Frustrated) I knew something
was wrong with that drink, I should've listened to my mom when she said to
never leave my drink unattended... (On the verge of tears) I just thought things
like this only happened in movies... that this could never happen to me. I should
have never gone to that stupid party. Why? Why would he do that to me? For
what? How could he... how could he do this to me? I... I want to tell someone...
but I'm scared they'll call me a slut, they'll blame me. Hell, I blame myself, how
could I be so careless? What would my parents think? I really don't want to go to
school but I really don't want to worry my parents. But I guess I have to. (PAIGE
stops writing to pick up her phone to check the time and realizes she's running
late for school. PAIGE starts to panic and shoves the notebooks on her bed into
her backpack. During her rush, PAIGE picks up her diary and carries it in her
arms with the rest of her books. PAIGE runs off stage.)

    Blackout.

SCENE 3

(A high school hallway. There are a few teenagers standing around, talking to each other. You can hear parts of conversations. Paige runs across the stage from stage right. While running, Paige bumps into a student and falls to the ground, dropping the books in her hand.)

Lights Up.

PAIGE:     Oh my god, I'm so sorry. (The student laughs and walks away, leaving PAIGE
alone. PAIGE picks up all her books except her diary, leaving it on the ground.
PAIGE gets up and runs off stage. VICTORIA ENTERS)

VICTORIA:     (Confused) Huh? What's this...? (VICTORIA looks at the book at her feet and
picks it up. VICTORIA looks through the book and gasps. VICTORIA keeps the
book and walks in the same direction as PAIGE.)