SCENE FOUR
(The living room. The party is winding down, as TIM moves from guest to guest.)
TIM: You got any Mountain Dew Red?
(CASPER finds SHAWN on the couch, next to a PASSED-OUT PARTY MONSTER.)
SHAWN: Hey.
CASPER: Yo. So where is your date?
SHAWN: Hes having make-up sex with Skylar. So, my nights pretty awesome.
CASPER: Sorry.
SHAWN: Dont be. I dumped HIM.
TIM: It looks like normal Mountain Dew? But red?
CASPER: You dumped Felix? Why?? Sorry, you dont have to....
SHAWN: Im not Romeo. And, hes kind of a jerk, so...
TIM: SERIOUSLY! WHERE THE FUCK CAN I GET SOME MOUNTAIN DEW RED?
(Beat. SHAWN and CASPER stare at him. Then burst out laughing.)
SHAWN: Popular people are meeeeeeessssed uuuup.
CASPER: Word.
SHAWN: I mean, youre one of them.
CASPER: What? No Im not.
SHAWN: Hello, guy whos been Pucking his way through the cast of Midsummer.
CASPER: Im not— Pucking?
SHAWN: You like that? Just made it up. Boo-yeah. (CASPER is speechless) What?
CASPER: Its just... I dont know what Im supposed to say right now.
SHAWN: Say whatevers on your mind.
(Beat. CASPER thinks hard, opens his mouth...)
CASPER: (weird noise)
(SHAWN stares at him. CASPER cringes, embarrassed. Until...)
SHAWN: (different weird noise)
CASPER: (totally different weird noise).
SHAWN: (brand spanking new weird noise)
(Suddenly, the PARTY MONSTER freaks them out by making his own weird noise. They laugh and relax.)
SHAWN: Its kinda killer to sit and chat with you
CASPER: Really?
SHAWN: Its true, its pretty killer to sit and chat with you
CASPER: Its pretty killer for me too
BOTH: Woo hoo its pretty killer to hang and talk with you
Im glad that we both agree
CASPER: Shawn
Shawn
Shawn,
Will you go out with me?
(Pause.)
SHAWN: Casper, I...cant...
CASPER: I thought we were friends—
SHAWN: We are. But... I dont think I should go out with anyone until I know who I am. I know thats not what you wanted to... Im sorry.
(SHAWN exits. TIM, watching nearby, imitates an exploding bomb.)
TIM: BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA... CRASH! (beat) Got any Mountain Dew Red?
CASPER: Okay, this whole no-drinking-while-squipping thing? Would it have killed you to give me a warning? ...Tim?
(Suddenly TIM rises, as if an on-switch in his brain has been flipped.)
TIM: WARNING. WARNING. WARNING.
(TIM exits.)
CASPER: Okay, thats weird.
(ALEX appears.)
ALEX: Hello, Casper.
CASPER: About time!
ALEX: My absence was not ideal. But it was necessary. One moment while I review the data from this evening. (Beat.) Oh my.
CASPER: Its bad, right?
ALEX: We need to get you home.
CASPER: But—
ALEX: Now.
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