The Private Servers of Life

Act 1: The shutdown

Scene 1:

The scene takes place on January 15th, 2018, in the dark, empty streets of Sacred Falls, a small town near Atlanta, Georgia. It is 5 am, and two young men are taking a slow walk after their college graduation party. They are both of medium height and thin. One of them is white( Noah King) and the other one is black(his friend Clive). There's no one else in the nearby area, meaning they can be as loud as they want.

Clive: I can't believe college is over already.

Noah: Thank god, though. It was the most boring way to waste 4 years.

Clive: Yeah, like there are less boring ways to waste 4 years.

Noah: Remember High School?

Clive: Of course I do. Feels like it was yesterday.

Noah: Well, there you have it. A better way to spend 4 years.

Clive: What are you talking about? You were miserable back then.

Noah: No I wasn't... I was just sad with how things ended...

Clive: (issuing an evil grin) Oh,god. That lesbian girl... What's her name again? Saskia Litras, right? She stole your girlfriend at prom...Classic!

Noah: Ha ha, very funny. Thanks for bringing that up.

Clive: You're the one who mentioned high school, buddy.

Noah: (deep breath) That was very unfortunate... And okay, I'll admit it: High school did not go so well for me... But hey, wouldn't you want another shot? High school had so much potential. I wish I could go back... Remember our gang? They're probably in the corporate world, or boring college graduates like us. They might even be thinking about getting married, or starting a family.

Clive: Well, what's the surprise? They have to. We're men, now. We can't turn back the clock and go back to high school. It's like that childhood game, Club Penguin... People loved it. They spent their money and their childhoods on that, for years! And then, it was shut down. Now they can't play it anymore, and it's time to move on to something else.

Noah: Actually, people still play it. Some die-hard fanboys created illegal private servers. I actually tried one of those.

Clive: Yeah, I just realized this wasn't the best analogy... Anyways, real life has no private servers, and we can't go back to school anymore.

Noah: (opens his eyes wide) Maybe we can.

Clive: Oh no! Here's that 'I just had a stupid idea look'. Don't pull a Noah on me again.

Noah: Maybe there is a way that we can come back to high school.

Clive: No,there isn't. Get over it.

Noah: Look at us! We were blessed. We still look 15, even though we're in our mid-20s. We could get a fake ID, run away to some place very far, and then get adopted by a nice family...

Clive: (interrupting Noah) Don't be delusional. Your life is not a sitcom. You can't seriously think you can pull that off, can you? You don't live in a magical world, where fake IDs fall from heaven, and people buy the fact that you're a high schooler.

Noah: This is real life, bro. A guy from Ukraine did that once.

Clive: And how did that turn out?

Noah: He was caught... But only because people heard him speak russian on the phone.

Clive: Ah, yes! Every adopted american child is innocent until they start speaking russian on the phone... You can't just erase your existence. You can't just abandon your livelihood, and reinvent yourself in a different city, or country. Where are you gonna get money? And what if nobody adopts you?