In Their Eyes

-4-

A few minutes passes by. Dirty and scraped, the small car emerges slowly from the tall grass.
Trish is behind the wheel this time. Darry looks out the passenger window. They back out of the field.
Through the opening of the wooden fence that they made going in. They roll the car back onto the gravel drive.

Pointed again towards the highway, Trish guns the engine but doesnt move. She looks over at Darry.

"Sounds alright, i guess.", Darry says. Trish rolls her eyes. "Like either one of us know.", Trish says.

"Hey, i know a little.", Darry says, becoming defensive.

"When your car makes a strange noise, you just buy a new tape, Darry. Thats what you told me.", Alex says.

"Shut up, Alex.", Darry says. Alex chuckles. "Thats what he told me too.", Trish tells Alex.

"Told you? I learned it from you!", Darry says.

"Asshole"

"Bitch"

"Mama's boy"

"Daddy's whore"

"Dick licker"

"Ball sniffer"

"Ass kisser"

"B-Butt picker", Darry runs out of insults.

"Hah! Repeat! Ass and Butt, you lose!", Trish says.

The entire time, Alex looks back and forth at them with each insult.

Darry looks over at Trish and smiles. She does too as well as Alex. They all needed a smile right about now.

Trish rolls to the end of the gravel drive. She stops at the highway and looks both ways.
Darry suddenly puts his hand on the wheel. "Im thinking past the point of my own selfish little existence now, okay?", Darry begins.

"Where are you getting at?", Alex asks. "What if, that really was a person he dumped down that pipe? What if it was someone still alive?", Darry says.

Trish just stares at Darry.

"Someone who needs help but doesnt get it. Or does get it 'till its too late.", Darry says.

"We can get help just as fast by getting to a phone-"

    "You know how far we are from the nearest pay phone?", Darry cuts Trish off. "Is this your idea of an adventure or something?
     'Cause this is why girls are smarter, okay?", Trish says. "Hey! We almost got killed and you dont even wanna find out why?", Darry asks.

   Trish doesnt like where this is going nor want it going in the direction she thinks it is.

   "We look in the pipe. Thats all we're gonna do.", Darry says.

     "We look in the pipes and if there's nothing there or nothing we can do, we drive to your parents' house and call the cops", Alex says, siding with Darry.

     "You know im right.", Darry says. "Bullshit i do!", Trish argues.

     "look me straight in the eyes and tell me im not right.", Darry says.

     She refuses to look at Darry. He knows he has her now. "Come on, right in the eye.", He says.
     She turns and glares at him as she throws the car in gear. "Im not getting out of the car", Trish says.
   Darry smiles because he knows he won. Trish heads out onto the highway. Back towards the old church.

    The car stops on the empty two lanes, just before the old church.

     They all regard it. They check the rearview mirrors to see its all clear and empty. They pull into the empty church yard.