Scene One
Setting:
Jeremy's room
At Rise:
Jeremy is in bed, all the lights in his room are off. The only light seen are the digital numbers of his alarm clock. His alarm should go off at 6:00am.
Alarm:
Bob: Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaake up! Good morning it is six am here at
WWJFD 101.3. So Kara, How was your morning?
Kara: Well Bob I got stuck in traffic (Continues in background) and some guy in
a neon blue jaguar cut me off.
Jeremy: (sits up in bed; should be wearing boxers; stretches his arms over his head; yawns) I don’t want to know about Kara’s morning (changes the station; the new station should be playing “Jeremy’s Spoken” by Pearl Jam) Oh yeah, this is more like it!
(Jeremy goes through his morning routine by putting on his baggy Jnco’s over his boxers, putting on a t-shirt and his Pearl Jam shirt; Jeremy’s routine ends when he turns off the radio and exits Stage R)
Scene Two
Setting:
Mike is in front of a row of lockers ; He seems to be kicking his which won't open; there are other students in the hallway who walk by giving Mike strange looks.
Jeremy: (enters Stage R; walking up to Mike with a binder in his hand) Yo Mike, try putting in your combo. It might work ya know.
Mike: (agitated) Shut up Jeremy! I put my combo in five times and the damn thing still won't open!
Jeremy: Let me try. (He pushes Mike out of the way.) What's your combo?
Mike: (rolls his eyes) It's 34-5-18 (Jeremy puts in the combination and pulls the locker handle: it opens) How'd you do that?
Jeremy: (leans against lockers with arms crossed) I'm gifted.
Mike: Shut up man! (pushes Jeremy)
Jeremy: (smug) I can't help it.
Mike: I said shut up. (walks off stage L)
Jeremy: (acts tough; following Mike) What?
Scene Three
Setting:
Cafeteria; it's breakfast time and students are walking in and out of the scene with back packs and food. Focus is on Marie reading at a table stage C. Jeremy and Mike enter the scene Stage L.
Jeremy: Hey babes (kisses Marie on the cheek and sits next to her. Jeremy has his own style of sitting in a chair. He should turn the chair around and straddle it; Mike sits next to Jeremy.)
Marie: Hi Jeremy, can I talk to you alone? (glares at Mike)
Mike: Oh, I feel so unwanted. (laughs) I was gonna get my food anyway (exits Stage R)
Jeremy: So, what's up?
Marie: (nervous) Well, um, I, um, we-
Jeremy: C'mon Marie you can tell me anything.
Marie: Um, well, our relationship isn't going well.
Jeremy: What'd ya mean? Our relationship is great!
Marie: Only for you. Jeremy, there's someone else.
Jeremy: Huh? You're cheating on me?
Marie: Not exactly.
Jeremy: What's not exactly mean?
Marie: I mean I'm not with him but he's really nice and sweet, and he really likes me.
Jeremy: I'm nice and sweet, and I really like you! What's wrong with me?
Marie: You're always hanging out with Mike and you're always busy with some project for one of your honors classes. You never have time to be with me!
Jeremy: Whatever, so who's this nicer sweeter guy, hmm?
Marie: (Smiling) Jeff Champ. (sighs)
Jeremy: (stands up) Jeff Champ! He's captain of the football team!
Marie: Oh sit down Jeremy you’re making a scene.
Jeremy: (angry) I hope I am, I thought you hated jocks. You said that all jocks were dumb and that you would rather die than date one. You said you liked me because I was smart and we could have intelligent conversation!
Marie: Well, people change Jeremy, (stands up) and I've changed and you didn’t notice. You were too busy with your stupid books and that idiot Mike! (exits stage R; Glares at Mike as he re-enters the scene with a bottle of Sunny Delight)
Mike: (sits next to Jeremy) What the hell was that? Marie just gave me the most gruesome look. (Opens container and sips at it)
Jeremy: (in shock) She dumped me.
Mike: Oh man, just like that? After you guys have been together since freshmen year?
Jeremy: Yeah, and she called you an Idiot.
Mike: (scoffs and looks offended) That heartless bitch.
Jeremy: Man, stop over reacting.
Mike: Okay (takes a deep breath) So, why'd did she dump you?
Jeremy: She says I don't spend enough time with her. I hang out with you too much and I’m too involved with my books. Oh and she's found someone who's a lot nicer and sweeter than I am.
Mike: Oh man that's awful.
Jeremy: Yeah, I spent all my free time with her. Stupid girls. (smiling) Wanna hear the funny part?
Mike: There's a funny part, oh, do tell.
Jeremy: She always said she like me for my mind, (smiles) she dumped me for a jock.
(Jeremy and Mike both laugh)
Mike: So, who's the lucky Jock?
Jeremy: (mimicking Marie’s excitement) Jeff Champ!
Mike: Oh. (smiles) So, Marie is moving up the social ladder.
Jeremy: You dick! (punches Mike’s shoulder)
Mike: Ouch, I was just joking (Bell rings) Damn bell, C'mon Jeremy lets go to class.
(They exit stage L)
Scene Four
Setting:
Jeremy's Calculus class. The teacher is scribbling something on the board.
Ms. Fields: Ok class I would like to introduce you to our new student, Damon Fitzgerald. Damon can you stand up please?
(A boy about seventeen gets up out of his seat; He's wearing dress clothes; some of the students giggle at his attire; He has girlish facial features, he's the ultimate pretty boy)
Ms. Fields: (puts hand on Damon's shoulder) Class, this is Damon Fitzgerald. He transferred here from Saint Mary's. He had the highest score on the trigonometry exam last year. I want everyone to be nice to him since this is his first day in our class. (Damon is noticeably being embarrassed and is very nervous) Hun, you can sit down now.
(Damon sits next to Jeremy; the other students are talking while the teacher gives directions; Jeremy is slouching in his chair with his arms folded crossed his chest; Damon is sitting up straight with his hands neatly folded on his desk)
Ms. Fields: Okay class, today's assignment is on the board, only do the even problems.
Jeremy: (partly to himself) Damn, I hate it when she makes us do the evens only.
Damon: What's wrong with the even problems, they're not too difficult (flips through the pages in his book)
Jeremy: (looks at Damon surprised) Well, yeah, but the answers aren't in the back.
Damon: Oh, (whispers) you cheat?
Jeremy: Oh hell no! I do the work. I just like checking my answers in the back.
Damon: Oh. (Laughs uncomfortably) I do that too.
Jeremy: That’s cool, man. Grr, I hate these dumb equations, they're all the same.
Damon: No they’re not. Look at problem number six. It's exponential.
Jeremy: (rolls eyes) So it is.
(The teacher is grading papers at her desk and not watching the class. Some students start throwing balls of paper at Damon and laughing. Damon looks embarrassed, but does nothing. A paper ball hits Jeremy and he notices what’s been going on next to him. )
Jeremy: (perturbed; loudly) Would you guys stop throwing shit at Damon!
Ms. Fields: (looks up from her papers) Jeremy! That was uncalled for. (walks over to his desk)
Jeremy: (crosses arms, sitting back in his chair) Well, you weren’t doing anything about it.
Damon: He was only taking up for me. It’s really my fault.
Ms. Fields: No, Damon. Jeremy always acts up in this class. (to Jeremy) You’re so smart, why do you always have to interrupt my class. (returns to her desk to fill out a referral sheet) They must enjoy your company in the office.
Jeremy: Oh yeah, they love me there.
Damon: Jeremy you’re just making things worse. Ms. Fields, really, he wasn’t doing anything wrong.
Ms. Fields: Damon, you need not take up for him. He needs to learn his lesson.
Damon: (stands up) Then I’m going with him. (Jeremy just stares at Damon, in shock)
Ms. Fields: Fine! (hands paper to Damon) You go too. I don’t want either one of you in my class today.
(Damon grabs the paper from her and marches out of the class stage L with Jeremy following him; scene ends)
Scene Five
Setting:
The locker Hallway; A very angry Damon enters stage L and kicks one of the lockers which pops open; Jeremy runs in behind him.
Damon: God dammit! (punches a locker and slides down them to sit on the floor)
Jeremy: What the hell was that Damon?
Damon: (crying) A great first impression, Jeremy.
Jeremy: (sitting next to him) I thought it was a great first impression. (laughingly) I’m not the only one Ms. Fields doesn’t like now.
Damon: (smiles a bit) Yeah, but she’s not your aunt.
Jeremy: Dude, I’m sorry. (serious) I didn’t know.
Damon: It’s okay. (wipes his eyes) She’s never liked me anyway. She was actually telling my mom how she thought I would get along with this horrible kid she had in her calculus class. (laughs)
Jeremy: Man (sighs) I guess I’m a horrible kid. (laughs) We’ll get along great. Ms. Fields is never wrong.
Damon: (laughs) You’re right.
(bell rings)
Jeremy: C’mon, You can meet my friend Mike. (Helps Damon up; they exit stage R)
Scene Six
Setting:
Jeremy is sitting on his bed doing his math homework; "Moonbaby" by Godsmack is playing on the radio; Mike is pretending to play the drum with his highlighters.
Jeremy: I still don't see what Marie sees in Jeff.
Mike: Maybe she wants a guy who has no brains and a big-
Jeremy: Mike! Marie's not like that.
Mike: People change. I had a girl once who asked me what-
Jeremy: I don't need to know about anymore of your girls. By the way, how many do you have this year?
Mike: um. let me think, there's Emalie, Karen, Bobbi, um Sandi or was it Shari-
Jeremy: Shut up. (throws his pencil at Mike; they both start laughing; phone rings)
Mrs. Hues: (calling from some where off stage) Jeremy the phone is for you.