You Should Have Seen What I Was

In The Dark
the newest one-act to flow from the pen of none other than one certain lady who goes by the name of
...Rebecca

Two young boys sit in the bed of a moving pick-up truck
The first boy turns to the other boy

Dirk: spits on Billy

pause

Dirk: I meant that.

Billy: wipes spit off face with the back of his left hand. Alright. Did you mean it like this-

Billy grabs Dirk's glasses off his face and throws them off the moving truck

Dirk: No, I meant it like this-

Dirk pulls a pair of scissors out of his pocket and cuts the bottom ten inches of cloth off of Billy's pantlegs. Billy lets him do it

Billy: very deliberately and threateningly pulls a thick black permanent marker out of his pocket and uncaps it SLOWLY

Dirk: looks frightened

Billy draws a huge mustache on his own upper lip, then on Dirk's

Together: Now atsa spicy meataball!

they laugh and hug for a while. Then Dirk's dad knocks on the window from the driver's seat

Dirk's Dad: from within the car Hey! Cut that out before I give you BOTH some capri pants to worry about!

Dirk and Billy smile knowingly

fin



It'll get better with time.