By Gustavo
Characters:
Rose the Coke Bottle, Age 21 Days, Female
Jack the Sprite Bottle, Age 19 Days, Male
Setting:
An old fridge in a neighborhood full of poverty, where there is old cracked boiled eggs asking for change, there’s mustard and ketchup never getting along and end up shooting each other with their mustard and ketchup. It’s cold and stuffy, there’s a jug of milk on the left side of the fridge and there’s a soy milk on the right side of the fridge.
Time:
11:00m, Friday Night, Summer
At Rise:
Rose and Jack are behind Jug the Milk and they are talking to each other in a chill way.
Jack:
(Smiling) Hey Rose…(she looks at him like “hmmmm” kinda flirty like he got her attention.) How come you do that?
Rose:
(curious) What?
Jack:
How can you make me smile without even tryin?
Rose:
Cause I got it like that.
Jack:
(starts laughin) Oh yeah?
Rose:
(laughin) Yeah. (They kiss, like a little peck)
(They hear the door slowly open which gets their attention.)
Rose:
Look, there’s nobody there!
Jack:
So?
Rose:
So? We could leave. Forget the fridge!
Jack:
What? You crazy! Get on? Go where?
Rose:
Just to get out of this place, we have the chance!
Jack:
We leave…then what?
Rose:
There’s something more out there than just this fridge.
Jack:
I know that BUT…I don’t think we’ll make it if we don’t know what’s really out there.
Rose:
So what, you scared of takin a risk?
Jack:
What? Nah! I need to make money before I take that chance.
Rose:
You already have enough money. Let’s get on.
Jack:
Why you wanna leave so bad? You don’t even know if you’ll get grabbed.
Rose:
I wanna get away from this. There’s nothin here but old bum eggs and condiments shootin at each other.
Jack:
I didn’t choose the fridge, the fridge choose us.
Rose:
I don’t care. Don’t you wanna have a family? Don’t you wanna leave? We have the chance right now! Oh what? You can’t handle a 21 day old bottle, huh? Oh right, you a little boy.
Jack:
You wasn’t sayin that last night. (imitating) [Oh, oh, daddy!]
Rose:
(tschhh) Shuddup (starting to build up) All you care about is yourself and your money! Do you even care about me?
Jack:
Ofcourse I do. But I think we shouldn’t leave.
Rose:
You can’t take no risk. I knew you was a little boy.
Jack:
How am I a little boy if I’m tryin to make sure we good before we leave? So who’s the little kid now? I’m the one always tryin to be sure our priorities are straight.
Rose:
(laughs & sarcastic) Oh I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to hurt your feelings. Let’s leave. We can find a nice cooler so we can live a life without worries, so our kids can live a better life than we did, I’m just thinking for the future and right now we don’t have that much time.
Jack:
Can’t you see? We could get grabbed up like Jeff and never even make it anywhere. What, you don’t like it here? This is all we know girl, you feel me? You just a little girl in an adult bottle. I’m only 19 thinkin about the responsibilities we gotta go through, you on the other hand want to leave like it’s all good but we ain’t even made a plan. You just burst out like “let’s go!”
Rose:
Oh, I’m irresponsible now? Who was making sure you was ok when you first came to the fridge? Oh what, you don’t remember now? Who was putting you on game so you wouldn’t get grabbed, huh?
Jack:
You really want to leave? Fine, let me go get something from Soy Milk.
Rose:
No, we gotta leave right now, all that time arguing, they’re goin’ to come back and close that door!
Jack:
Jus’ hold on, I’ll be right back.
Rose:
I ain’t got no time for this, meet me at the front or I’m leavin, on my own.
(Rose goes to the front of the fridge, 10 seconds pass, she gets mad and then turns around towards Soy Milk. At that moment a human comes, right as Jack is coming from around Soy Milk.)
Jack:
Watch out!
(Rose pushes Jack behind Soy Milk and she gets grabbed by the human. Door closes.)
No. No. No. What do I do? She was worried about us and I was worried about myself when I could have left it alone and take the chance with her. At least we could’ve left the fridge together. She shouldn’t have left the fridge that way. Damn, I should have just taken that risk.
~THE END~
