But First / by Jeffrey Lo

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BUT FIRST BY JEFFREY LO (DOWNLOAD PDF HERE)

An Ikea.

After hours.

AARON enters.

He’s been working on late night inventory.

He’s been working for hours.

He’s tired and a little stressed out.

AARON stretches and yawns

AARON decides to take a moment to lie down on a display bed.

AARON lies down.

AARON closes his eyes.

AARON starts to relax.

AARON starts to feel close to a meditative state.

AARON feels wonderful.

AARON pops up.

AARON: JON!

After a moment JON enters.

JON: Yeah?

AARON: I decided to lie down here for a second to close my eyes.

JON: Yeah.

AARON: It feels great.

JON: Yeah?

AARON: I felt calm. Almost meditative. It was wonderful.

JON: Yeah!

AARON: Can you take a photo of me?

JON: Yeah.

AARON tosses his cellphone to JON.

AARON lies back down.

AARON manufactures the wonderful feeling he had just moments ago.

JON snaps a photo.

JON looks at the photo, he likes it.

JON: Yeah…

AARON pops back up.

JON tosses AARON his phone.

AARON looks at the photo.

AARON: Nice! Thanks man.

JON: Yeah!

AARON spends time posting this photo to social media.

AARON: … I guess I better get back to work now.

JON: Yeah.

AARON and JON get back to work.

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