BLANK BY JEFFREY LO (DOWNLOAD PDF HERE)
GINA, COLIN and KLAY at a bar.
They sit in silence
GINA sips her drink.
COLIN sips his drink.
KLAY sips his drink.
Silence.
GINA: So…
KLAY: Yeah?
GINA: What do you want to talk about?
KLAY: Um nothing, really.
GINA: Colin?
COLIN: Same.
GINA: Nothing?
COLIN: Nothing.
GINA: Got it.
COLIN: Yeah.
KLAY sips his drink.
GINA: Cool…
Silence.
GINA: Anything interesting happen to you today?
No answer.
GINA: Colin.
COLIN: Huh?
GINA: Anything interesting happen to you today?
COLIN: No.
GINA: Right… Klay?
KLAY: Nah, not really.
GINA: Not really?
KLAY: Huh?
GINA: You said not really. So, like… maybe something interesting happened to you?
KLAY: Oh. No. Now that you mention it, I have no idea why I said “Not really.” It just came out…
GINA: Got it…
KLAY: I should really stop saying that if I don’t mean anything by it.
GINA: Right…
COLIN sips his drink.
GINA sips her drink.
Silence.
GINA: Been a while.
KLAY: Huh?
GINA: It’s been a while since we’ve all gotten to hang like this.
COLIN: Has it?
GINA: Yes.
COLIN: How long has it been?
GINA: Like three years.
COLIN: Really?
GINA: Yeah!
KLAY: No…
GINA: Yeah!
GINA scrolls through the photos on her phone.
GINA: The last time was…. Here.
GINA shows KLAY and COLIN a photo of them together at the same bar, three years ago.
KLAY: There we are.
COLIN: Wow…
KLAY: This was three years ago?
GINA: Yeah!
COLIN: Yeah, look at your hair there, Klay.
KLAY: Oh shoot. Yeah, you’re right.
GINA: That hair.
KLAY: Gross…
GINA: Kinda, yeah…
They all continue to look at the photo for three seconds.
Then, all at the same time, they stop looking at it.
GINA takes a sip of her drink.
KLAY takes a sip of his drink.
COLIN takes a sip of his drink.
GINA: So…
KLAY: So…
COLIN: So…
GINA: Anything?
KLAY: Nah.
COLIN: Nope.
KLAY: You?
COLIN: Yeah, Gina, you?
GINA: Not really, no. I have nothing to say either…
COLIN: Word…
KLAYL: Yeah…
COLIN takes a sip of his drink.
KLAY takes a sip of his drink.
GINA takes a sip of her drink.
KLAY: Well… I’m glad we did this.
GINA: Yeah…
COLIN: Me too…
COLIN, KLAY and GINA all down the rest of their drinks together at the same time.
END OF PLAY.