RHEANNA sits on the comfy couch (the one that always eats her pens) in shorts, glasses, and a ponytail, minding her own business while also attempting to hold a phone conversation with a long-lost friend who has the coolest name she has ever heard. She hears voices and sees a mysterious figure pass by her half-open window, but reacts with a mere shrug as she is used to mysterious figures walking behind her house (like the time that Humans vs. Zombies thing was taking over campus and crazy freshmen kept lurking around the mods).
She hears a knock on the door and hesitantly stands to look through the peephole. With an obviously confused look on her face, she opens the door.
RHEANNA: Hello?
BOY SHE FLIRTED WITH IN THE COFFEE SHOP LAST WEEK: Oh. Hey. Is there a guy without a shirt on in here?
SEMI EX-BOYFRIEND RHEANNA IS ON THE PHONE WITH: (from the phone) I don't have a shirt on.
RHEANNA: Umm. No.
BOY: ...are you sure?
RHEANNA: Pretty sure.
BOY: You're not just hiding him somewhere?
RHEANNA: I don't think so.
BOY: Oh. I thought I saw someone through the window.
After a few more seconds of reallyyyy awkward conversation, BOY apologizes then leaves. RHEANNA is left with the startling realization that this kid was looking in her window and she resolves to never leave her windows half open again. SEMI EX-BOYFRIEND resolves to never ever attend a relatively small Christian university.
END SCENE.
1 comment:
just a question Rheanna - why can't the scene you describe not have happened at any other college or university - secular or christian - private or public? why do you think something like that only happens at a relatively small Christian university? just wondering . . . (maybe I missed something as I was reading - and fyi - I loved your Jay letter!!! I think all of us remember a 6th grade crush! and you make it super vivid)
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