Easy

Short play I had to write for class. My setting is too descriptive I know....

Setting:

A valley surrounded in every direction with mountains. The valley is covered with knee high grass. It’s late in the season now so the grass is mostly a greyish brown that adopts the shades of the sunset.The mountains look blue and the eastern sky traverses through purple on it’s way to darkness. the sunset itself is a vibrant showing of orange like the juicy insides of a fresh cut mango. It leads out to hot, unnatural looking, and yet somehow totally natural, pinks and reds. There is a slight breeze which tousles the hair of the two characters leaning against the side of a broken down car watching the sunset.

Chelsea: I don’t see how you can be leaving Colorado so easily. Look at that view!

Emily: (wiping a little grease off of her hands.) I see it, Chelsea. Trust me, I do. When did AAA say they’d be here?

Chelsea: They had someone in the area. Ten minutes. 

Emily: Well that’s lucky. (said sarcastically. moves around Chelsea to throw rag into the overpacked backseat.) I’m already two hours behind schedule. My grandparents are going to flip.

Chelsea: Why would they? We’re still going to see them. 

Emily: (Shutting the car hood.) I know you thought my family was weird--

Chelsea: Not weird, per say. But certainly one hundred percent unique. Not every parent would tell their child they                         couldn’t go to the senior lock in because they were going to a nudist hot springs instead.

Emily: (Laughing) You’re really focused on that aren’t you?

Chelsea: Yes! It boggles the mind!

Emily: Well like I said, I know you thought my family was weird now. But my family in Arizona is outright insane. They                   make no sense whatsoever. My mom smokes pot in the bathroom. Her ex-husband, who I call dad, not because I               think of him as my dad, but because he takes better care of my sisters than my mother does. Jordyn never talks                   and only ever pouts. Gina... Gina is the antichrist. (Chelsea’s eyes widen at the comment) I love them. I really truly               do. But this family is stuck in one of those perpetual love hate battles.

Chelsea: Then why go? 

Emily: Because I love my sisters. Because Gina is going to have a baby and there is no way she is going to end up                         staying with her loser baby daddy much longer. 

Chelsea: So for Gina?

Emily: No. If it had just been because Gina is going to have a baby, I’d be going for a visit, not staying. 

Chelsea: Then why?

Emily: (turns her face into the breeze) I’ve been living with a small family almost totally separated from any other family               members since I was seven. I’m a curious soul. I wonder constantly what my life would have been, and how it                        would have been different. I wonder what it’s like to have sisters. I’m in the unique position of being able to                          satisfy my curiosity. I know I’m going to hate the state. I’m going to hate the heat. But I wanna know if I am really a                 part of that half of my family. (They sit quietly for a moment. Then, as AAA arrives she continues) But it isn’t easy.                  Look at this place. How could it ever be easy?