Before you know it.

Story about a kid growing up. I wrote it for a play writing class in my high school, its going to be performed at the end of the year.

Before You Know It
By Micah Snow
 
Scene One

Light: SR

Young boy wakes up in his room to his mother yelling.
 
MOTHER:     (Yelling) Wake up, wake up!
 
Boy gets up, and starts to whistle (clearly is taking his time). He starts to put on his button down shirt when his mother yells again.
 
MOTHER:     (Yelling) Adam! For the last time, wake up!
 
ADAM:     (Hollering)  I am awake! Just give me a darn second!
 
Adam walks across the floor and into the kitchen, yawns, and sits down at the kitchen table.
 
ADAM:     (Complaining)  What’s the big fuss, it’s six in the morning, why you gotta be so loud?
 
MOTHER:     Well you’ve forgotten. You have to take the public bus to school, and they come way earlier then the school bus.
 
Adam groans
 
MOTHER:     Oh buck up.
 
ADAM:     (Whining) But mom, why can’t I just take the regular school bus to school?
 
MOTHER:     Well we live to far away to have the school bus pick you up.
 
ADAM:     Why can’t we get a car?
 
MOTHER:     They cost too much, and we don’t have that kind of money.
 
ADAM:     (Whining) But MOMMMMM, the people on the bus really creep me out.
 
MOTHER:     (Straight to the point) Well your just going to have to deal with that won’t you?
 
ADAM:     (Whining)  MOMMMM, pleasseeeeeee.
 
MOTHER:     (Frustrated) NO! Be quiet and eat your breakfast.
 
Mother shoves a bowl of cereal across the table to Adam.
 
ADAM:     Cereal again? (Looking up in the air, as if talking to god )Will it ever be something different?
 
MOTHER:     No probably not, and definitely not if you keep your whining up.
 
Adam grimaces and starts to eat his breakfast, but he only takes a few bites, and then pushes his bowl away from him.
ADAM:     I’m done this is gross.
 
MOTHER:     (Lecturing Adam) Well your going to have to get used to this. And your also going to have to start cleaning your dishes as well; I mean for gods sake, your nine years old, any nine year old should be able to clean his own dish.
 
Adam gets up, grabs his backpack.
 
MOTHER:     (Surprised) What do you think your doing?
 
ADAM:     Leaving.
 
MOTHER:     You can’t do that! You’ve got to clean your bowl!
 
ADAM:     No I don’t (Grins), I have to catch the bus.
 
Adam walks away from his mother, leaving his mom in disbelief.
 
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Scene Two
 
Light: SL

Scene opens with Adam walking onto a bus with other passengers on it, one passenger is rocking back and forth, mumbling. Another is talking to the bus driver; and there are two others that are talking to each other. Adam passes the man that is rocking back and forth and the man reaches out towards Adam and says.

OLD MAN:     Hey sonny, how ya duin?
 
Adam gets really scared runs to the back of the bus, where he sits down and sticks his head under his backpack.
 
Adam:         I told my mom that they’ve scared me before, but she didn’t listen to me. Who scares me the most is the old crackpot who always tries to touch me, (Points to man, who is rocking back and forth).

Adam:        Then theres the two people that ALWAYS talk about their cats (Points).

CAT GUY:        (Obnoxious voice) Then theres ginger, shes a cute little tabby kitten that I just got yesterday.

CAT WOMAN:     (Even more obnoxious voice) Oh wow, she sounds like number eighteen.

CAT GUY:         (Confused) Eighteen?

CAT WOMAN:     Yes, I have twenty four cats, so I’ve decided to just give them numbers for names. Like eighteen is the eighteenth cat I got, so that’s her name.

CAT GUY:         Ohhh, that is simply brilliant, I’ve gotta start doing that!    

Adam:        And this tells the same-story-every-single-dang-day(Points to the man standing by the driver.)

BASEBALL GUY:     So it’s game six of the 1975 world series (I was at this game by the way), and Carlton Fisk hits this liner to left field for the walk off, and he gets up (Man gets up, starts to yell) and he starts waving his arms like this! (Guy starts to imitate Carlton Fisk jumping up and down and waving his arms). It was absolutely amazing.

BUS DRIVER:     (Grunting) Yep, pretty amazing.

Adam:        Thank god, here’s my stop.
Adam gets up and walks off the bus.

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Scene Three

Light: SR
Older Adam wakes up in his room to his mother yelling.

MOTHER:     Adam! For the last time wake up!!!

Adam groans and rolls off his bed, landing on the floor.

ADAM:     (Yelling) Coming!

Adam walks into the kitchen and flops down at the kitchen table.

ADAM:     Whats for breakfast?

His mother puts a plate in front of him

MOTHER:     Eggs, sunny side up, just the way you like them.
Adam sighs

MOTHER:     What?!

ADAM:     Mom you always make the wrong way, I like them scrambled, not sunny side up!

MOTHER:     (Annoyed) Will you shut up?! Your fifteen years old and your still whining about your food, I mean for god sakes, at fifteen don’t you think you should be making your own food?

ADAM:     (Loss for words) Um…. No?

MOTHER:     (Very frusturated) Well if your going to be like that, get out of here, I don’t want to see your face right now, and you have to catch the bus anyways, so leave.

ADAM:      Fine!

Adam gets up and leaves, mother stands for a second, watching where he walked away, and then sighs and walks off stage.

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Scene Four

Adam walks onto the bus, the same people are on the bus as before except this time they all greet them, and he greets them back. Adam sits down by Baseball guy. Baseball guy is pretending to swing a bat and looking up in the stadiums, but this time he looks sad.
    
ADAM: (Sincerely) Hey Larry, you still thinking about that game? That was the last day that you ever spent with your dad, right?

LARRY: (Sad) Yep, and I’d give anything to just have one more day with him.

Adam pats Larry on the back and walks over the cat people.

ADAM: Hey Lorraine, hey Bonny, how are you guys doing? Got any men in your lives yet?

LORRAINE: Nope, just me and my cats.

BONNY: (Sighs) Same here.
ADAM: Well just remember, I’m always here on the bus if you need any help.

BONNY AND LORRAINE: Thanks

Adam gets up and walks over to Wilson

ADAM: Hey buddy, you still thinking about the war?

Wilson is rocking back and forth still, but nods.

Adam: Yeah well, just remember, I’ve got a lot of problems too, so we can always talk.

Wilson nods.

ADAM: Aw darn, here’s my stop, bye everyone.

EVERYONE: Bye!

 

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Scene Five

Lights: SR

Older Adam wakes up to his mom yelling.

MOTHER: Adam! WAKE UP NOW, YOUR JOB INTERVIEWS IN A HOUR!

ADAM: I know, I know! Just hold on!

Adam walks into kitchen and sits down.

ADAM: Wait, you said the job interview is in an hour?

MOTHER: Yes, that’s what I said.

Adam: mom, you must have it all wrong, the interviews at three in the afternoon.

MOTHER: Yes, and its two o’clock right now, because of your all nighter last night, you slept in this whole time.

Adam: Oh… Well, whatever.

MOTHER: WHATEVER? Adam, no twenty six year old man should be living with his mom. You need to stop drinking and pull your life together, and you can START by getting this job.

Adam: Well okay, if you put it like that.

Adam gets up and walks to the bus.

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Scene Six

Adam walks onto the bus, muttering hellos to everyone, and then sits down next to Wilson. Adam starts to slowly rock back and forth and cover his face with his hands, he doesn’t do it as rapidly as Wilson, almost like in time, he will become Wilson.

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THE END.