Context: You've clashed with Chase since you both were little. Arrogant, egotistical, and with the looks to back it up, your old friend has always been a little hard to manage. He says you're friends, even after all this time and all the bullying, but you aren't so sure... You just wish you could trust him again.

Setting: A college party - frat house / a college campus

Tags:[MM4A][Crushes to Crushed][Egotistical Cruel Jock Speaker][Addtl. Jock Speaker][Broken Listener][Not Remembering][What Happened Last Night?][Regret][So Much Regret][Sadodere?]or[Stupid Baka?][Trying to Make-Up][TW: Drunken Escapades/Cruel Pranks]

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[C] = Chase. Stupid, sexy asshole

[J] = Jay, stupid and sexy, but less asshole

[Scene opens in…???]

[SFX: A party raging - blurred]

[A party rages all around you and the boy you’re trying to avoid. It’s all a blur…]

[C, slurred] “Nerd!”

[...]

[C] “C’mere, stop walking away! I got something to tell you!”

[Pause!]

[C] “I am not that dunk! Erm, drunk… C’mon, talk to me! Please? Aren’t I your favorite problem to have, my bespectacled friend?”

[Pause!!]

[C] “Sillly Striiinnng, c’mon… Don’t make me pull an ol classic out!”

[Pause…]

[C] “That’s it! ‘SEVEN MINUTES IN HEAVEN’!”

[PAUSE!!!]

[Very fast fade out/in]

[The noise of the party is nearly dwarfed as you sit twisted up in his games… and in him]

[P-Pause…]

[C, muffled] “Mmh… c’mere…”

[SFX: Cloth shifting about]

[P-Pause!]

[C] “Because I want to kiss you more while they have us locked in this closet… Seven minutes, Silly String, tick tock, tick tock…”

[Pause…]

[C, gentle] “It’s OK… It’s OK to want this and me. I want you, too…”

[SFX: More makeouts]

[You always thought you’d backhand the dumb idiot when he kissed you, but he has so much control at the moment that you can’t]

[Pause…]

[C] “Hmhm… Someone’s panting… I think you like this.”

[P-Pause…]

[C] “Aw, c’mon… You’re going away to do your fancy internship, right? I want to spend a little more time with you before you go… It’ll probably be the last time we see each other for a good, long bit, you know?”

[Pause??]

[C] “Why do I care? Easy… Cause I…”

[FX: The dialogue blurring into a [Fade Out]]

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Time/Scene Transition - 16 hours later

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[Scene opens in the campus halls]

[SFX: General hall chatter dying/footsteps as Chase enters the scene]

[C] “Buhhh… Everything hurts… Jay! Yo, Jay!”

[Jay turns around and pales]

[J] “Oh shit, uh…”

[C] “Wassup? I am so freaking hungover and I want a nice, greasy breakfast. Wanna hit up the diner?”

[...]

[C] “...Is there a reason everyone is staring at me?”

[J] “Um…”

[SFX: Murmurs/whispering, if desired]

[Pause]

[C] “Pfft, what? Am I more gorgeous than normal or something, today? No one say ‘yes’ to that, please, I am dealing with one Hell of a hangover. Hey! Jay, what’s up?”

[J] “Dude… you might want to go back to the frat house…”

[C, laughing] “Oh, c’mon, what did I do this time? Drive a golf cart into the lake? Accidentally high-give a swamp puppy?”

[J] “...You did ‘The Prank’.”

[Pause]

[All of the color, energy, and life drains out of Chase. People murmur, whisper about it, as the most popular boy on campus staggers back, gawping]

[C] “...No…”

[J] “...Yeah… Here…”

[Jay fishes out his phone and plays a clip:]

[Past C, faintly] “Hey, Silly String-!”

[C] “...No… Please tell me I didn’t-”

[Pause]

[Past C, faintly] “Wait! I know our seven minutes in Heaven are up, but I didn’t get to say what I wanted to say!”

[Pause???]

[Past C] “Cause I wanted to say that I love you!”

[...]

[C] “Wait, that’s not ‘The Prank’...”

[J] “...Yeah… That’s why I was confused… You ‘confessed your feelings’ in a big, romantic show and then hit your nerdy friend with a ‘just kidding’ so harsh that the whole campus is talking about it… I didn’t realize you wanted to do the prank then, so I started recording but, like… Man, there’s only so much recording a nerd sobbing and running off I can do, you know? That was just torture…”

[Pause]

[C, haunted] “...I made them cry…?”

[J] “Well, yeah, you shouted your ‘just kidding lmao’ right after they said they loved you, too. Riiiight…here.”

[Past C] “HA! The look on your face! You thought! You actually thought someone cared about you, much less me???”

[...]

[J] “...I reckon their heart shatters riiiiight… there… We were all expecting them to do what they normally do and tell us all off, but they just…broke… then walked away.”

[Chase slumps to the ground in front of everyone, desperately rubbing his temples]

[Pause]

[C] “That’s not what I wanted to do… I don’t remember...Christ, fuck! There is no word in any language to express how badly I fucked up!”

[J] “Erm… my Grandad was Serbian and he had a phrase that sounded super angry. Jebem ti hleba!.”

[C, in disbelief] “What???”

[J, sheepish] “I think it means ‘Fuck your bread’... But it SOUNDS like a much harsher fuck-up!”

[C] “HARSHER THAN FUCKING BREAD?! OW, MY HANGOVER!”

[He sits in a sort of fetal position for a moment before he manages to stagger to his feet]

[Pause - VAs discretion]

[SFX: Chase managing to get up]

[C] “Jay… I need to call in that favor. I need you to tell every single professor we have together that I’m out sick for the week, OK? I’ll forge a doctor’s note, but I need you to worry about the rest, OK?”

[Pause…]

[J] “Sure… What are you going to do?”

[C, with a sigh] “What my sisters have been telling me since I hit puberty. ‘Stop being a big, stupid meanie-head and be nice to the people you care about’.”

[J] “Wait… so, do you actually have feelings for-?”

[C] “Jay. Bro. I am desperate for an excuse to get out of this, and taking a swing at you is on the list. With due respect, love, yadda yadda. I’m… fighting every single instinct in me right now that’s trying not to make this my fault, somehow… but it is.”

[J] “Dude-”.

[C] “...I had a backup prank that was as mean as humanly possible… That’s not right. Something’s…not right with me… and I think I really, really hurt one of the few real friends I have… I need to make it right.”

[J] “...I’ll try and cover for you, man… God’s speed.”

[Chase nods and hurries off]

[Fade out on this scene]

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[Scene opens back with the Listener]

[SFX: Open up with some melancholy rain/TV back chatter]

[You’re lying in bed when you hear phone buzz:]

[SFX: Your phone buzzing]

[You ignore it]

[SFX: Knock knock knock]

[You ignore it]

[C, voice small] “...Please, can we talk…?”

[You ignore him, same as he ignored you]

[C] “Silly strinnnng-”...

[Pause.]

[C] “I know it’s not your name but it’s… it means a lot to me… It was the first time you ever got me back when we were kids, remember? And you deserved it, just like you deserve it now! So just… Please open the door and let me have it so we can be friends again!”

[...]

[SFX: The Listener calmly opening the door]

[You open the door and tell him everything you have to say in three words. His eyes widen, then wince, like he’s been struck by a bullet]

[C] “...You really hate me…?”

[SFX: The door shutting]

[To be continued]