Play 183: Nappy Time

CHARACTERS
BEN, 17
DEREK, 17

(Ben is sitting in front of a computer staring blankly at the screen.)

(Derek enters.)

DEREK
How’s it going?

BEN
An hour and a half.

DEREK
What?

BEN
That’s around how long I’ve been trying to think of something to write.

DEREK
That sucks.

BEN
Yeah.

DEREK
And still no luck?

BEN
None.

DEREK
You’d think it’d get easier to think of ideas after a while.

BEN
I had thought it would.

DEREK
It hasn’t at all?

BEN
Not really.

(Beat.)

Lately it’s been taking longer than it did at first I think.

DEREK
That sucks.

BEN
You have no idea.

(Beat.)

DEREK
You look tired.

BEN
Once again, you have no idea.

DEREK
Go to sleep then.

BEN
I have to write this.

DEREK
Then write a cop out.

BEN
I don’t want to though, done too many already.

DEREK
Not that many lately.

BEN
True.

(Beat.)

But still.

DEREK
Whatever then, stay up if you want to, I’m heading out.

BEN
Okay.

(Derek exits.)

(Ben stares at the screen for a bit, then looks at his watch. He yawns.)

BEN
You know what?

(Beat.)

Fuck this.

(He takes out a piece of paper with the “cop-out” written on it in giant letters, and tapes it to the computer screen.)

(He yawns again.)

BEN
I do believe it’s nappy time.

(He exits.)

(Blackout.)