Play 184: Possibilities

CHARACTERS
VINCENT, 17
JAMES, 17

(They sit at a table eating lunch.)

VINCENT
You don’t think so?

JAMES
Not really.

VINCENT
Oh.

(Beat.)

JAMES
I don’t know, maybe, I just didn’t notice really.

VINCENT
You sure?

JAMES
Yeah.

VINCENT
Okay.

(Beat.)

So it didn’t seem strange to you?

JAMES
What?

VINCENT
That she said hi to you and not me.

JAMES
She probably just didn’t notice you were there.

VINCENT
Maybe.

(Beat.)

But I mean, she’s not any closer to you than me, right?

JAMES
Right.

VINCENT
So why didn’t she say hi to me?

JAMES
I don’t know.

(Beat.)

Maybe she’s angry at you for some reason.

VINCENT
I don’t think so.

JAMES
You haven’t done anything that could’ve pissed her off?

VINCENT
Nope.

(Beat.)

Maybe she likes me.

JAMES
It’s possible.

VINCENT
Like, maybe she’s just shy cause of that or something.

JAMES
Could be.

VINCENT
Or maybe she hates me.

JAMES
I doubt it.

VINCENT
Or just doesn’t like me much, I mean, so what if she’s said the opposite, it’s what you do, not say, you know?

JAMES
Or maybe she just didn’t see you.

(Beat.)

VINCENT
Yeah.

JAMES
You do know that’s by far the most likely solution, right?

VINCENT
Yeah.

JAMES
So your thinking of all these other possibilities (beat.) why?

VINCENT
I ask myself that all the time.

(James laughs.)

VINCENT
I’m serious.

JAMES
That’s why I laughed.

VINCENT
Oh.

(Blackout.)