Play 236: Seriously, Who?

CHARACTERS
STEVEN, 17
ELLA, 17

STEVEN
I guess I haven’t thought about it.

ELLA
Not at all?

STEVEN
Not really.

(Beat.)

Have you?

ELLA
Well, I did bring it up.

STEVEN
True.

(Beat.)

ELLA
I just think it’s weird to think about.

STEVEN
I guess.

ELLA
I mean, can you imagine yourself as an adult?

(Beat.)

STEVEN
No.

(Beat.)

ELLA
Neither can I.

(Beat.)

STEVEN
You’re right.

ELLA
(Confused.)
What?

STEVEN
I can’t imagine it at all.

ELLA
Yeah.

STEVEN
Like having a job.

ELLA
Or kids.

STEVEN
Shit.

ELLA
I know.

(Pause.)

Do you think you feel older?

STEVEN
I’m sure you do.

ELLA
Really?

STEVEN
Yeah.

(Beat.)

I mean, you’d have to, right?

ELLA
Maybe.

(Beat.)

But what if it’s like going up in the grades or stuff?

STEVEN
How so?

ELLA
Well I mean, we’re seniors now.

STEVEN
So?

ELLA
So do you feel as old as you thought the seniors seemed when we were freshman?

(Beat.)

STEVEN
I see your point.

(Pause.)

ELLA
It just seems like no matter how old you get, you still always feel like a little kid sometimes.

STEVEN
I guess.

(Pause.)

But, at the same time, don’t the freshman look younger every year?

(Beat.)

ELLA
Huh, that’s true.

STEVEN
I wonder what that means.

(Beat.)

ELLA
I guess nothing seems like what it was.

STEVEN
Yeah.

ELLA
Everything changes around you, but, I guess it never feels like you do.

STEVEN
But you do.

ELLA
I guess.

STEVEN
It just never seems like it.

ELLA
You’re probably right.

(Beat.)

I guess everything else moving and you staying put looks the same as the opposite.

STEVEN
Yeah.

(Beat.)

ELLA
So which one is it?

STEVEN
Who knows.

ELLA
Who indeed.

(Blackout.)