Playgrounds and Chocolate Malts by Keegan And Laura

Characters (in order of appearance)
Airhead Mom: Rupert's mother, clueless trophy wife
Lucy's Mom: Lucy's mother, a gossip
Michael's Mom: Michael's mother, also a gossip
Rupert: Age 5, spoiled and a but slow
Michael: Age 5, trouble maker, typical boy
Lucy: Age 5, has an attitude

Scene I:
It is a noisy playground in the middle of the summer. The playground has slides, swings, and a jungle gym. Park benches are on the sides for the parents to sit and watch. Children run around playing. They chase each other and yell and laugh, but the scene is focused on three mothers talking on a bench.

Airhead Mom: Oh, Rupert can finally go to the bathroom all by himself! I'm so proud of him!

Lucy's Mom: (rolling her eyes and muttering under her breath) Took him long enough.

Airhead Mom: (cluelessly) Hmm? What was that?

Lucy's Mom: ("sweetly") Oh, nothing. I just think it's sooo exciting!

Airhead Mom: I know! I'm so happy! We're going to back a cake and everything! I even bought him a new toy truck!

Lucy's Mom and Michael's Mom stifle laughter while Airhead Mom is talking.

Michael's Mom: How wonderful!

End Scene.

Scene II:
The scene is focused on the playground. A girl and two boys are playing by the swings. One of the boys is showing off a bright red fire truck.

Rupert: (bragging) My mommy got me a brand new fire truck! (holds up the fire truck, showing it off)

Michael: (jealously) Why'd you get a fire truck?

Rupert: (slowly) Because... (defiantly) Because I wanted one!

Lucy: (hands on her hips, with attitude) I don't believe you.

Rupert: (getting mad) It's the troof!

Rupert pushes Lucy. She is surprised and blinks back tears as she falls backwards. Michael then steps in to defend Lucy.

Michael: (yelling) My daddy says you're not supposed to push girls!

Michael then pushes Rupert, making him fall and drop his fire truck. Airhead Mom sees him fall and runs over, worried.

Airhead Mom: What happened? Are you okay?

Rupert: (sniffling) I'm—

Airhead Mom: (interrupting) Will ice cream make it better?

Rupert: (pouting and nods) Okay...

Rupert and Airhead Mom walk away, with Rupert clutching his fire truck.

Lucy: (batting her eyelashes) Thank you for saving me, Michael.

Michael: (matter-of-factly) Well, you're not supposed to push girls. My daddy said so.

Lucy: Wanna play house? I could be the mommy and you could be the daddy!

Michael: (hesitantly) But... But you have cooties! And cooties are gross!

Lucy: (in a pathetic voice) No I don't! (Lucy runs towards her mother)

End scene.

Scene III:
Back on the benches, Lucy's Mom and Michael's Mom are gossiping.

Lucy's Mom: Oh my God! If she keeps giving Rupert food to avoid possible tantrums, he' going to be one fat child!

Michael's Mom: And he's already getting to be a little tubby.

Lucy's Mom: I know! Can't you just imagine what he'll be like in—

Lucy runs up and starts tugging on her mom's shirt, interrupting her.

Lucy: Mommy! Mommy! Michael said I have cooties! I don't want cooties! I don't want them! (now on the verge of tears)

Michael's Mom: (slightly angry) Michael said what?

Lucy: He said I have cooties!

Lucy's Mom: (sympathetic/comforting) Aww... Honey, you don't have cooties.

Lucy: (almost crying, her lower lip trembling) But... Michael said I did! He said I have cooties and that they're gross!

Lucy's Mom: (still comforting) Lucy, cooties are just something little boys make up to make girls cry. They aren't real.

Lucy: (hopeful) So... I don't have cooties?

Lucy's Mom: (smiling) Of course not!

Lucy: (also smiling, now happy again) I'm gonna go tell Michael!

Lucy runs off towards the playground.

Michael's Mom: (apologetic) I'm so sorry Michael was teasing your daughter. (thinking out loud) I wonder if I should punish him for that...

Lucy's Mom: Oh, no. I think it should be fine now.

End scene.

Scene IV:
Back on the playground, Lucy runs up to Michael.

Lucy: (defiant/ angry, pointing at Michael) You liar! (she crosses her arms) I do not have cooties! My mommy said so!

Michael: (taunting) Well... You're mommy is lying! Girl's have cooties!

Lucy: No I don't! My mommy said that boys just make that up to make girls cry!

Michael: (losing confidence) Well...

Michael looks around and sees Lucy's hair ribbon. He grabs it and runs off into the jungle gym.

Lucy: (surprised) Hey! Give that back!

Lucy chases after Michael. As she chases him, his shoelaces come untied. He trips and falls on the jungle gym.

Lucy: (seeing Michael fall) Michael!

Michael starts crying when he realizes his knee is bleeding. Lucy's Mom and Michael's Mom heard Lucy yelling and they look over to see what's happening. There are 10 seconds of chaos as they try to get over to the kids. The kids continue freaking out over the blood.

Michael's Mom: (frantically) Oh my God! Michael! Are you okay?

Michael: (crying) Mommy, my knee!

Lucy's Mom: (worried) Lucy, what happened?

Lucy: (scared) He stole my hair ribbon and so I chased him and then he tripped and fell.

Michael continues crying.

Michael's Mom: (remembering) Lucy, there's a first aid kit in my bag by the bench. Can you go get it for me?

Lucy: (nodding and biting her lower lip) Uh-huh. (she runs towards the benches)

Lucy's Mom: (trying to come up with a way to make them feel better) Well... It could have been worse. At least he didn't fall on pavement.

Lucy runs back with the first aid kit. Michael's Mom starts bandaging up Michael's knee.

Lucy: Is he gonna die? He might be mean sometimes, but I don't want him to die...

Michael's Mom: No, Lucy. It's just a scrape on his knee. He'll be okay.

Michael starts calming down a little bit, but winces as his mother finishes bandaging up his knee.

Michael's Mom: There. All better.

Michael: (sniffling) It still hurts.

Michael's Mom: It takes a little while to feel better.

Michael: (perking up) Mommy, can we have ice cream? Rupert got ice cream when he fell. And I got hurt worse than him. He didn't even bleed!

Lucy: (begging her mom) Can we get ice cream, too, Mommy? Please?

The mothers sigh and look at each other.

Michael's Mom: (giving in) Well, I guess we could do that.

Lucy's Mom: (getting an idea) Wait! I have a better idea! Instead of ice cream cones, let's go the malt shop and get chocolate malts!

Michael and Lucy: Yay!

They gather their things and walk away from the playground.

End scene.

Scene V:
Lucy's Mom, Michael's Mom, Lucy, and Michael walk into the malt shop. As they enter, a bell above the door rings. The inside of the malt shop looks like a retro soda fountain, complete with stools at a counter, red leather booths, and a black and white checkered floor. They go up to the counter, order chocolate malts, and go sit down at a booth. A waitress brings over their malts and they all drink them happily.

Lucy: This is fun! We should do it again tomorrow!

Michael: Then I think you should be the one to get hurt.

The mothers laugh.

End scene.

End play.

Author's Note
This was the final for creative writing. We had to write a play. We could write it with a partner if we wanted, so I wrote it with Laura. The things that are in red are things we had to include in the play. Basically, Laura and I were trying to figure out a setting/plot and we figured there are park benches by a playground and there would be chaos there. And then we thought, "Hey! A kid could fall and they could get malts afterwards to feel better!" Or something like that.

So yeah.

I have a few other assignments from creative writing that I think I'll post,
Keegan <3