The Accident

Characters:
Marnie Maxwell: One if the three friends in a car accident who lives - driving
Sophie Block: One of three friends in a car crash who lives - front seat
Brenda Medd: The only death in the car crash, haunts her friends memories.

Character Descirptions:

Sophie Block; 17 years old. Wearing spandex, tank top, ponytail, no makeup, attitude, sarcastic
Marnie Maxwell; 17 years old. Wearing jeans and a sweatshirt, longish brown hair. Neat, sarcastic and always smiling/laughing.
Brenda Medd; 17 years old. Long straight dark hair, black splattered color shirt and pink pants with slits in them. very outgoing and loving.

Setting:
Bedroom. Bunk Beds with pink polka dotted sheets. beds are made and floor is clean. a desk sits at the right side of the room and the walls are a soft yellow.



The Accident Play:

- Opens in a bedroom of a teenage girl around 17 years old

SOPHIE: We had all been best friends since pre-k. We spent every waking moment together. Movies. Sleepovers...Swimming, Vacations, driving, and long phone calls. Everything.


MARNIE: It seemed like we were untouchable, nothing could stop us...yet, and no we couldn’t ever, in a million years see this coming. - Pause -.. But people keep telling me everything happens for a reason.


- Goes to a flash back of the day they met; sitting on the floor, coloring in their Barbie coloring books in Marnie's Room. They are about six years old.


BRENDA: Would it be weird if i color her face green!?


SOPHIE: Yes Brenda, Barbie’s don't have green faces. They'd look like aliens. (Sophie gets up and grabs a box of flesh toned Crayola crayons and hands them to Brenda)


MARNIE: (while coloring Barbie’s pink dress) I think Brenda should color her Barbie the way she wants to.


- Sophie and Brenda continue to color while Marnie looks at them smiling


MARNIE: We'll be best friends forever!!


End Flash Back. Brenda walks offstage.


SOPHIE: At six years old you can always see being best friends forever, but things change.


MARINE: I don’t think anyone can forget something terrible that's happened to them. You can try and try but no matter what you do, your past will always haunt you.


SOPHIE: You know that feeling you get when something bad is going to happen, i guess we all kind of had that. Marnie, Brenda, and I, we all felt a little anxious as the night progressed. We didn’t think anything of it then but i wish everyday that we didn’t go for that drive (pause - Marnie and Brenda get into the car. Marnie driving and Brenda getting into the back seat after arguing about who should drive). It was pretty late by then and the roads were wet from a rainstorm. We all knew how to drive and we hadn’t been doing anything bad, its just...sometimes...accidents happen. Marnie and Brenda are goofing around in the car, blasting music and dancing. Marnie was the baby of the group. She was just got her license and we just let her drive for the first time. She must have lost control of the car because the next thing I remember was spinning and screaming and rolling off the road headfirst in a nearby tree. (Marnie and Brenda disappear offstage). After that, the night air was screaming with the high pitched squeal of an ambulance and the murmur of men dressed in uniforms. Marnie was in a stretcher next to me, I could see her chest rising and falling as she breathed. Frantically, I looked for Brenda, but she wasn’t there. Instead I saw this body, covered in one if those white sheets you see in the crime shows. It couldn’t have been Brenda...

- Marnie appears back onstage, action freezes.

MARNIE: I had wrapped the car around a tree pretty bad, unsalvageable they said. They sent Sophie and I to the hospital, but they didn’t tell us just yet. Instead they humored all our fantasies that Brenda was still okay. My parents were acting funny, so were Sophie's but all parents act kind of funny when you do something like this. I didn’t mean to, I didn't know. I should've just let Brenda drive. When they told us Brenda hadn't survived, they said it very matter-of-fact. She wasn’t wearing her seat belt. She flew through the front wind shield. She died.

- Everyone goes offstage. Brenda is lying in her casket. Sophie and Marnie enter, one by one going up to their friend and saying their last goodbye. Marnie walk up to the casket first.

MARNIE: (starring down at Brenda) I’m so sorry. I could've prevented this. About to leave before she thinks she hears Brenda.


BRENDA: (looking up at Marnie.) This is all your fault. If you had let me drive I wouldn’t have swerved and we'd all be having fun. I'd still be alive if it wasn’t for you. You ruined everything. My poor parents.


MARNIE: (In shock, stuttering) No I...I... didn’t mean to...the. road...I'm sorry. I didn't meant for this to happen, I just wanted to drive.


Marnie walks off stage extremely upset.

SOPHIE: (walks up to the casket staring at the casket staring at her dead friend): Hi Brenda. It's been really hard to realize that you are really gone. It’s like a bad dream I wont wake up from. Everyday seems to go by so slowly now. It's hard to eat, sleep, go to school. I really don't know what to do anymore without you. You were my best friend. You still are. I hope you can forgive us. I miss you. (crying)


BRENDA: You know how everyone always says you have a time to go. Like you have to fulfill something in life. A puzzle piece to the world i guess. Once you find your place, your meaning, then it's your time. Nobody wants to go but you just have to live for yourself. And when it is time to leave, don't be greedy or upset. You just have to accept it. Then one day, you and Marnie will find out what you are supposed to do in life. Your purpose, you know. Once you succeed in this purpose you're going to have to go to...


SOPHIE: Then what was your purpose Brenda (thinking over it for a while) Why did you fulfill your purpose so young?


BRENDA: I guess you'll have to find out for yourself.


SOPHIE: Well that it then...This is goodbye. (Sophie walks away sadly.)


Sophie sits down with Marnie who seems to be extremely upset still.


SOPHIE: What’s wrong Marnie? She's okay now.


MARNIE: This is all my fault. I shouldn’t have been so selfish and stupid and should have just let her drive.


SOPHIE: Everything happens for a reason. It’s not your fault. I could easily say it’s my fault for making her sit in the back instead of the front. But I don’t because it’s just the way things happen. You are just going to have to accept that it’s not your fault. It was just an accident.


MARNIE: I can't just accept this.


SOPHIE: (cuts in) But you have to! For Brenda's sake. Brenda would not like us fighting over this. It is stupid. It's not like we are going to forget her and everything we all been through. It's just going to be different. (Trails off words)


MARNIE: I never looked at it that way (walking back to Brenda)

MARNIE: Sorry bye.