09/08/2021 Drama Online - Mosquitoes

Pause.
They laugh at everything. They laugh like constantly, like everything’s funny,
and I watch them, and in my head I’m thinking about how they’re going to
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die. Not in a threatening way, not like planning it, just… statistically. You
know.You know?

Pause.

Jenny Grow up, Luke.

He looks at her. Blindsided.

Luke What?

Jenny Seriously, sort yourself out. All this? Over what? A leaflet? This poor
girl. Natalie, is it? She’s walking around, what is she, your age? Seventeen, is
she pretty?

Luke Yes. But

Jenny Course she is, pretty, happy, lots of mates, lovely young cervix,
sunny day like this, probably off the park after school, shopping centre,
have a… slush puppie or whatever with her lovely young cervix, and then
she opens her locker and there’s you. Boom, shitting on her peace of mind
with a brand-new horrible fucking thing that might happen to her. Did she
ask for that? No. So what you’ve done there is basically infected her. She’s a
teenage girl, she’s got enough worries, trust me, and there’s you dropping
another one on her, out of the blue, drive by, here you go love, chew on
that. Lie in bed at night thinking about that, googling that, worrying about
that, I mean fair play to her honestly. I’d want to smack you one too.
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Luke It wasn’t her, she didn’t, it was / Stefan

Jenny Because honestly? That’s weird. A leaflet, that’s objectively just a

very weird thing to, and I’m not saying this to be nasty, it’s not your fault,
what does your mum say, ‘be yourself’? Know why she does that? Cos she
has no idea what else to say to you. Cos it scares her, you being like this.
Cos honestly, you’re so like your dad it’s not even funny. You are, you’re the
spit, the stuff comes out your mouth. So there’s that, maybe you can’t help
behaving like a fruit-loop, but if you can, and I would say, you know, have a
good go at it, cos if you can, you should knock it on the head sharpish cos
otherwise, honestly, I don’t see you having a very happy life.
Sweetheart.,That’s it, that’s me done. I’m only saying this to help you, let’s
forget about it now. Have a cup of tea.

She lights a cigarette.

Luke Go outside! You want to smoke, go outside, it’s not rocket science.

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