so fresh and so clean proudly presents it's first play entitled:

"the day that jessi died"!!

(music swells, curtains open to find kim driving in her volkswagen thing, the top down, her long hair flowing in the wind. she is singing along with the music in her car. her flip phone rings and she scrambles to find it in her louie vuitton purse and still maintain conrol of the steering wheel.)

kim: hello?

adam: hey. have you talked to jessi today?

kim: no. why?

adam: dane just told me she didn't show up for dinner, and he hasn't talked to her all day. i was just wondering if you knew where she was.

kim: no. scary. i'll call around and let you know what i find out. and you do the same.

(she continues driving. thumbing through numbers in her phone and calling anyone who might know where jessi was. ring, ring, ring, ring, "hey, this is jessi. i can't come to my phone right now, so leave me a message and i'll call you back."

kim: hey jessi. this is kim. i heard that you didn't show up for dinner tonight, and you aren't answering your phone...everyone's starting to get a little freaked out. call me if you get this!

(heather. ring, ring, ring, "hey this is heather..." click. megan. ring, ring)

megan: hello?

kim: hey meg. this is kim. hey, have you talked to jessi today?

megan: no. i talked to her last night though.

kim: well, dane told adam she didn't come to dinner, and i haven't talked to her all day. i was just wondering if you knew where she was.

megan: no. just a second. i'll call you back.

kim: okay. bye. hmmm. misty. (ring, ring)

misty: herroo. (she is brushing her teeth and trying to talk at the same time).

kim: hey, have you talked to jessi yet about picking her up?

misty: no. why?

kim: she's m.i.a. no one can find her. she's not answering her phone and dane said she didn't show up for dinner.

misty: scary. i'll try to call her.

kim: okay, let me know if you find anything out. bye.

(thoughts of jessi's funeral begin to flash through kim's mind. "i told her not to take the bus!" she thought to herself. ring, ring)

kim: hello?

meg: hey. doesn't jessi's aunt live here in town? she was hanging out with her on sunday.

kim: sure. i don't know. (she is reading the article about her in the newest people magazine.)

meg: heather called jessi's r.a. to see if she was in her room. let me call you back.

kim: okay.

(by this time, kim is back at her apartment, only to find stephanie waiting for her. "i forgot she was coming over." she thought to herself.)

kim: how long have you been here?

steph: like 20 minutes.

kim: sorry. hey, jessi's m.i.a. have you talked to her by any chance?

steph: no. what happened?

kim: no ones talked to her all day. and she didn't show up for dinner.

steph: that's crazy. has anyone gone to her dorm room? yeah, heather called her r.a., and i think dane might have gone over there too...but i'm not sure.

(kim hears the bus turn the corner. becky has just gotten back from school. the stairs were obviously too much for becky's lungs to handle today. she enters, inhaler in hand.)

kim: jessi's missing.

becky: what? what's going on?

(puff, puff. squeeze, squeeze. these are the normal sounds of becky.)

kim: she didn't show up for dinner tonight, she's not answering her phone...

becky: she didn't sign on today either.

kim: i know. you told me earlier. (she flips her hair) i just keep picturing someone stealing her from the bus.

(ring, ring)

kim: hello?

misty: hey, i just talked to jessi.

kim: what??!!??

misty: she's in her dorm room.

kim: oh my gosh. thanks for calling. now i have to call everyone else and tell them that she's okay.

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there you have it. apparently, our lady of honor was volunteering her services at the blood drive. you can't get mad at a girl for that.