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    This three-sentence summary provides the key details from the play: Tina is tired of working at her job where she has to be overly cheerful for customers, and wants summer to be over so she can start her senior year of school. Her friend Jen wants the summer to continue and plans to attend college after graduation to experience new opportunities and growth. Jen is determined to convince Tina to change her mind about college and come with her over the next three weeks until school starts.

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    Tina and Jen reflect on the summer and look forward to the new school year

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    This three-sentence summary provides the key details from the play: Tina is tired of working at her job where she has to be overly cheerful for customers, and wants summer to be over so she can start her senior year of school. Her friend Jen wants the summer to continue and plans to attend college after graduation to experience new opportunities and growth. Jen is determined to convince Tina to change her mind about college and come with her over the next three weeks until school starts.

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    This three-sentence summary provides the key details from the play: Tina is tired of working at her job where she has to be overly cheerful for customers, and wants summer to be over so she can start her senior year of school. Her friend Jen wants the summer to continue and plans to attend college after graduation to experience new opportunities and growth. Jen is determined to convince Tina to change her mind about college and come with her over the next three weeks until school starts.

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    Play # 23

    Three weeks and a Yea

    __________________________

    By Joseph Frost

    Originally written for the 2019 "31 Plays in 31 Days" challenge

    Contact:
    Joseph Frost
    710 Newland St
    Jackson MS 39211
    FrostJosephD@gmail.com
    TINA and JEN.

    They sit in a tree branch.

    TINA
    Summer is so long.

    JEN
    I thought it went by quickly.

    TINA
    Really?

    JEN
    Didn’t we just get out of school?

    TINA
    Months ago.

    JEN
    But it felt like we just got out.

    TINA
    I’m so tired of working at the shop.

    JEN
    I thought you liked it.

    TINA
    I did. But Miss Allen is too much.

    JEN
    She’s fun.

    TINA
    When you get to leave after ten minutes.

    JEN
    She’s a lot.

    TINA
    And so is eight hours of that perky, happy sunshine.
    2.

    JEN
    It’s about customer service.

    TINA
    Is it?

    JEN
    She’s doing that as customers come in. Shouting hi to everyone that comes in. Calling
    people by name. It’s good customer service.

    TINA
    What if I don’t want customers?

    JEN
    It’s... a business.

    TINA
    So. They’re annoying.

    JEN
    Ok.

    TINA
    I’m just tired of it. I’m done. I’m ready for school to start.

    JEN
    I’m fine with it being a couple more weeks away.

    TINA
    A couple weeks?

    JEN
    Do you not know how to read a calendar?

    TINA
    I was just hoping it was, like, one or something.

    JEN
    Nope. Three.

    TINA
    Dang.

    JEN
    Maybe if you put on a Miss Allen smile, it’ll go by faster.
    3.

    TINA
    If I have to hold that smile on my face, I will feel every second tick by from now until
    then. I just want this over.

    A moment.

    JEN
    Then school starts.

    TINA
    Yeah.

    JEN
    Senior year.

    TINA
    The end of the road.

    JEN
    What?

    TINA
    Education. Then it’s over.

    JEN
    Then college.

    TINA
    I don’t think so.

    JEN
    I thought you were coming with me.

    TINA
    I don’t want to move.

    JEN
    It’s an hour away.

    TINA
    I don’t want to.

    JEN
    You want to keep working with Miss Allen’s smile all day.
    4.

    TINA
    Absolutely no.

    JEN
    Then come with.

    TINA
    It’ll lead to a better job?

    JEN
    Maybe. That’s not why I’m going.

    TINA
    For the guys.

    JEN
    No.

    TINA
    Then?

    JEN
    More.

    TINA
    More what?

    JEN
    More of anything. Everything. Not this anymore. Just like you want to get away from
    the shop, do something else. That’s what I want.

    TINA
    You want summer to keep going.

    JEN
    I want my life to be summer.

    TINA
    No job, then.

    JEN
    Probably a job. One I want to do. But more than that.

    TINA
    You’re gonna grow up and be a better person?
    5.

    JEN
    I hope so.

    TINA
    I like you how you are.

    JEN
    I’ll still be me.

    TINA
    I’ll probably still be here. Come back and visit me at the shop and I’ll give you a big
    smile and call you by name. For the rest of my life.

    JEN
    And you’ll feel every ticking second.

    TINA
    I guess so.

    A moment.

    JEN
    Ok.

    TINA
    Ok? That’s it? You aren’t going to change my mind?

    JEN
    Oh I’m gonna change your mind.
    (beat)
    I have time.

    TINA
    You have three weeks until school starts.

    JEN
    And all school year.

    Tina just looks at Jen incredulously.

    JEN
    Smile!

    Jen puts her fingers on Tina’s face to make her


    smile.
    6.

    Lights down.

    End.

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