Overview
- Female: 1
- Male: 1
Context
Calvin is a couple of grades above Meg in school and the two students have recently become friends. Calvin is relieved to have finally found someone he can talk to, which he does not have at home or at school. Calvin tactfully asks Meg about her father, who has been missing for ten months.
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(They walk into the garden. Ensemble makes cricket noises.)
MEG: So we’ve got corn, and the last of the green beans, and pumpkins over there—this is really the twins’ garden, they take care of it mostly—and the orchard’s back there and—why are you looking so…goofy?
CALVIN: Am I? I can’t help it. You know what being here is like? It’s like, I don’t know, I’m not alone anymore!
MEG: But you’re never alone! You play basketball, you’re good in school, everyone likes you.
CALVIN: For all the most unimportant reasons. It’s not really me. There hasn’t been anybody I could really talk to. Here, I feel differently.
MEG: You do?
CALVIN: Yeah. Hey, maybe we weren’t meant to meet before this. I mean, I knew who you were in school, but I didn’t know you. I’m glad we’ve met now, Meg. We’re going to be friends, you know.
MEG: Okay. (Pause.) I’m glad, too. This is all so…weird.
CALVIN: I know. (Silence.) So what’s going on with your dad?
MEG: What?
CALVIN: I mean, that woman we met at the haunted house, she was talking about your father, right? All this has to do with him?
MEG: I, I don’t know what she was talking about.
CALVIN: But you know more than I do. Where is your father? (Silence.) He’s a physicist, right? (Silence.) And he’s supposed to have run off with another woman, right?
MEG: That’s not true!
CALVIN: Hey, I didn’t say I believed it, did I?
MEG: My father works for the government. He’s on a classified mission. We haven’t heard from him and they won’t tell us where he is. All right?
CALVIN: All right. What do they tell you?
MEG: Nothing. Mother’s been down to Washington and everything, but all they’ll say is…he’s not able to communicate now and…they’ll give us news when they get it.
CALVIN: Meg, don’t get mad, but…do you think maybe they don’t know?
MEG: (Quietly:) That’s what I’m afraid of. (She starts crying.) Ugh. I HATE when I cry.
CALVIN: It’s all right.
MEG: I wish I were a different person. I hate myself.
CALVIN: Oh, Meg, don’t be a moron. Don’t you know you’re the nicest thing that’s happened to me in a long time?
(Pause.)
MEG: I wish you would quit saying that word.
(They laugh together.)
End of Scene
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