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JO: You can't not.
CYNTHIA: You don't know the whole story. It's complicated.
(pause) Could you please help me test myself.
(The bell rings, signalling the end of lunch)
JO: Sure. (rises)
CYNTHIA: I'll meet you at the back gate after school?
JO: Okay. (starts to leave)
CYNTHIA: Hey Jo.
JO: (turns back) What?
CYNTHIA: Thanks.
JO: (smiles) It's okay.
CYNTHIA: And Jo -
JO: Yeah?
CYNTHIA: I'm sorry for the things I've said and done to
you. I had no idea, I thought you were just being
snobby and superior the way you kept to yourself
and worked so hard and were so serious all the
time. I feel terrible. I'm really sorry.
JO: It's okay.
(Blackout)
SCENE 7:
JO stands near the edge of the stage holding the bits and
pieces of a home pregnancy test kit. She calls out to
CYNTHIA, offstage.
JO: Hurry up, before someone comes.
CYNTHIA: (offstage) I've got it.
(A toilet flushes offstage and CYNTHIA enters with
a full specimen container. JO hands her the
indicator strip.)
JO: Here, now you put this in it and see what colour
it turns. If it's blue you're okay. (She puts the strip in the
container.)
CYNTHIA: What colour's that? It's not turning blue is it?
Oh my God -
