Shana Earley

Shana Earley December 13, 2007
Creative Writing Period 2

Monologue

This is about a girl named Joyce who has just moved to Los Angeles from New York to live with her aunt Linda. She has to start a new school and make new friends. The story opens in a high school cafeteria. A girl comes over sits next to Joyce and tells her a secret.


Joyce: “She said what about me? How could she? I thought that me and her were supposed to be friends. When I first got here to Hasbrook high she was the one to show me the ropes. She introduced me to the IN crowd, she showed me how to get to all my classes, and she even helped me get that stupid locker of mine open on my first day here. The first time that I heard the Rumor about me was from a girl named Brenda. I was so shocked. It never even crossed my mind that she was the one who started the rumor about my mother being a drug addict and my father being a notorious drug lord. When I told her about the rumor she hugged me and told me that everything would be ok as if she wasn’t the one to start the rumor to begin with hmm. I can’t believe her. (pause) No wait yes I can. She told me a lot of crazy things about other people in our school. I should have known better. If she was gonna talk about them what makes me so special. Lesson learned. I’m hurt but ill get through it. I’ve been through worse shit then this.”