The Trip
September 24th, 2020
Starring: Kennedy, Jordan (both 25-40)
A cabin in the woods, nighttime. Dusty and barebones. No kitchen, just one large room. Kennedy and Jordan sit in creaky armchairs.
KENNEDY
Did you notice every shelf is just cookbooks?
JORDAN
Now I do.
What’s that about?
KENNEDY
No idea.
JORDAN
I’m thinking that’s the cabin vibe she wanted to create.
KENNEDY
But why? Noone’s making anything from “Basics of Albanian Baking” without an oven.
JORDAN
True.
I wonder if it’s just a storage container.
Like she didn’t have room for them at her actual house.
KENNEDY
But if they were really important enough, they wouldn’t be here.
JORDAN
That’s why I was thinking it’s more of a curatorial decision.
KENNEDY
But that makes no sense. Just get rid of them at that point.
JORDAN
She could be a hoarder.
KENNEDY
No way. I met her.
JORDAN
She didn’t give you that sense?
KENNEDY
No.
JORDAN
What was your sense?
KENNEDY
Seemed pretty normal.
JORDAN
But this cookbook thing, it’s not normal.
KENNEDY
No. No it isn’t.
…
JORDAN
I suddenly have this feeling that we’re in a horror story.
KENNEDY
What do you think happens?
JORDAN
The cicadas get really loud.
KENNEDY
Uh-huh.
Then a hailstorm comes.
JORDAN
The lights go out.
KENNEDY
But we’re hungry, so we share our last can of SPAM.
JORDAN
But then—
KENNEDY
There’s a knock.
JORDAN
And we think it’s just hail—
KENNEDY
But it’s a knock.
JORDAN
And you open the door
KENNEDY
No I think you open the door
JORDAN
It’s a team effort
KENNEDY
And in the door is the renter lady with a lantern
JORDAN
She still seems normal
KENNEDY
Asks us if we’re hungry
JORDAN
And we both had half a SPAM but we still could eat
KENNEDY
Oh for sure
JORDAN
So she’s like… “I brought cake”
KENNEDY
No, she’s like...“I brought Shendetlie”
...
Albanian cake.
JORDAN
Ohh right.
But she has no cake.
KENNEDY
So I’m like… “where’s the cake?”
JORDAN
And she’s like… “I haven’t made it yet.”
KENNEDY
“I need one last ingredient.”
KENNEDY/JORDAN
“It’s you!”
…
JORDAN
Oh yeah.
Definitely feeling the shrooms now.
KENNEDY
Finally, you’re joining me.
...
What do you feel?
JORDAN
Good.
And cicadas. Cicadas everywhere.
KENNEDY
Wait. Yeah I do too.
A plinking sound.
JORDAN
Was that hail?
KENNEDY
Oh yeah.
That was totally hail.
The lights go out.