INT. HOUSE-BEDROOM-MORNING
SARI (31, dressed in yoga pants and hoodie) sits on her bed in her parents’ house working on her laptop. MIMI (4, adorable, inquisitive and occasionally evil, SARI’s niece) + KOBY (2, gentle butterball, often bullied by his older sister Mimi) rummage through their aunt’s room scavenging for treasures as she attempts to work.
MIMI
(dumping out SARI’s makeup bag on the floor)
What’s this?
SARI
That’s blush
MIMI
What’s that for?
SARI
You put it on your cheeks
MIMI
Why?
SARI
(focused on her laptop)
Umm, so they look pretty
MIMI
Can I have some?
SARI
No
MIMI
Why?
SARI
Mimi, please put it back
MIMI
What’s this?
SARI
It’s lipstick
MIMI
Can I have some?
SARI
No
MIMI
But I really want some
(SARI goes back to work on her laptop)
KOBY
(pointing near Sari’s bed) What’s that?
SARI
(glancing up from her laptop) A humidifier
MIMI and KOBY
What’s a humidifier?
SARI
It’s a…thing that makes the air clean
MIMI
Why do you have it?
KOBY
Is it scary?
SARI
Want me to turn it on so you can see?
KOBY
I’m scared
SARI
Here, watch
(turns on humidifier, tiny puffs of mist fill the air) See? It’s not scary
MIMI
Can I touch it?
SARI
Sure, I guess so
KOBY
It’s not scary!
SARI
Nope
(MIMI and KOBY temporarily remain interested in the humidifier, SARI goes back to work on her laptop)
KOBY
What’s this?
SARI
That’s a salt lamp
MIMI and KOBY
What’s that?
SARI
It’s a…special kind of lamp
MIMI
Can I have it?
SARI
No
MIMI
Why?
KOBY
Is it scary?
SARI
Want me to turn it on so you can see?
(SARI gets up and turns on the salt lamp. MIMI and KOBY temporarily remain interested in the salt lamp. SARI goes back to work on her laptop)
KOBY
(crinkling a small piece of yellow packaging) What’s this?
(Long pause)
SARI
That’s a tampon
KOBY
What’s a tampon?
SARI
It’s a…thing that women use
MIMI
Can I have one?
SARI
Umm, when you get bigger
MIMI
Pleeeeeeeeease can I have one?
SARI
Sure
KOBY
Can I have one?
SARI
Sure, you can have one too
KOBY
(crinkling a small piece of plastic with colorful designs) What’s this?
SARI
Another tampon
KOBY
This one is prettier
(KOBY holds up the colorfully packaged tampon to show his aunt)
SARI
(looking up from her laptop, thoughtfully) Yeah, you’re right, it is prettier
MIMI
I want that one!
(MIMI grabs the tampon from her brother, he begins to cry)
SARI
Give your brother back his tampon
MIMI
But I want that one! It has pretty colors
SARI
Mimi, it’s the same thing. Give your brother back his tampon
MIMI
Noooooo, I want the one Koby has!
SARI
It’s the same as the yellow one. It just has a different wrapper. Companies do that so women get excited about buying pretty colored tampons. They’re all the same though
MIMI
No! It’s MINE!
SARI
Fine, no one gets any tampons!
KOBY
(crinkling the plastic wrapper) Is it candy?
SARI
(exasperated) No, it goes in your vagina
MIMI
(proudly) We have vaginas because we’re girls!
SARI
You’re right
MIMI
(taunting her brother in a sing-song voice) Koby doesn’t have one because he’s a boy!
KOBY
I have a penis because I’m a boy
SARI
You’re both right
(SARI goes back to working on her laptop)
THE END.
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