SCENE 1
EMMA and KATE are in EMMA’S basement. They are practicing their dance for the competition.
EMMA
The twist! The jump! The step-step split. Go!
KATE starts dancing,
EMMA
You did it!
KATE
Yay!!! Emma, I’m so excited for the competition. It’s tomorrow. I hope we win.
EMMA
I hope so, too. The Silver Steps have won every single year. And we have lost every single year. We have to win!!
KATE
Do you want to practice it?
EMMA
Sure.
EMMA starts dancing until she falls and starts moaning.
EMMA
Ow, ow, it really hurts, Mom.
KATE runs across the stage, up the stairs, and rushes to EMMA’s MOM’s room.
MOM
What happened?
KATE
Emma hurt herself.
They both run to EMMA and her MOM calls 9-1-1.
MOM
Can you have an ambulance to Street Wood Road, number 236? (Ends the phone call.) Honey, are you okay?
EMMA
I think I’m fine but it really hurts.
SFX of an ambulance. Ambulance comes. They put her in the ambulance, and with MOM and KATE, they go to the hospital.
SCENE 2
DOCTOR, EMMA, KATE, and MOM are in the hospital. DOCTOR treats EMMA.
DOCTOR
She sprained her ankle. And she has to be off it for a week.
EMMA
But I have dance competitions tomorrow! And I can’t miss that.
DOCTOR
Well, you have to be off it or else that ankle of yours will get even worse.
EMMA
Ughhh!
KATE
It’ll be fine. I’ll video tape it for you. And besides, we won’t even win cause The Silver Steps win every single year.
EMMA
I know we’ll win this year. Good luck.
DOCTOR
Here’s medicine for her foot. Feel better.
They walk off, end of scene 2.
SCENE 3
EMMA and MOM are in MOM’S room.
EMMA
Mom, I want to perform. I’ve dreamed about since I was little!
MOM
But, sweetie, you can’t. Your leg is sprained and you can’t dance on it ‘cause you might injure it even more.
EMMA
But, Mom —
MOM
No buts, but we can still go and watch it.
EMMA
Mom, even if my group won, it wouldn’t affect me because I wouldn’t have been in it. Please, Mom.
MOM
No!
EMMA storms out of the room.
SCENE 4
EMMA and KATE are talking on the phone.
EMMA
Hello, Kate.
KATE
Hey, what’s up, Emma?
EMMA
I’m mad at my mom because she’s not letting me perform.
KATE
Well, you can’t because you hurt your leg.
EMMA
Well, it’s not like I broke it or anything. It’s just that I sprained it. But, I can still walk so I can still perform.
KATE
But Emma. Even if you didn’t hurt it that much, you could injure it even more. I can’t let you perform.
EMMA
Well, I’m still going, and you can’t do anything to stop me.
MOM listens in.
MOM
Emma’s still going. I must do something to stop her! But I must not tell Emma that I listened to the phone call, or she’ll get mad at me.
SCENE 5
EMMA is going outside.
EMMA
I’m going outside to talk a walk, Mom!
Mom, Mom where are you?
MOM
Hi honey, where are you going?
EMMA
Oh hi, Mom, what ya doing?
MOM
I’m just going shopping.
EMMA
I’m going to go out now. I am taking my crutches with me.
EMMA walks out and MOM follows
MOM
Where you going?
EMMA
I’m meeting Kate.
MOM
But Kate is at the competition.
EMMA
I know.
MOM
Why do you have a backpack?
EMMA
Because um…
MOM
Tell the truth.
EMMA
I want to go to the competition, because I know this year we’ll win, but if I don’t go, and we still win, I feel like I won’t have done anything because I won’t have participated in it.
MOM
What about if we go home, and I will make mac and cheese with broccoli — your favorite? We can call your dad when we get home. I know you miss Dad since he is away in Paris doing some work.
SCENE 6
MOM and EMMA are in the dining room eating dinner.
MOM
Sweetie, even if your team won, you would still support them.
EMMA
But Mom, even if they win I would be happy for them, but I wouldn’t feel happy for me because I wouldn’t have been in it.
MOM
But still, even if you weren’t even in the performance, it was still your team that won… You’re still part of your team, even if you weren’t there.
EMMA
I never thought of it like that, I guess you are right.
The phone rings
EMMA
Hi, Kate.
KATE
We won the competition!
EMMA
You did? I’m so happy for you. I wish I was there, but at least you won, and our team has a trophy.
THE END