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My Sister's Killer
There is a body in the middle of the stage. A girl enters. She does not see the body.
SARA
Ally? Ally? Where are you? [To herself] If that stupid slut left me here I will be so pissed. Ally? ALLY! When I find you I’m going to kill you! [She sees the body] Ally? Oh my god. [Runs over to the body] Oh, Ally. [Yelling] Help! Help! [Takes out her cell phone] Crap! No signal. Help! Oh God, they’re going to think I did it! I need to get out of here. [She starts to leave then turns back to the body] I am so sorry Ally. [She starts to leave again as a guy enters]
DAN
Sara?
SARA
Dan! I didn’t do it I swear!
DAN
What?
SARA
Oh my God, Dan. It’s Ally. I swear to you I didn’t do it.
DAN
I know.
SARA
What?
DAN
I found her a little while ago. I just called for help.
SARA
Oh. Well, I tried. I didn’t have a signal.
DAN
I had to walk off for awhile to find one.
SARA
So is help coming?
DAN
Yep.
SARA
What do we do now?
DAN
We should probably wait for them to get here.
SARA
You mean...by her?
DAN
Well, yeah. Otherwise they won’t know where her body is.
SARA
Oh. I guess that makes sense.
[They both sit]
SARA
I’m so sorry Dan. I know what she meant to you.
DAN
She was your twin, Sara. I should be comforting you, not the other way around.
SARA
But you loved her. Hell, she may have even loved you...in her own way.
DAN
She didn’t.
SARA
...The last thing I said to her was that I hated her.
DAN
What did she do this time?
SARA
[She debates whether or not to tell him] I’m sorry Dan. She was kissing Jake.
DAN
Wow. My best friend, your boyfriend. Figures...What were you doing all the way out here anyway?
SARA
We were on our way home from Jake’s party. All of the sudden she gets a text then said she had to do something. She did a U-turn in the middle of the road and headed for the creek. So actually, I guess the last thing I said was “What the hell is wrong with you." Oh, and then I called her a stupid whore when she was getting out of the car. She knows I hate this place at night. I waited in the car for her to come back for, I don’t know, twenty minutes? Then I started looking for her. And then I found her.
DAN
She never said what she had to do?
SARA
No. I can't believe this. We were all going to graduate in a few months. She had her whole life ahead of her. Wait...what were you doing out here?
DAN
I went for a walk.
SARA
Weren’t you at Jake’s party?
DAN
Yup. It got kinda boring. I guess he wasn’t bored though.
SARA
Nope. Not bored at all.
DAN
Sorry.
SARA
Me too...So what do you think happened to her?
DAN
Well I would imagine that whoever asked her to come here was the one that killed her.
SARA
You don’t think that it was random? I mean, like, she could have been trying to find whoever it was, and then someone may have tried to rob her or something. Maybe whoever told her to come here is still waiting for her. Maybe they’ll start looking for her. Maybe they’re going to come through those trees any second now and see us just having a normal conversation beside her dead body! They’re going to think we did it!
DAN
There's nothing normal about this conversation. Besides--they did it. That means they are long gone. I know I wouldn’t stick around here if I had done it.
SARA
Why are you so sure they did it? Oh my god, Dan! They could come after us next!
DAN
No, we’re safe.
SARA
What makes you so sure?
DAN
Because they left to get a head start on running away from the police.
SARA
How do you know that? Wait, while you were walking, did you see something?
DAN
I saw a rabbit, an owl, a snake, a squirrel, a dead bird, a raccoon, and a diaper. But not the kind of something you mean.
SARA
Oh. Hey, maybe we should wait in the parking lot for help to come.
DAN
Why would a creek even have a parking lot?
SARA
I guess for all the bike trails that go through here. Did they say what kind of help was coming?
DAN
No.
SARA
I really think we should wait in the parking lot.
DAN
We’ll stay here until we hear the sirens. Then we’ll go.
SARA
But it took me forever to find her. If we leave when we hear the sirens then we won’t get there in time to lead them to her.
DAN
We’re staying here. Someone needs to guard her body.
SARA
No one comes out here this late.
DAN
Three people did.
SARA
And the killer.
DAN
Yeah that’s what I meant. If there was a killer out here, who knows what other kinds of nutcases are lurking around. I don’t want to lose sight of her for a single second.
SARA
She really did a number on you, huh?
DAN
What are you talking about?
SARA
I’m just saying, she really messed you up. You guys were only together a few months but she cheated on you, what? 5 times?
DAN
Six.
SARA
See what I mean?
DAN
Don’t you feel even a little bad about saying this stuff when her dead body is less than 10 feet away from you?
SARA
What’s that supposed to mean?
DAN
It means your dead sister is right beside you, and you don’t even care. Wait, sorry, you do care, but only because you think you’ll be blamed. What kind of sick person are you?
SARA
I’m the consistent kind. I’m not going to sit here and pretend that I was her best friend just because she’s dead and I feel guilty.
DAN
But you were her best friend.
SARA
We hated each other.
DAN
I’m just telling you what she told me.
SARA:
She lied.
DAN
Do you honestly think she had anyone besides you? We both know she was hard to get along with.
SARA
She’s impossible.
DAN
She was impossible.
SARA
Why do you keep saying that?
DAN
What?
SARA
Was.
DAN
Because she’s gone. Everything she may have been is in the past now.
SARA
And you accuse ME of not caring?
DAN
Care? Of course I care! Trust me, you have no idea how much I care!
SARA
Wait, you were walking?
DAN: What?
SARA
You said you were going for a walk.
DAN
When?
SARA
When you found her.
DAN
Oh. Yeah. So?
SARA
So why would you go for a walk way out here in the middle of nowhere?
DAN
I wanted to be alone.
SARA
Why?
DAN
Just because.
[They are both silent for a bit]
SARA
Our alibis suck.
DAN
Oh, will you shut up already?
SARA
Do you have any idea what this will do to my mom? Thinking her daughter is a murderer!
DAN
You don’t seem too worried about what she would think about having a dead daughter.
SARA
Mom hated Ally. She blamed her for dad leaving. She said no guy could handle Ally for long periods of time and that dad was no different.
DAN
She said that?
SARA
Yeah. Ever since then they haven’t been able to stand each other.
DAN
That’s crazy. I can't believe she said that.
SARA
It’s true.
DAN
But crazy.
SARA
Maybe I should call mom.
DAN
They will.
SARA
Who will?
DAN
The help.
SARA
We don’t even know who the help is.
DAN
We’ll find out soon though.
SARA
What did you say to them when you called?
DAN
I told them what happened.
SARA
But we don’t know what happened.
[DAN shrugs.]
SARA
What did you say?
DAN
I told you.
SARA
No, you didn’t.
DAN
I don’t remember, ok? I was freaking out.
SARA
How long have we been waiting here?
DAN
I don’t know.
[Pause]
SARA
When will they be here?
DAN
Will you shut up about the help? It’s not like anyone will be able to “help” her. She’s dead.
SARA
How do you know? Did you check her pulse?
DAN
She’s dead.
SARA
You don’t know that!
[She starts to stand up to go check for a pulse. DAN pulls her back down.]
DAN
Don’t get your finger prints on her.
SARA
Are yours on her?
DAN
Yes.
SARA
Maybe we should leave.
DAN
We need to stay. We owe it to her. We knew her best. We can't abandon her.
SARA
It’s not like she’ll know.
DAN
She was your sister.
SARA
You’ve mentioned that.
DAN
We need to stay with her. We’re the only ones that will care. We know how messed up she was. I mean, her own mom hated her. I knew all that and I still–-
[pause]
SARA
Still what? What did you do?
DAN
She kept cheating on me.
SARA
What did you do?
DAN
She wouldn’t stop.
SARA
Dan! What did you do?
DAN
I made her stop.
SARA
[scoots away] you didn’t call for help did you?
DAN
They’ll find me.
SARA
Why are you still here?
DAN
I’m watching her. I’m making sure nothing happens to her.
SARA
You mean other than dying?
DAN
Those disgusting animals could come eat her.
SARA
Yeah. The squirrel could chew her fingers. That would definitely hurt her.
DAN
Stop.
SARA
You killed my sister.
DAN
I didn’t mean to. You don’t even care.
SARA
I care!
DAN
Not enough!
SARA
What do you mean?
DAN
You waited twenty minutes before you went looking for her.
SARA
This is not my fault!
DAN
You could have found us and stopped me.
SARA
Or you could have stopped you.
DAN
Aren’t you scared Sara? Don’t you think that I’m going to kill you too, now that you know?
SARA
No.
DAN
Why are you still here? What do you want from me?
SARA
I don’t know.
DAN
I can't believe I killed her.
SARA
Me neither.
DAN
Do you think she’ll forgive me?
SARA
No. She holds grudges.
DAN
You’re joking around with a murderer.
SARA
I’m just happy they won’t think I did it.
DAN
Why aren’t you scared of me?
SARA
Because you feel bad. Because you want to get caught. If you wanted to get away with it then you would have run off a long time ago. ...Because...I love you.
DAN
No, you don’t.
SARA
Trust me, I do.
DAN
Well, you shouldn’t.
SARA
Why?
DAN
Because you have Jake.
SARA
No, I don’t, she had him, and you know it. What’s the real reason? Why shouldn’t I love you?
DAN
Because I could have called for help. I could have saved her. There was still time, I could have fixed what I did... but I didn’t. I let her die. You deserve better than a murderer.
SARA
I didn’t know you cared.
DAN
Anyone deserves better than a murderer.
SARA
Nothing could have saved her.
DAN
You don’t know that.
SARA
Sure I do. If you could have helped her then you would have.
DAN
I killed her, didn’t I? How concerned do you think I was for her welfare?
SARA
Dan, I love you and I know you. If you could take it back, I know you would.
DAN
Will you stop saying that?
SARA
What? That I love you?
DAN
Stop!
SARA
Fine. So what are you going to do now?
DAN
I don’t want to leave her.
SARA
I know.
DAN
What will they do to me?
SARA
I don’t know.
DAN
You aren’t helping! ...Wait...you love me?
SARA
...yeah?
DAN
You know I don’t believe you, right?
SARA
Yeah, I’ve figured that out.
DAN
Sara...I can't let them catch me. Who knows what they would do to me.
SARA
I know. You should run. I could help you hide the body. We could run together.
DAN
Sara, that won’t work. Someone needs to take the fall. I don’t want to spend the rest of my life on the run. Do you?
SARA
No, I guess not but who else could take the fall for this?
DAN
I have so many plans for my life...sacrifices are romantic, don’t you think?
SARA
Wait...what?
DAN
Sara, if you took the blame for this I would believe you. I would believe that you love me. I would be able to let myself love you back. They would let you out of jail after a few years. Then we could be together. I just can't believe you without proof.
SARA
Do you understand what you are asking me to do?
DAN
If you really loved me then it wouldn’t be a problem.
SARA
I do love you!
DAN
Then do this for me, Sara! They would believe you! People saw you leaving Jake’s party together. They knew how mad you were at her and they knew you already hated her. No one can say they saw you when she was killed because you were way out here. It’s perfect.
SARA
I don’t know, Dan...
DAN
Look, I want to be with you. Really, I do. I just can't if you don’t do this for me. I promise I will visit you every chance I get. If things work out we might even get married when they let you out.
SARA
If I do this...you’ll love me? Like you loved her?
DAN
I would love you so much more than I ever loved her.
SARA
And we would get married when they let me out?
DAN
I promise.
SARA
What if they don’t let me out?
DAN
They will. I can guarantee it.
SARA
This will prove that I love you?
DAN
Yes.
SARA
If you promise...Then I guess I need to do this.
DAN
That’s my girl. Do you want me to give you a ride to the police station?
SARA
That would be nice, I guess.
DAN
Let’s go.
SARA
What about the body?
DAN
Leave it.
[They both leave]
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