Filament, Mollly's School-Day Monologue

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INT. APARTMENT, MOLLY’S ROOM - DAY Molly sits on her bed with a facial mask on while painting her nails. The music blasting from her laptop is interrupted by the RINGING from a video call accompanied by a picture of Molly’s mom, PATTY (60s) glamorous, and well dressed. MOLLY Hey mom. PATTY Oh my goodness. Honey, you scared me. MOLLY Sorry. PATTY Is that the mask we sent you? MOLLY Yeah, I figured I would try it out today. PATTY Ok good. Give it an extra twenty minutes. Really let that stuff harden. MOLLY I don’t know if that’s a good idea. PATTY Molls, trust me. Honey, you look sad. What’s going on. Molly scratches her face. MOLLY Oh, nothing. I’m fine. PATTY You’re ready for your party? I still don’t know why me and dad couldn’t come …show more content…

PATTY Well at least show me what you’re wearing. MOLLY All right, hang on. Molly grabs the floral print dress and cardigan hanging on her closet door. She holds it up to show Patty. PATTY Molly, what the hell is that? You can’t seriously expect to bag Eric Holden with that. Isn’t that what you wore when Nana’s boyfriend was baptized? Molly scoffs. MOLLY Well yeah. Wait how do you know that Eric is coming? PATTY Sydney texted me the good news earlier today. You can’t wear a dress that you wore to 96 year old man’s baptism to your party. MOLLY Why is Sydney texting you? PATTY We do all the time. We’ve been trying to get you laid for years now. I raised you to be much more slutty than that dress. Molly throws down the dress. MOLLY Look ma, I need to go. PATTY Alright, alright calm down. Have you opened the card I sent you? MOLLY Not yet, you know I-- PATTY --Wait until the time you were born. Well do yourself a favor and open it now. Molly grabs the envelope. She opens the card to find two-hundred dollars, and a row of condoms. MOLLY Really? She holds up the condoms. PATTY Well you never know. Plus, Eric is coming to the party. I always knew you two would be something. MOLLY I doubt that,

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