Written by Joe Janes
3/6/09
47 of 365
CAST:
Brennan, 20s
Joey, 20s
Bear
(Lights up on Joey walking in to his small apartment. He looks beat. He takes off his backpack and walks over to the kitchen. He looks on the counter. He looks in the fridge. He looks pissed.)
JOEY
Brennan! Brennan! (He walks over to Brennan’s door and knocks on it.) Brennan!(Brennan opens the door. Brennan is eating a banana.)
JOEY (continuing)
We need to talk.BRENNAN
Now, dude?JOEY
Yeah. Now.(Brennan walks out and sits on the sofa.)
BRENNAN
Well? What’s eating you?JOEY
I work all day at the Apple Store. I come home. I’m tired. All I want to do is peel off my backpack and eat a banana.BRENNAN
Oh.JOEY
“Oh’s” right. No banana.(A bear sticks his head out of Brennan’s door.)
BRENNAN
My bad, Joey. I didn’t know that was your banana.JOEY
We’re the only two people who live here. Whose banana would it be?(The bear walks over to the refrigerator and opens the door.)
BRENNAN
Hey, you know. You buy food. I buy food. It gets confusing. You should write your name on it.JOEY
I did.(The bear pulls a beer can out of the fridge. Brennan looks at the banana peel and sees Joey’s name written on it. The bear pops open the beer can.)
BRENNAN
Sorry, man. My bad. I owe you one banana.JOEY
You owe me more than that. You never buy food. You always eat mine.(The bear takes a seat in a living room chair and continues to watch them argue.)
BRENNAN
Hey, we’re buddies. This is what buddies do. Share food.JOEY
We’re not buddies. We’re barely roommates. We’re strangers.BRENNAN
Your words cut me like a knife.JOEY
I’m serious, Brennan. All you do is hole up in your cave of a room. The only time I see you is when you come out to forage for food or take a shit. And you don’t talk, you just grunt.BRENNAN
You want to talk?JOEY
Yeah. Yeah, I do. That’s what buddies would do.BRENNAN
Then let’s talk. Buddy.(Joey sits. There is a long, awkward pause as the bear sips his beer.)
BRENNAN (continuing)
You want to watch TV?JOEY
That’s not talking.(Brennan grunts.)
JOEY (continuing)
What did you do today?BRENNAN
Nothing.JOEY
How was work?BRENNAN
Okay.JOEY
Just “okay”?BRENNAN
I work at The Gap. It sucked. I don’t want to talk about it.JOEY
Fine, Let’s see how it makes you feel. I’m going to get some food – (Joey goes through the cupboards in the kitchen and opens the fridge.) Is there anything you did not eat? I’m going to take this beer and this half bag of frozen okra and go to my room and not talk to you the rest of the night, Buddy!(Joey exits to his room. The bear stands and looks at Brennan. Brennan gives the bear a “what the fuck do you want” look. The bear shakes his head in disappointment. The bear exits to Joey’s room. Lights fade.)
