Title: The Local
by Steven from Lancashire | in writing, fiction
Next Morning
   F/X: Alarm 
   Alex:  Ohh, my head, what's this stuff all over me?
   Barmaid: Good Morning.
   Alex: Ahhhhhhhhhh.
   F/X: Psycho theme.
Outside
   Mike: Good morning, I see you made a whole night of it.
   Alex: I don't want to talk about it.
   Mike: Haha. That bad eh. 
            (Pause)
           You've got some green stuff on you by the way.
   Alex: Where, where, get it off, get it off. (Panicking)
   Mike: I'm not touching that I don't know where it's been. Unless, you didn't did you?
   Alex: I did. (Crying)
   Mike: yeah she got me to. Do you even remember any of it?
   Alex: No I just woke up in her bed. (Crying)
   Mike: well at least you can't remember it. 
   Alex: I would have rather slept with the guy with the claws in that horror film. (Crying)
   Mike: O.K. calm down, don't get too carried away.
              (Beat)
             Where you off to now?
   Alex: Going home and having a shower for about three days.
   Mike: Forget about the shower and come with me. The best way to forget about it is to have some more alcohol
   Alex: I don't want to go back there with the bogey monster.
   Mike: No don't worry I don't want to go back there again Lets go to a different pub.
   F/X: Walking.
   Alex: Last night you said that the bogey monster was a new barmaid at that pub. What happened to the other old one?
   Mike: It's a sad story.
   Alex: Go on then let's hear it.
   Mike: She got run over by a road sweeper.
              (Beat)
             Here we are.
   F/X: Door opening.
   Mike: What do you want?
   Alex: A pint of lager.
   Mike: Good choice.
              (Beat)
            Can I have a'
   Barman: Sorry lads my shift has ended, the next one on the bar will be through in a minute. (Interrupts)
   Alex: He could have served us before he went.   
   Mike: Hey don't complain we might get a fit barmaid.
   Alex: Haha. Well I don't think we can get any worse from last night.
   F/X: Alex and Mike both laugh.
   Alex: I'm just going to the toilet.
   F/X: footsteps.
   Sue: Hello Mike.
   Mike: Oh no. (Under his breath)
   Sue: What can I get you?
   Mike: Erm, two pints please.
   F/X: glass jingle together.
   F/X: lager pouring into the glass.
   F/X: Drinks being place on to the bar.
   Sue: Who are you with?
   Mike: No one.
   Sue: So who's the other drink for?
   Mike: Both for me I'm very thirsty.
   Alex: Sue!
   Mike: Got to go bye.
   F/X: footsteps quickened. 
   Sue: What about your drinks?
   Alex: where's he gone in a hurry?
   Barmaid: I don't know, but he's left both of his drinks.
   Alex: Actually, one of them is mine.
   Sue: Oh really, Alex I've got something to tell you.
_____________________________
episode 1 final part










Comments