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.
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episode 1 final part
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