DEEPAK: Were you guys able to stay awake during that chemistry lecture today?

PRAVIN: Actually I thought some of that quantum stuff with electrons was really cool.

DEEPAK: Well, that makes one of us.

PREETHY: Hey Shawn, is your roommate not here today?

SHAWN: Nah, he’s out partying with his crazy friends again.

DEEPAK: Probably cause there isn’t a Laker game on tonight..

PREETHY: What do the Lakers have to do with this?

SHAWN: Oh you weren’t here for our study session last week. John was in here watching the game. Man he was being sooooo disruptive. We couldn’t study at all..

PREETHY: Oh okay. Maybe we can study in peace today.

JOANNA: Alright. Do you guys know what chapters are on the quiz this Friday?

DEEPAK: Wait, there’s a quiz???  

PRAVIN: Oh you guys didn’t know? It’s chapter 3 sections 1-6.

PREETHY: I had a question about……

 

John and Jebin enter and create a ruckus. The stage will have a guitar controller and a microphone to the side and John and Jebin will point to and face an imaginary screen that is offstage. We can show what they are seeing on the projector if we need to.

 

JOHN: Dude Jebin, I finally got Rock Band.

SHAWN: John?? What are you doing here? I thought you were at a party.

JOHN: Hah yeah…the cops showed up.

JEBIN: actually his mom showed up.

JOHN: Alright don’t mind us. You nerds can go back to your studying.

PRAVIN: Okay, Preethy you had a question…

PREETHY: Yeah, I didn’t quite understand orbital theory…

JEBIN: Let’s play that song (pointing at imaginary screen)

JOHN: No, I know exactly what song we need.

JEBIN: I got guitar!! (picks up guitar controller)

JOHN: I guess that leaves me with the mike. (rock band song starts and John sings loud and offkey. what song??)

PRAVIN: Ok basically electrons can only be certain defined orbits around the nucleus.

JOANNA: Wait, what did you say?? I can’t hear anything you are saying..

SHAWN: John, can you turn that down? We’re trying to study here..

John ignores

Shawn gets up in anger

SHAWN: John, seriously, you can’t do this every single week…

Shawn pulls plug. Music dies

JEBIN: (move his guitar controller up to activate star power just when shawn pulls the plug) Aw, I just got star power…

JOHN: Hey what are you doing??? This is my dorm too. I can have my friends over if I want.

John pushes Shawn

SHAWN: I already told you we were gonna have the study group here tonight and you still barge in here and ruin it.

JOHN: Have you ever heard of a place called the library? Maybe you nerds should go study over there..

SHAWN: Why does it have to be me that leaves every time? Why can’t you and your friends go somewhere else?

DEEPAK: Ok Ok Shawn let’s calm down a bit. We can just go study at the library. No big deal..

JOANNA pulls out her cellphone and starts filming the fight

PREETHY: What are you doing joanna?

JOANNA: Youtube! Duh!

PRAVIN: (looking up stuff on his laptop and oblivious to what is going on in the room) Hey did you guys hear they just confirmed a new element?? Wait why is everybody standing up?

As they are walking to library....

SHAWN: Aw man. I’m so sick of John. He’s really really getting on my nerves these days.

PREETHY: Yeah he can be a real jerk. Let’s just forget about him and go to the library.

SHAWN: I’m so out of it right now. I really can’t focus on studying. I need a break.

JOANNA: hey you guys, some of my friends and I are part of this dance club and we are having our annual Christmas performance this saturday evening

PREETHY: so, that is why you are busy every Saturday and never pick up?

JOANNA: yea, we practice about 10 hrs a week. all of you guys should join us for our dance program

PREETHY: oh nice. Yea, I'll definitely be there. I am excited

PRAVIN: I'll join you guys at the performance if I get done with my chess club

DEEPAK: wow, christmas already?

PRAVIN: I have been so busy with school and stuff that I forgot that it is December

PREETHY: Yea, a week of school, finals and then we are off for a month!

SHAWN: I can’t wait to get away from John and enjoy my own room

PRAVIN: I can't wait to go home to have some quality mom's food. I am so sick of the cafeteria.

 

VIDEO TRANSITION: Pravin going home Link

 

 

Shawn’s Dorm Study Group. Similar setup to first scene

SHAWN: Alright guys, I’m almost certain John won’t be here today.

DEEPAK: that’s what you said last week…

Joanna walks in

JOANNA: Hey guys. How’s it going?

PREETHY: Hey joanna. You guys were soooo good.

JOANNA: OMG I know right??? We were sooooo nervous

DEEPAK: You guys did a great job. We tried to do your dance and we failed so bad.

PRAVIN: Yeah you guys had great symmetry

JOANNA: ummmm okkkk. Thanks I guess?

SHAWN: There was that one song that you guys did, oh holy night, it really got to me.

DEEPAK: What do you mean?

SHAWN: Some of the lyrics were really meaningful.

PREETHY: Oh yeah I remember that one line about peace.

PRAVIN: hold on a sec. let me look it up. (works on laptop to get lyrics)

Pravin finds the lyrics to oh holy night on his laptop and starts singing it

JOANNA: uh Pravin, can you just read the line please?

PRAVIN: Truly He taught us to love one another. His law is love and His gospel is peace.

DEEPAK: how can love be law? I thought love was all about freedom and choices.

SHAWN: You know that’s what I used to think. But the more I think about it, the more I realize that love is more of a command than an option.

DEEPAK: wow man, that is really deep. This performance really had an effect on you huh?

SHAWN: yeah just think about it. If more people treated love as the law, how many of the world’s problems could be solved? Even in little petty things like John’s behavior around us, I feel like I haven’t responded to him with love.

PREETHY: Yeah it’s weird because we never think about love like that when it can diffuse a testy situation.

SHAWN: I think I was just so stressed with school and everything that I just lost focus on what’s really important in life: the relationships we build with each other.

DEEPAK: yeah I have to be honest with you guys. I’ve only been coming to this group so that I don’t flunk this class. I haven’t really been trying to help you guys as much as you guys have been helping me.

JOANNA: You pesky parasite..jk jk

JOHN: You nerds still haven’t found the library?

SHAWN: Hey John, I just wanted to talk to about last week.

JOHN: What? You gonna mess with my Rock Band again?

SHAWN: No no. I just wanted to apologize for almost starting a fight with you last week over something so small.

JOHN: um what? That’s nice of you I guess…

SHAWN: even though you kinda ruined our study group, I was wrong to get so worked up about it.

JOHN: yeah I sorta felt bad about that too. I was definitely more to blame. I should be the one apologizing. So yeah I’m really sorry man. 

JOANNA tapes this too

PREETHY: Why are you taping THIS?

JOANNA: it’s just soooo sweet..

Out of nowhere, Jebin runs in on stage

JEBIN: Did I hear somebody say ROCK BAND????

THE END