Act I
Scene opens with stoic, large, and profusely sweating man holding a hysterical, screaming girl in a choke-hold. The girl is kicking and punching, but there is no adversary in sight.
Hysterical Girl: Man! Fuck! Let me fuckin’ go! Ima fuckin’ rip the weave off her fuckin’ head!
Stoic Man: (silence)
Hysterical Girl: Fuck! Shit! Fuck!
Stoic Man: (silence)
Scene fades.
Act II
Hysterical girl describes in detail how she will eviscerate the teacher.
Hysterical Girl: Yeah Ima real n. Ima thug, bitch, and Ima follow you out to your car. Ima take my blade and watch you bleed. Yeah. Ima cut that smirk right off yo’ face. You’re gonna die, bitch.
Teacher: Please sit down.
Hysterical Girl: Ima kill you! Ima hunt you down! Ima make you bleed!
Teacher: Shhh. Students are trying to learn.
Hysterical Girl: Man, fuck!
Scene fades.
Act III
Two girls are screaming at each other across the room. Both are thumping their chests in an invitation to fight.
Hysterical Girl: Watch me. Ima bat you in yo’ mouth. Ima knock yo’ teeth out! Ima smack you, bitch!
Adversary: Bring it, bitch. Lace up!
Officer intervenes and prevents Hysterical Girl from “smacking down.”
Hysterical Girl: Man, fuck! Let me at this bitch! Ima kill her! Let me at her!
Scene fades.
Act IV (Final Act)
Hysterical Girl is contained, for the moment. Teacher is at the board, breaking down chemical equations. Hysterical Girl surreptitiously checks her phone. A Behavioral Specialist walking by sees this and enters the classroom.
Behavioral Specialist: I’m going to ask you to give me that cell phone. You know the rules.
Hysterical Girl: Man, Fuck! I ain’t givin’ this muthafuckin’ phone to no one.
Behavioral Specialist: You’re coming with me.
Hysterical Girl: Man, Fuck! I ain’t goin’ no where with yo’ fat ass. Fall back!
Behavioral Specialists takes the phone by force, and Hysterical Girl goes in for the kill.
As the Behavioral Specialist forcefully escorts the Hysterical Girl, she flails and grabs at the fire extinguisher. Throwing it to the floor, the extinguisher discharges and fills the air with a thick, chalky smoke.
The fire alarm goes off.
Scene closes with a belligerent Hysterical Girl being escorted away by the police, still struggling.
Plot Summary
The contents of a fire extinguisher is a biological irritant. It may cause red, itching eyes, nausea, headaches, vomiting, and of course, explosive diarrhea. After a couple hours standing outside, we called the buses and called it a wrap.
We’ll try again tomorrow.
There is nothing is teacher education courses that prepares a person for what you are experiencing. Methods courses seem like a joke when this is happening.
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Keep writing. This is amazing stuff.