Bone Cage by Catherine Banks Page A

excitement.
    KEVIN
    God that was fucking hilarious last night.
    (What?)
    Stealing Dolores’s flower box and dragging it to the diner.
    Jesus were the sparks flying.
    Practically tore the fucking bumper off the car remember?
    (No?)
    Duh-your-ass, Dolores?
(Remember?)
Duh your assssss.
    Fuck.
    Funniest idea you ever had.
(FUCK.)
    Hey Chicky… skinny dip… skinny dip skinny dip.
    JAMIE
    Is that all you think about – getting girls to take their clothes off?
    KEVIN
    Yeah.
    Wouldn’t mind seeing Chicky skinny dip.
    JAMIE
    She’s too old for you, Kev. I saw Lissa at the store, she’s getting some nice apples on her.
    KEVIN
    She’s like fourteen.
    JAMIE
    Get them young, while they’re fresh.
    KEVIN
    Chicky and me got some excellent dances in last night. Slow ones.
    She asked me.
    JAMIE
    You’re frigging eighteen, she’s twenty-five.
    KEVIN
    That means we are both at our sexual peak.
    JAMIE
    Shit. Anyway, old Reggie’s got his finger in her pie.
    Stole her cherry when she was fifteen.
    KEVIN
    She’s your sister, for Chrissake.
    JAMIE
    She’s my half sister. What’s she to you?
(pause)
    Hey chicky chicky chicky, Kev’s got a hard-on for you.
    KEVIN
    Shut up.
    JAMIE
    She can’t hear me. Hey Chicky.
Chicky
.
    CHICKY
    What?
    JAMIE
    Kevin wants a date, don’t you, Kev?
    Well, he’s too fucking shy to ask but he does.
    CHICKY
    Fuzzy, lay off him.
    JAMIE makes kissing noises back at her.
    How’s your head, anyway?
    JAMIE toasts her by opening a new beer.
    JAMIE
    My head is just fine.
    CHICKY
    Jesus. Do you see what you’re marrying?
    KRISTA
    He looks some handsome in his tux, wait ’til you see him.
    ROBBY enters wheeling a bike. Stands looking over the side of the bridge.
    CHICKY
    Hey, Robby.
    ROBBY
    Hi, Chic-ky
    KEVIN
    (mimics)
Hi, Chic-ky.
    JAMIE
    If it isn’t a member of the social gimp family.
    CHICKY
    Shut up.
    JAMIE
    What? Being a social gimp is a good thing isn’t it, Kev?
    CHICKY
    You two shut up.
    You haying for Reg next week, Robby?
    ROBBY
    Driving the John Deere tractor.
    JAMIE
    Didn’t Reg tell you, RobBob, he’s using oxen this year!
    ROBBY
    No he ain’t.
    CHICKY
    Don’t be so goddamn mean.
    JAMIE
    RobBob knows I’m jokin’ with him, don’t ya, RobBob?
    ROBBY
    Someone took Mom’s flower box last night – dragged it way down to the diner.
    JAMIE
    Oh my God, is that right
?
    ROBBY
    Left it at the diner.
    JAMIE
    Who did that
?
    ROBBY
    I know.
    JAMIE
    Oh you
think
you know, do you?
    KEVIN
    Tell us.
    ROBBY
    I know who did. I’m not telling.
    JAMIE
    Good thing.
    ROBBY
    I know who did it.
    Woke Mom up.
    Woke Lissa up.
    Yelled at us.
    Break the porch light.
    Take Mom’s flower box. I know it.
    JAMIE
    But you’re not telling right?
    ROBBY
    Gonna do something if they don’t stop.
    JAMIE
    I bet they’re scared, whoever they are.
    ROBBY
    Make them sorry. Make them be sorry.
    ROBBY turns and rides off.
    JAMIE
    Well, I’m shaking, what about you, Kev?
    CHICKY
    You guys!
    JAMIE
    Did he say it was us?
    CHICKY
    If it wasn’t the two of you, who was it?
    JAMIE
    How the hell should I know?
    CHICKY
    Leave them alone. They don’t hurt anybody.
    JAMIE
    Jesus, how many times have I got to say it wasn’t us!
    CHICKY
    Kev, you take it back today.
    JAMIE
    Yes, Kev, you do that.
    KEVIN
    I think it might be pretty hard on the bumper, Jamie.
    JAMIE
    Hell, I’ll take the tractor and charge Robbie’s old man twenty bucks.
    CHICKY
    Fuzzy!
    JAMIE
    I’m funnin’ ya. I’ll build them a goddamn new flower box, how’s that?
    CHICKY
    You should!
    KRISTA
    Maybe it wasn’t Jamie and Kev.
    CHICKY
    Krista, look at them.
    KRISTA
    I’m just saying, Robbie could be confused.
    CHICKY
    He isn’t retarded and
he
wouldn’t hurt a fly. Lissa is sweet and good. Dolores’s house is the cleanest in the village. They run a farm. They’re good workers.
    KRISTA
    Well,