THE SLEEP OVER
MONOLOGUE
by Michele Lourie c 2018
Enters carrying sleeping bag and pillow. Sleeping bag has bag of cakes and lollies stashed inside and a pair of slippers.
This is my first sleepover so I really didn’t know what to expect.
Marnie’s Mum made pizza and we’d just finished dinner and when changed into our pyjamas when it all started.
Chloe wanted the top bunk, but Marnie said she’d already promised Jenny that she could have it, because Jenny is her best friend. So then Chloe climbed the ladder and said,
“Too late. I claim it by right of possession which is nine tenths of the law.”
Chloe’s father is a barrister so she’s always spouting stuff like that.
Then Marnie and Jenny started hitting Chloe with their pillows to get her to come down and when that didn’t work Marnie threw a slipper at her, but the slipper had a hard button on the front and it hit Chloe’s head and she screamed, so Jenny cried and Marnie was jumping up and down and yelling at them to stop and ….
suddenly Marnie’s Mum knocked on the door and called out.
“What’s going on in there?”
Everyone went quiet and Marnie said,
“Nothing Mum, nothing.”
We all sat still for a while until Chloe said,
“It’s all your fault, Marnie. You shouldn’t have promised Jenny the top bunk because that’s ‘nepotism’ and it’s illegal.”
None of us knew what ‘nepotism’ meant, but Marnie got sulky and climbed into her sleeping bag. Jenny went and told Marnie’s Mum that she was homesick so she was driven home and Chloe left too, because she only lives next door.
That only left Marnie and me, and she was sound asleep, so what could I do?
We had planned to have a midnight snack, so I can’t let all these cakes and lollies go to waste, can I?
If all sleepovers are as exciting as this, it certainly won’t be the last one I go to.
