Phoebe In Wonderland Page #5

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I'm sorry.

I didn't know

what all this was about.

I'm glad you were talking

to the Red Queen...

...and of course

it makes me happy, and I...

I love you.

I really love you.

You do believe

I was talking to her?

What'd she tell you?

Everything isn't so fixed.

It's freer there.

Have you ever felt like

your running very fast...

...just to stay

in the same place?

The Red Queen?

So this is an imaginary friend.

I guess.

Have you told anyone

about the Red Queen?

My mother.

Made her nervous.

Do you hide things

from your parents...

If you thlnk

lt'll make them nervous?

Of course.

What do you and the Red Queen

talk about?

Wonderland.

How nice it is to have a place...

...where things aren't

quite so fixed.

It's all the opposite there,

you know.

It'd be nice if...

...lf...

It were the same here.

Same how?

Different.

Oh, please your majesty...

...spare us.

What shall we do?

Girls...

...girls...

Thls Is not real

for you,:

...this is not real

for us.

Your heads are

about to be chopped off.

This is high drama.

There is fear.

There is panic.

Listen.

Can you hear them?

The executloners...

...are walking down the hall

this very moment.

They are pounding at the door.

What do you do?

There would be

weeping and ranting...

...sobs and cries,

plans for escape.

Will no one

take mercy on us?

Bring in the scene next week.

I want to feel the terror

of the last moments of your life.

Take risks, jump.

What does she want

from us?

It's just

a dumb play.

We're only ten.

Ten?

Ten?

When I was ten...

I played Cleopatra

as she fed the asp to her breast.

It was breathtaking.

The audience

was on the edge of their seats.

You could hear a pin drop,

they were so entranced.

My ten-year-old niece

is hard at work...

...unlocking the mysteries

of Stonehenge.

You'll be reading about her

within the year.

Ten, indeed.

Now, continue.

Alice, White Queen,

pick up where we left off.

I wish I could manage

to be glad...

...only I can never

remember the rule.

You must be very happy

belng glad whenever you llke.

Only it's

so very lonely here.

Oh, don't go on like that.

Consider what a great girl

you are.

Consider what

o'clock it is.

Consider anything,

only please don't cry.

Can you keep from crying

by considering things?

There, you see?

Two lines.

In two lines,

she went from utter despondency...

...to complete joy.

Two lines;

brava, Phoebe.

Come on, trust falls,

and then the musical number.

Come on.

Ready?

Yes.

No...oh.

Uh, what's...

...what's this?

Principal Davis,

I didn't hear you.

Trust falls.

Trust falls.

Well, that...that...

...you know,

that seems a bit reckless...

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