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Ashley has recently lost her mother to cancer. She has just returned to school and is dealing with her grief. She was sitting alone, drawing, until her friend, Taylor, comes over to talk. Taylor did not realize that Ashley has had a bereavement and she expresses her sympathy.
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ASHLEY sits in a quiet corner under a tree, drawing in a sketch pad.
After awhile TAYLOR enters.
TAYLOR: Hi.
ASHLEY: Hi.
BEAT.
TAYLOR: What you doing?
ASHLEY: Drawing.
ASHLEY shows TAYLOR the drawing.
ASHLEY: It鈥檚 a ballerina.
TAYLOR: It doesn鈥檛 look like a ballerina.
ASHLEY: A ballerina flower. It鈥檚 called a Freesia. It鈥檚 for my mum.
BEAT. ASHLEY continues drawing.
TAYLOR: You haven鈥檛 been at school for awhile.
ASHLEY: No.
TAYLOR: How come?
ASHLEY: My mum was sick.
TAYLOR: But she鈥檚 better now?
ASHLEY: She didn鈥檛 get better.
TAYLOR: What happened?
ASHLEY: She died.
BEAT.
TAYLOR: That鈥檚 sad.
ASHLEY nods.
TAYLOR: Why are you drawing the flower for her then?
ASHLEY: Dad said we could go and visit her next week. At the cemetery. I鈥檓 going to give her my picture of the ballerina.
TAYLOR: That鈥檚 really nice of you.
ASHLEY: No, it鈥檚 not. She鈥檚 my Mum.
BEAT.
TAYLOR: Do you think she knows? (BEAT) That you鈥檙e taking her the flower.
ASHLEY: I don鈥檛 know. I hope so. Dad says she鈥檒l always be with me 鈥� in spirit. But that鈥檚 not the same. She鈥檚 still not here.
TAYLOR: I鈥檇 hate it if anything happened to my mum. I love her.
ASHLEY: I loved my mum too.
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