Morning Gone Wrong

A family comedy

 Scene 1

(Ava's mom comes in her room and gently shakes her awake. The alarm clock reads 7:00. It's still dark outside.)

Ava: Ugh.

Jacqui (Ava's Mom): Get up Ava. Time to get ready for school. I'm really late waking you up, so hurry.

(Ava groans again but nods her head to her mom to tell her she is awake.)
(10 minutes later Jacqui comes in again and realizes that Ava went 
back to sleep.)

Jacqui: Ava! Get up! 

(Jacqui leaves the room as quickly as she had come to finish making breakfast.)

(Ava suddenly jerks awake and falls off the top bunk of her and Georgia's (Ava's older sister) bunk bed.

Ava: Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

(She screams as she falls off the top bunk. She falls right on top of her sister. Georgia wakes up right away.)

Georgia: Ahhhh! What the heck are you doing? Are you crazy?!

(As Georgia is screaming the rest of the house wakes up. Layla (Ava's younger sister) and Remington (Ava's younger brother) run into the room. Georgia pushes Ava off of the bed onto the floor and chucks a pillow at her.)

Layla and Remington: Pillow fight!

(They both run to grab the most pillows as the can hold from their room. Ava quickly leaps from the floor and shuts and locks the door. A few seconds later Jacqui comes running up the stairs and takes Layla and Remington downstairs because she knows they will not go back to bed. She then runs up the stairs again and comes pounding on Ava and Georgia's locked door.)

Jacqui: Open the door right now!

(Olivia (Ava's bratty older sister) opens the door Jacqui was pounding on at the same time Georgia opens the door next to it.)

Olivia: What do you want?!

(Jacqui suddenly realizes that she was knocking on the wrong door.)

Jacqui: Sorry. (She turns to Georgia) What happened up here? 

(Georgia starts explaining but Ava jumps in and tells her it isn't her fault.)

Olivia: Whatever. I'm going back to bed.

Jacqui: Actually it is time for you to start getting ready for school too.

Olivia: Ughhhhhh! Fine!

(Olivia walks back into her room and slams the door. Ava, Georgia and Olivia all start getting ready for school)

Scene 2

(Jacqui is driving Ava to school. Before they left Ava's digital alarm clock  said 7:35)

Jacqui: Why do you have to sleep on the edge of your bed? 

(Ava shrugs)

Ava: It's more comfortable there than in the middle or the other side because my mattress is like a taco.

(As they get out of the neighborhood they both notice that there are no cars and no people walking. It is also darker than usual but they both just think that it is because it is getting closer to fall.)

Ava: Why are there no people?

Jacqui: I don't know.

(As they near the school they both notice their are no cars there either.)

Jacqui: What...?

(Ava looks at the digital clock in her mom's car. It reads 3:42)

Ava: Um....Mom? Your clock says 3:42. Isn't it supposed to be 7:35?

(Jacqui looks at the digital clock. She realizes something.)

Ava: Um...Mom? What is going on?

Jacqui: Crap! The power must have gone off during the night! 3:42 is the real time! 

(They drive back to the house and told everyone to go back to sleep. Ava, Olivia, and Georgia reset all the clocks while their mom tries to get Remington and Layla back in bed.)

Olivia: Gosh, Ava. You just had to fall out of bed and wake us all up.

Ava: Hey it's not my fault my mattress is like a taco!

Georgia (aka the peacemaker): Just shut up and get in bed.

(Russel (Ava's dad) comes through the door to garage. (He's a mortician so he goes out at night a lot for work) He walks upstairs and see's everyone just getting back in bed.)

Russel: Wait a minute! Did you all have a night-time party without me?

 (End credits start going faster than people can read)