Layering

LIGHTS UP on ROB and LIZZIE standing in front of a closet. ROB is topless. (Note: the scene is played very melodramatically).

ROB
What if I just wear a sweater?

LIZZIE

You mean without an undershirt?

ROB
Yeah.

LIZZIE

You're not going to layer?

ROB
Yeah.

LIZZIE

Rob, no! Everyone layers!

ROB grabs a sweater from the closet.

ROB (clutching the sweater)

I don't want to be like everyone else! I'm not an automaton.

LIZZIE attempts to take the sweater away.

LIZZIE

But no one knows what happens if you don't layer!

A pause as ROB looks at LIZZIE, stoic and brave.

ROB
Well maybe it's time someone found out.

ROB puts the sweater on, without an undershirt. He moves to the door. LIZZIE watches him go, hand over her mouth and arm outstretched. ROB exits.

ROB (offstage)

Oh god! Here comes a cybernetic Basilisk! AAAAAAHHHHH!

There are laser and chomping sounds from off. LIZZIE collapses in tears.

LIZZIE

Nooooo!

CYBERNETIC BASILISK pokes his head in the door.

CYBERNETIC BASILISK

Ain't I a stinker?

BLACKOUT.