Be More Chill Reacts to Be More Chill

Act One- Scene Six

Strap in, kiddos!! This is a looong one!! BTW, this is #5 in the bmc tag right now, and I think I'm dying.... :D

~BiCeratops

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SCENE SIX

(JEREMY and MICHAEL in the mall food court. Examining the pill.)

JEREMY

I hope you're worth four hundred dollars.

MICHAEL

Four hundred and one. Don't forget the Mountain Dew.

"That is such a smart-ath thing to thay," Rich says. Michael takes this as a compliment and gives Rich a half-hearted yet genuine smile.

JEREMY

If this is real...my whole life could change. (Beat.) We should split it. You

helped me get it. We should both benefit, right?

MICHAEL

I don't think it works that way. Besides, I like knowing that when you're cool,

you'll owe me.

JEREMY

All right. Here goes...everything.

(He puts the pill on his tongue, swallows it with the Mountain Dew.)

Rich visibly cringes as Jeremy swallows the pill on the screen. Jake holds him closer, slowly stroking his hair to calm him down.

MICHAEL

How does it taste?

JEREMY

Minty.

MICHAEL

How do you feel?

JEREMY

Like... (Long pause.) A chump.

MICHAEL

Nothing? At all? Try to say something cool.

JEREMY

I think I just blew my bar mitzvah money on a Wintergreen Tic-tac.

"Bar Mitzvah?" Christine says, perking up. "Isn't that a Jewish thing?"

"Yep," Jeremy says, shrugging at Christine. She never knew that Jeremy was Jewish. I guess there was a lot of things that Christine didn't know about him.

MICHAEL

Yeahh... Not cool.

JEREMY

Please leave me alone to mourn in my chili fries, forever.

(Beat.)

MICHAEL

Five minutes.

"You sound so intense," Chloe scoffs. "What is so important to you?"

Michael hisses one word in reply: "Soda."

JEREMY

Where are you going?

MICHAEL

Check it out. Guy in Spencer's Gifts is hooking me up with a case of Crystal

Pepsi. It's like regular Pepsi. Only clear.