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Cordelia Belonging

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Setting: Cordelia’s bedroom after school in the spring. The four girls are playing dolls while it rains outside. Its very loud and thunder is rumbling. To occupy their time they have taken to the indoors and their imaginations. Elaine is sitting on the side, watching the other girls play intuitively, trying her best to understand how in which she should behave being that she is still unsure of “girlish rituals.”

Carol: (to cordelia) Do you think your mom will mind us staying over until the rain has stopped? It looks like it’s really coming down hard out there. (points to the window)

Grace: Yeah, my mother would have a fit if I were to show up in the home soaking wet.

Cordelia:(in a soft and caring tone) Not to worry, I’m sure she will …show more content…

With the exception of Elaine, who is still off to the side. She watches, but does not speak. She knows that she is on a tightrope with Cordelia, and she may fall off at any given moment.

Cordelia:(To Elaine) Are you just going to sit there like a wallflower, or are you going to join us? Gosh, why do you have to be so weird?

Elaine:(Timidly sits down next to Grace and Carol) I didn’t bring a doll because I didn’t think it was going to rain today.

Carol and Grace: (hushed laughter)

Cordelia: Are you actually that dumb, can’t you tell a grey cloud from a white one? That’s strike two, don’t you dare make me give you another.

Elaine:(Fighting back tears) Okay, Cordelia you don’t have to be so stern. We’re all just trying to have fun.

Cordelia: (Looking for approval from Grace and Carol) Look what we have here, the bug doctor's daughter speaks back.(Turns back to Elaine)Didn’t you’re weirdo parents ever teach you any manners?

Carol: (laughing over Cordelia’s comment) Obviously not, just look at her!?

Grace: (agreeing mindlessly) She’s a total mess, I honestly just feel bad for …show more content…

(Elaine looks forward, with her head held higher than ever before)

Carol and Grace: (In a whisper) Can she really just do that? Is she allowed to just walk away from Cordelia?

Cordelia notices the shift of power in the room and feels embarrassed she demands the other girls to leave at once. The rain outside however, still pouring down harder than ever.

Grace: (to cordelia) But, Cordelia? We’ll catch a cold out there!

Carol: (Supporting Grace’s prior statement) Besides, you said it would be alright for us to wait out the storm as long as we were good, and we haven’t done anything wrong? (Both girls looking rather confused with the way they are being treated. They had both been so accustomed to cordelia’s friendly side, and have only been witnesses to her alter ego.)

Cordelia: (looking at the two remanding girls in annoyance) You’re both just as dumb as Eline, you know that? Don’t you ever do anything you're told? I asked you to leave, why are you still bothering me. It’s pathetic.

Carol and Grace: (Gritting their teeth, slowly walk away without a word into the rain where they see Elaine walking.) Elaine! Wait

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