No matter how many times a teenager tries there is absolutely nothing that they can say to make their parents understand how extremely difficult it is not only to survive high school, but to survive all of the high school drama. This story is a simple one, two students come together in the middle of the hallway of their high school and realize as they look around that there is just too much drama to not share it with the audience. In a series of vignettes, the audience will experience the highs and lows and complete ridiculousness of high school drama in its most honest form. Whether it is the drama between two best friends, the natural drama that you would get from a theater class, the drama that can only be brought to life in the principal’s office, the football player drama, the nerd drama, and the drama that is often not spoken about... the teachers’ lounge drama, all drama is worth exploring. Maybe this will give every parent a little insight into their child’s daily life, maybe it will just make you remember back to your high school years when the same exact drama existed. Regardless of the memories it brings back for you in your life, high school drama is if nothing but consistent... and constant!
Teenagers Guide on How to Survive High School Drama
(The scene opens with two students walking into their high school. They are doing normal high school things, waving at friends, laughing, on their phones until they final meet up.)
Student 1: Hey! (They greet each other)
Student 2: Hey!
Student 1/ Student 2: HEY!!! (Laughs)
Student 2: I can’t believe I didn’t see you all summer.
Student 1: I know right.
Student 2: How was your grandmother’s house?
Student 1: As fantastic as an old house can be in the middle of nowhere but she cooks her ass off, so the food was worth the sacrifice. How was California?
Student 2: Hot.
Student 1: Like that’s a bad thing?
Student 2: No like it was just hot.
Student 1: Hot?
Student 2: Yep, hot.
Student 1: (Beat) Ohhhh- kay.
Student 2: What do you have first period? (They both look at their schedules)
Student 1/ Student 2: Chemistry.
Student 2: Yes. (Student 1 looks up to see someone and goes out of their way to avoid eye contact. Student 2 sees this.) Well, that was awkward.
Student 1: I’m so over high school drama.
Student 2: Oh, tell me about it.