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Narrator
Bill
Jason
Narrator: Bill and Jason had been friends before they remember being able to speak. It was a friendship that endured despite a constant weirdness…
Bill: Lets go play in the well out in the pasture.
Jason: I dunno, we could get hurt.
Bill: Don’t be stupid, come one.
Narrator: The two friends being just ten years old both had a curious streak, as boys this age usually do. The two lived out in a rural community of farmers. They had acre after acre of land to explore.
Jason: Why are you cutting into the rope on the well bucket? <Cutting sound>
Bill: Oh, no reason. Lower me down into the well.
Jason: Why do you want to do that?
Bill: Lets pretend we are exploring a cave.
Jason: Okay, but won’t you be afraid of the dark?
Bill: The dark? Oh no, I am not afraid of the dark, the dark will lead me to the light.
Jason: Huh?
Bill: Just lower me down!
Jason: Okay, okay.. Wait what is that sound? <Sound of taut rope snapping> I do not think this rope will hold up. <Crashing sound>
Narrator: Bill turned out all right. He was only in the hospital for ten days. Everyone commented on how horrible of an accident the incident was. Everyone cursed the rat that had chewed away on the well rope. Things then went on normally until high school.
Jason: It sure was great for Mrs. Jenkins to let us work behind the scenes on this play together wasn’t it?
Bill: Yeah… Those sandbags up there look pretty heavy. I bet they could crush a small mammal easily.
Jason: Um… thats why we have to be careful around here. Somebody could get hurt.
Bill: Yes, they could (Said in a silent excited voice).
Jason: What?
Bill: Oh nothing.
Jason: Help me pull this trunk over here. <SFX: Trunk being pulled across floor>
<SFX: Walking around the room and things shuffling>
Bill: Jason could you um.. untie that knot there on the wall?
Jason: Sure but why? Won’t that release one of the sandbags?
Bill: Oh no, that rope is not connected to anything. We need to untie it so we can use the rope.
Jason: Okay, let me try. <SFX: Sound of rope moving fast across metal and then a sandbag crashing to the ground> Bill that was attached to something! It almost landed on you! If you had been another foot to the right you would have been crushed!
Bill: <Nonchalantly> Oh my mistake… I should be more accurate with my calculations…
Jason: Yes you should. You could have been killed.
Bill: I know.
Narrator: The rest of the play production went on with out a hitch. Jason once again threw the incident to wind, assuming it was an accident. No one ever though anything was wrong because Bill never appeared to be unhappy and was very outgoing. He even married his high school sweet heart with much fanfare. But after high school the two drifted in different directions. Despite geographical separation the two did not forget about each other.
<SFX: Sound of riding in a car going down the highway>
Jason: Two weeks of freedom Bill, two weeks away from hectic schedules and nagging wives.
Bill: Its just you and me Jason, nobody else to be accountable to.
Jason: We should have done this years ago, long before we got tied down by family and career.
Bill: We let the time of our lives go to waste, life has a funny way of eroding those that travel through it.
Jason: I suppose so. The Grand Canyon is going to be great isn’t it.
Bill: Yeah… large and empty except for a small trickle of life at the bottom.
Jason: Hell yeah its big! Mother nature ground away at that sucker with glaciers, if I remember correctly.
Bill: Something of beauty created out of destruction.
Jason: Yeah.. I suppose so… We sure are making good time.
Bill: Almost there I guess? Almost to the conclusion of the journey.
Jason: Yeah only about an hour more.
Bill: One hour more…
Narrator: Later at a ledge overlooking the Grand Canyon.
<SFX: Sound of wind blowing by>
Jason: Hell, I never thought it would look like this. Glad I found this little cliff away from all the tourist. This place lets us look at all the splendor without people clicking away with their cameras.
Bill: At the end of our journey we find solitude.
Jason: Are you okay? I mean you have been acting sort of weird lately.
Bill: I am perfectly fine, I just have realized something that has plagued me my whole life.
Jason: You really should not get so close to the edge. Something might happen, you could slip on a rock and fall over the side. So what is this great lesson that you learned.
<SFX: Rocks being slipped on and a big thud as a body hits the side of the cliff>
Jason: Bill! I told you not to get to close! Let me pull you back up, just keep holding on to the edge.
Bill: I am afraid you can’t do that Jason.
Jason: Why on Earth not?
Bill: Because, the thing that I realized, the thing that has plagued me my who life is that your not real. You could never help me.
<SFX: Sound of rocks slipping slowly at first and then faster and then a scream gradually fading away replaced with nothing but the wind>
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