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• NICHOLAS FREDLAND
• Where’d you learn to jump rope like that?


• PENELOPE PENELOPE
• I saw the white light! The power of the almighty is inside me!


• NICHOLAS FREDLAND
• Are you high?


• PENELOPE PENELOPE
• I wasn’t, but I have ways of getting people to tell me what I need to know.


• NICHOLAS FREDLAND
• Did one of my aunts give you something?


• Penelope starts giggling as she jumps faster and faster.


• Nicholas brings a box of HOSTESS DONETTES out of the bag. He opens it and starts stuffing his face.


• PENELOPE PENELOPE
• Give me one of those.


• NICHOLAS FREDLAND
• Give me one of what you’re on.


• PENELOPE PENELOPE
• I’m not on anything!


• The jump rope gets tangled in Penelope’s feet. She sits back down on the bench, breathing hard.


• PENELOPE PENELOPE
• Gimme a little donut.


• Nicholas holds up the box. It’s empty.


• NICHOLAS FREDLAND
• (with mouth full of Donettes)
• So sorry.


• PENELOPE PENELOPE
• You pig!
• (with something approaching awe)
• That was a lot of little donuts.


• NICHOLAS FREDLAND
• I don’t feel so good.