Story: Two girls, Jaz (older) and Hanna (younger), have gone into a cave and gotten lost and they are hoping for rescue.
Props: 2 flashlights, small table with cover to floor
Scene: lights very low with one slightly brighter light at center stage. Lights should be blue/green. Girls enter from exit door, shining lights around as if looking for something, walking bent over as if under a low ceiling to center stage.

Jaz: (stops just out side doorway, enough for Hanna to get out, absent-mindedly shines her light in Hanna’s eyes as she begins to talk) This doesn’t look right...
Hanna:(turns her head and closes her eyes) HEY, don’t shine that light in my eyes!
Jaz:(turns light away) Sorry..
Hanna: Now I can’t see anything at all! (blinks her eyes hard and rubs her eyes with her free hand, as if trying to see again)
Jaz: (still standing still and shining her light around slowly) I just don’t get it. Last week when we cam in here withthe rest of the group, we made two lefts, a right, and two lefts. These suppposed to be a big open area with a hole in ceiling here.
Hanna (stops rubbing her eyes and returns to shining her light around) What did you say? 2 lefts, a right and 2 lefts? That’s not what we did. It was 2 lefts, another left and 2 rights!
Jaz: Well, what do you know! You’re only in middle school! (starts slowly walking to center stage)
Hanna: (sticks out her tongue hard at Jaz, but Jaz does not see, and follows Jaz to center stage)
(Hanna is looking back as Jaz stops, and she runs into Jaz: both girls scream)
Jaz: WOULD YOU WATCH WHERE YOURE GOING! and STOP following me so closely!
Hanna: ALL right! I just don’t want to get lost!
(they try to see in the darkness with their lights for a moment or two longer, both turn to face the audience)
Jaz: Hanna, I’m not sure, but I think we’ve been here before!
Hanna: Yeah, this looks real familiar.
Jaz: (holds light steady ahead and turns slowly to Hanna) Hanna, don’t get scared, but I don’t know how to get out of here.
Hanna: (looks intently at Jaz for a moment, then speaks in a high voice) You mean, you mean, we’re LOST?!!! (pause to look around w/ light, then looks back at Jaz) Wwell, wwhat are we gonna do?!!
Jaz: (Looks around with the light, notices the “rock”) Look, let’s sit on this rock so we can think.
(Both girls sit on table; pause for a moment while, both put down their lights)
Hanna: Jaz, I’m really scared...what are we gonna do?
Jaz: Now, don’t get scared...we’ll think of something (pause) If we just had some way of marking where we’ve been...I’ve got it! (feels in her pockets) Give me your change!
Hanna: What?!
Jaz: (pulls out a few coins) Give me your change (Hanna starts to feel in her pockets for change) We can drop the coins as we go along so we leave a trail! That way we’ll know where we’ve been.
Hanna: (takes her hands out of her pockets) I’ve only got a nickel and a quarter.
Jaz: That’s all?
Hanna: Yeah...well, I bought a candy bar at the gas station this morning.
Jaz: (frustrated) Okay, so together we have...7 coins. (holds the coins out so both can see them)
(pause, they look at the coins, then at each other)
Hanna: That’s not enough, is it?
Jaz: No, I guess not. (pause) There’s got to be another way...
(Jaz picks up her flashlight and shines it around as if look at the cave again)
Hanna: (scrunches up like she is cold) Jaz, I’m getting cold.
Jaz: (Puts down the flash light and rubs her own arms) Yeah, I’m getting cold, too. (pause) Let’s sit close together so we won’t get so cold. (Both girls snuggle together for warmth).
Hanna: Jaz, what are we going to do?
Jaz: I guess we’ll have to wait to see if someone comes along and can show us the way out.
(Jaz picks up flashlight and shines it around as the stage lights go dark)