A Night Visitor

Sometime around 3am...

Natalia (loud whispering): “Girls?...Girls?... Allison! Erin!...”
Erin: “mmm? What?”
Natalia: “Do you hear that?”
(rustling)
Erin: “Oh my God. Yes. Is that a mouse?”
Natalia: “I think so.”
Erin: “Where is it? It sounds like it’s eating plastic...”
Natalia: “What is in the plastic bag at the end of your bed?”
Erin: “Ah! It’s not in there... my dirty underwear is in there!”
Natalia: “Hahaha. It sounds like it is coming from over there somewhere!”
Allison: “Do you have your headlamp? Shine it”
(Erin shines her headlamp)
Natalia: “Can you see anything?”
Allison: ”No.... Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh you guys. It’s huge. It’s not a mouse. It’s a rat. Ew... it’s right by all my stuff... it’s touching all my project papers...”
Natalia: “Where is it? I can’t see it! Do you see it Erin?”
Erin: “I’m not looking. I don’t want to see it. Ew... Allison, it’s a rat?”
Allison: “Here, Erin, pass me the light.”
Erin: “Ahhh I don’t want to put my arm out of my mosquito net. What if it jumps at me?”
Natalia: “Hahaha... here pass it to me...”
(Erin passes headlamp and Natalia shines light)
Natalia: “Is it right by your bag, by the shelf?”
Allison: “Yes... ugh... it’s because my bag is open... What’s it doing?”
Natalia: “It looks like it’s just sitting there... here, you take the light, you have a better angle.”
(Natalia passes the light up to Allison on the top bunk)
Allison: “What’s it doing? It is just sitting... wait... oh... wait... guys do you think it’s possible that I’ve been looking at my headscarf the entire time?”
Erin: “Hahahaha. What? It’s your headscarf?”
Allison: “Ya... uh... I think so... you know that black one I have? I tied it up in a knot... and the end of it kinda looks like a tail... I thought it was the rat...”
Natalia: “I don’t hear it anymore...”
Erin: “Well, there is definitely a rat or a mouse or something somewhere in here... do you see it anywhere else?”
Allison: “No... we probably scared it away with the lamp.”
(Allison switches off the lamp)
Erin: “Wait! Don’t turn it off! Let’s leave it on!”
(Allison switches it back on)
Allison: “Am I leaving it on all night?”
Erin: “I think it’s just hiding somewhere...”
Allison: “No, I think it’s gone... I can’t see anything on the desk. Can you Natalia?”
Natalia: “No, I think it’s ...”
Natalia and Allison: “AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
(The mouse jumps into the light and runs out the door)

THE END... OR IS IT...