CHERRY BLOSSOM GROVE : PART FIVE

PART FIVE

(Ewan and Justin’s kitchen the next day. Justin is cooking breakfast)

Ewan : I’ll have some of that.

Justin : You’ll have to do your own, Ewan. I’ve got a lecture soon.

Ewan : You’re good at cooking breakfast, Justin.

Justin : So are you.

Ewan : Okay, I’ll crack open my own eggs then and grill some bacon.

Justin : We never played backgammon last night.

Ewan : She had no intention of playing backgammon, she just wanted to flirt with me. I tell you she wants it.

Justin : But is she going to get it?

Ewan : She has a nice figure, doesn’t she?

Justin : Yes, but she prefers the more mature male so that lets me out.

Ewan : But I’ve told you, you were just there to confuse matters a bit. She’s obvious but she doesn’t want to be too obvious.

Justin : So you’ve fallen for it.

Ewan : I know she wants me.

Justin : Do you want her?

Ewan : We’ll see. I’m not making any hasty decisions. I’m seeing Tamsin tonight.

Justin : Hermione was dressed up last night, wasn’t she?

Ewan : Yes, that’s what she’s like. She gets dressed up to sit in her own lounge. She was all made up as well, did you notice? She said she’d taken ages with her make up.

Justin : Yes, I think I’ll call you the ‘magnet’ because you attract girls so regularly.

Ewan : They can’t resist me.

Justin : Well I can resist you. I’ll see you later. I’m going to suggest we build a Greek temple today at the seminar but I know what they will say straightaway. The budget does not run to such things. But at least they might think I’ve got ideas, even if they are straight from you, Ewan.Because yes I think there is  a lot you can teach me.

Ewan : You can say that again. You are that slow with Amanda a snail would be in there quicker.

Justin : I’ve really got to go now, bye.

(Later that day in Ewan’s bedroom)

(Ewan has just got home from work when there is a knock at the door. It is about five-thirty in the afternoon)

Ewan : Hello. What on earth are you doing?

Hermione : I had to see you.

Ewan : In your bra and panties.

Hermione : I know you want me, Ewan. I’ve been in love with you ever since I first set eyes on you.

Ewan : It’s half past five in the afternoon.

Hermione : Please let me stay.

Ewan : What would your parents say, Hermione?

Hermione : Oh bugger them. Just because we are under the same roof doesn’t mean they can tell me what to do anymore. I’m a woman, Ewan.  A woman who needs to be loved.

Ewan : What do you want me to do?

Hermione : I want you to take me, but I’ve changed my mind about this room. Come to my bedroom on the first floor, Ewan. It’s more comfortable.

Ewan : Okay, let’s hope no one sees us going up the stairs.

Hermione : No, it’ll be alright mum and dad are in the garden and I don’t think Justin is in yet.

(Hermione and Ewan then creep up the stairs to Hermione’s bedroom)

(Hermione’s Bedroom)

(Hermione slams the bedroom door shut)

Ewan : Be quiet, Hermione, we don’t want anybody coming up.

Hermione : It’s alright, nobody will hear us.

Ewan : Are you going to take them off then?

Hermione : Okay.

(Hermione then steps out of her panties and catapults them towards Ewan)

Ewan : Got them. You are not going to get these back in a hurry, Hermione. I want my wicked way with you.

(Hermione goes over to Ewan and tries to grab her panties)

No, I’m keeping them.

Hermione : Please, Ewan. I shouldn’t have taken them off. I’ve had too much to drink.

(Ewan goes over to the open window and dangles them outside. He doesn’t mean to but lets them go)

Animal.

(Hermione looks out of the window and then realizes her parents are seated below on the patio. She quickly shuts the window)

My parents will hear us, Ewan. What if they see my panties?

Ewan : They’ll probably start to see through you.

Hermione : Urrh, this is desperate.

(The patio)

(Hermione’s panties drop into the lap of Betty Kesteven)

Betty : What the?

Jasper : Oh, Betty, they look like Hermione’s smalls.

(They look up to the window on the first floor)

Betty : It can’t be, Jasper. It’ll be somebody’s washing blown over. The window is shut upstairs. And anyway why would Hermione’s pants be coming out of the window?

Jasper : I don’t know. I don’t like it, Betty. That man Ewan looks wild, as if he could ravish a fine flower like Hermione.

Betty : And discard her pants from the first floor?

Jasper : Why not? I’ve never liked the look of him. Maybe they are up there together now.

Betty : You think she’s carrying on? If she is I don’t know where she gets it from.

Jasper : I think we should act, Betty.

(Justin enters the patio)

Betty : Oh, Justin, hello.

( She hurriedly tries to conceal the panties. Justin sees them but says nothing)

Justin : It’s another nice day. The weather seems to have got better since you returned from Turkey, as if it was behaving itself just for you.

Betty : Yes, we’ve got to go now, haven’t we Jasper?

Jasper : Oh yes, Betty. We are just going in, Justin. See you later.

(Betty and Jasper leave, Justin sits down at the table)

(Betty and Jasper mount the stairs towards Hermione’s room determined to find out the truth)