New Roomie
*Down at the Muppet Moviehouse, a new comer walks into the place, he looks quite familiar, with a banjo over his back.*
???:*His voice is soft, looking up at Renee from the other side of the counter.* Hello there, I'd like to buy 3 tickets to "The Muppet Movie" please, for the 6pm showing. And would you happen to know anywhere we could stay?
Renee: *She glances up from her clipboard, and smiles graciously at them, pulling 3 tickets off of the roll, handing them to the stranger.* Sure. I know of a hotel just down the street from here.
???: We've not got much money though, between the three of us...and...
Renee: You can room with me, sir. Um..who's "we" though?
*Two others walk inside, one is bald, with an orange goatee, and glasses and he has a tub bass sitting in the back of a rundown truck. The other fellow is wearing a maroon beret, and has a very colorful sweater on, on his back is a small gituar. The man in front of the counter has brown hair, with a short beard and mustache. His beady eyes are colored brown.*
Jim: We're the Country Trio, and I'm Jim. I play the banjo.
Jerry: And I'm Jerry. I play the gitaur. Nice to meet you.
Frank: *grunts softly.*
Renee: *She smiles at the trio.* If it's alright with my other roomate, you can certainly stay with me at the Muppet College Dorms. I've got plenty of room, fellows.
Jim: Well, thank you so much. *Jabs his thumb at the one who grunted.* Oh and he's Frank. He dosn't speak much.
Renee: Oh here are your tickets. *She hands them the tickets, then she glances around.* I just have to find Scooter so I can ask him if he minds you guys staying.
Scooter: Minds what, Renee? *Raises an eyebrow at the Country Trio, then looks over at Renee.*
Renee: These three gentlemen would like to stay with us for sometime.
Jerry: We've been hired as Music teachers over at the College. We're teaching Music Apprecation and Theory. *strums gituar softly, just messing around really.* We were trying to find something close to Campus, as they apperently don't give a proper place for Teachers just yet.
Scooter: Well, we're happy to help out a fellow student...or in this case a teacher!
*After the lunch crowd clear out from the Moviehouse, Scooter closes up as he always does from 2:30-5:30pm, and all 5 of them walk back to the Boarding House. Renee lets them into the room, and they set down their instruments in a corner of the room. Jim looks around and smiles. Frank strums a few bars from his tub bass, watching Jim and Jerry inspect the room.*
*Jim sits down, and pulls out his banjo, and starts strumming a few bars of an old song, he learned from a friend a while back. He starts to strum the first few bars of "I'm Going To Go Back There Someday"*
Jim: Renee, we've been travelin' for so long...we've almost forgotten the meaning of "home", ya know?
Jerry: But...this is so familiar to us. Thanks for helping us out, Scooter, Renee.
*Jerry pulls out his gituar, and joins in, the mellow tones of the strings harmonizing with Jim's banjo. The deep 'blums' of Frank's tub bass join in soon afterwards.*
Jim:
This looks familiar, vaguely familiar,
Almost unreal, yet, it's too soon to feel yet.
Jerry:
Close to my soul, and yet so far away.
I'm going to go back there someday.
Frank:
Sun rises, night falls, sometimes the sky calls.
Is that a song there, and do I belong there?
I've never been there, but I know the way.
Jim, Jerry & Frank:
I'm going to go back there someday.
*Renee and Scooter smile, sitting on one of the beds, while Jim and Jerry are on the other ones playing. The two interlock hands, while they sing, remembering family and friends.*
Renee:
Come and go with me, it's more fun to share,
We'll both be completely at home in midair.
Scooter:
We're flyin', not walkin', on featherless wings.
We can hold onto love like invisible strings.
All:
There's not a word yet for old friends who've just met.
Part heaven, part space, or have I found my place?
You can just visit, but I plan to stay.
I'm going to go back there someday.
I'm going to go back there someday....
*Renee smiles and leans into Scooter, while The Country Trio starts to play another song, softly...*
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