Percy's Latest Adventure

SETTING: At home, late afternoon. GRANDPA has just dropped off MEGAN and is talking to MOM and DAD downstairs.

THOMAS runs up the stairs.

MOM calls up: Thomas! Come on down, Bud.

SMALLISH SILENCE.

MOM, more urgently: Thomas! Come downstairs, now!

THUDDING FEET RUNNING INTO BATHROOM.

MOM: Uh oh.

MOM runs up the stairs. The lid to the toilet slams and the toilet flushes.

THOMAS runs out of bathroom, looking furtive.

MOM stops him: What are you doing?

THOMAS: Nothing?

MOM: What did you do?

THOMAS: Nothing?

MOM: What did you flush?

THOMAS, with a furtive look towards Megan's room: Um, nothing?

MOM and THOMAS go into bathroom. MOM lifts the toilet lid.

SCREAM FROM MOM: Gahhhh!!

MOM: THOMAS! What did you do to Percy?!

From downstairs DAD and MEGAN call up: What? What?

MOM: He put Percy in the toilet! And flushed!

MOM scoops a bewildered guinea pig out of the toilet bowl and wraps him in a towel.

THOMAS grins nervously.

DAD and MEGAN appear at the upstairs bathroom door.

MEGAN: Is he okay?!

MOM: Yes, he's okay. Just a little wet.

DAD: Thomas, we don't put Percy in the toilet. ever. Do you understand?

THOMAS: I'm sorry.

MOM: That made Percy sad. That made mommy sad. That was not okay.

THOMAS: I'm sorry.

PERCY looks around from within the towel, still a little befuddled by the whirlpool experience.

THOMAS: I hold Percy?

MOM, DAD, MEGAN in unison: NO!