Three teens connect on video chat to combat the boredom they feel in the wake of a world-altering pandemic. Are they really just...bored? Or is it something else?

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1: Oh my God I'm so bored.

2: SO bored.

3: Sames.

1: I am the most boringly bored that has ever bored.

2: (Pointing at self:) Even more bored.

3: Everything just stopped.

1: Right? I'm so useless when I'm not busy.

2: If I have to look at my brother again, I'm gonna scream.

(The other two crack up.)

I'm serious. I leave the house for a reason.

1: I can't look at another teacher trying to figure out Zoom for two hours.

(The other two groan/adlib in agreement.)

3: Can you buy stock in Zoom?

1: We totally should buy stock in Zoom.

2: It's probably too late.

1 & 3: (Deflated:) Yeah.

2: If I were a hacker, I'd hack into Zoom meetings everywhere.

3: But like, invisible. Nobody knows we're there, but we get to listen in on secret conversations.

1: In theory. But in practice, people are boring. They're not talking about juicy secrets. They're having lectures and meetings and talking about what a time we're living in four hundred times a day.

2: God, that's depressing.

3: At least I can talk to you two.

1: Yeah.

2: Yeah.

1: About how bored we are.

2: Yeah.

3: Yeah.

2: I wish we were back at school. I can't believe I'm saying that.

1: I miss everyone. In one place.

2: Can you imagine when we're back in the fall and everything is trying to be all normal, except we all lived through this intensely weird world event, and everything we try to do to be normal is just fake? Normal is the new fake.

3: I won't be there in the fall. So.

2: Oh. Oh right. Senior. Graduation and all that.

(First awkward silence.)

1: Well hey! Your life starts this summer!

2: Yeah!

3: Yeah.

1: No classes, no papers, no more "when will my life begin?"!

2: It's BEGINNING.

3: Yeah.

1: My brother is being all stupid about graduating. Whine whine whine. All the stuff he's missing that everyone else gets to do, like there aren't a million other high school seniors in the same boat.

2: You're not a whiner.

3: Yeah.

1: He's all "It's like we're being targeted, man."

2: What a loser.

1: Why can't I socially distance from him?

3: Will we still do this once I graduate?

1: What? Of course we will.

2: Definitely.

3: Will we though?
I was ready for a slow goodbye.
You know. A couple events
Graduation
To send me off into the great unknown right? but
that might not be how the world works anymore.

(Second awkward silence.)

2: We don't know how the world works anymore.

3: Yeah I
I noticed.

1: We can always be bored together. I promise.

3: You promise?

2: I promise.Bored forever.

3: OK.
I'd rather be eating pizza down at DJ's with you.
But.
OK.

(Third silence, less awkward.)

2: My parents say
They wish they could be bored.
Weird huh.

1: Naw.
I think I get it.