Carrie
Did someone slide an invitation under your door?
Anna
Did you get one too?
Carrie
Does yours have a red wax seal?
Carrie
Omg, Payton got the same one too.
Carrie
She just messaged me about it.
Anna
Going where? I didn’t even read it yet!
Anna
I literally just found it.
Anna breaks the wax seal and opens the card.
There’s a short note written in blood red calligraphy.
It reads: First one to the basketball bleachers wins the prize.
Anna snaps a pic and sends it to Carrie.
Anna
Does yours look like this?
Carrie
Yes! It’s exactly the same!
Carrie
So are you going to the bleachers?
Anna
I don’t know. It doesn’t say who it’s from…
Anna
…Or what the prize is.
Anna
Seems kind of creepy when you think about it.
But Anna hurriedly pulls on her jacket.
If there’s a prize to win, she wants it.
Carrie
Yeah, you’re right.
Carrie
And it could be dangerous.
Carrie
Or, it could just be one of the guys messing with us.
Anna
Yeah, it’s probably that.
Anna
I mean, it sounds like a competition.
Anna
And everyone knows we’re done being competitive with each other.
Carrie
Exactly. You and me and Payton are past that now, right?
Anna
Totally. We’re never going to let anything come between us again.
Anna throws her car in drive, heading to the high school.
Anna
We already run the school.
Anna
There’s no need to compete.
Anna
I bet the note is just someone messing with us.
Anna
Trying to break us apart.
Anna
So they can take over.
Carrie
So you’re not going to the bleachers then?
Carrie
Like you said, we are DONE being competitive.
Carrie
I don’t think she’s going anywhere tonight.
Anna
I’m glad she’s not being moody about being Number 3.
Anna
Everyone at school knows it.
Anna
But it was making us weaker fighting about it.
Anna
I’m glad you and Payton have accepted it now.
Carrie
Yeah. I’m really happy with my decision.
Anna reaches the high school.
All the lights are turned off.
She sneaks in through the side entrance…
And onto the basketball court.
But there’s a knife sticking out of the wooden bench.
A folded note is pinned under the knife.
Carrie and Payton aren’t there.
Suddenly Anna’s cellphone pings.
Carrie
So do you want to hang out tonight?
Then she drops the knife.
It reads: Congratulations!
If you want to keep winning…
The pool is on the other side of the campus.
But then doubles back, grabbing the note.
She doesn’t trust Carrie or Payton.
They might turn up at the bleachers.
And if she takes the note with her…
They won’t know to go to the pool.
Payton
So did you get that invitation?
Payton
Where are you right now?
Payton
Aren’t you tempted? 😈
Payton
Don’t you want to know what the prize is?
Anna
We aren’t going to compete anymore.
Anna
Aren’t you sick of all the fighting?
Anna
I thought we agreed.
Payton
I’m just checking, that’s all.
Anna
Do you not trust me or something?
Payton
I just know you like to win!
She looks through the window.
She can’t see anything in there.
But the door is partly open.
She steps through the door.
A bucket was balanced on the top of the door.
She can make out the shadow of it, swinging from a rope.
She mutters under her breath.
Anna
Is this some kind of joke?
Anna
This better be worth my time…
Anna
What are you doing here?
Carrie
You told me you weren’t coming.
Anna
You told me the same!
Anna
I can’t believe you!
Carrie looks down at the pool.
Carrie
You could say that.
Anna looks down at the pool…
Payton is floating face down in the water.
And the pool water looks darker than it should be…
Carrie
Looks to me like someone killed Payton.
Anna
But I just talked to her a minute ago!
Carrie holds a cellphone up.
Just like Payton’s cellphone.
Anna
I was talking to you?
Anna
Did you kill Payton?
Anna
I obviously couldn’t have killed her.
Carrie
That’s not what the police are going to think though.
Anna
What are you talking about? I’ll just tell them the truth.
Anna
That you killed Payton.
Carrie
No, I’ll tell them the truth.
Anna
And you seriously think they’ll believe you?
Anna gapes at her silently.
Carrie
Put it together, Anna.
Carrie
Didn’t you find the note in the bleachers?
Carrie
Yes, but how did you get the note?
Anna
I pulled the knife out so I could get it.
Carrie raises her eyebrows.
Anna
A knife doesn’t prove anything.
Carrie
It does when it’s the knife I used to kill Payton.
Carrie
Especially since now, it’s covered in your fingerprints.
Carrie
And what do you think is all over your clothes?
Anna looks at her clothes.
What she had thought was water…
She suppresses another scream.
Carrie
Yup. That’s Payton’s blood.
Anna looks at her jacket in horror.
And flings it on the floor.
Carrie
It’s too late for that.
Carrie
The police will find YOUR jacket, covered in PAYTON’S blood.
Carrie
It doesn’t look good.
Anna
Why…why are you doing this to me?
Carrie
I didn’t feel like being Number 2 anymore.
Carrie
And that meant that Number 1 had to go.
Carrie
YOU have to go, Anna.
Carrie looks back down at Payton.
Carrie
It’s a shame Number 3 had to pay for that to happen.
Carrie
But you know how it is…
Anna
You can’t be serious.
Anna
You killed Payton to take my place ruling the school?
Carrie
I’m pretty sure I already did.
Carrie
It’s like you said, Anna.
Carrie
We’re done with being competitive.
Sirens sound in the distance.
Carrie
There’s no competition anymore.
The police pull up outside the pool.
Carrie steps back into the shadows.
Carrie
I think I’m going to enjoy being Number 1…
