Making Connections

[Drago Cesar]

The scene is set in a small office adorned with cat photos, baby photos, family photos, and strange hashtags on the wall like #BKHard and #FashaDay. Nobody's currently behind the desk, but sitting patiently in front of it is Dragana. She leans back in her chair looking just a tad anxious, looking around the room. After about a minute, the door opens and in comes a woman wearing a light blue dress shirt, a skirt, and with glasses with lenses about twice as large as her eyes. Her dress shirt has a name tag on it that says "Laci". Laci sees Dragana and embraces her in a hug. Dragana's eyes widen, darting around in confusion.

 

Laci: It's SO good to see you!!!

 

Laci stops the hug and looks at Dragana, holding her shoulders.

 

Laci: You are looking GREAT today. A little positivity per day goes a long way!

 

Laci goes to have a seat behind the desk as a befuddled Dragana stares at her.

 

Laci: Oh, I'm so sorry! I forgot to introduce myself: I'm Laci, OCW's Social Media Supervisor.

 

Dragana: ...

 

Laci: It has been brought to my attention that you haven't really made the most out of marketing yourself to our audience!

 

Laci takes out her phone and starts messing around with it.

 

Laci: And upon further examination of your Twitter profile, there really isn't much to be found. Your tweets mainly consist of retweeting OCW events and ellipses. Lots and lots of ellipses.

 

Dragana: ...

 

Laci: Wrestlution is just around the corner, and we need to you to start marketing your brand more! Interacting with fans, other members of the roster...

 

Dragana starts scratching her head.

 

Laci: Maybe start some hashtags too! Take a look at some of our most active accounts; Valkyrie and Capo keeping their fans hyped for each show, Big Banter Kass belittling his followers at every turn; it's great!

 

Time seemed to be slowing down to a crawl. Dragana sighs as she grabs a pencil from the desk and starts twirling it around.

 

Laci: We'll do it one step at a time. First of all, you're only following three people; your brother, your manager, and the official OCW account. You've gotta start following more people, girl. Here, give me your phone.

 

Dragana starts shaking her head.

 

Laci: Ugh, I'm NOT going to look through all of your stuff.

 

She begrudgingly slides her phone over to her.

 

Laci: Now before we start following some important people, I need to ask: What do you do for hobbies?

 

Dragana looks to the side, starting to think of her pirate misadventures with Johnny. She looks as if she's about to interject as she raises a finger up, but....

 

Laci: Or how about fashion?

 

She lowers her head in defeat.

 

Laci: Movies? Travel? Food?

 

Dragana: ...

 

Laci (in a mildly disgusted tone): Oh, let me guess; you're into video games.

 

Looking back at Laci, Dragana notices her change of tone and tilts her head.

 

Laci: Of course. Well, I guess that's SOMETHING to go off of.....

 

Several minutes later....

 

Dragana's face is getting red as she clenches the pencil, almost about to break.

 

Laci: So how about we do our first tweet? A real tweet. Maybe you could address your opponent for Wrestlution Prime? How about "@QueenofOldSchool Let's have a good and fair match! #WrestlutionPrime" Here, I'll write it for you!

 

The air is getting tense as Dragana snatches her phone back from Laci's hands. She deletes whatever she started and hits a button to record a video. She turns the phone toward her as she stares menacingly into the camera and snaps the pencil in half. She stops recording and sends the tweet, tossing the remains of the pencil aside. An excited Laci jumps in excitement.

 

Laci: PROGRESS! YAY!

 

She claps really obnoxiously, jumps to the door and sprints out as Dragana facedesks. After a moment, we see the masked Johnny Law awkwardly enter. He knocks, and Dragana is unresponsive.

 

Johnny Law: Oh no........I told them that they should've let me in with you.....How was it?

 

Dragana groans as her face is still firmly planted on the desk.

 

Johnny Law: You didn't hurt anyone, right?

 

Dragana shakes her head.

 

Johnny pats her on the back.

 

Johnny Law: Hey, just relax. We're just....not going to do these anymore, all right?

 

An excited Laci returns, but frowns when she sees Johnny.

 

Laci: I thought you were told to stay in the waiting room.

 

Johnny points at his humiliated friend.

 

Johnny Law: You know she ain't exactly a social butterfly like you are, right? Look at her. She's a mess.

 

Laci: It's not MY fault she can't find it within herself to utter a single syllable!

 

Johnny Law: And you'll have to deal with it. Why is she that way? I've been with her for over a year now and I still don't know. Maybe there's a reason behind it. Maybe there isn't! And that's fine!

 

Laci: That's great but she still needs to-

 

Johnny gets face to face with Laci.

 

Johnny Law (whisper): I don't caaaaaarrrrrrreeeeeee.

 

Dragana raises her head to look at Johnny.

 

Johnny Law: Let's get out of here.

 

Johnny helps her out of her seat and leaves much to Laci's chagrin.