BUFFY: Hey!

JOYCE: Hi, how was school?

BUFFY: Mm, a reverent joy. What's all this?

JOYCE: It's for the tribal art display.

BUFFY: Cool! We had tryouts today.

JOYCE: Oh, great! How'd it go?

BUFFY: I didn't actually get to try out. There was an accident. Pretty fierce competition, though.

JOYCE: Oh, I know you'll do fine. Keep on pluggin', just have to get back on the horse.

BUFFY: Mom?

JOYCE: Yeah?

BUFFY: What was I trying out for?

JOYCE: Oh, uh... Some activity? I have no idea, I'm sorry.

BUFFY: That's okay. Your platitudes are good for all occasions.

JOYCE: I'm distracted. Got a lotta inventory to go through here. This is my Gallery's first major show. You know, it might not physically kill you to give me a hand here.

(Buffy grabs the lid of the crate and effortlessly tears it off.)

BUFFY: It was cheerleading.

JOYCE: Oh good! I'm glad you're taking that up again, it'll keep you out of trouble.

BUFFY: I'm not *in* trouble.

JOYCE: No, not yet.

(Buffy is hurt. Her mother looks up from her clipboard and notices.)

JOYCE: I mean, you stopped cheerleading just before the trouble, so it's good you're going back.

(She goes back to the crate and partially lifts out a statue.)

JOYCE: Oh, dear.

BUFFY: What?

JOYCE: The fertility statue, you don't need to see it.

BUFFY: Y'know, there's this girl, Amy, and, um, she trains with her mom, like, three hours a day.

JOYCE: Uh-huh.

BUFFY: Sounds like her mom's pretty into it.

JOYCE: Sounds like her mom doesn't have a lot to do.

( She walks out of the kitchen with a piece of art. Buffy lifts the crate's lid a little bit and looks in.)

BUFFY: Jeepers!

• Buffy & her mom

written by: Dana Reston; Transcribed by: AleXander Thompson. Full transcript at:
http://www.studiesinwords.de/03witch.html