The Principal's Daughter: A Monologue
She left when I was seventeen. I didn't know how, or why. I just called and she was gone. Her mom said that she got this babysitting job in the city and she wasn't coming back.
She and I met when we were in high school, I was in grade eleven. She was seventeen and I was sixteen. I loved her from the beginning. Cha, she was the prettiest girl on the Rez and the Principal's Daughter. She wore this brown coat and waited at my bus stop. Y'see we both went to school in town and our parents wanted us to take the bus with the white kids so we would make friends. It never turned out that way, though, and we found ourselves always sitting together. She would tell me stories about her favorite movies, books and how strict her father was. And I⦠I would just sit and listen, all the way to school.
She was beautiful. She had this long brown hair, thin face and she had this smile. I would think up jokes and practice them the night before just to see it. What I really wanted to tell her was that I loved her, and she should be with me and not her stupid fancy-dance pow-wow boyfriend.
I found out that she liked acting, so I tried out for the school musical with her. It was the Wizard of Oz and she was given the part of the Good Witch Glenda while I⦠I was given the part of the munchkin! Cha, how was I supposed to impress her being the munchkin? The munchkin had no swordfights, the munchkin had no superpowers, the munchkin didn't wrestle anyone to the floor! This sucked! I did it, though, and went to every rehearsal. Cha, she was choked. The last part of the show I saw that she was looking at me, not at Dorothy or the tin man or the lighting guy, but me, the Munchkin.
She kissed me that final night, during the bows. People must have been wondering why the Good Witch and the World's Best Munchkin didn't come out for curtain call, but I didn't care. I did want another one, though, so I leaned in for anotherβ¦ only to get a mouthful of hair. Cha, but even her hair tasted goodβ¦