Connie
ConnieConnie a pretty young girl at age fifteen is in high school. Connie constantly looks in the mirror to make sure she looks good. Her mother warns her repeatedly not to worry about her looks. She too was once pretty and now has lost it. On the other hand, June her sister, a plain and simple 24 year-old, works at Connie’s high school. Connie is extremely embarrassed by this. Connie’s mother always tells her of how she should be more like her sister. As a teenager, Connie likes to go out with her friends and meet new boys. Connie and her friends like to go shopping and to the movies, or that’s what they say. On most occasions they would go to the restaurant across the road where the older kids hung out. There, Connie met a boy named Eddie. He asks her if she would like to get a bit to eat and she does not refuse. Connie tells her friends that she will meet them at the theatre where they were suppose to be picked up at eleven. She spent three hours with him and when it was time to leave Connie’s friends were upset with her because she abandoned them for Eddie. One Sunday Connie’s family was going to a barbeque at their aunt’s house, without Connie, because she wasn’t interested. While at home Connie sun bathed, listened to “Bobby King”, a radio program for an hour and a half, until she heard a car pull up her driveway. She knew that it could not be her family because they had just left the house. A strange boy and his friend pulled up in a bright gold jalopy. Connie did not know who these boys were. She went to the kitchen door to get a closer look. The driver steps out of his car and begins to ask Connie if he is late. Connie does not know the boy, but the both introduce themselves to each other, and continue to carry on a long conversation about the music they are listening to and why Connie should go out with the boys. As the conversation progresses, the driver, Arnold Friend, constantly asks Connie to come outside and go out with them. He also tells her how much he loves her and wants to show her a good time. Connie does not feel comfortable with him but she also does not turn him totally away. Arnold is persistent in getting Connie, and now Connie does not want him to be there. She makes an attempt to call the police but Arnold tells her that he will kill her family. Consequently, Connie falls into Arnold’s trap and goes to him even though she does not know him.