i’ve never read this piece before, but i like it…
Sophie couldn't sleep.A brilliant moonbeam, slanting through a gap in the curtains, shone
right on to her pillow.The other children in the dormitory had fallen asleep hours before.
Sophie closed her eyes and lay quite still. She tried very hard to
doze off.It didn’t work. The moonbeam sliced through the room like a silver
blade on to her face.Absolute silence filled the house. No voices came up from
downstairs. No footsteps sounded on the floor above either.The window behind the curtain hung wide open, but nobody walked
along the pavement outside. No cars went by on the street. Not the
tiniest sound could she hear anywhere. Sophie had never known such
a silence.
Walter paces as Kat sits calmly on the couch.WALTER Whoops?! My insurance does not cover PMS. KAT Well, then tell them I had a seizure. WALTER Is this about Sarah Lawrence? Are you punishing me because I want you to stay close to home? KAT Aren’t you punishing me because mom left? WALTER You think you could leave her out of this? KAT Fine. Then stop making my decisions for me. WALTER I’m your father. That's my right. KAT So what I want doesn't matter? WALTER You're eighteen. You don't know what you want. And you won't know what you want until you're forty-five. And if you get it, you’ll be too old to use it. KAT I want to go to an East Coast school! I want you to trust me to make my own choices. And I want you to stop trying to control my life just because you can’t control yours. WALTER Oh yeah? Well you know what I want... Walter's BEEPER goes off. WALTER (continuing) We’ll continue this later. KAT Can’t wait.</blockquote>