Story Time - Jack and Jill

I started writing scenes for a two-hander about fraternal twins a while ago. Here's a scene:

JILL: What are you doing?

JACK: I'm throwing out the dishes. They're dirty, I'm throwing them out.

JILL: You're not washing the dishes?

JACK: No I'm not washing the dishes.

JILL: They're not paper dishes Jack.
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JACK: No, they're not.
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JILL: You can't just throw out perfectly good dishes.
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JACK: But they're not my dishes, they're mom's and mom isn't washing them so I'm throwing them out.

JILL: We should give them away.

JACK: Who wants dirty dishes?

JILL: We'd clean them.

JACK: Who?

JILL: Us.

JACK: They're not my dishes. I don't do other people's dishes.

JILL: They're mom's.

JACK: Exactly, they're mom's and if mom had washed them before she'd left and put them in a box and brought them to the salvation army...
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JILL: Why can't we do them? That that's what good kids would--

JACK: Good kids listen to their mother Jillian.

JILL: And what was her advice for these dishes?
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JACK: That they would be dirty. That was how she left them and that is how they will stay, for all eternity, in a dump. Along with her salt and pepper collection.

JILL: No!

JACK: Well you weren't going to keep them.

JILL: No, but I thought --No, stop it--I thought of them as a, I don't know...

JACK: We don't want them Jill I guarantee the next generation won't want them any more. If you keep something for long enough you start thinking it's important. Even if it's junk.

JILL: It's nostalgic.

JACK: It's what homeless people do. Should we start collecting broken faced dolls, pop cans, and old newpapers?
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JILL: Fuck off. Have you filed a missing person's report?

JACK: I don't think there's a person to report.

JILL: Then why are you throwing out her stuff?

JACK: I haven't been here in weeks, you haven't been here in weeks. Who's to say no one's been here in a couple of weeks?

JILL: The dishes would have been moldier.

JACK: You're right, maybe mom went on a business trip. Infirm elderly agoraphobics often go on business trips and leave their dishes in the sink. If she comes back she's not staying here and if she doesn't? There's no need to draw attention to our neglect.

JILL: We're awful children.