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scene XI
Scene XI: Jack’s revelation.
Camera opens to Jack walking into his house. He throws his jacket over a chair in the living room. Jared is sitting on the couch, playing Halo 3. When he hears Jack walk in, he turns and glances at him, then turns back to the game.
Jack: Hey, Jared.
Jared answers with a grunt.
Jack: What are you up to?
Jared shrugs.
Jared: This.
Jack: Oh, really?
Jack walks over to stereo and flips it on. “The Compromise” by The Format starts at halfway through. He turns around and starts dancing like an idiot.
Jack (sings): Meet me in the middle, or come out, let’s make up a dance. And we’ll agree to call it The Compromise!
Jared half smiles and hits pause and looks at Jack, then he starts to laugh.
Jared: Well, you’re in a good mood!
Jack stops dancing.
Jack: Why wouldn’t I be? I just hung out with Ashley, and Jared, I just had a stunning revelation… (Shouts) I’M IN LOVE!!!
Jared: Well, that’s nice… now I feel left out… Otto has Audra, you have Ashley, and I’m single… (He falls back on the couch) I need to meet a nice girl.
Jack pulls out a Sprite out of a mini-fridge on the floor next to the stereo while Jared is talking. He opens and takes a drink. He nearly chokes trying to swallow quickly.
Jack: Morgan!
Jared (sits up sharply): What?
The song on the radio changes to “One More Time” by Daft Punk. Jack turns and looks at the radio.
Jack: This is so familiar…
There is a pause, and then a voice floats over the techno beat.
Radio (sings): One More Time! …One more time… We’re gonna celebrate. Oh yeah, all right, don't stop the dancing!
Jack: DAFT PUNK!!!!!
He immediately starts dancing.
Jared: What the station is this, Gay Dance Music Point Five?
Jack: Yup! GDMPF for short!
Jared: What?
Jack: 103.4, Crazy Mitch!!
Jared: Never heard of it.
Jack: That’s because you were raised under a rock.
Jared: What?
Jack: Yeah, well… I’ve uh… I’ve never heard of your face, so ha!
Jared: What the hell…?
They both start laughing, then after a pause, the phone rings. Jared gets up and goes to the kitchen to answer it. Jack lies on the couch with his hands behind his head, and looks up at the ceiling. He sighs and closes his eyes.
Jack (whispers): I love you Ashley….
After a few minutes, Jack falls asleep and Jared comes into the room again. He starts to ask if Jack wants to go somewhere, and then notices that he is asleep. He walks over to the radio and turns it down low, very low, and then he picks a CD off the shelf and puts it in the player. He grins and the turns up the volume to max. Then he hits play and the radio screams out an Underoath song extremely loud. Jack wakes up and spazzes out and yells and falls off the couch. Jared starts laughing loudly. Jack looks up at Jared over the coffee table.
Jack: What the hell man?
Jared turns off the stereo. Jack gets up off the floor and sits down on the couch.
Jack: Was that extremely necessary, man?
Jared: No, but it was fuckin funny!
Jack: Yeah, whatever.
Jared: Hey, that was Otto on the phone. He’s got tickets to that weird concert thingy tomorrow and he wants us to go.
Jack: Us being…?
Jared: Me, you, him, Audra, and her friend.
Jack: Sure.
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Added on: 07/12/2007 17:37:10
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scene X
Scene X: Debbie G
Debbie G’s Lounge sit up like an Applebees from the fifties. On the surrounding wall were photographs of Jimmy Stewart and Marilyn Monroe. Jack and Ashley enter. Behind a podium was Valerie Spencer
Valerie: (cheerful) Good-evening! Welcome to Debbie G! How many?
Jack looked between Ashley and him. He started to say something sarcastic. Before he had the chance Ashley said it.
Ashley: Nine. The other seven are in the parking lot.
Valerie: Okay this way.
She lead the way, completely oblivious to Ashley’s sarcasm. Jack and her laughed silently about it.
Valerie: Okay we can sit you two and another four in this booth. But, uh... The other three have to sit in that booth over there. Is that okay?
Jack: (sarcastic) That’ll be fine thanks.
Valerie smiled and walked off. Jack chuckled, Ashley smiled. The two sat down in the booth. Jack quickly scratched his cheek. Ashley situated herself comfortably.
Jack: So.
Ashley: (looking around) So... what?
Jack: So whattya think?
Ashley looked around. Jack watched her. She paused at a photograph upon the wall.
Ashley: Who is that?
She was pointing at a photograph of Frank Miller.
Jack: Him? That would be Frank Miller. He actually ate here.
Ashley seemed uninterested.
Jack: The graphic novel artist. He wrote the – You don’t know who Frank Miller is?
Ashley: No. (sarcastically) Sorry.
Jack: You have nothing to be sorry about.
She smiled. Jack held out his hand to be taken by Ashley, whom did it. The two just sat there and looked at each other. Like a trance. They didn’t even notice whenever VALERIE returned to take their order.
Valerie: Okay, so what I can I get you two? Or do you want to wait until the others come.
Ashley looked at Jack to share a ‘She’s an idiot’ moment. Jack looked at Valerie.
Jack: (calmly) We’re gonna go ahead and order now. Uh. I’ll take the G.G. Cheeseburger.... and a Sprite to drink.
Valerie jotted it down. She then turned towards Ashley.
Ashley: A kid pizza.
Valerie looked at her strangely. She then wrote it down, shaking her head.
Valerie: And what to drink?
Ashley: How about a Coke.
Valerie nodded as she wrote it down.
Valerie: I’ll be right back with your drinks.
She walked off. Ashley looked at Jack and scoffed. Jack burst out laughing.
Ashley: Can you believe that fucking mongoloid?
Jack: You know it honestly doesn’t fucking shock me.
Ashley: Well anyways. You sad somebody ate here.
Jack: Yea. Frank Miller. The author. He sat right over there.
He pointed at a booth to the far right. A man sat in the booth wearing a blue button, dress shirt.
Ashley: A famous guy ate here?
She pointed at that table as if indicating that exact spot.
Jack: (jokingly) Well not there. But over there.
He snickered. Ashley fell serious.
Ashley: Hardy fuckin’ har!
Jack laughed harder. Ashley looked off somewhere, trying to come up with something to say.
Ashley: Why do we always get the flatcockers here? Frank Miller? I mean, who is he? Why can’t we get someone interesting?
Jack: You expecting the Carradine brothers?
Ashley: No. I mean someone like... Michael Keaton.
Jack pointed at Ashley in a sarcastic, threat.
Jack: Hey. Michael Keaton actually stopped at The Dinoco off 34th street.
Ashley: (surprised ) Really?
Jack: (nodding) Yea. You didn’t know that?
Ashley shook her head: No.
Jack: Wow. It was all over the newspaper. Actually it made front page.
Ashley leaned forward. Sarcasm was in her eyes.
Ashley: Well I guess that’s the difference between us. . . I don’t read the paper.
Jack smiled.
Jack: Yea. I do.
Ashley: (smiling) Yea, we know.
Jack smiled at her. They leaned together for a kiss. They then sat back down. Silence fell upon them. They both looked around uncomfortably.
Ashley: So a celebrity uses a gas station in town and it makes the front page?
Jack: (nodding) Yep.
Ashley glared at Jack.
Ashley: Wow. That’s pathetic.
Jack: Whattya mean?
Ashley: I mean... Michael Keaton comes in to get gas. Next thing you know is that it’s on the front page. You don’t find that pathetic?
Jack looked at her serious face. Silence. He started laughing.
Ashley: (laughing) What?
Jack: God. I love you.
Ashley smiled.
Ashley: I love you too.
(A beat)
Where the fuck are our drinks?
She looked around for Valerie. Jack joined her. In the booth to the far right Valerie was sitting down conversing with the man.
Ashley: Garcon! Oi, Garcon!
Valerie turned to see who was yelling. She sees Ashley. Signaled her to hold on. Ashley scoffed and sat down.
Jack: You did know that Garcon means boy, right?
Ashley: (smiling) Yea.
The two giggled. They leaned in for another kiss.
Blog Category: Movies, TV, Celebrities
Current mood: calm
Added on: 07/12/2007 17:36:34
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Scene IX: Books-A-Million
Scene IX: Books-A-Million
Ashley: Fuck…
Screen fades in to Ashley sitting upside-down on her couch looking for something to watch. She settles on the Sci-fi channel. Ghost Hunters is on. She stands up and walks around her couch and into the kitchen. She opens up the fridge and pulls out a blue Rockstar. She opens it, takes and drink, and turns around. She pulls the can away from her mouth and looks at it.
Ashley: …So good.
She walks back to the couch and plops down on it, lying with her back to the arm of the couch and her legs stretched out in front of her. She takes another drink, and the phone rings. She makes a small noise and pulls the can away, gets up, sets the can down on the side table as she passes it. She walks into the kitchen and picks up the phone from the counter.
Ashley: Hello?
Jack: Hey Ash!
Ashley: Hi, Jack! What’s up?
Jack: Eh, not much, just picking up some spilt dog food. You?
Ashley (sitting back down on the couch): Sitting here, watching Ghost Hunters.
Jack: That’s cool.
Ashley: Not really.
She picks up the remote and flicks off the TV. Then she sighs and stares up at the ceiling.
Jack: What time you got?
Ashley (looks at the clock on the cable box): …8:36. Why, you got a curfew, little boy?
Jack: Totally. If I don’t get off the phone at nine, my dog will kill me.
Ashley: You have a dog?
Jack: Yeah, a Sheltie named Max.
Ashley: Well, that’s-
Ashley is interrupted by a loud crash in her kitchen. She jumps, then looks up over the back of her couch into the kitchen. She sees nothing , so she gets up and walks into the kitchen. The camera is pointed at her, away from the kitchen. She has a horrified expression on her face. She falls to her knees.
Jack: Ashley, you okay?
Ashley: I gotta go. Later.
She hangs up before Jack can say anything. Camera cuts to Jack in his house, sitting in a corner on the floor. He hangs up the phone and looks at it for a second, then puts it on the counter above him. He looks troubled, then stands up. He starts to walk away, then trips on his own feet and falls flat on his face. He stands up again, and straightens his hoodie.
Jack: Ow…
He stands up and walks into the other room. Max follows him around the house and into his bedroom. Jack turns around and scratches him behind the ears. He then turns to walk into his bathroom, taking off his shirt in the process. The camera still stays focused in the bedroom. Jack turns the shower on and you can hear the water running. Screen fades to black. Screen cuts to Ashley’s alarm going off. She wakes up and sleepily hits the button. She groans and rolls over, and then she groans again. The phone rings. Ashley’s eyes fly open. She rolls out of bed and groans in pain.
“The Great Escape”- Boys Like Girls plays in the background.
Ashley gets up, grabs a Rockstar out of the fridge, and drinks it while scratching her head. Cut to The outside of a white shower curtain. The sound of water running can be heard over the song. Cut to Ashley in her bathroom with her hair styled and now she is putting on eyeliner. Cut to Ashley picking up her keys and walking out the front door. She opens the car door, then before she gets in, she stops, looks behind her and grins. She slams the door shut and walks behind her house. A few seconds later, she appears skateboarding. She kickflips her way over the step from the walkway to the sidewalk. Cut to Ashley picking up the board in front of Books-A-Million and walking in the front door. She walks around the store and into the fantasy section. She props up the board against her knees. She picks up a book and opens it. She smiles while scanning the pages. All of a sudden, Ashley’s phone rings. The Great Escape stops playing. Her eyes widen. She giggles, puts up the book and pulls out her phone. She answers it and grabs her board. She apologizes to the annoyed people around her and leaves Books-A-Million.
Ashley: Jack, you just annoyed a bunch of people with this.
Jack: Well, I expected a hello, but I guess that’s too overrated for you.
Ashley: Totally, heh.
Jack: So what are you up to?
Ashley: Leaving Books-A-Million and skating.
Jack: Yeah, nice board, by the way.
Ashley: What?
Jack: You heard me…turn around, baby.
Ashley looks around behind here. Jack hangs up the phone and waves at her. She screams and jumps into his arms. He laughs and kisses her.
Ashley: How’d you know I was here?
Jack: Lucky guess?
Ashley: Yeah, right.
He takes her hand and starts walking away from Books-A-Million.
Jack: Go out to eat?
Ashley: Yeah!
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Added on: 19/11/2007 08:56:49
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Scene VIII: Hospital/ Jack's House
Scene VIII: Hospital/ Jack’s house
Jack’s P.O.V.
Camera is focused on Jack from behind as he is walking through a hall of a hospital. He is so distracted, he runs headlong into a doctor reading papers. He loses his balance and falls down. He looks up at the doctor sheepishly, then stands up and apologizes.
Doctor (mumbles): Damn jackass…
Jack hears him; he looks back at the doctor.
Jack: Wow, you are friendly!
Screen cuts to Jack opening the door of a hospital room. Inside is Jared, leaning against a wall; Jack nods at him and the man sitting on the bed.
Jack: Jared… Otto…
Jared nods at him. Otto looks up and says hey to Jack. Then his vision returns to the bandages on his arm.
Jared: Hey, Jack, can I talk to you for a sec?
Jack (confused): Sure, okay…
Camera cuts to outside the room, where Jack and Jared emerge.
Jared: The doctors almost found out our secret.
Jack looks at him, dumbfounded.
Jack: How?
Jared: That arm, it’s begun healing already, the bones are working twice as fast to heal than any other human’s would. An “Amazing wonder” so those nurses said.
Jack: So, is anyone suspicious?
Jared: Jack, it’s against human nature for a bone to heal that damn fast. Doctors have been amazed by it. Otto, of course, is completely oblivious to the fact that every doctor here sees him as a modern miracle. The priest in the next room hates him, says he’s the anti-Christ.
Jared pauses for a moment, and regards Jack with an awkward stare.
Jack: So… why did you bring Otto here anyway?
Jared: Had to. There were about twenty people around us at the time. Someone else called an ambulance; it wasn’t me. It would’ve looked suspicious if we just left, you know?
Jack: Yeah, okay, I see what you mean. I guess you had no choice, right?
Jared: Pretty much. I would’ve just got in the car and go home while pretending to go to the hospital, but the ambulance got there before I could through the crowd…. Oh yeah… this girlfriend of yours, what’s she like?
Jack: …She’s cool. We have a lot in common, actually.
Jared: How’d you meet?
Jack: Bookstore. Remember Leah?
Jared: …Jessie’s friend?
Jack: The very same. Now then, while you ass-fucking sons of bitches lollygag around with your heads up your asses, I’m gonna go fuck up my house by driving and throwing power tools into the walls. Later.
Jack turns and walks away from Jared, who is watching after him with an annoyed look on his face.
Jared: You’re gonna destroy your house again, you know.
Jack says nothing, doesn’t even turn around, just raises his arm and gives Jared the finger. Screen cuts to Jack pulling up to his house. He stops in the driveway, his hand moves down to put the car in park. He sighs through his teeth, looks at his reflection in the mirror.
Jack: Man… what have you got yourself into this time…?
Jack opens the door and climbs out. Camera cuts to inside Jack’s house as he walks in the door. He looks around and puts his keys on a table next to the door.
Jack: Hey! Anyone here?
A dog barks off screen. Jack breaks a smile, and then bends down as a brown and white sheltie comes charging at him.
Jack: Hey, Max…
Dog: Bark, bark!
Jack: Hey buddy, how are ya? Hungry, I bet.
Jack walks into his kitchen and looks in a cabinet for some dog food. As he shifts, the camera angle allows you to see Sara standing in the doorway. But she looks different than the last time. She is bleeding from her head, neck, and blood is spattered all over her torso.
Sara: Jack…
Jack spins around, looking scared as hell. Sara has disappeared from the doorway. He drops the dog food and spills it all over his floor.
Jack: (softly) I’m pretty fucked now… (yells) Hey, you fucked-up creaton, is this how you get your sick laughs?
He looks around the room and grimaces as he looks down at the mess of dog food in the floor. He bends down to pick it up.
Jack (softly): Dammit…
He is picking some of it up; he stuffs his hands to the point of dropping it all. He sits up and sighs…
Jack: Fuck…(sighs again) I wonder what Ashley’s doing…
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Added on: 19/11/2007 08:55:46
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Scene VII: Sara
Scene VII: Sara
Ashley is sitting on the couch, watching TV. Jack rushes into the room, slipping on the floor and falling on his back. Ashley jumps at the noise, and turns around, then stands up and looks at Jack’s fallen figure on the floor.
Ashley: You okay?
She reaches out he hand to him and he grabs a hold and pulls himself up. Bends over a little, and tries to catch his breath.
Jack (breathlessly): Yeah… uh… I’m all right….
Ashley: What the Hell happened, Jack? You look terrible.
Jack: To…tell the truth… I don’t really… know what the Hell… just happened.
Ashley: By the looks of your expression, whatever the Hell it was just scared the shit out of you.
Jack glares up at her. Ashley is a little taken aback by his expression, the falters a little.
Ashley: I’m sorry…
Jack straightens up, holds her arms, and then gently kisses her.
Jack: It’s all right.
Jack’s cell phone rings, and he looks up at the clock as he flips it open.
Jack: Hello? …I’m at Ashley’s house…. my girlfriend… not too long ago… really? … That’s wonderful, Jared… okay, I’ll be right there… eurgh… whatever…later.
Jack hangs up the phone and sighs. He looks at Ashley.
Jack: Sorry, but that was my roommate. Our friend got banged up in a skateboarding incident. Apparently, his arm is broken in four places and his bone is massacred out of his skin. Pretty gnarly shit, eh? Well, sorry, but I have to go down to the hospital and see him. So, uh… I’ll call you or something. Later.
Jack pulls on his jacket and starts to head out the door. He freezes as he spots a picture on the foyer room table. He points a shaking finger at it.
Jack: Who is this?
Ashley looks at him and walks in to see what picture he was staring at. It was of Sara sitting on the hood of her new car.
Ashley: That’s my sister. Why?
Jack: She looks really familiar to me….
Ashley: She passed away almost six years ago.
Jack looks at her with his mouth slightly open.
Jack: Six years? What happened to her?
Ashley: She got in a car crash while she was driving back with her boyfriend from some concert she went to on her birthday. They had been binge drinking, and someone hit them. My sister was killed on impact, but Matt died about 4 or 5 hours after the crash.
Jack looks back at the picture.
Jack: Hmm… how old was she?
Ashley: Seventeen.
Jack: Seventeen…
Ashley: Too young to die…
Jack (offhandedly): Yes…
Jack turned, finally tearing his eyes from the picture. Still distracted, he kisses Ashley and walked out the door. Ashley shut it behind him and then turned back to the picture, biting her lip. She picks up the picture and sighs.
Ashley: Hey Sara.
Ashley looks away from the framed picture as the phone rings. She walks into the kitchen and grabs the phone off the wall.
Ashley: Hello?
As before, there is a man’s deep breathing on the other end. Ashley’s eyes widen.
Ashley: Okay, I don’t know who the Hell you are, but why the Hell do you keep calling?
The man’s breathing is heavier than before, and pauses after a breath, as though he is trying to regain his composure. Over his breath, his voice can be slightly heard.
Man: Stay… away… from… him….
Ashley’s eyes widen suddenly; she begins to tremble violently.
Ashley (frightened): What?
The man coughs violently; a wracking cough that Ashley was sure would bring blood.
Man: Get… away…. Save yourself… while…you can…
Ashley: Get away? … From what?
The line goes dead, but not before the man could struggle out one last word.
Man: Him…
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Playing (Music): Blue and Yellow by the Used
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Added on: 28/10/2007 19:25:25
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