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NIGHTWAVES
Written by David Irons
First Draft March 18,2017
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INT. ROOF OF ABANDONED HOTEL – SUNSET
Kirsten and Simone sit on a pair of old foldaway chairs over looking the sea, sharing a cigarette as Mickey and Geena walked around the concrete perimeter side by side the other end.
Geena chews some Chupa Chup gum, she stopps and spits it out over the roofs edge, down towards the ground below hitting Simone’s V.W bonnet with a low quick pang.
GEENA
Bullseye!
GEENA (CONT’D)
I didn’t think you were going to get involved in this.
MICKEY
Why not?
GEENA
Because I don’t even want to be here, but I don’t have a choice really.
MICKEY
I don’t know…I just want to help…
GEENA
How come you know how to use the gun?
MICKEY
My old man used to take me hunting.
GEENA
You killed things?
MICKEY
No…I always missed.
GEENA
On purpose?
MICKEY
Yeah.
GEENA
Good boy.
She strokes his shoulder.
GEENA (CONT’D)
You’re a good boy Mick, Mick.
She pops in some more gum.
GEENA
How old are you Mickey?
MICKEY
What?
GEENA
How old are you?
MICKEY
(looking awkward) 15.
Geena stops dead in her tracks.
GEENA
What? You’re 15? But you’ve got a car?
MICKEY
It doesn’t mean I have a license.
GEENA
Why the fuck do you do our gardening for money?
MICKEY
I don’t, she hasn’t even paid me yet.
GEENA
Oh… Yeah but why do you do it? You come there during the week? What about school?
MICKEY
Got kicked out.
GEENA
For what?
MICKEY
For not going.
GEENA
Oh.
MICKEY
I got expelled the last year for truancy, so my dad said I have to earn some money in between.
GEENA
I hated school, I went to one of those private school’s it was just all about fitting in. Getting a jobs not much better.
MICKEY
You have a job?
GEENA
No… I got sacked.
MICKEY
For what?
GEENA
For not going.
Mickey smiles and Geena having another excuse to touch the boy pushed his shoulder playfully.
GEENA
Ain’t we a pair!
A silence draws between them.
GEENA
Why aren’t you happy? I can tell you’re not really?
MICKEY
I don’t even know the answer to that.
GEENA
Simone makes you happy.
He becomes awkward.
GEENA
Don’t worry its obvious mate, It’s true through innit. Have you ever been laid before?
He freezes, unable to respond.
GEENA
Don’t be so uptight about it. Everyone does it. Look, you made me happy, you got that gun. I told them to call the cops and they didn’t. You’re here helping us and you don’t have to be. When are you 16?
MICKEY
Two months. Why?
GEENA
I like you Mickey, how about… lets say if you look after us tonight. Make sure we’re all safe and use that gun if we need it. In two months, I’ll give you a birthday present?
…Do you fancy me like Simone?
He stays awkwardly silent again.
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GEENA
I’ll take that as a yes, how about on your birthday instead of giving you a present I take something away from you?
He looks confused, then realizes the implication of GEENA’ statement. Speechless he stopped walking.
GEENA
Yeah I thought that would make you happy.
She reached over and squeezed his hand, pulling it away from him and towards her body, rubbing it against her warm midsection under her sweatshirt. Whispering in his ear.
GEENA
That’s our secret.
She turns running back to the other girls, sprinting like a blonde pixie across the roofs cracked concrete.
MICKEY smiles and throws his own chewing gum back over the roof, landing on Simone’s V.W Bonnet with another metallic pang.
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