What we Fear Alone
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FADE IN:
INT. HOUSE - NIGHT
We are in a HOUSE, transfixed on the door. It's STORMING outside. The house is dark, aside from the occasional THUNDER, and seemingly EMPTY. We can hear a slight SHUFFLING in the background of this house, rhythmically making its way closer and closer, almost being drowned out by the cacophonous thunder until
HEADLIGHTS:
shining through the windows around the door. The shuffling stops. Then
A SILHOUETTE:
THE DOOR OPENS, and a woman dripping wet, walks in, happy, as if nothing can happen to her, turns the lights on and tosses her backpack on the ground as she demands
MARISHA:
(to the countertop)
...Hey Siri, play A Song
I only have eyes for you, by the Flamingos, echoes throughout the house as she
DANCES her way into the kitchen while,
We watch her take off her short, wet shirt and replace it
with a large sweater.
/She's joyous. Joyous and ignorant. As if there's nothing in this life that could hurt her. I suppose she'll do. She's
taking out a ready-made meal, but she stops, I dart back
around the corner./
She reads the note,
WOMAN V.O
(joyfully)
..Dear Marisha, hope you had a great time today at school! As you know your stepfather and I are already four mimosas down at the Bellagio. I know how much you hate cooking so I prepared some pasta for the weekend.
Marisha uncorks the pasta container and stuffs it in the
microwave before,
She sets her phone down on the counter while she begins dancing around the island, joyous and intrepid while
Her body moves so smoothly, twisting and turning in the exact ways I've dreamed of. The pasta is starting to smell good. She looks so carefree. This is the perfect specimen, I can't risk losing this.
the floor CREAKS in the back and Marisha turns to look but,
peers only in the darkness while
the microwave beeps, and she opens it up, smelling the
delightfully delicious smell while
HER PHONE RINGS and she answers immediately,
MARISHA:
Hey Zoe... yes you can totally come over my parents won't be home until Thursday so we'd have the house all to ourselves... OMG yes, we should totally get Max to come over,
Meanwhile...
no no no no this isn't good. She's talking with her mouthful. I can't stand that. But she's simply so beautiful.
while...
Something BREAKS in the darkness, shattering all over the ground like tossing a bag of coins down a well as
Marisha turns around towards the darkness, but sees nothing,
MARISHA:
Oh, no something just broke in my
house...
(playfully annoyed)
no Zoe stop! no one's in here you
bitch!
Marisha walks into the darkness and turns the lights on and sees
A PLATE, old and yellowed smashed on the ground as she says,
MARISHA:
Oh shit! It's my grandmother's
plate... no the holding thingy was
starting to loosen anyway. It probably
just broke... Yeah, I know Noni was
crazy. She used to say this plate
staved off evil or something...
Whatever...
Marisha leaves and turns the lights off as
A SILHOUETTE climbs the stairs silently in the darkness while,
Marisha cleans up her DISHES and puts them in the sink as.
Look at her over there, so diligently washing the dishes.
What a good little girl she is. What a perfect specimen.
Meanwhile,
MARISHA:
OMG, your parents are so bullshit.
Don't they know that you're
practically eighteen?... Well, that's
ok cuz we have all weekend to get our
freak on! See you tomorrow!
Marisha hangs up the phone and turns the lights off before
starting up the stairs until
SHE STOPS, scared, while a
BUZZING, unfamiliar to her can be heard from the kitchen and
she pats her jeans pocket to check for her phone, it's there, before
SLOWLY CREEPING towards the kitchen, unsure as to what she'll find, while,
I'm so close to her... I just want her. I need to have her.
until...
she turns the lights on and sees
THE COFFEE MAKER, spitting murky water onto the counter as
she scoffs and breathes a sigh of relief while she,
picks up a rag and bends over to clean up the floor while
look at that. She's right in front of me in this, deplorable
yet highly advantageous position for me. I could... but I
shouldn't... I could... but I shouldn't.
until
Marisha gets up and SIGHS and turns the lights off as
A FIGURE, lanky and tall , is peering at her in the darkness
until
she walks up the stairs and enters her room as
she BENDS DOWN to pick up some clothes from the floor while
the SILHOUETTE walks down the hall behind her until
she picks up some pajamas and walks down the hall and enters the bathroom while
leaving the door open partway as she disrobes and turns the shower on while
this could be my opportunity, finally. I might have her right where I want her. The stupid girl didn't even close the door all the way. how opportunistic indeed.
We walk down the hallway, slowly, listening to the
intermittent pattering changes when she goes in and out of the water. She is singing. Something lovely. We slowly open the door and it creaks, but not loud enough for her to hear while in the shower. We carefully creep up to the curtain until,
She is washing her front in the water as she turns and sees a at the curtain and human silhouette in the curtain and,
she screams. A blood-curdling scream from upstairs...
Then nothing. Nothing but the rainstorm and thunder.
until
we walk through the kitchen and around the living room,
passing the broken plate on the ground as we carefully creep up the stairs, carefully and meticulously. the light and the shower are still turned on as we stop outside of the bathroom with nothing but a crack to look into but we can't see anything. Nothing.
until
Marisha is hyperventilating and in the fetal position on the bathroom floor as
BLOOD TRICKLES down from her cheek as
we leave the shower and look towards the door while
she gets dried and dressed as she carefully creeps towards the door as,
she peers around the corner, looking both ways for danger, before running into her room as
a silhouette is right behind her until
she slams the door behind her and locks it as
she falls down and sits up against the door, hyperventilating until
she begins to laugh at the frivolity of the situation and
talks to herself
MARISHA:
(chuckling
Marisha you're crazy. Zoe put some creepy shit in your head like she always does, and then the plate broke and the coffee maker shorted out. Nothing but...
I wonder what she is talking about in there.
MARISHA CONT.
a series of creepy and unfortunate
series of events.
Until
She bends over and picks up the pile of clothes off the floor while
(Security cam footage) checking under her bed, looking directly at us
before,
she puts them on her bed and starts folding her laundry while
We turn and walk down the stairs while she talks to herself
MARISHA:
The stupid holding thingy was just loose. Loose like it's always been. The coffee maker fucked up from the
lighting storm outside...
What do I need? I need something to get it done quickly. Like one of these knives? Yes one of these knives
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