Aquamarine Page #2

What are you girls

doing out here

- in this weather?!.

- oh!

Come on!

Grandma,

you scared me!

Let's get the two of

you tucked up in bed.

HAI LEY ( chuckling ):

oh, Mrs. B.,

if I have nightmares

tonight,

- I'm blaming you.

- ( Grandma chuckles )

- I'm blaming you.

- ( Grandma chuckles )

HAI LEY:

O gods ofhurricanes...

( groaning quietly )

O gods ofhurricanes, makers

ofthunder and lightning,

( prayer repeating, overlapping,

blending, growing louder )

( groans )

( prayers grow louder )

...please useth your powers

to keep my mom...

Maketh her to see

the error ofher ways...

...and keepeth us in Baybridge!

( slow, mysterious theme

playing )

( gulls screeching )

oh, my God.

MAN:

Come on, man.

- on three, ready? one, two...

- okay, yeah.

( gasps )

Raymond's out! Come on!

MAN:

Yeah, bring it up.

CLAI RE:

He's beautiful.

okay, stay calm.

( squeals )

Come on!

I'll catch you later, man.

CLAI RE:

Look at this.

What a wreck.

It's Ray.

Don't look.

Get down.

( humming )

Hello, little

freaky blue crab.

( giggling )

Claire, look.

( gasps )

GRANDPA:

Ray, hope you're

ready to clean.

( sighs )

Wow.

( both giggling )

Thinkyou'll have to

call off Last Splash?

- No! No, Mr. B.!

- No!

No, no, no, no, no, Mr. B!

You can't- I'm sorry,

but you can't do that!

Mr. B.,

me and Claire

have been planning

for this for, like, ever.

GRANDPA:

It'll be all right.

Grandpa, are the pool lights

still on?

( screaming )

Claire!

( woman humming eerily)

( screams )

( screaming )

Hold on, you're okay.

There's a shark

in the pool!

You're okay, you're okay.

Shh. I got you.

Here, somebody get

the chair!

- ( coughing )

- Calm down.

- There you go.

- Here.

She may be in shock.

Take a deep breath.

Claire, are you all right?

She gets scared

in the water.

- Her parents drowned.

- ( coughing )

GRANDPA:

You all right, honey?

I saw something.

It's in there,

and I don't know

what it was!

( coughing )

Halfthe ocean washed up

in there last night.

Hailey,

take Claire inside.

Leonard,

lock up the patio.

I don't want anyone else

falling in.

LEoNARD:

okay, clean it, lock it. Got it.

That was, that

was tight, Ray.

Thanks, Ray.

- Hey...

- Come on!

- Hey!

- oh, my God...

Raymond totallyjumped

in there to save you,

with his actual biceps.

Did you feel them

around you?

Were they flexed?

oh, God, they

must've been flexed.

Ifyou had

stopped breathing!

You were, like, this close

to mouth-to-mouth.

There's something

in there.

I'm serious!

It looked like...

I can't even say it,

but I swear, it just stared

at me with its eyes!

You're in shock...

from touching Raymond!

Hailey, I know what I saw.

Fine, then we'll

just go back

when no one is looking,

and we'll check it out.

No way, Hail.

I didn't mean to get

in the water in the first place,

and I'm not going

back there again.

Something bad

could've happened.

Come on, Clairedy cat.

Put on your big girl pants

and meet me at 9:00.

( whispers ):

Be careful!

Grandpa'll be

super mad at us.

- ( door creaks )

- ( gasps ) It's Leonard.

( quietly):

Come on.

( rattling, squeaking )

( rattling, squeaking )

Hey, maybe we should get

fishing poles out or something.

Shh, shh, shh. No.

I don't want to catch it.

I want to feed it.

Fish sticks?

Maybe it was an octopus.

( sighs ):

With blue hair

- and a tail?

- It could've been blue seaweed

or kelp.

It was not an octopus,

and it wasn't kelp!

You want one?

I saw hair!

God!

Listen,

ifyou're gonna ignore

every single word I say,

- I can hang out alone.

- I'm not ignoring you.

( both talking at once )

YoUNG WoMAN:

I bet I know what it was.

( girls gasp )

I'm guessing...

it was a mermaid.

Mm... mm...

( girls gasping )

( both gasp )

( whimpering )

Boo.

( screaming )

( muffled gasp )

( giggles )

- ( gasps )

- It's a...

Uh, you're a...

( gasps )

- A m...

- ( exasperated groan )

I can see we have

to take this slowly.

Mer... maid.

Mermaid.

- ( whimpering )

- Wha...?

Fabled marine creature,

halfwoman, halffish,

best known for sitting on

rocks,

staring into mirrors,

and obsessively combing

our long, beautiful hair.

Blah, blah, blah...

( burbling )

Wha... What is going on?

- ( screaming )

- Stop shrieking

Iike a couple of gulls.

For shrimps,

you're awfully loud.

( chuckles )

You speak English?

Yeah. Mermaids speak every

language known to man,

fish, crustacean...

and several varieties

of sea fowl.

What can you speak?

I got a C in Spanish.

Hmm.

( gasps ):

Wait.

What if she's, like,

bad or something?

( whispering ):

Whywould she be bad?

She's a fictional sea creature.

They could be bad.

We are not fictional!

We're discreet. Hm.

I've never been this

close to a human before.

( nervous chuckle ):

Yeah. Must be weird foryou.

What?

Nothing.

( laughs ):

You're staring at my tail.

Well, yeah, I was.

Do you... want to touch it?

okay.

Aah, it's slimy!

( chuckles ):

Thankyou.

I rub it with kelp and

jellyfish twice a day. Hm.

( majestic orchestral theme

plays )

Wow!

Wow!

( screaming )

Please don't eat us!

The thought!

It's okay.

I just want to see

what feet feel like.

CLAI RE:

Give it!

Can you pick things up

with them?

No, but...

I can kickwith them

ifyou don't let go!

Hey, get back here.

( lowrumbling )

Mm!

How-how did you do that?

oh, that's nothing.

You should see my father.

He can make some serious waves.

Like last night,

for example.

Your dad made those waves?

Yeah.

He's mad at me,

because I swam away from home

three days before

I'm supposed to get

married offto this merman

who's about as deep

as a tidal pool.

LEoNARD:

Hey!

( gasps ):

Leonard! We have to go.

- He's a total psycho.

- You have to hide.

Wait! Where are you going?

- We'll be back tomorrow morning.

- Promise?

Promise!

Someone over there?

- Run!

- Don't get seen.

( gasps )

( softsloshing )

( sighs )

( whispers ):

Hailey.

- Hailey, wake up.

- ( moans )

( both laughing )

( distant whirring )

What in the world?

- oh, no.

- oh!

( gasps )

( gasps )

- This is bad.

- oh, my God.

This is so bad.

Come on.

( machine whirring )

( whirring stops )

What have you done?!.

I drained the pool.

HAI LEY:

She's not in there.

- But how could she just get out?

- I don't know.

( clattering )

Come on.

( screaming )

- ( giggling )

- oh, it's you.

You scared the salt out of me.

I thought you were that man

with that awful

sucking machine.

I just about got turned

inside out.

How did you get in here?

I used these.

Whoa.

( yelps )

( giggles )

Myvery own pair.

oh, and check this out.

- Whoa.

- Whoa.

Wow.

Isn't it cute?

- ( laughs )

- Very cute.

And I can sit on it.

( footsteps approaching )

Hey, we've got to get you

out of here. Come on.

You're going

to get seen.

You need to give

heryour T-shirt.

No. My bathing suit

is like boy repellent.

What ifwe see Raymond?

It's your bathing suit

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