Hot Summer Nights Page #5

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Like I could just float away.

(CHUCKLES)

Mmm...

Or maybe I'm just super high.

(DANIEL CHUCKLES)

You know, I could get...

Like, more, like...

A bunch more.

You're not caught up

in anything shady, right?

What?

Shady stuff? What does that...

You think I would...

I'm not.

You better not be.

You know anything

about my brother?

Uh...

I've heard of him.

Anything else?

No, not really.

We don't talk anymore.

We haven't for a long time.

(FIREWORKS CRACKLING)

(PEOPLE CHEERING)

It was when my mom

got really sick.

My brother was

f***ing up.

Selling drugs.

Fighting.

And got kicked out of school.

My mom asked him to stop.

She said it would mean

the world to her.

But he didn't.

(McKAYLA SIGHS)

And then she died.

He leaves money and...

I can never use it.

I just couldn't.

I'm sorry.

WAITRESS:
So, how will you

be settling the bill tonight?

It's cash.

(SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA PLAYING)

Hey.

HUNTER:
Whoa,

what the f***, man?

Dude, we got it.

That's 75?

- A hundred?

- More.

What? What, what, what? 150?

Open your f***ing mouth, man.

How much?

- Two-fifty.

- F*** you.

Two-fifty. (CHUCKLES)

- F*** you.

- F*** you, dude.

- F*** you, man!

- F*** you, dude.

- (THUNDER RUMBLING)

- (PEOPLE SCREAMING)

(TIRES SCREECH)

- (THUNDER RUMBLING)

- (PEOPLE SCREAMING)

(PSYCHEDELIC ROCK MUSIC

PLAYING)

- Okay.

- All right. Go.

(AMY GIGGLES)

(ENGINE REVVING)

(TIRES SCREECH)

(PSYCHEDELIC ROCK MUSIC

CONTINUES)

Hey, Daddy.

You been in here all night?

Yeah. Where else would I be?

(CHUCKLES)

Well... You might turn in.

You know we got church

in the morning.

Okay, Daddy.

Good night.

Good night, sweetheart.

(DOOR CREAKING)

(THUNDER RUMBLING)

- F*** you. (LAUGHS)

- DANIEL:
No, no.

(McKAYLA LAUGHS)

What about you?

If you could be anything.

I don't know. It's stupid.

No, it's just fantasy.

It doesn't matter.

That's what I'm worried about.

Yeah.

(McKAYLA GIGGLES)

(INDISTINCT)

(INAUDIBLE)

(THUNDER RUMBLING)

(McKAYLA YELPS)

DANIEL:
Run!

(McKAYLA YELPS)

- (RAIN POUNDING ON CAR)

- (McKAYLA SIGHS)

I have... I've never...

Before.

Me neither.

Really?

- F*** you.

- No.

Really?

Yeah.

DANIEL:
I thought you said

you were good at this.

I'm destroying you.

I'm guessing you're yellow.

That's a rookie move.

McKAYLA:
Shut the f*** up.

DANIEL:
Can you get in?

Can you get in?

McKAYLA:
You put in codes.

That's not fair!

DANIEL:
You're the one

who got owned.

- (BOTH LAUGH)

- Hey, you...

Hey, get more coins.

Hurry. Hurry.

- You have money?

- McKAYLA:
Yes.

Danny boy.

What're you doing here?

On your own,

you f***ing loser.

You all right?

What are you...

Is this, uh...

Oh.

- Amy, Danny. Danny, Amy.

- Hi.

She's f***ing cute,

isn't she? Huh?

- I can say that.

- AMY:
Stop. No. (GIGGLES)

You're so f***ing cute

I'm gonna punch you

in the face, huh?

You two know each other?

Uh...

No, we haven't met.

Yeah, there's, uh...

There was one time

I gave you a ride home,

but, uh...

You don't remember, probably.

Since when do you

go to the arcade?

I don't.

Okie forgot to give me a ride

so I had to get, uh...

Quarters to call her.

Dad okay?

You're getting the mail,

right?

I'm gonna walk home.

It was nice meeting you.

- Hey. It'll be okay.

- No. I'm cool.

How do you know my brother?

I don't, really. Just...

Met him at a party once.

He's gonna kill you.

WOMAN:
(ON RADIO)

We are on weather watch.

Continuing to track

the severe storm

which is going to have

major implications

for multiple counties.

The National Weather Service

has informed us

that this storm

will likely be upgraded

to a category 4.

That means

you need to stand by

on further instructions

whether there will be

mandatory evacuations,

we don't know yet,

If you're in a red zone...

(ENGINE REVS)

(PANTS)

Daddy, you scared me.

Of all the boys in this town.

(BELL DINGS)

(INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER)

(DOOR CLOSES)

CALHOUN:
It's a warm night,

isn't it?

This is private property,

you know.

I could call the cops.

Uh...

Why don't you and me

go for a ride?

Why don't you f*** off?

(SIGHS)

Let me show you something.

(DOOR OPENS)

I'll be in the car.

This is very romantic but what

the f*** are we doing here?

You know, you remind me of...

There was a boy

a few years back.

Kyle Tate, right? Yeah,

I know all of the stories.

I look like someone

who wants to spend

the next 20 years

rotting away up in Walpole?

I'm not gonna go out

like that.

Not like that.

You ever thought about

just giving it up?

Yeah, sure. And do... Do what?

Go to college.

Get a job, maybe.

I don't think that

meatloaf dinners

and a white picket fence

are in the cards for me.

Well, how do you imagine

this is gonna end?

Look, if you were

gonna get me,

you woulda got me already.

McKAYLA:

When I was a little kid,

I used to catch them

in those glass jars.

It always reminded me

of how planes looked

when they're

way up in the sky.

Why'd you stop?

Kept dying.

Got depressing.

I think you should

start collecting

the fireflies again.

You can't hold on

to everything.

I think some things you can.

Then I hope you're good

at being hurt.

(ROCK MUSIC PLAYING)

All right. So what?

So, last time I checked,

it wasn't illegal

for your old man

to be a f***ing f***-up.

It's a little hard

to tell now,

but half a lifetime ago,

your dad was the coolest thing

in 100 miles.

Yeah.

Kind of guy who could

break a girl's heart

just walking into a room.

Jimmy Strawberry.

Yeah, see, we was

thick as thieves, me and him.

(SCOFFS)

We, uh...

Got into some trouble.

(CHUCKLES)

They were good times.

You know, part of me

likes to believe

that it was him who saved me.

That he knew who he was.

And he knew

where his life was headed.

And he didn't want

that life for me.

The choices that we make

ain't always about us.

DANIEL:
I've never

really said this before...

Uh...

But I think I might...

Whatever it is

that you want to say...

Wait.

And if you still wanna tell me

when summer's over...

Tell me then.

(CLASSIC R&B MUSIC PLAYING)

(THUNDER RUMBLING)

DANIEL:
Hunter?

You hear what I said?

There's this guy

up in Portland,

he's got good stuff.

Good prices.

He wants to meet us.

What does... What does

Dex think about this?

Dex doesn't know.

What?

Dex doesn't know,

but, you know,

I can imagine

that it's gonna be fine.

All right. All right, am I

missing something here?

We got the best weed hookup

in the whole of the northeast.

And you want to

f*** it up, for what?

This guy...

He's not selling weed.

HUNTER:
Oh...

So you think you're

a cocaine dealer now.

This is gonna be more money

than either of us

have ever seen.

Is that... Is that really

what this is all about?

What else would it be about?

You don't think

any of this sh*t through.

You don't, man, do you?

Cocaine.

All I'm saying is

how long are you

gonna be Dex's errand boy?

We're not the only guys

he sells to,

why in the f*** should he be

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