Hot Summer Nights Page #6

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the only guy we buy from?

'Cause that's just how

this sh*t works, Danny.

That's how it's always worked.

I don't have to

explain that sh*t...

Okay. If we never upended

how things worked,

we'd be on that corner right

there selling nickle bags

and dime bags to summer birds

and teenagers.

If Dex finds out, and he

will find out, look at me.

Don't...

...come running to me.

That stuff that

people say about you.

Any of that true?

(McKAYLA SIGHS)

HUNTER:
Hey, who was that?

Stop, wait. Will you...

Will you just talk to me?

McKayla, please.

I'm sorry about Mom, okay?

I know that I hurt her.

I don't expect you

to forgive me.

I don't expect it. I'm...

I'm just...

I'm trying to be good.

I'm trying

really f***ing hard.

All right? I need...

- I can't do this on my own.

- Stop selling drugs.

You know,

it's not that simple...

How else am I supposed to...

How? Okay. All right.

It's all that she wanted.

WOMAN:
(ON RADIO)

...Providence you're going

to have an extreme potential

storm surge

that could be

life threatening.

Why haven't you started?

WOMAN:
(ON RADIO)

You're going to have

extreme hurricane-force winds.

(DOOR OPENS)

More information on this storm

for you now.

The winds are

105 miles per hour.

(BREATHING HEAVILY)

What the hell is this?

What's going on?

I'm gonna ask you something,

and I want you

to be straight with me.

Have you been seeing her?

No.

- What the hell is this?

- It's mine! Let go!

Wait, tough girl!

Where you going?

Where you going?

(THUNDER RUMBLING)

That sh*t I said before about

not wanting you

to go near her,

I don't f***ing care anymore.

Just tell me the truth.

I said no.

You cool, dude?

(VEHICLE APPROACHES)

(BAG DROPS)

McKAYLA:
You f***ing a**holes.

DANIEL:
Hey.

Hey! Wait! Wait!

- Wait! Wait!

- (TIRES SQUEAL)

(THUNDER RUMBLING)

(DOOR UNLOCKS)

SHEP:
Hey, hey.

Come in.

(MELANCHOLY ORGAN MUSIC PLAYS)

You want some coffee?

Huh? Hey, sit down.

Hey, you don't want coffee.

You're young.

When you're young

and you're free,

you don't drink coffee.

Guy spends his whole life

being good to people.

Trying to make them happy,

and he gets what?

A whoring wife and kids

who hate him.

Is that fair?

None of it's fair.

It's not supposed to be.

Where is the order?

There isn't any order.

- Stop f***ing looking for it.

- (ORGAN PLAYING STOPS)

You think my rotten wife cared

when she took a big,

giant sh*t on my life

and stole all my money

and told my kids

that I was a drunk?

I'll tell you. She did not.

Have I had pain in my life?

More than you

will ever know, brother?

Daisy!

(ORGAN PLAYS)

Be happy, they say.

Life is too short, they say.

Be happy. What is happy?

What does that look like?

A new car? Hey.

Hot wife. Big dick.

What am I trying to say?

I don't know.

I think life

will be good to you.

- Is that the money in there?

- (SOFTLY) Yes.

(LOUDER) Yes.

- All of it?

- Yes.

Hand it to Chester, please.

To new friendships.

To new business.

Daisy, sweetheart.

Play something celebratory.

(PLAYS UPBEAT TUNE)

(SNORTING)

Oh, listen...

(EXHALES)

(SNORTING)

Take it.

I'm probably...

Probably gonna leave soon.

Take it.

(SNORTS)

Good sh*t, huh?

It's f***ing great.

(SNIFFS)

Come on. Hit me.

Come on. Do it. Hit me.

I really

don't want to do that.

Come on. Look, look.

Jesus f***ing Christ.

Hit me in the face. Come on.

Hit me in the face.

Come on, you, hit me.

(DAISY FINISHES SONG)

(DAISY STARTS PLAYING

NEW SONG)

(LAUGHS)

(LAUGHING)

(LAUGHING) It's... It's...

It's baby formula.

DANIEL:
What... What is?

That. It's not cocaine.

It's baby formula.

Daisy, Daisy.

Stop...

Daisy!

Oh...

(SIGHS)

Look...

I'm gonna take

your money, okay?

I'm gonna take your money

because you're stupid

and you're weak,

and because I can.

Lift your head up.

Come on, look at me.

I know who you are.

And I know who you work for.

He doesn't know you're here

today doing this, does he?

Dex know you're here today

doing this? Huh?

When he finds out what you've

done here, it won't be good.

Now, if I were you,

I would go someplace

very far away.

And I would do so

very quickly.

- (PHONE RINGING)

- (TIRES SCREECHING)

(RINGING CONTINUES)

- DANIEL:
Hey, Dex.

- (DEX GROANS)

You broke my heart.

(TIRES SQUEALING)

BOY:
At roughly

4:
15 Eastern Time,

Hurricane Bob made landfall

on the Massachusetts coast.

It was a Monday

and it was 74 degrees.

MAN:
(ON TV) It moved on

to areas like Block Island

about 1:
30 this afternoon,

with 125 mile per hour winds.

Falmouth, Massachusetts

reported

94 mile per hour winds.

FEMALE NEWSCASTER:

Governor Weld has now issued

a state of emergency

throughout eastern

Massachusetts.

- (THUNDER RUMBLING)

- (DOG BARKING)

(RAIN PATTERING)

(LINE RINGING)

(WIND HOWLING)

(PHONE RINGING)

(DIALING)

(LINE RINGING)

(PHONE RINGING)

(PHONE BEEPS)

DEX:
(ON PHONE) You know

how this has to end now.

Got you.

I wish it could've

been different.

(THUNDER CRACKING)

(SIRENS BLARING)

Hey! Hunter!

(BANGING) Hunter!

(CONTINUES BANGING)

Hey, hey, whoa.

Whoa, whoa, whoa.

I didn't know how to tell you

about me and her.

All right, I wanted to.

I just couldn't!

Now I f***ed up!

All right,

I f***ed up really bad!

I'll count to three.

Hunter, listen to me!

Dex is coming to kill me!

He's coming

to f***ing kill me!

One...

Two...

All right, f*** you.

F***ing kill me.

F*** you!

Run away. Never come back.

I just want to

say goodbye to her.

Then I'll leave, all right?

Just go.

(TIRES SQUEAL)

- (THUNDER RUMBLING)

- (WIND HOWLING)

(THUNDER RUMBLES)

(CAR APPROACHING)

(CAR DOOR OPENS)

(SHUTTER OPENING)

Where is your boy?

Where is your boy?

I don't know.

Now is not the time

to be proud.

Tell me where your boy is.

He didn't show.

(POLICE SIREN WAILING)

What happened to you, kid?

You could've

really been something.

Like you?

You knew how it would all end,

didn't you?

Your whole life.

F*** you.

Okay.

(GUN COCKING)

- (HORN HONKING)

- (TIRES SCREECH)

(RAIN PATTERING)

(SYNTHPOP MUSIC PLAYING)

(SYNTHPOP MUSIC CONTINUES)

(CAR STARTING, ENGINE REVS)

(SYNTHPOP MUSIC CONTINUES)

BOY:
Owen Shepherd's house

was swept out to sea.

And Kelly Fine's dog

died in the flood.

I didn't have electricity back

until Halloween.

And the drive-in theater

which had been around since

my grandma was a little girl

was blown to the ground.

REPORTER:
Uh, do you

intend on ever having

a cottage on the shore again?

No. We're hoping to rebuild.

BOY:
Overall, they say it was

more than a billion dollars

in damage.

Hunter Strawberry's body

was found on August 20, 1991.

He died young,

and left a pretty corpse.

Becoming what everyone always

expected him to become.

In the end,

only four people

attended his funeral.

His first-grade teacher

Miss Wolcott,

little Pat Shaughnessy

from the fish market

on South Street.

Amy, and Sergeant

Frank Calhoun.

Hey.

Amy.

BOY:
For a while,

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