Joshua Page #6
If Apep swallowed you,
you become nothing.
A non-being.
Till the end of existence,
you'd remain in Apep's guts,
slowly digested for all of eternity.
'cause nobody would
realize you were missing.
And then came Moses
to stop all this nonsense.
(piano playing)
HAZEL:
Practice carrying...
You'll grow into it, honey,
we all do.
(chuckles)
(footsteps)
(crying)
BRAD:
Nothing. She just started crying.
ABBY:
What did you do?
BRAD:
I didn't do anything.
Hi.
How you doing?
Going to the Brooklyn Museum of Art.
Let's go, let's go.
You know what, sweetie,
I really need to use
this little girls' room
right here for a sec, all right?
You stay right herewith the, uh...
Uh...
(man yelling)
What the f***...
(two men yelling)
HAZEL:
Joshua!
Joshua!
Joshua!
(Lily crying)
What were you doing?!.
-Where were you?
-Where were you?!.
(Lily crying)
(crying)
Brad.
(mumbles)
(crying continues)
(crying):
So sorry. My God, Bradley.
Jesus Christ, Mom.
(crying):
I'm so sorry.
Bradley.
I'm sorry.
I'm so sorry.
(sniffles)
(mumbles)
(cries)
You gave me such a fright.
(crying)
Shh, shh, shh.
HAZEL:
Don't! No! No! Oh! You...
(thudding, woman gasps)
Nana!
No!
WOMAN:
Does somebody have a cell phone?
I don't know...
(Joshua whimpering)
(crowd chatter)
I'm just so sorry about your mother.
I... those stairs.
They were just
an accident waiting to happen.
Yeah. I don't know
what happened, you know?
She was up there
with Josh...
Yeah.
You know, they say she slipped.
You have had one f***ed-up month.
Who?
Joshua.
Come on. That's...
Come on. You're...
You're talking
about a nine-year-old boy.
I think all of this
has been his doing.
Do you hear me?
I thinkAbby...
I think the screaming-
Lily's screaming...
There must be something we can do.
You don't understand.
I'm trying...
Maybe you should think
about talking to someone.
What are you talking about?
You mean like a shrink or something?
- Yeah.
- Yeah?
I know ifyou...
This isn't about me.
I'm talking about...
Ah! Joshua, my boy.
(whispering)
Lily's sleeping with me from now on.
Daddy?
Yes?
I'm scared.
Yeah? Well...
Daddy?
Yeah?
I don't understand.
Go to bed.
(footsteps)
(footsteps)
Daddy?
Do you like my house?
I made it last night.
I know what you're doing,Josh.
I don't know why you're
doing it, but I'm on to you.
They're just blocks, Daddy.
You're not going
to hurt anybody else.
Are you mad at me?
Do you still love me, Daddy?
I think you're sick,Josh.
I don't feel sick.
Not at all.
Why are you doing this?
Huh?
You know what
the best part is, Daddy?
(Lily crying)
(crying continues)
(crying continues)
(crying continues)
(crying continues)
(crying continues)
(ice in glass rattling)
(ice rattling)
(ice rattling)
(doorbell rings)
Hi. How are you?
Good to see you.
Really good to see you.
(conversation continues
indistinctly)
Hey, buddy, this is Dr. Polsheck.
She's here to talk to you.
Oh, no. Betsy, please.
Hello,Joshua.
Betsy's a child psychologist.
She's going to talk to you.
Yeah. Maybe you could
show me your room. I hear
you have a guinea pig.
I love guinea pigs.
My guinea pig?
Okay.
Great.
Have fun, buddy.
Do you like to draw?
Oh, I love drawing.
Keep drawing.
That's good.
That's really something.
Joshua, come here for a second.
Why don't you do me a favor,
and go in your bedroom? All right?
Just for a second?
Listen, I should be alone
with the boy, okay?
Yeah. Sure.
Do you see...? This...
this is off.
Something is wrong here.
This has got to be the sign
of some kind of...
- You got that right.
- Sociopath?
No, no, no, Mr. Cairn.
That's...
that's not it.
What is this?
This picture is
Okay? That boy is being abused...
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
to such a degree that I can't...
No, no, no, no, no, no.
Let me tell you what
you're dealing with here.
- I don't care...
- He probably...
He probably researched it.
on the computer.
He probably knew exactly
what to draw.
This is abuse
Do you understand what I'm saying?
What areyou...?
Nobody's beating him.
I'm not... He probably...
Why are you being so defensive?
- I'm not being...
- I'm just pointing out the fact
- that your son has been abused.
- Listen, you have to...
Back off!. Okay?
Talked to your headmaster.
- You did?
- Yeah.
We agreed you're not
being challenged enough,
so we're going to send you
somewhere else far away.
You're going to learn how to ski.
It's going to be great.
But how could...?
End of discussion, little man.
No buts, okay?
You're going away.
You understand?
Hey.
Josh...Joshua!
What?
What are you looking at?
Josh?
Josh, I want you to come here
right now, you hear me?
Josh.
Hey, boy.
It's me. I want to talk to you.
We're going to talk about this.
Josh?
Joshua?
Josh!
Everything's okay, buddy.
Come on out.
I know you're here.
Listen, nothing's
set in stone, okay?
(to himself):
All right, suit yourself.
Josh?
Josh!
(distant whining)
(whining grows louder)
(whining continues)
(Lily coos)
(whimpering)
(crying)
(crying continues)
(crying grows louder)
(whispers):
Joshua.
Joshua.
What are you doing?
Come out from under there.
I don't want to go.
Joshua, come on.
Come out from under there.
(sniffles)
- I want to stay here
- Shh, shh, shh, shh.
- with you and Lily...
- Shh, shh, shh.
- and Mom when she gets better.
- Shh, shh.
- Come here.
- I want to stay.
- Come on.
- Ow!
Ow!
- Come here.
- (groans)
What's going on?
Ah, oh.
My God,Joshua,
what happened to you?
- What happened?
- I slipped.
You what?
I slipped.
- I-I...
-Joshua, please tell me what happened.
- I slipped, really.
- Who did this to you?
- I slipped, really.
- Who did this to you?!.
- I slipped.
- You tell me who did it to you.
Look, it's just there, okay?
That's all.
It doesn't hurt much.
Okay, okay, okay, I'm sorry.
(cries)
I'm sorry, I'm sorry,
I'm sorry, okay?
- Stay, stay with me.
- Shh, shh, shh.
- Stay.
-Josh.
- I got to go check...
- Stay.
I got to check on Lily.
- Stay with me.
- I got to go.
Stay like you used to.
You're gonna...
Stay with me like you used to.
Okay, okay, okay, shh,
shh, shh, shh, shh, shh.
Just go to sleep.
Just go to sleep.
Just go to sleep, buddy.
Shh, shh, shh, shh.
(gasps)
Josh? Josh.
Shh. She's almost done.
You were hungry this
morning, weren't you?
It's a beautiful day.
After this, how about
we go outside and play?
(children shouting playfully
in distance)
Joshua...
Beware of the Jabberwock.
What?
(cries)
Shh...
shh, shh, shh, shh.
(crying continues)
Did he just...
just take your f***in' binky?!.
(crying continues)
Joshua.
Joshua.
Joshua!
Where's Lily's binky?
- (Lily crying)
-Joshua!
(crying continues)
Joshua, come down.
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Submitted on August 05, 2018
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