Joy Page #3

which makes the house

less lonelier for me.

Aunt Peggy tells you how YOU

feel about the house being lonely?

Aunt Peggy tells me a lot of things,

keep reading, please.

I don't want you listening

to Aunt Peggy too much.

Okay, why?

The cicada, a symbol of

rebirth in many countries,

digs into the ground and stays

buried for up to 17 years.

That's such a random number,

why 17 years?

It doesn't even say why,

I understand the four seasons in a year.

Why would something stay hidden for 17 years,

that's just unsettling.

I'm not reading this,

you're sleepy anyway, we gotta go to bed.

- I wanna sleep with Nana.

- No, you should sleep upstairs in your room.

I want Nana.

Anyway, wanna watch out,

there's a hole.

Good night.

- Just gonna lay down for a second.

- ...this is on you!

You knew that Bartholomew

is the ex-con in the story,

and Clarinda doesn't

even know about it.

Danica's on to him.

They all blame Clarinda but Danica's

gonna get to the bottom of it.

- No!

- Yes! It WAS you, Clarinda.

- I will get to the bottom of this.

- You've made TERRIBLE mistakes.

It was Clarinda!

Oh.

- Look who's here.

- Look who's here.

Look who's here.

We are here today to remember what was

lost, 17 years ago, can you remember?

Peggy comes with me,

Joy spends half the time with us.

We'll take her paper...

That's Joy's special thing

and it belongs in this house.

No, I...

Joy...

Joy, wake up,

someone's been ringing the door bell.

None of you really

knows what's going on.

- But I do.

- Don't you talk to Danica that way.

Jackie.

- Oh, my God, what happened?

- I'm worried about you.

I don't see you anymore,

you don't come to the PTA.

You know how my mom is always clogging

the sink with her hair from the brushes?

- With the pipes in her room?

- Yeah.

- She did it again.

- Again?

Yes, and I had to bash

open a hole in the floor,

there is a huge hole in the

floor of my mother's room.

and I'm broke.

My father works hard,

he's had some bad breaks.

I hope he gets another girlfriend,

and'll move out of the basement.

- He's in the basement with Tony?

- Yeah.

- And they hate each other.

- Yes.

It's a disaster,

they won't stop fighting.

I don't know, I don't know.

How are you, how's the family,

how is everybody?

- Everybody's okay.

- How's work?

My job...

I could take it or leave it.

What happened to us, Jackie?

All the things we

used to dream about?

I feel like things keep getting

farther and farther away.

Do you remember the night at the

party where everything started?

The band was playing,

everyone was excited.

How are you?

I need you home so bad.

- This is my boyfriend, Andre.

- Hello, Andre.

- A pleasure to meet you.

- Andre, this is my childhood friend, Joy.

Come inside!

This is my music class.

- This is a CLASS?

- Yes!

Don't turn on the lights,

'cause I don't wanna see.

Mama told me not to come!

- They're so good.

- They are, he teaches band.

- Who's the bald guy?

- That's my music teacher.

- And he has all this music in his house?

- Yeah, this is his house.

- He's from Venezuela.

- Who is that guy?

Yeah, that's the music teacher's son.

- My God, my God.

- You see?

You're dancing... here we go.

You like dancing?

What am I doing?

- You're dancing.

- No.

- Let me show you my father's house.

- What?

I'm gonna be a singer.

- Really?

- Yeah, I'm gonna be the next Tom Jones.

So, that's a big ambition...

there's only one Tom Jones.

I know, but...

You can't let the

practical get you down.

You gotta keep going...

do what you love.

That's true.

That's what my

father taught me.

What about you?

I invented The Dog Collar.

And I want to get patents,

but I don't think I ever will.

I was valedictorian in high school.

I got into a college in Boston,

but I...

I stayed here because my parents

are getting divorced, and...

I need to help my Mom...

and I help my Dad

with business stuff.

Accountant.

Maybe your dreams are

on hold right now.

No?

That's a nice way

of putting it.

This song,

it's going to be in the town musical.

We should sing it together.

I know I stand in line until you think you

have the time to spend an evening with me.

That's really nice.

Okay, go.

- No!

- Okay...

And if we go someplace to dance I know

that there's a chance you won't be...

He gave my girl a spring in

her step just when she needed it.

He got her to do the musical.

Something she never woulda done.

I know I stand in line until you think you

have the time to spend an evening with me.

And if we go someplace to dance I know that

there's a chance you won't be leaving with me.

And afterwards we drop into a quiet

little place and have a drink or two

Are you all right, Honey?

...talking to herself... strange.

Honey, you should go to bed.

- Hi, I'm Toussaint.

- Toussaint? Who's this guy?

- Not for me, for you?

- No, it's not for me.

Oh, the plumber.

What's he here for?

- What do you think? Terry.

- Terry, oh, Terry.

Oh, oh, wait,

what's going on?

What is this MAN

doing in my room?

- This is... Toussaint.

- Toussaint.

- Terry, Toussaint.

- Okay, well.

I mean, I... I... I taped my show, and then...

well, exactly how long is this going to take?

Well, it shouldn't take

more than a day.

What... what... what accent is that, Joy?

What country is that from?

- Haiti.

- Haiti.

- Haiti.

- It's French and Creole.

French and Creole...

Well, is there any way...

could you please put a curtain up here

so that I can come and go in my room and

watch my show while he's still working?

Of course, I'll staple it.

- Thank you, Sir.

- You're welcome, Mademoiselle.

Mademoiselle?

Good luck in here and...

good luck with that.

Why don't you go to bed.

Go on, keep going up the stairs,

go to bed.

I don't wanna go to sleep,

I don't wanna have that horrible dream.

C'mon, you can't have the

same dream twice, it never happens.

- It's impossible.

- That's not true.

I had the Peggy dream so many times

when I was younger with masks and the rope.

That doesn't make sense, no, no.

You can't have the same dream twice,

maybe it's...

Rudy, she's thinking about something.

Maybe it's a kinda dream,

and she's working something out.

I don't WANNA work anything out,

I just want to a nice, dumb sleep.

Let's knock her out, give her a children's

cough medicine, that's what does it.

Is that safe?

- No, it's not safe.

- Yeah, it's expired.

- Come on, Dear, knock it back, Honey.

- Yeah.

- No!

- One more, knock it down, c'mon.

- Rudy!

- Do it, Tony.

- Let's do it, one more.

- I do not know. Rudy.

Okay, one more.

Enough of this, that's it,

I'm gonna make a hot toddy.

That's what she needs.

- You're gonna intoxicate her.

- It is natural, it's all herbal, nothing strong.

I was kidnapped by another monk,

who was from Switzerland.

And it turned out that this monk,

was a duke of a royal family.

I shouldn't say "was",

because he still "is".

Leave me alone.

Rate this script:2.0 / 1 vote