Kids Page #7

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Ruby looks very dazed and confused. Jennie is nervous and

shaky.

Jennie picks up the phone and puts it to her ear. She

searches her pockets for a quarter and comes up empty. She

begins shaking her hands back and forth.

JENNIE:

Ruby. Do you have a quarter?

Ruby hands her a quarter. Jennie dials her house.

JENNIE (cont’d)

(into phone)

Peter, is Mom there? No, I need to

speak to Mommy... Peter where's

Mommy? No, I can't talk to you

right now. Yeah... I hear it...

look just tell her... No never

mind... Go watch television.

She hangs up the phone and starts to cry. Ruby puts her arm

around Jennie.

RUBY:

Shh. Come on, it's gonna be OK.

JENNIE:

That's it. I'm gonna have to tell

my little brother, I'm gonna die. I

can't make him his lunches anymore.

RUBY:

Come on. Don't cry. We'll work it

out.

JENNIE:

I only did it once and...

A man with a beeper walks up and taps on the phone booth.

PHONE BOOTH MAN:

You usin the phone?

RUBY:

Get the f*** outta here man!

PHONE BOOTH MAN:

What?

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RUBY:

(screaming inside the

booth)

I said get the f*** outta here

before I smash your f***ing face in

mothafucka!!!

JENNIE:

I gotta go. I gotta find Telly.

RUBY:

Don't go anywhere. Stay with me.

JENNIE:

I gotta find him.

Jennie squeezes by Ruby and pushes open the door to the

booth.

RUBY:

I'm coming.

JENNIE:

No. I just gotta go find him.

Ruby grabs Jennie's arm and Jennie pulls away. Jennie starts

walking and wiping the tears out of her eyes.

RUBY:

Jen!

Jennie looks back at Ruby and then starts running down the

street.

RUBY (cont’d)

(screaming)

Jennie!

Jennie is running down the street full speed. She is passing

all the people on the sidewalk. Then she darts across the

street and through the traffic. Some people stare. She

continues to run as the CAMERA follows her for a full block.

She bumps into people and pushes them away.

EXT. TELLY'S HOUSE - DAY

Telly and Casper walk up to the house. Telly lives in a flat

on St. Marks; downtown. Two Spanish hoodlums are sitting on

the front steps. Telly and Casper walk up and slap their

hands.

Casper looks for some place to hide his beer. One of the

hoodlums puts his hand out and Casper gives it to him.

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Telly opens the door with his key and Casper follows close

behind. They walk straight to the end of the hallway and

enter.

.

Telly's house is cluttered. The house is nice but organized.

The kitchen has pots and pans hanging from the ceiling. There

is a Matisse poster hanging in a frame. Large bookshelves

filled to the gills with books. Big plush couches in the

living room, a rocking chair in the corner. A small wooden

piano. A scattered game of Monopoly is on the dinning room

table, a few cats roam the house. On the wall are pictures of

Telly as a young boy, and large family portraits.

Telly and Casper walk into the living room, then enter the

kitchen.

Telly's mom is in the kitchen breast-feeding a small baby.

She has her hair pulled back and her breast out. There is a

small television set on the kitchen counter that she is

watching.

TELLY:

Hi mom.

MOM:

Hi Telly. Where you been?

CASPER:

Hi.

MOM:

Hi Casper.

Telly goes to the refrigerator and takes out a big jug of

Kool-Aid. Casper gets the glasses down from the cabinet.

TELLY:

We were out trying to find a job.

Pouring the Kool-Aid.

MOM:

Any luck?

CASPER:

No none.

MOM:

So, what are you gonna do for money

this summer?

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TELLY:

I don't know. Find a job.

(pause)

Hey can I borrow some money?

Casper is staring at Telly's mom as she breast-feeds.

MOM:

Sorry. Dad made me promise not to

give you any money until you find a

job.

TELLY:

But then I won't need your money.

MOM:

That's right.

Casper is staring at Telly's mom's breast.

CASPER:

Man, Telly, your little brother is

getting big.

TELLY:

Yeah.

Telly walks out of the kitchen and up the stairs, Casper

slowly staggers behind.

As they walk up the stairs, Telly pulls his shirt off and

wipes his underarms and chest.

Casper pulls Telly's arm.

CASPER:

Holy sh*t man, your mom's got good

titties.

TELLY:

Shut the f*** up.

The two of them enter Telly's parents room.

INT. TELLY'S PARENT'S BEDROOM - DAY

The bedroom is messy. There are clothes lying on the bed and

floor. There is an exercise bike in the corner. Museum

posters are on the wall. Tampons on the dresser.

Casper follows Telly into the bedroom. Telly sticks his head

out the door to make sure his mother isn't coming.

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Casper picks up a tampon and starts playing with it.

Telly opens his mother's shoe closet. All her shoes hand from

a big wooden door. He goes directly to a pair of black dress

pumps. He pulls out the shoes and puts them under his arm,

then he puts his hand in the shot slot and pulls out a pair

of shoulder pads with a rubber band rapped around them. He

pulls off the rubber brand, and in between the shoulder pads

is a small wad of cash. He takes out the cash and sits on the

bed counting it.

Casper is pushing the tampon back and forth inside the

plastic shell.

CASPER:

How do these things work?

Telly is counting the cash.

TELLY:

Twent, twenty-five, thirty-five,

forty-five, fifty.

Casper is looking at himself in the mirror.

CASPER:

How much you gonna take?

TELLY:

I don't know. How much do you want?

Casper is looking at teeth in the mirror.

CASPER:

About ten. Fifteen is good.

TELLY:

Fifteen for me.

He puts fifteen dollars in his back pocket.

TELLY (cont’d)

Ten for you.

Casper is scrapping his teeth with the tampon while looking

in the mirror.

Telly stands up and hands Casper the ten dollars. Caper puts

the money in his back pocket.

Telly picks up his mother's shoulder pads and puts the

remaining cash between them.

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He stuffs the shoulder pads into the shoe slot. He picks up

his mother's black pumps and puts them into the slot. He

shuts the door.

.

Telly picks up his shirt and walks out of the room.

Casper throws the tampon into the trash and follows Telly.

INT. TELLY'S ROOM - DAY

His room is a total mess, worse than imaginable. His clothes,

the furniture, piles of porno magazines and science books,

are all covered with candy wrappers and potato chip bags. His

television is on a scrambled station. He has one big poster

of Albert Einstein on his wall. He has a water bed. He has a

few small plants next to his windowsill.

There is a cat sleeping next to his bed.

TELLY:

Get the f*** out of here cat!

Telly kicks the cat out his door. Casper shuts the door.

TELLY (cont’d)

You think Darcy is gonna be at Nasa

tonight?

CASPER:

Yeah probably.

Telly picks up the small spray bottle used for watering

plants, he begins to spray his face and chest.

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