My Girl 2 Page #4

class goes "oooohh", Vada then raises her hand

MR. OWETT

Vada?

VADA:

The poem is really about attitude. It's about

not giving up and...it's easy to be

overwhelmed sometimes but...that's when we

should...force ourselves to push on.

Alfred Biedermeyer said, "To heed the urgent

inner voice, embracing destiny, not choice".

MR. OWETT

That's very good Vada. All right, moving on,

I want to give you guys a chance to write.

class does an "awe man"

Hey, hey, hey, listen up, I want you to write

about someone very special, someone

interesting, someone you admire, someone who

has achieved something worth writing about,

but it's gotta be a stranger, someone you've

never met, I want you to investigate the

personal side, play Perry Mason, see what you

can come up with. All right? Any ideas?

Remember two things: Someone who has achieved

something and someone you have never met.

Kevin raises his hand

Kevin?

KEVIN:

Elvis, the king.

MR. OWETT

Elvis, the king.

another guy raises his hand

Devon?

DEVON:

Farrah Fawcet, I love to watch that girl run.

MR. OWETT

Why is that Mr. Reid?

Devon

...never mind.

class laughs

MR. OWETT

Vada what about you, who have you come up

with?

VADA:

My mother.

MR. OWETT

Your mother?

VADA:

I never met my mother.

VADA, HARRY AND SHELLY ARE WALKING DOWN TOWN TALKING

VADA:

I know my mom's favorite color was pink, and

she ate peanut butter and banana sandwiches

for breakfast, but that's not what I would

call hard hammered facts.

HARRY:

I told you about the pumpkin didn't I?

SHELLY:

No.

HARRY:

Ah, well, I bought her this huge pumpkin for

Halloween, but she couldn't bear to carve it

so she saved it for weeks, and it ended up

under the Christmas tree.

VADA:

Then Grammoo said on Christmas Eve, there was

this sickening smell permeating the entire

house.

SHELLY:

Oh no.

HARRY:

Yeah when I picked it up it sort of exploded

and liquefied at the same time.

Shelly laughs

It wasn't funny, it soaked clear through

Grammoo's oriental.

VADA:

There's still a big spot on the floor.

INSIDE A GENERAL STORE, VADA, SHELLY AND HARRY ENTER

HARRY:

Okay, we need wallpaper paste.

(to shop owner)

Hey Cece!

VADA:

Oh, is there anything else you remember, how

did you propose? Was it romantic?

HARRY:

Well, I kinda just blurted it out over a root

beer float.

SHELLY:

Mmmmmm. Root beer float that sounds good.

VADA:

Did she mention any contests that she won? I

mean she must have had some awards, she was so

talented and all.

HARRY:

She was talented, but honey I wish I could

help you a little more, it's just that your

mother and I had kind of a whirlwind

courtship, she came to town with this

traveling theater group, I proposed on our

second date, two weeks later we were married

and almost nine months later you were here and

she was gone.

VADA:

Was it a nice funeral?

HARRY:

Oh yes, lovely funeral, Gernaldi brothers did

a beautiful job, lots of pink roses...I used

the white hearse. Hey, how about this flowered

wallpaper for your room?

Vada pulls out a roll of pitch black wallpaper and shows it

to Harry

VADA:

How about this?

AT SCHOOL, VADA IS WALKING DOWN CROWDED STAIRS BEHIND MR.

OWETT:

VADA:

Hi Mr. Owett.

MR. OWETT

Hey Vada. How's your report coming?

VADA:

Great, I have so much to say, I hardly know

where to start.

MR. OWETT

You know I've been re-reading Virginia Woolf,

I think she'd be a natural for you, she led a

fascinating life.

VADA:

Thanks, but I think I'm gonna stick to my

mom, she led a fascinating life too.

MR. OWETT

I'm sure she did.

(to Judy and Kevin, who are standing

near Vada)

Hey guys.

KEVIN:

Vada, he was giving you an easy out so you

wouldn't have to write about your mother.

VADA:

But I wanna write about her.

KEVIN:

You're crazy, what was her big achievement?

Did she invent gravity?

VADA:

No-one invented gravity, it just exists.

JUDY:

Then what did she do?

VADA:

Well...I'm not supposed to talk about it, but

since I'm gonna write about it I might as well

tell you. She was a spy against the Russians.

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