My Girl 2 Page #9

I can't believe it! My mother's high school

burned down!

NICK:

They obviously have no sense of historical

perspective either.

VADA:

It's not funny! I mean what am I gonna do?

Without that yearbook I'm lost. I can't just

walk around town looking for someone with a

Wilson High School Letter sweater!!!

NICK:

Vada.

VADA:

WHAT??

NICK:

Calm down! We just have to ask ourselves,

where your books come from.

I mean they don't appear out of thin air.

INSIDE A PRINTING PRESS SOMEWHERE, VADA AND NICK ARE

WALKING BEHIND A WORKER

MAN:

Watch these machines now.

VADA:

This is really very nice of you.

MAN:

It's no problem, I had a mother once myself.

they all enter a large storage room

MAN:

If it's in here at all, it's in the back two

rows.

VADA:

O.K. Thank you very much.

MAN:

Happy hunting.

Vada and Nick begin to search through boxes and boxes of

books

NICK:

I don't mean to alarm you, but I'm getting a

nose bleed from the altitude.

VADA:

Just remember the needle in the haystack.

NICK:

I never did understand that story, did

someone find the needle or not?

VADA:

What difference does it make?

NICK:

A big difference, if someone found it we

should keep looking, if they didn't we're just

wasting our time.

VADA:

Oh my gosh, here it is!

Vada searches quickly through the book

VADA:

Look, here she is.

Margaret Ann Muldovan - Newspaper, Literary

magazine, French Club, Drama Club, Debate

Club, Girls Basketball and Swim team. With

Maggie's combo of good looks and talent, we're

sure to be seeing her name in lights.

She was gonna be famous.

NICK:

Yearbooks always set you out for

disappointment, I want mine to say:

Nick probably won't amount to much, so don't

be surprised if you never hear anything about

him again.

Can we go?...It smells like someone left

their gym bag in here.

VADA:

It's the leather bindings, I love the

fragrance of vintage books.

NICK:

I love the fragrance of chilidogs.

VADA AND NICK ARE AT AN OUTDOOR FAST FOOD RESTAURANT,

EATING:

VADA:

He was on the school paper with my

mom...great...a full page of Tanaka's, fifteen

with the initial 'D', this is gonna be tough.

NICK:

Don't forget, the girls change their names if

they got married.

VADA:

I'd never do that.

NICK:

Get married?

VADA:

Change my name.

NICK:

What, you think the guy should change his

name?

Vada gets up to go to the phone

VADA:

I don't think anybody should change their

names, that way you can always find them when

you need them.

NICK:

What if you don't wanna be found?

VADA:

Why do you argue with everything I say?

Nick grabs one of Vada's chips while she's not looking

L.A.P.D., VADA AND NICK ARE GOING UP THE STAIRS, THEY

APPROACH A FEMALE COP AT THE DESK

VADA:

Hi.

COP:

Can I help you?

VADA:

Umm, yeah does someone named Daryl Tanaka

work here?

COP:

Sure.

(turns around and shouts)

Hey TANAKA, you got company!

DARYL:

It's too bad about your mom. At least she

went peacefully, I've seen a lot of people go

out the hard way.

VADA:

What do you remember about her.

DARYL:

Well, we worked on the school paper together.

I remember when the Legion of Decency declared

Rebel without a Cause unfit...boy...that Jim

Backers, what an actor uh? What an actor.

Ah, she wrote this article about censorship

in the first amendment, she was really

something. Graduation, some big deal

congressman saying Senator McCarthy was the

greatest American ever. Maggie gets up in

front of five hundred people...walks

out...couple of people followed her too.

Took a lot of guts.

VADA:

Wow, you walked out with my mother?

DARYL:

You kidding?

he picks up a picture and shows Vada and Nick

My parents would have shot me.

I was the president of the young republicans.

Nee say second generation...hall monitor. I

didn't wanna start World War Three.

NICK:

You saved a lot of lives, you should be very

proud.

VADA:

Umm, I'm trying to find out her greatest

achievement.

DARYL:

She was the uhh...first girl ever suspended

for smoking.

VADA:

Suspended from school, my mother??

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