MY GIRL Page #14

NURSE RANDALL:

Oh yes, yes.

She gets another one out of her drawer

Thomas, let me ask you a question. Does Vada

ever tell you why she comes down here so much?

THOMAS J:

Cause she's dying.

NURSE RANDALL:

Do you think she is?

THOMAS J:

No.

NURSE RANDALL:

Why do you think she says that?

THOMAS J:

Cause she gets scared of all those dead

people in her house, and you know that saying,

If you can't beat 'em, join 'em, well if

she's one of them, she won't be as scared.

NURSE RANDALL:

You know what I think? I think Vada's very

lucky to have a friend like you.

Nurse Randall hands Thomas J another syringe

THOMAS J:

She's my best friend.

The door to the doctor's surgery opens and Vada exits

NURSE RANDALL:

Miss Vada, how are you feeling?

VADA:

As good as can be expected.

CORRIDOR OUTSIDE DOCTORS WAITING ROOM

THOMAS J:

Hey Vada, guess what we got?

VADA:

What?

Thomas J begins to run, and as he passes Vada he squirts

his syringe at Vada

THOMAS J:

THIS!!

(squirt)

VADA:

HEY YOU!!!!

(squirt)

I'm gonna get you!!!

(squirt)

I'll get you!!!!

Vada at this point is unarmed, and she chases Thomas J down

the stairs

FOREST DAY, VADA AND THOMAS J ARE RUNNING THROUGH IT FIRING

THEIR WATER GUNS AT EACH OTHER AND YELLING AT EACH OTHER,

HAVING FUN:

Suddenly Thomas J stops in his tracks

THOMAS J:

Woah!!

VADA:

What?

THOMAS J:

Pointing There's a beehive right there!

VADA:

So?

THOMAS J:

Stand back.

Thomas J stands a pace back behind a branch on the tree and

begins to squirt the beehive

VADA:

Are you crazy, you'll get stung!!

THOMAS J:

You're right, let's knock it down.

VADA:

What do you want it for anyway?

THOMAS J:

For their meat.

The two start throwing rocks at the hive, which gets

damaged and eventually falls to the ground

THOMAS J:

Got it!

VADA:

My mood ring! It fell off! I gotta find it!

They begin to search for Vada's mood ring

Suddenly bees begin to swarm, luckily Thomas J notices in

time

THOMAS J:

They're alive!! Run for your life!!!

Vada just stands there looking, Thomas J comes back and

grabs her arm, this wakes her up and they begin to run

THOMAS J:

Run faster they're after us!!

VADA:

I am running faster!!

THOMAS J:

Hurry!!!

They have run to the spot with the weeping willow and the

pier, they run out on to the pier

VADA:

Jump in the water!!

THOMAS J:

But I have my clothes on!

VADA:

Do it!

UNDER WATER VIEW OF THEM BOTH, HOLDING THEIR BREATH

INSIDE VIEW OF FRONT DOOR TO SULTENFUSS' HOUSE, VADA ENTERS

DRENCHED:

HARRY:

(in the distance, from

upstairs)

Vada is that you?

VADA:

Yes..

HARRY:

Hey guess what? We're going to the carnival

tonight, be ready to go in 10 minutes.

Vada likes this news, she hurries up the stairs

HARRY:

Shelly's coming with us.

Vada is now not so happy

CARNIVAL NIGHT, FERRIS WHEEL IS SPINNING, MANY PEOPLE ARE

SCREAMING IN A TYPICAL CARNIVAL MANNER, SLOW ZOOM ON HARRY,

SHELLY AND VADA:

SHELLY:

So Vada, what's your favorite ride?

VADA:

I like the freak show.

HARRY:

I know, I know, let's go on the "sit on the

bench and rest" ride.

SHELLY:

I don't think that that roller coaster agreed

with your bad stomach. You know Vada you have

to watch what you eat here, I remember one

time I went to a carnival with my cousins

David and Frank, and they both ate hot dogs,

and the next day they came down with

nephritis.

VADA:

Nephritis? It's a kidney disease, you don't

get it from hot dogs.

SHELLY:

Well, I'm no doctor. All I know is, the next

day they had really high fevers, and their

faces got very fat. They baffled medical

science, they were in a magazine.

Vada and Harry give Shelly a "yeah RIGHT" look

SHELLY:

They were!! "Popular Mechanics", no "Popular

Science". I don't know, popular.

HARRY, SHELLY AND VADA ARE STANDING AT A STALL WHERE OBJECT

IS TO GET A BALL IN FISH BOWL

SHELLY:

Oh look they're trying to hit that poor

thing.

HARRY:

Watch you don't knock out a fish.

SHELLY:

Perfect.

HARRY:

I don't know which ball's mine.

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