Never Been Kissed Page #18

JOSIE:

Right. 7:
30.

ALDYS:

I'm late for lab.

Aldys takes off. Josie looks down the hall, where Guy,

Kristen and the others are all looking at a flyer pasted

to the wall.

GUY:

That is gonna be such a sweet show.

I am so there.

Guy looks at Tommy and Jason, who f follow his lead.

TOMMY:

Oh, yeah, man, I'll drive.

JASON:

It's gonna be Rufalicious.

GUY:

(beat)

You're using it wrong.

They head off, en masse. Josie goes and looks at the flyer:

"JIMMY CLIFF TONIGHT AT DELLOSER HALL". Josie smiles.

EXT. CLUB/DELLOSER HALL - NIGHT

Marquee reads "Jimmy Cliff." A crowd has gathered by the

door. Josie gets out of cab, and walks towards the club.

INT. CLUB/DELLOSER HALL - NIGHT

Josie enters the small, smoky club. She wears what she

considers to be her "hip concert outfit," an outfit that

completely clashes with the Rasta wear of the other concert

goers. -She reaches the BOUNCER.

BOUNCER:

You Drinking?

Josie notices the two Stoners from school standing behind

her in line.

JOSIE:

I am not 21. I am only seventeen

and I still attend high school.

The bouncer stamps her hand. She looks down at her hand.

WE CU ON her hand, reading DELLOSER.

She enters as the two Stoners approach the Bouncer.

BOUNCER:

Two of you?

A beat as the Stoners look at each other, realizing...

STONER 1

(to Stoner 2)

Oh, Dude--

And they run out of the club.

INT. CLUB/DELLOSER HALL - SAME

JIMMY CLIFF is playing. The crowd sits at tables, grooving.

Josie approaches the bar. A guy turns around--it's Sam.

SAM:

Josie--out on a school night.

A woman, LARA, emerges from the crowd. And puts her arm

around SAM. An awkward beat.

LARA:

Hi.

JOSIE:

Hi.

SAM:

Oh, right, sorry. Lara--Josie.

Josie--Lara.

(to Lara)

Josie's a student of mine.

(to Josie)

Lara's my-date.

LARA:

Nice to meet you.

Another awkward pause.

LARA:

C'mon, c'mon, let's go dance.

The crowd roars over Cliff's next song as Lara drags San

off into the crowd. Sam looks back briefly at Josie as we

lose him into the crowd.

ANGLE ON JOSIE:

She sees Guy's group sitting at a table and approaches an

empty seat. They immediately scoot around so that the seat

is taken. Undeterred, Josie sees a seat at the next table

and sits down in it. She looks up to see that she is at a

table of huge RASTAFARIANS. They all wear big Rasta hats

and even bigger hair and are smoking a joint the size of

Cuba. She smiles awkwardly.

JOSIE:

Hi. Is it okay if I sit here?

RASTA #1

Oh, ya mon. We accept all peoples.

We are all about da' love.

Josie and the Rasta's start to groove to the music. Josie

looks over at Guy's table, sees they are toking off a small

joint and passing it around.

INT. GEORGE'S VAN - CONTINUOS

George and his DATE, a Pam Grier look-alike, sit close on

the couch, grooving to the CONCERT PLAYING on the monitor

and through the various speakers. CU on the monitor.

JOSIE-CAM POV:

The joint the size of Cuba is passed INTO FRAME. Josie's

hand takes it. Catching sight of this, George and his Date

exchange concerned looks.

SMASH CUT TO:

INT. CLUB/DELLOSER HALL - LATER

Josie is high beyond belief, wearing a big Rasta hat and

loudly laughing her ass off as the Rastas just stare. She

can hardly keep herself in her chair.

JOSIE:

Get it?! Get it?! He was a

firecracker!

She lifts up Rasta 1's dreadlocks to get his ear.

JOSIE:

(yelling)

A FIRECRACKER!

And she cracks up again.

RASTA #1

(to Rasta #2)

I don't love her.

Rastas share looks ill around. Then Josie hears the first

strains of "The Harder They Come"--

JOSIE:

Oh my God! This music rules!

And Josie proceeds to get up and take over the place--she's

dancing on the table, getting up with the band and playing

the bongos, all with absolutely no rhythm or style. But

with a lot of whooping. The club is agog.

ANGLE ON:
Lara and Sam. They both look aghast.

LARA:

She's a student of yours?

SAM:

(in explanation)

She's from Bali.

And as Josie continues to dance on stage, making a total

fool of herself, Jimmy Cliff turns to CAMERA.

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