Pariah Page #5

MIKA'S FRIEND

Oooh--let me find out, Mika. You

act like you bi- or something.

MIKA:

I like girls but I love boys.

FAST GIRL #2 FAST GIRL #1

Umm hmm ! I can’t tell!

Alike waits for them to disappear from view before snatching

up her bag and bolting in the opposite direction.

25 EXT./INT. - RESTAURANT STOCKROOM - DAY 25

Laura hoists a box of french fries onto her shoulder and

moves inside the restaurant.

LAURA:

Watch out, it’s slippery.

ALIKE:

So what do you think?

LAURA:

I already told you what I think.

ALIKE:

But you know her, right?

LAURA:

I said I know of her, I don’t know

her know her.

Alike hefts up a box and follows Laura back into the

restaurant.

25.

ALIKE:

I’m saying, you know her friend,

right? You gonna introduce us?

LAURA:

Just put those on that stack right

there. Yeah, thank you.

ALIKE:

You listening?

LAURA:

I’m listening--all I’m saying is-pass

me that milkshake mix right

there.

Alike tosses Laura a bladder of milkshake mix. Laura catches

it.

LAURA:

All I’m saying is that I don’t

think you should put yourself out

there like that. Especially if you

don’t even know if she likes you

like that.

ALIKE:

She does.

LAURA:

How do you know she does?

ALIKE:

I just know she does.

LAURA:

Hmmph. We’ll see.

Laura holds out her hand as if checking for rain and scans

the ceiling.

ALIKE:

What’re you doing?

LAURA:

I thought I felt a drop of pig

sh*t.

ALIKE:

Shut up.

26.

LAURA:

All I know is I been trying to get

you to holla at girls in the club

for the longest.

ALIKE:

I don’t want to holla at girls in

the club.

LAURA:

Obviously. Why you pressed about

this chick?

Alike shrugs.

ALIKE:

I wanted to ask you about something

else too.

LAURA:

Oh God, what now?

ALIKE:

I need you to get something for me.

LAURA:

What?!

Alike c*cks her head at Laura. Laura frowns back.

LAURA:

What?!

ALIKE:

Just for my image.

Alike raises her eyebrow. Laura shakes her head. The light

bulb goes off. She roars in disbelief.

LAURA:

WHAAAAAT???!! You trying to

strap!!?? Whaaatt?!! Oh my God,

what are you going through...

ALIKE:

Please.

LAURA:

What difference you think having a

bulge in your pants gon’ make?

ALIKE:

Pleeeeease. By next Friday.

27.

LAURA:

Next Friday?! Okay-- Whatever. Oh

my God I can’t believe you !

Alright. Yeah. She better be cute

for all of this...

26 INT. ALIKE’S BEDROOM - AFTERNOON 26

Alike stares at herself in a floor length bedroom mirror in

her underwear.

LAURA:

I think it looks natural.

A peach-colored dildo dangles stiffly from Alike’s waist.

The harness bunches her boxers in clumsy tufts. Alike

appraises the racially inappropriate apparatus and shoots

Laura a look.

LAURA:

I’m serious, I mean it doesn’t look

that bad.

ALIKE:

I can’t believe you.

Alike frowns at the dildo in profile.

LAURA:

What?!

ALIKE:

Laura, this doesn’t look right.

I’ma look stupid.

LAURA:

Well, first of all-- I don’t think

its supposed to be on top of your

underwear like that.

ALIKE:

I’m not putting this thing next to

my skin, it pinches already.

Alike yanks at the harness and her boxers trying to pull it

out of her bottom.

LAURA:

It’s supposed to fit like that.

ALIKE:

They didn’t have any brown?

28.

LAURA:

I didn’t have time for all of that.

The brown ones were too big,

anyway.

Alike struggling with the apparatus. Laura smiles.

ALIKE:

Ugh! You gotta take it back.

LAURA:

I can’t take it back.

ALIKE:

Here’s the receipt!

LAURA:

Unh-unh. I’m not going back in

there. One time was embarrassing

enough.

ALIKE:

You grown!

LAURA:

Still what if somebody would see me

in there? I’m not going back,

that’s it.

ALIKE:

Then where’s my change?

Sharonda bursts into the room.

SHARONDA:

Lee, where’d you put my make-up

case...AHHH I’M GON’ TELL. OOH LEE,

I’MA TELL DADDY!

Laura leaps from the bed and blocks Sharonda’s path to the

doorway. Alike tackles Sharonda and wrestles her down to the

floor. Laura slams the door, shuts and locks it.

SHARONDA:

Eeew get that thing, off a me! Get

it off me it’s nasty! I’m tellin'!

LAURA:

Shhh!!

ALIKE:

Shut up!!! Thought you locked the

door?!

29.

SHARONDA:

Eeew. Get it offa me!

LAURA:

I did!

ALIKE:

OK, look I’m offa you. Just be

quiet and calm down.

SHARONDA:

I’m tellin’ that you got that

thing.

LAURA:

You can’t tell.

SHARONDA:

I’m telling.

ALIKE:

Shut up.

SHARONDA:

It looks nasty.

ALIKE:

(to Laura)

See, I told you so.

SHARONDA:

Where’s my make up case? I know

you got it.

ALIKE:

I just borrowed it.

Alike pulls off the dildo and harness.

SHARONDA:

Give it back.

Alike fishes the make-up case out of her backpack. She holds

it out to Sharonda. Sharonda reaches for it. Alike jerks it

back.

ALIKE:

Promise you won’t tell.

SHARONDA:

Give it back.

Alike flips open the make up case and jabs the dildo at it,

stopping short of the surface of the make up.

30.

SHARONDA:

LEE, STOP IT EEEW!!! I just got

that one.

LAURA:

Shhh!!

SHARONDA:

Don’t touch it with that... eeww

that’s so nasty. C’mon Lee give it

back.

LAURA:

Then promise you won’t tell.

ALIKE:

Promise...

SHARONDA:

Ughh, I hate you.

Alike jabs the dildo closer to the make-up.

SHARONDA:

OK, OK I won’t tell. Daag!

Alike tosses the case at Sharonda who scrambles to catch it.

Alike wraps the dildo back up in the bag and hides it behind

her headboard. Sharonda saunters out into the hallway.

SHARONDA:

I’m still tellin’

AUDREY:

Tellin’ what?

Audrey peers into the bedroom from the hallway, still dressed

for work, shoulder stooped from the weight of her tote bag.

ALIKE SHARONDA:

Noth-She

took my makeup again.

AUDREY:

Lee...

(notices Laura)

Oh. Hello Laura, I didn’t see you

standing there.

LAURA:

Hi Mrs. Freeman.

AUDREY:

How’s your mother?

31.

LAURA:

I haven’t spoken to her in awhile.

She’s fine.

AUDREY:

Well I hope so. And I’m so glad to

hear your sisters finally getting

back on her feet. Wasn’t she-

LAURA:

She’s good.

ALIKE:

Mom?!

Audrey fixes Laura with another hard glance and shoos

Sharonda down the hallway. Laura starts to shut the door, but

Audrey stops it with her arm.

AUDREY:

I think we’ll just leave this open.

Let some air circulate in here.

LAURA:

I was just about to leave, anyway.

So...

Audrey lingers, looking back and forth between Laura and

Alike. Alike frowns at her mother.

Satisfied that the conversation is over, Audrey moves off

toward her room. Laura checks to make sure she’s gone and

whispers to Alike.

LAURA:

Just try it.

27 INT. NIGHTCLUB COUCH - EVENING 27

Alike squirms in her seat.

LAURA:

Will you chill? You just gotta get

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