Practical Magic Page #2

===INT. BEDROOM ===

(Sally hears the beetles ticking)

Sally:
I hear you. Don't.

===EXT. ROAD===

Michael:
How's Mary doing? She good?

===INT. BEDROOM ===

(Sally looks for the beetle)

Sally:
That's can't be. No! I know you're in there.

===EXT. ROAD===

A woman:
Michael, look out!

A man:
Look out behind you! On your right!

( A truck hit Michael)

===INT. AUNT'S HOUSE NIGHT===

Sally:
It was the curse, wasn't it? He died because I loved him so much!

Aunt Frances:
My poor little girl. We had no idea when we cast the spell.

Sally:
What spell? What are you talking about? Oh, You didn't. Please tell me that my own flesh and blood.

Aunt Jet:
It was just a little push. You wanted so much to be happy.

Aunt Frances:
We never expected that you'd truly love him.

Sally:
Well, I did. And I want him back. You brought him into my life. You bring him back! I have never asked you for anything ! I never asked for spells, but do this! You can bring him back.

Aunt Jet:
No, dear. You don't do that!

Aunt Frances:
You don't do that.

Sally:
You can do this. I know you can. I remamber. I found here when Mommy and Daddy died.

Aunt Frances:
Even if we did bring him back, it wouldn't be Michael. It'd be something else. Something dark and unnatural.

Sally:
I don't care what he comes back as. As long as he comes back. Please do this for me. Please!

=== EXT AUNT'S HOUSE DAY===

(Sally comes aunt's house with her two chirdren)

Sally (V.O) :
This is only temporary, don't get too comfortable. There'll be no chocolate for breakfast. Homework will be done after dinner teeth and hair brushed before bed.

Sally:
And as for you two my children will never do magic. Ever.

===INT. BEDROOM MORNING===

Kylie:
Mom? It's time for us to go to school. Mommy. It's the same time as yesterday and the day before that, and the day before that. Out of bed, sleepyhead! I'm worried about Antonia. Do you know she puts on her mouse ears, she drives around town all liquored up. Naked! All right. I'll see you around.

Sally:
Come here, you! I'm sorry, baby. I'm just so tired

Kylie:
It's okay, Mommy.

Sally:
Gilly.

===INT BEDROOM NIGHT===

Gillian:
Sally.

Jimmy:
I was just thinking about you.

Gillian:
You are always thinking about me. Honey, I just have to go to the bathroom.

Jimmy:
Let's go together.

Gillian:
Jimmy, come on.

Jimmy:
I'm just kidding. Go.

===INT. BEDROOM NIGHT ===

(Gillian came home)

Sally:
I was really, really happy. Sally We were going to open a botanical shop. Michael'd get the ingredients. And I'd make the stuff. He really loved my mint-oatmeal shaving cream. He couldn't stop eating it. I'm sure all this is really boring to you. But he really made me lough.

Sally:
Angelov? What kind of name is that?

Gillian:
Bulgarian.

Sally:
Bulgarian?

Gillian:
Huh, huh. He's from somewhere near Transylvania. He has this whole Dracula-cowboy thing about him. He's just so intense. I mean, he talks about our rerationship in terms of centuries. Sometimes we just stay up all night worshipping each other like bats. Thank God for Jet's belladonna or I'd never get any sleep.

Sally:
Why are you taking that stuff?

Gillian:
I'm not using it. I just give it to him every now and then. That's all.

Sally:
So you're drugging your boyfriend to get a little shut-eye? Doesn't that seem strange to you?

Gillian:
Maybe. And he's strong. So much stronger than me. He can survive the curse. Do you forgive our mother?

Sally:
Sometimes.

Gillian:
You'll never forgive yourself unless you get up and you get dressed and brush your teeth, because your breath stinks and you take care of those little girls.

Sally:
Yeah. You're right.

Gillian:
I love you.

Sally:
I love you too, Gilly-Bean.

===EXT. BOTANICAL SHOP===

A boy:
How's your wicked mommy doing?

Children:
Witch! Witch! You're a witch!

===INT. BOTANICAL SHOP===

You'd think, after 300 years, they'd make up a better ryme.

===EXT. BOTANICAL SHOP===

A Mother:
Really, you troublemaker started this.

Kylie:
I hate you!

Sally:
Put the finger down, Kylie.

Kylie:
I hope you get chikenpox.

Sally:
She was just kidding.

Antonia:
No, she wasn't, Mom. She was not kidding.

Sally:
What's wrong with you? We do not cast and we do not toy with people's lives. Do you understand? This is not a game.

Kylie:
No, you don't cast. You probably couldn't even if you tried! She has all this power and doesn't use it!

Antonia:
I think you really hurt Mom's feelings.

===INT. HOUSE===

Antonia:
Kylie thinks any man who marries us is going to croak.

Aunt Frances:
That's such hogwash. What about your grandparents, Jack and Regina?

Kylie:
grandma Regina died of broken heart, didn't she? How could she do that? Leave Mom and Aunt Gilly behind when they were just little girls?

Antonia:
Why won't she talk about it?

Kylie:
Was Mama good at spells as a girl? Why won't she do spells now?

Sally:
What's going on in here?

Aunt Frances:
Nothing.

Aunt Jet:
Just making toast, is all.

Sally:
Did you guys finish your homework? As stom's coming. Go check the windows for me, Okay. (To Aunt Frances) Making toast? I want you both to watch what you say to those girls. I don't you filling their heads with any of your nonsense, okay?

Aunt Jet:
We'd never tell them nonsense, dear.

Sally:
Good night, sweetie.

==INT. SALLY'S ROOM===

(Sally writes letter to Gillian)

Sally (V.O.) Dearest, Gilly. Sometimes I feel there's a hole inside me an emptiness that, at times seems to burn. I think if you lifted my heart to your ear, probably you could hear the ocean. And the moon tonight, there's a circle around it. A sign of trouble not far behind. I have this dream of being whole. Of not going to sleep each night, wanting. But still, sometimes when the wind is warm or the crickets sing I dream of a love that even time will lie down and be still for. I just want someone to love me. I want to be seen. I don't know. Maybe I've had my happiness. I don't want to believe it but there is no man, Gilly only that moon. (Phone rings) Gillian.

===INT. HOUSE===

Aunt Jet:
It's Gillian.

Sally:
I know.

Sally:
What's wrong?

Gillian:
I'm scared. Can you come and get me?

Sally:
Where are you? I'm taking the first flight out. Watch the kids.

Aunt Jet:
Just go to Gilly. The children'll be fine. We'll take them to the solstic celebration.

Sally:
Why can't you two just stay here?

Aunt Frances:
We can't back out. We're on the committee. We are presenting.

Sally:
Fine. But I don't want them dancing naked under the full moon.

Aunt Jet:
No, of course not, dear. Nudity is entirely optional, as you well remember!

=== INT. MOTEL ROOM NIGHT ===

Gillian:
The room service here sucks.

Sally:
Let's get you out of here.

Gillian:
I'm fine.

Gillian:
He's been really crazy, you know? We've been driving for 2 weeks straight. I mean, not even straight. In these zigzags, back and forth. Damn these shose! Then today he says he wants a jelly doughnut. An he says to the kid, "Jelly doughnut, with cream." And the kid looked confused. And I said, "Jimmy, jelly's not a cream." And then the kid laughed and I laughed and then he punched me. He punched me real hard. The bastard! Blood on the moon!

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