Storage 24 Page #2

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- You might wanna mind your business.

- (MARK) Leave it, Charlie. Leave it.

- Yeah, don't stop on my account.

- Charlie, what are you doing here?

- What am I...?

- (SHELLEY) You shouldn't be here.

I left a message

telling you what time I was coming.

So you wanted me to see

all of this, then, did you?

Charlie, what do you want?

I wanna know what happened to us.

That's what I want.

Charlie, now is not the time.

I don't care that everyone else is here.

I wanna know why we're splitting up.

I wanna know why we're standing here

with our stuff in boxes...

I meant, what do you want from storage?

(JAKE CHUCKLES)

What?

(JAKE) You are having a f***ing laugh.

(MELANCHOLY ROCK MUSIC

OVER RADIO)

StaY-

Oh, you can't be...

(SIGHS)

I hate my life. I do.

Gotta get a new job.

This is just f***ing ridiculous.

(WHISPERS)

Absolutely f***ing ridiculous.

And I deal with absolute muppets.

Honestly.

Work in a storage warehouse.

What a ridiculous place to work.

Looking after people's stuff.

I mean, what...?

Are you done yet, mate?

I can't hear you.

What the f***?

(GASPING)

(GROWLS)

(SCRAPING)

(BANGING)

(GROWLS)

What the f*** was that?

Probably just air settling

in the pipes or something.

- Charlie, you should go.

- (MARK) Maybe we should all leave.

- If the power's down, we should all go.

- It'll be back on.

It's been doing this all day

since that plane went down.

I just wanna get everything sorted.

- So you can get me out of your life, right?

- (SHELLEY) Yes, Charlie.

- So I can get you out of my life.

- Just f*** off.

- Hey, watch your mouth.

- (SHELLEY) Mark.

(MARK) Charlie, let's just leave.

- I don't know why we should...

- Let's leave. Get out. Come on. Leave.

- Bye-bye, then.

- Shut up, Chris, really.

Are you all right, sweetheart?

(MATCH STRIKES)

(CHARLIE)

Chris was lucky I didn't give him a slap.

- You know that was lucky, right?

- Yeah, yeah, yeah, it was lucky.

The stairs are this way, are they?

Are you sure

you don't wanna just go home?

Yes. Please, let's just go home.

No. You go.

I just wanna stay and get this done tonight.

All right, then we're not going anywhere.

We'll stay and help, yeah?

I'm starving.

There's a vending machine

downstairs by the toilets.

Okay, look, I'm gonna go with him

because I need the loo.

- You wanna come?

- No.

- Oh, bring me back some water, will you?

- Yeah.

What the hell happened here?

Any sign of the young fellow

who works here, no? Hello?

(VOICE ECHOES)

Hello?

(BEEPS)

(DIALLING TONE)

Line's dead.

Is the engineer's van still there?

- Yeah.

- Yeah, he must be over there.

(DIALLING MOBILE PHONE)

I've got no service. Have you?

Uh, I doubt that because my phone's

at the bottom of the river.

- Why?

- That's what happens

when someone dumps you

over the phone, Mark. Hello?

I don't know, maybe the transmitter

was taken out by the crash.

Well, I don't intend to spend my night

in here, I can tell you that much.

The engineer will be back

and then we'll all be sorted out and...

- What are you doing?

- Get out of the way.

- Charlie, come on.

- Get out of the way.

Well, you definitely scratched it.

I mean, what were you gonna do

if you broke the glass?

There's a metal shutter outside.

Great. So what do we do now?

(CHRIS) He kept making me laugh.

(NIKKI) How?

Whingeing at her like that.

How will that do anything?

So bad. Great.

Will you get Shell a water for me?

- There isn't any.

- Make sure no one comes in, please.

- No one's coming. Hurry.

- Oh, my God.

What is that? Wh...?

Oh, you want some of me?

P*ssy hole.

Yeah, that's right, Charlie.

Mmm.

F***.

Chris?

Chris, is that you?

Nikki, you almost done in there, babe?

Yeah, I'll just be a minute.

Chris, did someone come in here?

Hello?

Hello?

(WATER RUNNING)

(CREAKING)

(WOMAN SCREAMS)

What the f*** was that?

(CLATTERING)

Hello?

Hello?

Is there someone in here?

(GRUNTS)

Hello?

- We gotta get out of here, man.

- What the f*** are you doing in here?

No, you don't understand.

It's going to f***ing kill us.

(CLATTERING)

He's coming.

(CREAKING)

(SCREAMING)

(KNOCKS)

Hi.

- What are you still doing here?

- Security shutters are down.

We're looking for the guy who works here.

Thought you might have seen him.

No.

Where's... Where's Nikki and prick-face?

They've gone to get a snack.

Oh, there's the lamp

from when the time that...

(SHELLEY) Mm-hm.

Yeah.

Hm? What?

Hm. Just...

Charlie wants you

to go and leave us alone

so that we can talk about the relationship

that we don't have. Again.

No, I didn't say that. That's not

what I meant. I didn't say that.

But, Shelley,

if you wanna discuss it, we can...

- Look I'll... I'll leave you guys to it, yeah?

- No. Mark, stay.

Charlie, it's over. Accept it, move on.

I can't keep having this conversation.

Just tell me what I did wrong.

Give me something.

(SHELLEY) Nothing.

Nothing. I just...

I just don't love you any more.

I don't know how to

make it clearer to you.

You don't excite me.

You don't make me happy.

You don't make me anything.

Why won't you accept it?

- (CHARLIE) Shelley, let's just...

- Charlie, Charlie, leave her. All right?

Let her calm down.

- Jeez.

- Look, I'll go talk to her. Yeah?

Yeah, thanks, man.

- All right.

- Thank you.

(GATE RATTLES)

You all right?

I can't take it any more, Mark.

He's getting on my last nerve.

- He's upset.

- Yeah, well, he's not going on

at anyone else all the time.

Why do I have to deal with this like

I'm the only one who's done anything?

- You don't.

- Really?

- Mark.

- Come here, get in.

Mark, stop.

When are you gonna

tell Charlie about us'?

- Not yet. It'd kill him now if he found out.

- You're gonna have to tell him eventually.

I know.

Are you sure about us'?

- You should go back to him.

- In a minute.

Not here.

(NIKKI) What are you doing here?

(CHARLIE) We're locked in.

I went down to find the guard

or receptionist, but I couldn't find him.

(NIKKI) Where is everyone?

- Charlie?

- What?

Where is everybody?

I told Shelley how I felt about her

so she had to get as far away

as humanly possible from me.

- And Mark's gone after her.

- Right.

- And Chris, has he come back yet?

- Do I look like I give a f***?

Why do you have to

be such a dick, Charlie?

Hey, maybe that's why she left you.

(SCREECHING)

(RATTLING)

(SCREECHING CONTINUES)

Wait here.

(CHARLIE) Mark? Mark?

(MARK) Charlie.

- You all right? Heard a scream.

- Yeah. You?

- Yeah.

- (CHARLIE) Where's Shelley?

She's fine. She's fine. I was, uh...

(NIKKI) Mark!

(SHELLEY) No, Charlie!

(NIKKI) Stop it. Stop.

(SHELLEY) Stop it, guys. Just let go.

- Charlie...

- No, you don't touch me. Don't touch me.

I'm sorry, it just happened.

It just happened?

Well, how long's it been going on?

- (MARK) Look, we didn't...

- Shut up. Shut up, I'm not talking to you.

How long has it been going on?

When we were together? Since we

split up? I wanna know. Just tell me.

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