Suburbia Page #8

SOOZE:

Oh, yuck! Oh, gross!

PONY:

You done?

BUFF:

Yeah.

Buff sticks his head back out of the limo and throws up again

before finally settling back inside the limo.

LIMO DRIVER:

Oh, crap!

The limo pulls over. The driver gets out and begins to wipe the

throw up off of the side of the limo. Buff is wandering around,

Jeff is sitting on the curb looking irritated, Pony and Sooze are

still inside the limo. Sooze is on the car phone.

SOOZE:

(into telephone)

Oh, oh, hi. Oh, Missus Douglas, I hope I'm not calling too late.

No, have you seen Bee-Bee? Well, no, yeah, she was, I was just

wondering if you'd seen her. She did? Okay. Yeah. No, I'm sorry

to bother you, Missus Douglas. Okay, 'bye.

(to Jeff)

Sh*t. She always answers.

Buff is up in someone's front lawn.

BUFF:

Hey! Hey, you guys!

Buff comes running from the front yard, holding in both his hands

a lawn leprechaun.

LIMO DRIVER:

No. No. Put back the leprechaun.

JEFF:

Yeah, put it back. Oh, f***. What are you doing, you...

Lights come on inside the house.

BUFF:

Go!

JEFF:

... idiot! Open the damn door! Go, go, go, come on!

CUT TO:

EXT. CIRCLE A - VAN - NIGHT

Tim and Erica are on the side of the van, making out.

ERICA:

Oh, man, don't be gettin' soft on me. I mean, sorry, it's okay.

It's okay, just don't think, okay? Just don't think.

CUT TO:

INT. PONY'S LIMOUSINE - NIGHT

Sooze, Buff and Pony are singing an old high school cheer while

Jeff looks very un-amused.

SOOZE, BUFF, & PONY

"Black and orange

Black and orange

Hear that hearty yell

Rah rah rah"

SOOZE:

"G, O, F, O, R, I, T. Go for it!"

BUFF:

Hey, play that demo again, man. Alright.

PONY:

Oh, man. Wow. I was never into football, you know?

JEFF:

I gotta take a piss. Do you mind if we pull over really quickly?

PONY:

Oh, yeah.

JEFF:

I'm sorry. I, I gotta...

PONY:

Oh, no, no. Uh, uh, George, pull over.

George pulls the limo over to the side of the street. Jeff walks

down a small ravine, looks back over his shoulder, keeps walking.

JEFF:

F*** 'em. F***ing a**holes.

PONY:

Burnfield. No place like it.

SOOZE:

Yeah. Burnfield, Pizza and Puke capital of the world.

PONY:

I can't believe you're still here.

SOOZE:

I'm moving.

PONY:

If...

SOOZE:

No, I'm going.

PONY:

Mm-hm.

Sooze and Pony pick at each other with their fingers, playfully

flirting.

SOOZE:

Soon.

PONY:

Yep.

SOOZE:

What's that supposed to mean?

PONY:

I don't know. I say what I mean.

SOOZE:

Oh, yeah, you're just so smart.

PONY:

That's because I am.

CUT TO:

EXT. CIRCLE A - VAN - NIGHT

Erica and Tim are still leaning up against the old van.

ERICA:

It's okay. This kind of thing happens.

It's just never happened to me. I'm sorry.

It's true though. Mm. So, um, what's your

TCB tattoo stand for? What's that about?

TIM:

Taking care of business.

ERICA:

I'm sorry.

CUT TO:

EXT. PONY'S LIMO - ROOF - NIGHT

Sooze and Pony are sitting on top of the limo looking out over

Burnfield.

SOOZE:

I hate it here. It's so ugly, it's like being dead. You got out

of here, you know? I'm ready to go.

PONY:

Yeah, but sometimes I try to figure out why I left in the first

place, you know? I think about people and I wonder what they're

doing.

SOOZE:

Yeah.

PONY:

I think about you. I mean, a lot.

SOOZE:

Me?

PONY:

Yeah, I have, I have, yeah.

SOOZE:

Yeah, you know, when you called I thought, there's a name from

the past.

PONY:

Or the future, oh, no, no, I mean... I mean, we'll be working on

that album cover, right?

SOOZE:

Yeah, I know what you're saying.

PONY:

You do?

SOOZE:

Yeah. God, you showed up at such a weird time in my life.

CUT TO:

EXT. CIRCLE A - PARKING LOT - NIGHT

Jeff walks into the parking lot to find Bee-Bee sitting on the

side of the building by herself, bottle by her side and listening

to the radio. Jeff walks up to her.

JEFF:

I just walked all the way from Westside to here. I haven't walked

that far since junior high. I thought you didn't drink.

BEE-BEE

I don't anymore.

JEFF:

Can I have some?

BEE-BEE

Knock yourself out.

Jeff takes a hard swing off the bottle.

JEFF:

You know, one moment things are so f***ed up than you look at it

from a totally different angle and it makes sense.

BEE-BEE

Yeah.

JEFF:

Did you ever hear that saying, "This too shall pass"?

BEE-BEE

Sure, all the time, in Group.

JEFF:

In Group?

BEE-BEE

Rehab. Outpatient. I have to go once a week. It's kind of like

AA.

JEFF:

Oh, yeah, you had to go to Highgate. That must've been intense.

BEE-BEE

Intense.

JEFF:

How long were you in there?

BEE-BEE

Uh, ninety days. And now I just have to go once a week. See, I'm

rehabilitated.

JEFF:

Well, you shouldn't drink. Are you gonna drink?

BEE-BEE

No. Oh, maybe. F***.

JEFF:

I mean, that would suck if you had to go back to rehab.

BEE-BEE

Yeah, it would suck big time. I'd kill myself first.

JEFF:

It was pretty bad, huh?

BEE-BEE

It was like hell with windows. You know, there's sh*t on the

walls. Kids my age sucking their thumbs. I mean, every day I

would, I'd wake up in my cell and I'd think, my parents put me

here. Why? Why? Because I stayed out all night one time. Uh,

because I broke the VCR when I was drunk. Because I was out of

control. I thought my parents loved me.

CUT TO:

INT. PONY'S LIMO - NIGHT

Buff is holding onto the lawn leprechaun as if it was his

girlfriend. He comes in and out of sleep.

BUFF:

Hey, do you got any water? And some B-One? Hey, where did

everybody go?

LIMO DRIVER:

Hey, hey. Okay?

BUFF:

Sor-sorry, Bruce.

CUT TO:

EXT. CIRCLE A - PARKING LOT - NIGHT

JEFF:

We were all riding around and it suddenly hit me what we were

doing. We were getting off on the fact that we're in a car teen

feet longer than all the rest. And I got out and I just started

walking.

BEE-BEE

Yeah.

JEFF:

Well, what it was... I, I don't want to admit it, but, you know,

I was jealous of Pony.

BEE-BEE

Well, sure, he's rich and he's famous. He's got everything and

you've got nothing.

JEFF:

Yeah, but, when I was walking, I realized that he's stuck in that

limo all the time. He's stuck with his interviews, he's stuck

with his autograph, he has to do whatever his manager tells him

to do, you know? He's not free. He's just part of the machine,

and if you think about it, freedom's all that there really is.

BEE-BEE

Yeah, I guess.

JEFF:

You know? And it used to scare me so much that I didn't know what

was coming in my life.

BEE-BEE

Mm-hm.

JEFF:

You know, like, like, I would always think, uh, you know, what if

I make the wrong move? But maybe there isn't any right move. You

know? I mean, look at us. You know, we all dress the same, we all

talk the same, we all f*** the same, we all watch the same TV.

Nobody's really different, even if they think they're different.

"Oh, boy, look at my tattoo, you know?" And see, that's what

makes me freak. Because I can do anything I want, as long as I

don't care about the result.

Jeff begins to remove articles of his clothing.

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