The Somewhat Normal Life Of Li Gin (0.5 Draft) Page #3

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Lo (hanging up):
No wonder he cheated on you.

As Lo drives off (some christian song plays on the radio), he looks at the buildings. He begins to cry, and he stops in the middle of the road. He gets out of his car, and screams at the cars passing by, cursing at them telling them that they’re bad people, or that they are worthless.

Lo (at a truck with a redneck in it giving him signs with his fingers): Ah go off!

Lo walks in the Family Video across from him. He goes up to a register, and places 50$ on the counter.

Dina:
Yes?

Lo:
I want 50$ worth of CBD products.

Dina (pulling out bags): Is that all?

Lo:
I suppose I’ll look around at the movies.

Dina (nodding):
Alright, I’ll put this in, and you can do the movies on a different transaction since you gave me the cash.

Lo:
How much is tax?

Dina:
It’s tax-free weekend.

Lo:
Oh yeah.

We cut to Li in a wheelchair, being wheeled out the door of the hospital, Bill and Sara are wheeling him, and Sara tells them that she’ll pull the car around and Bill nods, Li doesn’t do anything however, He is listening to some gospel on an ipod.

Li:
I’m an atheist, But dang this music is motivating.

Bill:
You’re listening to Come to the Altar and you think it is motivating?

Li:
Yeah, Motivating to become a muslim.

Bill:
You mean Christian? That music is music you’d get baptised to anyhow.

Li:
No, My parents were muslim, and they kept saying I wouldn’t go to heaven--

Bill:
They believe in heaven? I thought that they believed that they would reincarnate into a toilet.

Li:
That’s Toiletism.

Bill:
I think Sara is into that.

Li:
Into that? You mean she worships the Toilet?

Bill:
Oh god that sounded wrong.

Li:
It really did, Dude, Do you judge Muslims or Toilets?

Bill (as Sara pulls the car around and they get Li in and then Bill gets in the car): Toilets?

Inside the car shot.

Sara:
So, Li, You got any family around here?

Bill:
Yeah, Li, You got any?

Li (laughing as he takes his earbuds out): No-one.

Li suddenly looks up, and Sara turns down the christian music.

Li:
What is up with Christian music? It always says “Him” and not God or Jesus. Jesus Christ, Mercyme, Just say God!

Bill:
God, you make Christian music sound like torture.

Li:
I think I have an estranged cousin around here.

Sara:
Oh perfect!

Bill:
What’s his name--?

Li:
Her. And Lin.

Bill:
Ah, Li, but with an N.

Li:
What’s that supposed to mean?

Bill (Sara looks at him oddly): It was a joke.

Sara:
What kind of joke was that?

Li:
The joke was weirdly mean-spirited I thought.

Sara:
Yeah--

Bill:
OKAY! OKAY. Sorry! Bad joke, So what?

Sara:
It was rude.

Li:
And mean-spirited!

Bill:
It wasn’t mean!

Li:
Prove it.

Sara:
Yeah, Prove it, Bill.

Bill:
What?

Li:
What was it supposed to mean, Bill?

Bill:
Well, Uhhhhh--

Sara:
Honey, When you think of a joke to say, You know the meaning, So, What did it mean?

Bill:
It was a joke! Jesus Christ! Is it illegal to make a joke nowadays?! Jesus Christ! What did I do to all the sudden deserve this?!

Li:
Jeez, Okay, Fine, It was just a joke, Fine. A bad joke though.

Bill:
Come on, Dude!

Sara:
So, Li, Where does Lin live?

Li:
I think Miami.

Sara:
Miami?

Li:
Yeah.

Sara:
Me and Bill used to visit there all the time, but when we got fired from Walmart, We had to stop because Burger King, Well, I didn’t think it was possible to pay less than Walmart.

Li:
Oh.

Sara:
Yeah, Burger King, I mean, It isn’t a bad place to work at, but the hours and payment suck.

Li:
Those things go hand and hand though, Just work more hours!

Sara:
We work the max amount.

Li:
Really?

Sara:
I swear.

Bill:
I swear too.

Li:
Wow, Y’all sounded like this became a confessional all the sudden.

Sara:
What’s a confessional?

Li:
Oh, Something religious.

Sara:
Oh, You’re religious? I didn’t see you as the religious type.

Li:
No, I’m not religious-- Type? What the f*** do you mean by that?

Sara:
Oh, I just meant the type of person you are.

Li:
As I said, Type? What the f*** do you mean by “What type of person are you?”

Sara:
Oh, Well-- I-- Type--

Li:
Speaketh! Woman!

Sara:
I don’t know what I meant, Okay? I don’t know what I mean by half the f***ing sh*t I say!

Bill (chuckling): You got that right.

Li:
I don’t know, guys, My mind is still shaken up, Last night, I was in a forest being bitten by over 10 venomous spiders, Now I’m in freaking Florida, man! What the f***?! This doesn’t happen to people!

Sara:
It happened to you. You’re lucky to be alive, The infection should’ve killed you, but it didn’t. It did nothing. I don’t get it, My dad was bitten by the same amount and died instantly. I witnessed it, and I have never forgotten that, I was only 6, and I was there for almost a month before they found me, That’s a reason why, Well--

Bill:
Sara has an eating disorder.

Li:
Oh my god.

Sara:
I was never a heavy eater to begin with, so--

Li:
I’m so sorry, Sara.

Sara:
A 180 like that, huh?

We cut to Lo looking at the new releases, Sam walks in, and walks up to him.

Sam:
Hello, Lo.

Lo:
Sam! You actually came.

Sam:
What do you want?

Lo:
I’m thinking about going.

Sam:
Ugh, Why are you still thinking about this? I just told you that you’ll just mess up everything you’ve built up in the past 10 years!

Lo:
Without Bill, Life improved, I guess you have a point by that.

Sam:
Yeah, Don’t you think? Do you really want to mess it up?!

Lo:
I have to get closure, I want to meet this Li guy, He told me that he was bitten by over nine venomous spiders and swung across the country by that EF6 tornado over there, and stayed alive and well!

Sam:
What?

Lo:
That’s exactly what I thought!

Chase randomly falls through the roof of the Family Video, and Lo and Sam’s location in the store is where he falls through at. Sam helps him up.

Chase:
Guys!

Lo (Looking over at Chase): Hey, Chase.

Chase (noticing the somewhat depressed look on Lo’s face): What’s going on?

Lo:
Bill messaged me.

Chase:
Bill? He got out of Jail?

Lo:
Remember? Me and Sam--

Sam:
That was Dave, We tried to tell Chase, but we kept forgetting.

Lo:
That was eight years when he got out of jail! And we didn’t tell Chase within these eight years? What?

Sam:
Yeah, It’s crazy.

Chase:
You guys never told me? What kind of friends are you guys?!

Sam:
The kind that don’t date other friends and then get cheated on and realize that they are part of tax evasion--

Lo (elbowing Sam and whispering to him): He was innocent and you know that fact better than anyone in this freaking galaxy!

Sam:
You mean Universe?

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