Wonder Page #5

all my candy.

MR. DAVENPORT:
Okay, Via.

You are next please.

Let's hear it for Via.

(ALL APPLAUDING)

(SIGHS)

Daisy,

do you wanna help me

take back my corner office?

Hey, Auggie!

You feeling better?

Are you okay, Auggie?

Yeah.

Sure? 'Cause you're acting

really weird.

I'm okay, Jack, okay?

Okay.

They want me to do what?

(SIGHS) Give a tour

through the school.

But Mom, it's summer vacation.

But your teachers

told Mr. Tushman

you're known as a good egg.

No, I'm a bad egg.

You're a good egg.

And I'm actually really proud

they thought of you for this.

Mom, enough with the guilt.

And you know they gave you

a scholarship, right?

Mom...

Who else is doing it?

Uh, Charlotte and Julian.

No.

Why, what's wrong?

Charlotte will just talk about

Broadway the whole time.

And Julian is the biggest

phony on the planet.

So I'm sorry, but no.

Jack, it's for that boy.

Who?

The one

from the ice cream shop.

Oh.

So if a nice kid

like your little brother

cries when he sees him,

what kind of a chance do you

think he has in middle school?

(SIGHS) Okay.

Thank you, kiddo.

JACK:
Four things I've learned

about Auggie Pullman.

First of all,

you do get used to his face.

Now,

it's not like regular ice.

You can't touch it

with your hands, okay?

JACK:
Second,

he's really smart.

He's ahead of me

in everything.

In science, he's ahead

of the whole school.

Everybody watching?

Whoo!

(ALL LAUGH)

JACK:
Third of all,

he's actually pretty funny.

But fourthly,

now that I know him,

I would say I actually do

wanna be friends with Auggie.

At first, I admit it,

I was only friendly to him

because my mom

asked me to be nice.

But now I would choose

to hang out with him.

Like, he's a good friend.

Like if all the guys

in fifth grade

were lined up against a wall

and I could choose anyone

I wanted to hang out with,

I would choose Auggie.

Hey, what's wrong?

Go away.

JULIAN:
Oh, hey, Jack,

come sit with us.

Yeah, come on, man.

I wonder what happened.

XIMENA:
Maybe

Jack touched Auggie

and couldn't

wash his hands in time.

Jack finally got "the plague."

CHARLOTTE:

That's not very nice.

What? We didn't start it.

Where you going?

Hi. I'm Summer.

I know.

We're in the same homeroom.

You don't have to do this.

Do what?

You don't have to be

my friend.

I know Tushman talked to you.

I don't know what you're

talking about, Auggie.

I know Tushman talked

to some kids

before school started

and told them they had to be

friends with me.

He didn't talk to me.

Yeah, he did.

No, he did not.

Yeah, he did.

No, he didn't,

I swear on my life!

AUGGIE:
Okay, okay.

You don't have to get mad.

I don't like being

accused of things, okay?

Okay. I'm sorry.

You should be.

He really didn't talk to you?

Auggie!

Okay, I just--

Why are you sitting here then?

Because I want some

nice friends for a change.

Me, too.

Cool beans.

But you'll get "the plague."

Good.

Summer has "the plague."

Shut up!

So what happened

with Jack Will?

Promise you won't tell?

I got it! I got the part!

Congratulations.

Thank you. (LAUGHS)

She got it! She got the part!

Oh, my God! Bet she got Emily.

Yep.

(SIGHS)

What'd you get?

Emily's understudy.

I'm not saying poison

or anything,

but just a little Benadryl

to knock Miranda out

before the show.

Okay, enough.

Look, just learn her lines

and it'll give us an excuse

to hang out more.

We can start rehearsing

the kissing scene on page 110.

Wait. George and Emily?

There is no page 110.

So I'm thinking,

I really wanna

kiss you right now.

But I don't know

how you'll respond.

What's wrong?

I'm not an only child.

Mom?

One sec, Via.

Auggie, let's go!

I thought

you were at the library.

Er, um...

Yeah, change of plans.

Hi, I'm Justin.

I'm Isabel.

(DOOR OPENS)

Daisy threw up again.

Bucket loads.

ISABEL:
Bucket loads.

VIA:
Um, Justin, this is

my little brother Auggie.

Hey, dude!

AUGGIE:
Hey.

What's that in your case?

A machine gun?

(LAUGHS)

Er, no. It's a fiddle.

You should tell people

it's a machine gun.

That's way cooler.

You know what?

That's a great idea,

you're right.

We're on our way

to the grocery.

Mom's making...

What's it called?

Feijoada.

Feij... Mom's making feijoada.

You're welcome to stay

if you want, Justin.

Oh, thank you very much.

It was nice meeting you.

ISABEL:
Nice to meet you, too.

Psst. Oy! (SNAPS FINGERS)

Bye, Auggie.

Nothing to see here.

(DOOR OPENS AND CLOSES)

It's a gene.

Well, it's sort of two genes,

but two genes

that are identical.

And the trouble is

that both of my parents

carry the gene

at the same time, which is...

Well essentially,

he won the lottery.

Backwards or something.

And in another world,

I'd look like him.

I'm sorry for telling you

that I was an only child.

Sometimes it's nice

to hide a little.

I get it. It's okay.

(VIA LAUGHING)

(PHONE RINGING)

MIRANDA:

Major Tom, is that you?

It's so great

to hear your voice again.

Sorry, Via's not here.

I was actually calling

to say hello to you.

Good. Did you know

I'm going

to a regular school now?

No way.

Do you like it?

Yeah, I guess.

It's not as hard

as Mom's home school.

Yeah, I'll bet.

How are the kids?

Are they nice?

No. But I made one friend.

Her name's Summer.

We started

a summer names club.

Summer, August. Get it?

Good for you, Auggie.

(CHUCKLES)

Um, where's Via, anyway?

She's out with her boyfriend.

Really?

Yeah. We met him last week.

He's super nice.

I've missed you, Major Tom.

I miss you too, Miranda.

And can you tell Via

that I've missed her, too?

Well, but why don't you just

tell her yourself?

Listen, I gotta go, my mom's

calling me, but, um,

you know that you can call me

any time, right?

Yeah.

Okay, so call me any time.

I will.

Merry Christmas, Auggie.

Merry Christmas, Miranda.

(ELEVATOR DINGS)

NATE:
Get after it.

Open it. Rip it apart.

MIRANDA:
Via and I

have been best friends

since kindergarten.

MIRANDA:
Her family's always

been like my second family.

Auggie's always felt

like my little brother.

(ALL LAUGH)

How does it feel?

MIRANDA:
And for a few years

even our family's spent

Christmas together.

ISABEL:
Everybody say

"Merry Christmas"!

ALL:
Merry Christmas!

MIRANDA:
But now my dad's busy

with his new wife.

Who was his old boss.

And my mom, well, she's busy

not getting over that.

I got a job at a summer camp.

Just so I'd have somewhere

to go that wasn't home.

One day, and I swear

I didn't plan this, but...

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