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[FANTASY SEQUENCE]  EXT. WOODS OF PUBLIC PARK   DAY

 

Armed with his paintball gun, HENRY chases KREBS through the woods in a fashion similar to the way KREBS chased BRANDY.  KREBS is wearing a bikini.  Not only is he fat but he also has hairy shoulders.  On his head he wears the Taco Yummy cap that looks like a burrito.  

 

HENRY’s paintballs splatter against KREBS’ back.

 

EXT.  WOODS OF PUBLIC PARK   DAY

 

HENRY, in defiance of his being banned from the park, is playing paintball in the woods with half a dozen other boys, the boys all chasing each other, taking cover behind trees. 

 

HENRY finds a hollowed out fallen tree big enough to lie down and hide in. 

 

BRANDON is approaching, unaware of HENRY hiding in the fallen tree. 

 

When BRANDON gets close, HENRY springs up and shoots Brandon point blank in the chest (insert image of KREBS). 

 

BRANDON shoots back, hitting HENRY in the chest and shoulders.

 

HENRY

You’re dead!  You dumb bastard! 

You can’t shoot back.

 

BRANDON

No, you’re dead, Wales.

 

HENRY

What?  You super man?  Come on. 

Play right.

 

BRANDON shoots HENRY in the neck, just at the edge of his face mask. 

 

HENRY drops his paintball gun, clamps his hand over his neck, is obviously in pain.  Brandon smiles.

 

After HENRY recovers, he leaps at BRANDON, knocks him to the ground, and starts pummeling him.

 

BRANDON

I’m tellin’, Wales!

 

HENRY keeps hitting him. 

 

The other boys run to HENRY and BRANDON. 

 

JOSH, with the help of two other boys, pulls HENRY off BRANDON.

 

BRANDON

I think my nose is broken!

 

JOSH (holding

Henry back)

Stop it, Henry!  He’s hurt.  You

win.

 

HENRY

I’m sick of people not playing by

the rules.  If you’re not going to

play by the rules, then what’s the point of playing?

 

BRANDON

My mom’s gonna sue your mom.

 

The other boys help BRANDON get up, and the five of them walk away, leaving JOSH with HENRY, JOSH still holding HENRY.

 

HENRY

Your mom’s a whore.

 

BRANDON (walking

away)

My mom’s still a virgin compared to yours. 

 

HENRY struggles to get loose from JOSH.

 

HENRY

Come back here, asshole. 

 

BRANDON

I’m telling the first cop I

see that you’re not supposed to be

in the park. 

 

BRANDON and the other boys are soon out of sight in the lushness of the woods.

 

HENRY

That son of a bitch.  Let me go

now.  I think I’m gonna puke.

 

JOSH lets him go, and HENRY kneels on the ground. 

 

JOSH

We better leave the park the back

way. 

 

HENRY

I was feeling so good.  Then he has

to screw it all up. 

 

HENRY shakes his head and gets up from his knees, and he and JOSH start walking.

 

HENRY

That’s the way it is with everything.  When things feel good, somebody

always screws things up.

 

JOSH

Dude, you were playing some intense paintball.

 

HENRY

I was thinking about Krebs.

 

JOSH

World’s full of guys like Krebs.  Can’t kill ‘em all.

 

HENRY

It better not be.  Pervert won’t leave Brandy alone. 

 

JOSH

I don’t think she minds that much.  Now don’t go psycho on me or anything, but don’t you think your sister’s kind of a slut?

 

HENRY

She hasn’t always been.  She used to be a regular girl.

 

JOSH

A regular girl?

 

HENRY

Yeah.  After Big Henry left, she changed.

 

JOSH

So what’s the deal now?  You think you can save her?  Make her regular again?

 

HENRY

Somebody has to.

 

JOSH

I wouldn’t hold my breath waiting for her to turn into a nun.

 

HENRY

When we were little, she used to make me play school with her.  She was the teacher and I was her student, and she’d make me sit in front of her and do dumb stuff like spell “cat” and tell her what two plus two equaled.  And she’d keep saying, “That’s very good, Henry.  That’s very good.  Your grade for the day is A plus. 

 

JOSH

I bet you hated that.

 

HENRY

She took care of me a lot back then cause Mom was always needing to take a knap or something.

 

JOSH

Did she give you baths and stuff?

 

HENRY

No.  I didn’t grow up in Arkansas like you.

 

JOSH

Brandon says his big sister used to give him baths.

 

HENRY

He probably enjoyed that.  Hey, can we go to your house so I can get cleaned up some?  I don’t want to go home looking like this.

 

JOSH

Sure. 

 

INT. JOSH’S HOUSE   DAY

 

Josh’s house is small, messy, dark. 

 

JOSH and HENRY enter through the back door.  They hear the low murmuring of TV voices. 

 

JOSH

Either Dad’s home or he left the TV

on.

 

JOSH and HENRY make their way quietly toward the living room.  They can see the back of a lounge chair, which sits in front of the TV. 

 

Oprah is on the TV.

 

JOSH

Dad?

 

JOSH waits for a response.

 

JOSH

Dad?

 

MIKE [JOSH’S dad]

What?

 

JOSH

What you doing home?  I thought you were going into work at three?

 

MIKE

No.  I decided not to.

 

JOSH does not approach his dad.  He stays behind him next to HENRY.  JOSH and HENRY cannot see MIKE, who is merely a disembodied voice.

 

The phone rings, loudly.

 

MIKE

Don’t get it!

 

JOSH

Okay, okay.

 

JOSH and HENRY stand still while the phone rings shrilly several times.  Finally, it stops.

 

MIKE

Bastards been calling here.

 

JOSH

You going to work tomorrow?

 

MIKE

Yeah.  Sure.  Just not to day,

sir.

 

JOSH (to HENRY)

Come on.

 

MIKE

Who’s with you?

 

JOSH

Henry.

 

MIKE

Who?

 

JOSH

Henry Wales.

 

MIKE

Never heard of him.  Hi Hank.

 

Mike’s hand appears above the back of the lounge chair, and it waves.

 

JOSH

Henry.  He’s my best friend. 

 

MIKE

My best friend.  Yeah. 

 

JOSH

We been paintballin’.  He’s going to take a shower.  Or his mom will kill him.

 

MIKE

Is she good looking?

 

JOSH

Who?

 

MIKE

Hank’s mom.

 

JOSH

Yeah.  She’s real hot, dad.

 

JOSH grins at HENRY.