( Ethan and Link continue to drive. Passing a small shop titled the Stop & Shop. The truant officer police car parked up front of the Stop & Shop. The man is middle age, but very heavy weighted. He is holding up a newspaper titled " The Stars and Stripes".)
Link: Uh – Oh! Fatty's camped out already. (Camera zones near the officer)
Ethan (turning his head): Maybe he didn't see us.
(Link stares into the review mirror. Cameras are focused on the review mirror)
Link (nervously): Maybe were screwed
(The truant officer ignored them. Not even looking up from his newspaper. Link speeds up towards the school.)
(Link and Ethan's car make a few roars while driving through the school parking lot. Rain started pouring harder and harder the farther they trudged on. They jump out of the car using their jackets to shield them from the rain. They were soaking wet once they were inside the school building. You could hear loud squeaks from their shoes. Miss Hester, assistant principle, gets up from her desk and comes running out of the office.)
Miss Hester (yelling): Ethan Wate! Wesley Lincoln!
(Ethan and Link freeze in their tracks)
Miss Hester: In the office.
(Ethan shows an attitude towards Link for making them late. They all walked back into the office. )
Miss Hester: Late for the first day of school. Your mamma is going to have a few choices of words for you, Mr. Lincoln.
Link: But – Miss Hester – (stutters. Miss. Hester cuts him off.)
Miss Hester: Quiet, Mr. Lincoln. And you? Don't look so smug, Mr. Wate. Amma's going to tan your hide. (Makes her way over to her desk. She sits down, disapprovingly. She begins to write.)
Link: But Miss Hester I was just driving slowly in account of the rain.
(Miss Hester looks up at Link and looks over her glasses.)
Miss Hester (ignoring his comment to charm her): I don't have time to chat with you boys right now. I'm to busy filling out your detention slips. Which is where you tow will be spending your time this afternoon.
(Miss Hester throws out her hand with two blue slips of paper, harshly. As they walked out of the room Miss Hester looked up from her desk to stop Ethan.)
Miss Hester: Ethan…..
(Ethan stops walking and peaks his head back in the office.)
Miss Hester (smiles): Welcome back.
(Ethan and Link go their separate ways. Ethan goes to English class where his teacher, a old woman, is sitting at her desk. Everyone is talking until Mrs., English begins to speak.)
Mrs. English (sternly): Alright everybody sit down.
(People rushed to their seats as quick as possible.)
Mrs. English: Thank you. Now, we are going to be having a pop quiz on To Kill a Mockingbird. (Students groan). I hope everyone did the assignment, which was to read the book over the summer break.
(Mrs. English walks by the rows of desk leaving the quiz at the front desk for the students to pass back.)
(The bell rings and Ethan moves on to chemistry class. As he walks in Mr. Hollenback began to speak.)
Mr. Hollenback: Okay class today we will be conducting an experiment dealing with Calcium Chloride.
(Ethan ignores the teacher's remarks until his name was mentioned.)
Mr. Hollenback: Ethan, you will be paired up with Emily Asher.
(Ethan turns his head towards Emily. She gives him a snickering glare. As the class shuffled to their partners Ethan trudged slowly towards Emily. Ethan sat down next to Emily, while Emily moved her chair a little farther away from him.)
Emily: You stay out of my way I'll stay out of yours.
Ethan: You got it, blondie.
Emily (angrily): What the Hell did you just call me?
Ethan: Blondie. B – L – O – N – D – I – E
(Emily shot up angrily and walked away.)
(The bell rings once again and Ethan storms out of Chemistry. He makes his way to U.S. History. Mr. Lee is sitting at his desk while chaos is unfolding in the classroom. Ethan walks towards the back of the room and grabs a seat next to Link. Link was sitting copying notes out of a nerd's notebook for a class he'd slept through. He immediately quit writing once Ethan sat down.)
Link: Dude, did you hear?
Ethan: Hear what?
Link (moves his head side to side, and says): there's a new girl at Jackson.
Ethan (looks at Link. Crazily): There are a ton of new girls, a whole freshman class of them, moron.
Link (Looks at Ethan stupidly): I'm not talking about the freshmen. There's a new girl in our class.
Ethan (curiously): Who is she?
Link (shrugs): Don't know. I've got civics second period with all the band geeks and they didn't know anything except she plays the violin or something. Wonder if she's hot.
Ethan (raises eyebrows, questioning): So she's a band geek?
Link (quickly denies): No. A musician. Maybe she shares my love for classical music.
Ethan (questions): Classical Music?
Link: You know, the classics. Pink Floyd. Black Sabbath. The Stones.
(Ethan chuckles.)
Mr. Lee (with attitude): Mr. Lincoln. Mr. Wate. I'm sorry to interrupt your conversation, but I'd like to get started if it's alright with you boys.
(Mr. Lee is wearing glasses and a long sleeve t shirt. He has pit stains as well from the heat. He begins to pass out a copies of a certain assignment that didn't look new to the students. Later on in the class he talked and chattered about how the Civil War reenactment would be require by the course; again, seems just another assignment the students had been assigned for years. The bell rings and Link and Ethan storm up out of the room leisurely.)
(The pair walked towards their locker and began whispering back and forth. Hoping the new girl would pass by so they could get a small glimpse of her. Link talked and talked about how he felt she was his true soul mate. )
(Link and Ethan moved on to their next class, which was American Sign Language. But, they both knew they wouldn't find anything out until lunch because no one could sign out everything that needed to be told. They entered the room, and felt that the class flew by in a wick of time. The bell rings, and link and Ethan dash out of the room into the cafeteria.)
(Link and Ethan grabbed their lunches and sat down at the basketball player's table. They both had been on the basketball team for years. It gave them something in common and a place to sit in the cafeteria. As they sat down, with a slump, the table quickly filled with chatter about the new girl.)
Link (quickly, curiously): So is she hot?
Basketball Player #1(answers, with eyebrows raised): Pretty hot
Link: Savannah Snow hot?
(Savannah Snow and "Ethan – Hating Emily" began to walk towards the table to talk. Savannah is a blonde, 5'8'' tall girl with perfect legs. "Ethan – Hating Emily" was about two inches shorter than Savannah and had bigger breasts than her. They were wearing flip – flops, jean skirts (really short), and they had silver and gold metallic bags tucked tightly under their arms.)
"Ethan – Hating Emily": (Glares at Ethan)
(The basketball team looks at Ethan and begins to laugh nonstop. A Basketball player, Emory Watkins, slapped a hand (brotherly) against Ethan's back and began to speak.)
Emory (chuckling): In like sin, Wate. You know Emily, (chuckles) , the more she glares, ( camera zones in on Emily; while Emory continues to crack up), the more she cares.
(But Ethan's mind was to busy wondering to worry about Emily. He was focusing all his internal energy on the subject that the whole grade was talking about. The new girl. He smiled to himself; "To only imagine someone different.")
Savannah: So…., (Slutty like: Sits on her boyfriend's lap, Earl, also known as team captain.), did ya'll hear about the new girl?
Earl (points): Yah, "Shawn" was just filling us in. Says she's hot. You going to put her on the squad?
Savannah (sternly): Hardly. You should see what she's wearing.
Ethan's Mind: Strike One
Savannah: And she's so pale.
Ethan's Mind: Strike Two.
(Emily takes a seat next to Emory. She leans over the table a little to much; her cleavage began to show.)
Emily: Did he tell you who she is?
Earl (suspiciously): What do you mean?
Emily (pauses): She's Old Man Ravenwood's niece.
(The team begins to laugh. Believing that she was just kidding. But they realize, by the look on her face, she wasn't messing around. It went dead silent. They all look back and forth before Link grasps the courage to ask the question.)
Link (questioning): Are you serious?
Emily: Totally. Carlton Eaton told my mom yesterday when he brought by our mail.
Savannah (Nodded; moves Earl's hand onto her inner thigh.): My mamma heard the same thing. She moved in with Old Man Ravenwood a couple of days ago, from Virginia, or Maryland, I don't remember.
(The Basketball players began to gossip more about the new girl. Now that they had this new information to work with. Ethan got up and threw away his tray and left to get back to class.)
(The day zones until after school where the camera goes into the gym for about a minute to see the cheerleader tryouts. Then, later, zones outside to the court where it had stop raining and basketball practice had begun. Ethan slid carefully passed Earl and scored. They go back to half court and deal the ball back. The ball ended back in Ethan's hands and he swished passed Earl and scored again. Earl began to look annoyed. Earl began to bounce the basketball harder, while Ethan's heart started to pound. Before he knew it, the ball was magically in his hands and he was scoring again. As the ball flew in mid air for another point he froze and stared in the direction of the parking lot. The camera zones to a hearse. Ethan sees a girl with long, black hair in the window. She rolls up the window, and speeds off. The ball bounced off the rim, and the hearse disappeared. )
Ethan (looks toward Billy Watts.): Was that - ?
Billy (nods): Old Man Ravenwood's niece.
"Shawn" (grabs the ball and tosses it to Billy.): Yep. Just like they said. Driving his hearse.
Emory (shakes his head): Yeah, She's hot all right. What a waste.
(The boys went back to playing. But a few minutes later it began to rain. While Ethan still felt as if his heart wasn't completely full. Good day on the court isn't good enough. The camera starts zoning out of the scene.)