Salem, Massachusetts – 2017
(Classroom)
(A room full of High School students sit listening to the teacher as she tells them about the Sanderson brothers.)
Teacher: And so the Sanderson brothers were hanged by the Salem town folk. Now there are those who say, that on Halloween night, a black cat still guards the old Sanderson House. Warning off any who might make the warlocks come back to life.
Briab: Give me a break.
(Brian is a 18 year old hispanic teenager boy. He's got blacl short hair and brown eyes with glasses and wears a gray t-shirt.)
Teacher: Uh huh. We seem to have a skeptic in our midst. Mr. Morales, would you care to give your California, laid back, tie-dyed point of view?
(The class laughs.)
Brian: Okay. Granted that you guys here in Salem are all into these black cats and witches and stuff…
Teacher: Stuff?
Brian: Fine. But everyone here knows that Halloween was invented by the candy companies. It's a conspiracy.
Yobanna: It just so happens that Halloween is based on the ancient feast called All Hallow's Eve. It's the one night of the year where the spirits of the dead can return to Earth.
(The class cheers and claps, and so does the teacher.)
Teacher: Well said, Yobanna.
(Brian gets up and goes over to Yobanna with a piece of paper in his hand.)
Brian: (hands Yobanna the paper) Well in case Jimmy Hendrix shows up tonight, here's my number.
(The class groans and whistles. The bell rings. Yobanna takes the paper, and then gets up and leaves.)
Boy: Brian, fat chance.
(Brian grabs his stuff and runs out of the room.)
School Yard)
(Brian is on his bike heading home and he spots Yobanna so he heads over to her.)
Brian: Yobanna.
Yobanna: Hi.
Brian: Hi. Look, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to embarrass you in class.
Yobanna: You didn't.
Brian: My name's Brian Morales.
Yobanna: Yeah, I know. You just moved here, huh?
Brian: Yeah, last week.
Yobanna: Must be a big change for you.
Brian: Yeah, that's for sure.
Allison: You don't like it here?
Brian: Oh, the leaves are great, but…I don't know, it's just all this Halloween stuff.
Yobanna: You don't believe in it?
Brian: What do you mean, like the Sanderson brothers? No way.
Yobanna: Not even on Halloween?
Brian: (smiles) Especially not on Halloween!
Yobanna: (holds up a piece of paper) Trick or treat!
(She hands him the paper and walks off. He opens it only to see that she's written down his phone number and given it back to him.)
(Shots of Brian riding home.)
(Cemetery)
(Brian rides through the graveyard and he runs into two other High School kids.)
Kid1: Halt! Who are you?
Brian: Brian. I just moved here.
Kid1: From where?
Brian: Tennessee and Alabama. (They give him a blank look.) T.N and A.L.
Kid1: Oh, dude…
Kid2: Tubular.
Kid1: I'm Jay, this is Ernie.
Ernie: (grabs Jay) How many times I gotta tell you…my name ain't Ernie no more, it's Ice. Ice.
Jay: This is Ice.
(Ice turns around and we see that the word 'ICE' has been cut into the back of his hair.)
Jay: So, let's have a butt.
Max: No thanks, I don't smoke.
Ice: They're very health conscious in Tennessee.
(Both he and Jay laugh.)
Jay: You got any cash…Pedro?
Brian: No.
Ice: Gee, we don't get any smokes from you, we don't get any cash, what am I supposed to do with my afternoon.
Brian: Maybe you could learn to breathe through your nose.
(Jay thinks this is hilariously funny and busts out laugh. He stops when Ice gives him a hard look.)
Jay: (looking at Brian's shoes) Whoa. Check out the new cross trainers.
Ice: Cool. Let me try 'em on.
(Brian goes to leave but Jay stops him.)
(Time Lapse)
(Brian is now riding off but he's not wearing his shoes anymore.)
Jay: Later, dude!
Ice: See you, Pedro.