Code Purple

(EST SHOT- Middleton High School Gymnasium. Music blares from the stereo as we see SYD dribbling a basketball and running past the camera)

I'm ready for you

Are you ready for me

I'm ready to go

Are you ready to see

Don't you know that....

DES: (OC) SYD! Shoot!

SYD: Got it!

(SYD scores the final basket)

...it's impossible to stop me?

(The buzzer goes off)

SYD and DES: (cheer)

(Later, SYD is at her locker)

SYD: (to herself, humming/singing) All the birds sing words and the flowers bloom, in the tiki tiki tiki tiki tiki room....

(A book hits her on the back of the head)

DES: (OC) Sorry!

SYD: You're not REALLY sorry, are ya?

DES: (OC) Nah, not really.

SYD: groan

(Two days later, SYD and DES are walking through the halls.)

SYD: Ah, yes, Friday. The most-cherished day of the week...

DES: At least to you.

SYD: Meh, true, BUT it still rocks hard! Rockin' out loud! BOO YAH!

(A hockey puck hits her in the head. A blonde girl, about six-foot-four, wearing glasses, jeans, and a Devils hockey jersey (and cap) walks over)

GIRL: Sorry about that!

SYD: Don't worry about it.

GIRL: By the way, I'm JILL. JILL FROM JERSEY.

SYD: Hey, I'm SYD.

DES: I'm DES. What's up?

JILL: Meh, nothin' much. What's up with youse?

SYD: Same here.

(Beat)

SYD: That's the second time this week something's hit me on the head.

JILL: Let me guess: a book?

SYD: Yeah.

JILL: That happens all the time. Especially to RON.

DES: Who's RON?

SYD: (to DES) You haven't met RON yet?

DES: No, not yet.

SYD: He's really funny. And cute, and....

(SYD goes into a crush-like state)

DES: sigh