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PREPETTE 1
Go look for some brains to eat, Zombie Face.
BREE
If I did you’d be safe.
RANDY
Score!
PREPETTE 2
Get a tan.
ABI
Get a life.
JOSH
La-ame!
PREPETTE 3
Skank Skunk.
HANNAH
Witherspoon wannabe.
The girls nose-to-nose.
BREE PREPETTE 1
Calorie counter! Buzz killer!
ABI PREPETTE 2
Bottle blonde! Bondage bimbo!
HANNAH PREPETTE 3
Lizard-lips! Flour-features!
A passing Teacher, ANTOINETTE CHAUDY - 22 and visiting from France - jumps bravely between the packs.
MS CHAUDY
Non, non, non! We are Young Ladies of poise
and grace, non?
BREE
(dry)
Some of us.
MS CHAUDY PREPETTE 1
All of us. Some wouldn’t pass the physical.
MS CHAUDY
Assez, de vous vont! (Enough, go!)
She waves away the Prepettes who totter off, disgustedly swapping Goth-related insults under their breath.
MS CHAUDY (CONT’D) PREPETTE 1
(to the Brat Pack) She probably wants to give ‘em
You three, to the Ladies to wash lessons in pit-hair braiding.
those innocent faces.
HANNAH ABI
Why? Aw, Mi-iss!
MS CHAUDY (CONT’D)
To reveal the beautiful damsels within.
BREE
How come we have to change and they don’t?
MS CHAUDY
Because the world is a cruel, dark place.
HANNAH
Which is why Goths should rule.
MS CHAUDY
Allez, maintenant. Vite! (Go, now. Quickly!)
And put on the tights you left home in!
Sharing outraged looks at the injustice of it all, the Brat Pack turn to obey in rebellious ultra slow motion and we:
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INT. GIRLS’ TOILETS - MORNING
Abi enters a cubicle as Bree finishes swapping ripped tights for pristine ones and Hannah removes make-up at the mirror.
HANNAH
You’d think Ms Chaudy would be okay with this.
It’s not like she’s the Poster-Teacher for Normal.
BREE
She couldn’t be if she wanted to, she’s French.
Heads up!
She cheekily grabs a shot of Hannah’s reflection in the mirror with only half her eye-shadow removed.
HANNAH
Can you not? I look part panda!
BREE
They’re cute.
HANNAH
This one’ll turn feral if that ever leaves your phone.
BREE
(faux innocent)
I can’t even send it to your bro?
Bree smiling victoriously at Hannah’s guilt over doing the same thing with Josh the night before.
HANNAH
To anyone.
BREE
Then I better make sure I never hit the wrong
button by accident, hey?
In a passive-aggressive show of power Bree holds her phone up over the door of Abi’s cubicle.
HANNAH
That is seriously uncool.
BREE
It’s called a joke. And having fun.
(laughs)
And it’s awesome, you gotta see this.
She’s already thumbing her phone and Hannah looks doubtfully at her own phone S.F.X.: BUZZING a MESSAGE ALERT as we:
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INT. ART CLASS - MORNING
Abi, one eye on Ms Chaudy patrolling the sketching class, sneaks a look at the just arrived IMAGE on her phone.
Abi’s POV: Bree’s Panda shot of Hannah.
Seeing the same image arrive on her own phone Hannah shoots Bree a dark look … but then can’t help smiling at:
ABI
(miming)
Awww, so cute.
Abi looks back at her phone to see another MESSAGE from Bree and surreptitiously opens the MP ATTACHMENT.
Abi’s POV: Herself, picking her nose as she sits on the loo, bopping obliviously to music in her ear buds.
GIGGLES are stifled round the room and Abi, horrified to realize it’s gone to others, looks heart-brokenly at Bree.
BREE
(miming)
Sorry! Finger-trouble. I hit “All” instead of “Abi”.
MS CHAUDY
(calls)
Whatever is so funny needs to stop.
Feeling for Abi, Hannah forces herself back to her sketch of wild horses running free.
But as her charcoal touches the paper the HORSES suddenly carry the HEAVILY-BUILT RIDERS of her DREAM.
Hannah starts, Bree looking up curiously from the next seat.
BREE
What?
HANNAH
(covering)
You’ve got something.
Hannah points, then rubs her own face, showing Bree where to rub at a non-existent charcoal smudge.
BREE
(rubbing)
Did I get it?
Shaking her head Hannah reaches with charcoal-covered fingers to turn an unwitting Bree into a duplicate of the Panda-shot.
MS CHAUDY
Filles. (Girls.)
Arriving to get them back to work Ms Chaudy hands Bree - fussing fastidiously at her blackened hands - a tissue.
BREE
Seriously - single ply? This is why I wanted
to use water colours.
MS CHAUDY
Pardonnez-moi, s'il vous plaît.
Condescendingly forgiving as she uses the tissue to wipe her hands, Bree misses the sardonic tone.
BREE
It’s cool.
Moving on with a Gallic shrug Ms Chaudy leaves Bree looking part Panda … and Hannah smirking as she goes back to sketching.
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