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INT. BATHROOM — DAWN
We see a 16 year old boy, KEVIN, standing in front of the mirror wearing only a towel brushing his hair to the side with his hand, he attempts a smoldering gaze.
His cellphone alarm goes off, the vibration causes it to fall off the sink, Kevin manages to catch it and notices the alarm FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL 6:35AM. He realizes he was supposed to have left the house by now and rushes out of the bathroom.
INT. BEDROOM — DAWN
Close up on a dresser drawer as its pulled out, we see a mess of unfolded clothes as Kevin’s hands grabs some of the clothes out.
Close up on an iPod and a Geometry book, Kevin’s hands scoop them off the bed.
Close up on a thick Encarta Dictionary on a messy desk, we see Kevin’s hands open the book and there’s a large rectangle hole cut into the pages. He grabs a sandwich bag of marijuana, a small glass pipe, and a lighter.
Close up of a black Jansport backpack hanging on a door, Kevin’s hands take it off its hook. We hear the items being put into the backpack and it being zipped up.
EXT. SUBURBAN STREET- DAWN
Kevin wearing a hoodie, is walking past houses with his hands in his pockets and headphones in his ears, he’s listening to Sublime’s Smoke to Joints.
Kevin reaches the stop sign at the end of the street and takes of his backpack and sits on the curb. He looks around cautiously to make sure no one is around.
Close up on Kevin’s backpack, his hands inside the backpack holding the lighter, the glass pipe, and the sandwich bag of marijuana.
Kevin clearly nervous looks around once more and then pulls out the items. He pulls out a little nugget of marijuana out of the sandwich bag, and looks around once more before breaking it up and placing it into the pipe.
Kevin has a slight grin as he begins to put the lighter to the pipe.
Close up on the glass pipe, we see Kevin’s hands light the contents.
Kevin begins coughing and looks around once more. He sees nothing and takes the lighter to the glass pipe again. Inhales. He looks again. Exhales and coughs. He looks around again.
There’s a silhouette walking towards him from down the street.
Kevin’s eyes widen and takes a few whiffs worried about the smell. He’s immediately nervous about the approaching figure. It’s still a little dark, he can’t make out who it is. He begins to move frantically, unable to decide if he wants to throw everything as far as he can over the nearby houses or just shove it all in his bag and hope for the best.
He takes a step back ready to throw his paraphernalia, he trips over the curb.
The silhouette is getting closer.
Kevin sees a street gutter and scrambles to dump his stash through the grate. Breathing heavily and fidgeting, he tries to act cool.
The silhouette is now feet from him, inches from entering the light from the street lamp.
An 18 year old girl’s face, EMILY, enters the light. She has glasses and her outfit is quite modest for your average senior. She smiles and sits next to Kevin.
Kevin starts to wave and realizes it was an awkward choice and instead awkwardly nods with pursed lips and looks the other way. He begins to scratch at his face wondering if she can smell what he was up to.
Emily looks over at Kevin, he awkwardly smiles at her with his hand still on his cheek. She hesitantly smiles back. She reaches into her purse pulls out what looks like a cigarette.
Close up on Emily with cigarette in mouth. She takes a long drag, inhales deeply and exhales without a cough.
Kevin starts to take a few whiffs, realizing she’s smoking marijuana, his head darts in her direction.
Emily notices and curiously offers the joint to Kevin.
Kevin’s face lights up and then the look slowly fades as he looks at the joint and then glances at the gutter. He sighs and then reaches for the joint.
Blinking yellow lights begin approaching Emily and Kevin from a little down the street.
Emily retracts the joint before Kevin can grab it. She puts it out on the curb and returns the joint to her purse.
The blinking yellow light now illuminating them.
A school bus stops in front of Kevin and Emily, and we hear the parking brake engage.
Kevin staring at the street gutter, completely deflated.
Emily gets up and gets on the bus.
Kevin sighs, picks up his backpack and follows.