“FanBOYS”
Screenplay by Eric Hiers
The 60's Spider-Man theme music begins as the company logo appears on screen.
FADE IN 
Eddie Hines' House. Two days before FilmBUFFS. Eddie sits in front of his computer typing the script for his movie, The Reaper. Behind him, his friends, Dave and Tobey sit watching ”The Origin of Spider Man”.
DAVE
This is so cheesy.
TOBEY
Hey man, it's pretty close to the original comic book.
DAVE
This is so---I can't describe it. It's crap.
TOBEY
It's better than that 90's show.
DAVE
Oh, please. The 90's show is far from the lameness of this crap.
TOBEY
Hey man, a true classic never dies. Am I right Eddie?
EDDIE
(still typing) Most of the time, but not in this case.
DAVE
See, the film buff agrees with me.
EDDIE
Actually, I didn't like either show. Both failed in my opinion to capture the true greatness of the comic.
TOBEY
I thought it did.
EDDIE
Well I didn't. (turns off computer and gets up) I'm going to bed.
DAVE
Why man? You don't have to work tomorrow.
EDDIE
Yeah, well I'm tired.
DAVE 
We need to find you a girlfriend. She'll give you more energy. You're only twenty and you act like an old man.
EDDIE
Spare me the criticism Dave. I can't listen to it tonight. Try not to trash my living room. If anyone comes over, don't wake me unless it's Amber.
DAVE
Why don't you ask her out?
EDDIE
(turns and walks into his room) Goodnight.
DAVE
You've known her forever man. The only thing the two of you haven't done together is date.
Eddie walks into his room. He turns on his television. “Say Anything” is on. Eddie takes off his over shirt and lays on his bed. He stares at the T.V. It depresses him, so he turns it off.
TITLE CARD
FADE TO: Comic Book Heaven. The next morning. A car drives up and drops off Eddie and Dave. They walk up to the store. Dave opens the store and walks in it. Dave turns on the lights to the store. He goes behind the counter and checks the store records. He hits the folder.
DAVE
Great!.
EDDIE
What?
DAVE
The Ultimate Spider-Man shipment hasn't come in yet. It was supposed to have come in yesterday. I swear to God, if Eric and Drew come in and ask, I'm going to kill them.
EDDIE
Why hasn't it come in yet?
DAVE
Because that deliveryman is slow as hell and couldn't find his ass if he had a map and a compass.
A girl, Tawnie, walks into the store and puts her purse under the counter.
TAWNIE
Let me guess, the shipment didn't come in yet.
DAVE
No!
The door opens and Jesse and Brandon walk in.
BRANDON
Eddie do you have “The Last Picture Show”?
TAWNIE
You come to a comic books store looking for a movie?
BRANDON
I came to find Eddie.
EDDIE
That's an old movie Brandon. Why would you want it?
BRANDON
For the nudity man. Cybil Shepard, man she's hot.
JESSE
Oh my God. That's the girl who gets naked in it? I don't think I could stomach it.
BRANDON
She was a lot younger then.
EDDIE
Yeah. Come by the video store tomorrow and I'll get it for you.
BRANDON
Gravy.
JESSE
Have the ne--
DAVE
--(frustrated) No!
JESSE
I was just asking. 
Dave stomps into the back.
JESSE
What's his problem?
EDDIE
He's just frustrated because the new shipment hasn't come in and everyone keeps asking him if it has or not.
BRANDON
It's his time of the month man.
Eddie walks to the back, where Dave sits reading an issue of Maxim. There is a pack of donuts on the table.
EDDIE
Man, I'm sure the shipment will come today.
DAVE
It's not just that. The boss is breathing down my neck about it.
EDDIE
Well, what do you expect? She's a 40 something year old woman. Women don't know how to run a comic book store.
AMBER
I resent that you sexist pig.
Dave and Eddie look up to see Amber, skater girl and Eddie's best friend. Eddie smiles, Dave rolls his eyes.
AMBER
Is this the type of crap you say when I'm not around? A woman could run a comic book store better than you or any other man.
EDDIE
Only you Amber.
DAVE
Except you’re not a woman.
Eddie his Dave and Dave looks up at Eddie, then at Amber.
DAVE
And not yet a girl, or whatever.
AMBER
You're so dumb.
DAVE
And you're so ugly.
AMBER
When are you going to grow up?
DAVE
When are you going to drop being the millennium’s answer to Pat Benatar and act like a normal girl?
Eddie picks up a donut and puts it in Dave's mouth to shut him up.
EDDIE
So what are you doing here?
AMBER
I was just looking for you. I wondered if you wanted to hang out and go skating or watch a movie or something since it's your day off and everything.
EDDIE
Yeah, but not right now. I want to get first dibs at the new shipment.
AMBER
Waste of space over there will hold you an issue, won't he?
DAVE
When are the two of you going to quit screwing around and go out?
AMBER
What are you talking about?
DAVE
I mean, you two are perfect for each other, except you know, you like girls and he lacks any sexual desires of any kind.
AMBER
I'm going to ram that magazine down your throat if you don't shut up.
EDDIE
Don't worry about him Amber.
AMBER
So, are you coming or what?
EDDIE
Not right now, Amber.
AMBER
(hurt) Okay, I see. You'd rather spend your time sitting around reading geeky comics with your dorky friends than spend time with me.
DAVE
Truth hurts, doesn't it?
EDDIE
No, it's not like that.
AMBER
Whatever.
She turns and starts walking away. She walks past Jesse and Brandon. Eddie follows her.
JESSE
Hey, Eddie look at this.
BRANDON
When are you two going to stop playing around and go out?
AMBER
Shut up chicken chaser!
EDDIE
Amber, don't be this way!
She's not listening. She's gone. Eddie sighs and watches Amber walk away. Dave steps up behind him and stares at Amber.
DAVE
She'll be back later. She can't stay mad at you. She loves you. Just like you love her.
EDDIE
It's not that kind of love Dave. I wish you guys would quit trippin'.(turns to face those behind him)
TAWNIE
You two would make a cute couple Eddie.
EDDIE
We're just friends.
Eddie walks toward the back. Dave continues watching Amber leave.
DAVE
You know, if she dropped the whole skater look and put on some nice clothes and fixed her hair she'd be kind of cute Eddie. I'd go with her if she wasn't such an raging b----. (he then notices a girl coming around the corner) (fixating) Oh my God, look at her!
Jesse and Brandon come up behind him and take a look. Their eyes widen and they nod in agreement.
JESSE
Whoa!
BRANDON
Hello!
Then they see the man beside her. Obviously he's her boyfriend and he's huge.
DAVE
Who's that gorilla beside her?
TAWNIE
(looks out the window) That's Ally Thomas and her boyfriend, James Scott.
BRANDON
It figures a fine girl like that would have King Kong for a boyfriend. I could still kick his ass.
JESSE
Yeah right.
DAVE
They're coming in here!
Dave, Jesse, and Brandon scatter like roaches. Ally and James enter the store and Tawnie smiles at them, while the three guys watch from a distance, pretending to be reading comics.
TAWNIE
Hey Ally. How are you doing?
ALLY
Hey Tawnie (to James). Hurry up and find your funny book so we can go.
JAMES
Shut up. (walks off)
ALLY
(rolls her eyes and turns to Tawnie) Don't take it personally Tawnie. Comic book stores just freak me out.
TAWNIE
It's okay.
ALLY
How can you stand it, working here I mean?
TAWNIE
I like comic books.
ALLY
It must be a Breaker thing.
TAWNIE
Actually we get a lot of you guys here. Comics aren't prejudiced because of class.
ALLY
They just don't appeal to me. Never have. Do you think I'm superficial?
TAWNIE
No. You like Hilfiger and American Eagle and I prefer to spend my money on comic books and video games.
ALLY
How are things in the Breaks? Has it changed much since I moved over to Cason Brooks?
TAWNIE 
Not really. How is it? Being a Preppie? Being part of the Prep Squad?
ALLY
It's all right. In high school it was but good, but then again, that's because I was given everything. I didn't have to work for anything. It was just handed to me. I go out with a football player, but all I am to his is a show pony, a trophy. Our relationship isn't based on love. All James wants is sex....but I can't do that for him, so he gets it from other girls.
TAWNIE
Oh God, and you're still with him? Why don't you dump him?
ALLY
Because I can't.
TAWNIE
Ally, come on. You need to get some self-confidence. Remember that whole “five-second” thing he started about you?
ALLY
Yeah but--
TAWNIE
--How can you even consider staying with aaa guy like that?
ALLY
I can't do it Tawnie. I wouldn't survive without him.
JAMES
(walks past them) Come on, this place sucks. They don't even have “Power Rangers” comics. Lets go.
DAVE 
(looks at Tawnie) (mouthing) “Power Rangers”?
ALLY
I'll see you later, Tawnie.
TAWNIE
Bye.
Ally and James walk out of the store. Dave walks to the door.
TAWNIE
That girl needs to dump that jerk. He is terrible to her.
EDDIE
(walks up to them) Was that James Scott I saw here?
TAWNIE
Yeah.
EDDIE
Was Ally with him?
TAWNIE
(nods)
DAVE
How do you know Ally?
EDDIE
She was a sophomore when we graduated, remember? They used to call her “B.J. Masters”
DAVE
That was “B.J. Masters”
EDDIE
Yeah.
DAVE
I always imagined some skanky, slutty girl, not a beauty like her.
TAWNIE
She needs to drop the hulk and go out with a decent guy.
DAVE
Are you insinuating I ask her out?
TAWNIE
No, but you'd be a hell of a lot better than James Scott.
CUT TO: Later on. Dave stands behind the counter. Customer 1 is on the other side asking Dave about “Dragon Ball Z” cards. He is dressed like Goku.
CUSTOMER 1
(making Vegeta-like expressions) So you don't have any new videos or DVDs or any new “DBZ” items in? This angers me very much.
DAVE
Sorry, no. But I do the number to the sanitarium down in Smith's Grove.
CUSTOMER 1
Do you mock me? You dare mock a Super Saiyan III?
DAVE
I guess so.
The customer yells out, pretending like his is charging up but nothing is happening. Dave looks at him like he is stupid.
CUSTOMER 1
I swear it worked last time.
DAVE
I'm sure it did. Now can you take your scary behind out of here before I call the Gundam Squad.
Customer 1 leaves and Eddie walks up.
DAVE
I can't stand these twenty-year-old guys who are so obsessed with Japanese Animation that they dress like their favorite character and go out in public.
EDDIE
Was it Lee and that Daniel guy? Did Daniel come in that Pikachu costume again?
DAVE
No. It was some other guy who thought he was a Super Saiyan.
EDDIE
Oh, I know that guy. He comes to the video store sometimes. He's a trip.
CUT TO: LATER
DAVE
Where's Jesse and Brandon?
EDDIE
They're probably back looking at the Adult comics.
DAVE
Or stealing my Maxim.
Customer 2 walks up. This guy is the stereotypical comic geek.
CUSTOMER 2
Do you guys have the rare edition of the “Return of the Jedi" comic adaptation that has the lost scene where Jabba's guards disrobe Princess Leia and put her in the slave girl outfit?
Eddie and Dave look at each other with a look that says "What the Hell!?"
CUSTOMER 2
I collect rare “Star Wars” items.
DAVE
You know. I don't think we do.
CUSTOMER 2
Princess Leia is hot, but I have a girlfriend. She lives in Canada.
DAVE
I'm sure she does.
CUSTOMER 2
Well I'll see you later. May the force be with you.
DAVE
Yeah, same to you. Jar Jar.
Customer 2 leaves the store.
EDDIE
(imitating Yoda) A strange on, I think he is.
DAVE
I love “Star Wars” just as much as the next guy, but that guy takes it to the extreme.
EDDIE
Obviously. You know Amber seemed really pissed at me earlier.
DAVE
She seems pissed at ever guy. I think she's gay. 
EDDIE
(rolls his eyes)
DAVE
And I think you should pull a “Chasing Amy” on her.
EDDIE
She's not gay and I'm not going to ask her out.
DAVE
Why not?
EDDIE
She's my friend, that's it.
DAVE
So am I.
EDDIE
Would you go out with me if I asked you to?
DAVE
(joking) I don't know, man. You're not really my type.
EDDIE
Granted I think she is cute, she's beautiful, but I just can't go out with her. It'll ruin our friendship.
CUSTOMER 3
That’s so sweet. That’s like “Dawson’s Creek”.
DAVE
Where the hell did you come from?
CUSTOMER 3
How long have you and this girl been friends?
EDDIE
We jokingly say since sperm.
CUSTOMER 3
That's so sweet. I don't know either of you, but judging from the way you talk about her, I'd say you two would make a great couple.
DAVE
Who the hell are you?
EDDIE
I don't know. We've been friends for so long and even on “Dawson's Creek”, their friendship got screwed up because they went out and it's never really recovered.
CUSTOMER 3
I think you're just a chicken.
EDDIE
I'm not a chicken.
CUSTOMER 3
You're afraid to take chances. You are a craven. Just like ever other guy in the world. You are a coward. You're afraid to be a man. You don't want to go out of your Peter Pan syndrome.
DAVE
What the hell'd you come here for?
CUSTOMER 3
Do you have the new Dean Koontz?
DAVE
This is a comic book store, not a bookstore.
CUSTOMER 3
My bad. (leaves the store)
EDDIE
You know, maybe she's right.
DAVE
I think she's freaking crazy. I'm tired of all this anti-male crap that revolves around here. They say we're sexist, well that's a paradox if I ever heard one.
EDDIE
I think I'm going to ask Amber out.
DAVE
Well, it is about time. In fact, her she comes.
AMBER
(walking into the store) We need to talk in private. (she and Eddie walk to the back room) We've been friends since forever. We've been through so much together. Skinned knees, broken ankles, your father's death, my mothers. Your mother's trouble, puberty, junior high, high school. I mean, we've been through it all. Whenever something was bad, you were there for me and I hope I was there for you, every time things were bad for you.
EDDIE
You were.
AMBER
We've been friends since sperm (she and Eddie laugh) and I don't know about you, but in all this time, I've fallen in love with you. You're the first thing on my mind when I wake up and the last thing I think of when I go to sleep. I love you Eddie Hines.
EDDIE
I love you too Amber. (runs his fingers down her cheek) But---only as the girl I've known for twenty years. The friend I could always count on to be there for me. The girl who was there for me when my father was mugged and killed at a gas station and when my mother had a nervous breakdown and had to be committed. I love you as a friend, Amber.
AMBER
(hurt) Nothing more?
EDDIE
Nothing less.
Amber's face falls and she runs off. Eddie runs after her. Amber runs to the door. Drew and Eric open the door.
DREW
Hey Amber, Eddie. When are you two going--
Amber pushes Eric down and runs off. Eddie stops at Eric and Drew.
DREW
What's her problem?
DAVE
You chickened out didn't you?
EDDIE
I couldn't do it. She started talking about all the stuff we had been through together and I couldn't let it all go to hell because of my longing for someone.
DAVE
So you are saying Amber is not the one?
EDDIE
I love her, but just not in that way.
DREW
You're a loser Eddie.
EDDIE
I'm a loser?
DREW
Yeah, you're a loser.
EDDIE
You may be right. (starts to leave)
DAVE
Where are you going?
EDDIE
I'm going to find Amber. (walks out the store)
DREW
Has the new Ultimate Spider-Man shipment come in yet?
DAVE
No. Wait, there's the delivery guy.
Jesse and Brandon walk up.
JESSE
Well it's about time.
CUT TO: Moments later. Dave stands looking at the shipment.
DAVE
Where the hell are the Spider-Man comics?
DELIVERY GUY
(sarcastically) I guess I misplaced them. I know that must suck for you guys. I know it's your favorite comic and your biggest moneymaker in your little geek store because of that movie that came out last May. I'm so sorry. (normal) Just sign for this crap so I can get out of here.
Dave signs for them and carries the box of other comics to the back.
DELIVERY GUY
Loser fan boys.
He exits the store. Jesse, Brandon, Drew, and Eric all look at each other.
BRANDON
You guys thinking what I'm thinking?
JESSE
Yeah.
DREW
Yeah.
Eric nods and they all turn to the door. 
CUT TO: A few seconds later. Eric is holding the Deliveryman, while Jesse and Drew punch him. Brandon is looking through the shipments in the UPS van. He picks up a stack of comic books.
BRANDON
Yo guys, I found the comic books. This hypocritical bastard was hogging them for himself. 
Brandon looks down and sees a box of Maxim books.
BRANDON
Oh my God! (picks up the box) These are mine now.
CUT TO: The lake behind Eddie's house. Amber sits on the dock in a morose state. Eddie walks up to her.
EDDIE
Amber, I've been looking all over the place for you.
AMBER
I'm sure you have.
EDDIE
Amber, all I said was I just want us to be friends.
AMBER
The whole "just be friends" line. It ranks up there with "something suddenly came up" and "May the force be with you". They're clichéd phrases used when the speaker lack innovation.
EDDIE
Amber (sits beside her). Great friendships between guys and girls are ruined when they take that next step and we have known each other. Since we were babies and we've had a great friendship since and I don't want anything to screw that up. Amber, I love you, a hell of a lot more than I could ever love a girlfriend. Amber puts her head on Eddie's shoulder and Eddie puts his arm around her.
CUT TO: Closing Time. Comic Book Heaven. Tawnie and Dave are turning off the lights. Tawnie puts on her coat. They go outside of the store and lock the door.
TAWNIE
Do you work tomorrow?
DAVE
Yeah of course. Miss Robin loves working me to death. Can't say it's hard. It could be a lot worse. I could be working with her at Burger King.
TAWNIE
God forbid.
DAVE
Well, I'll see you tomorrow.
Dave and Tawnie go their separate ways. Down from Dave are Ally and James. They are fighting.
ALLY
I can't take it anymore. It's over!
JAMES
You can't just quit me like that you little tease.
ALLY
That's all you want from me is sex.
JAMES
Don't flatter yourself, “B.J. Masters”.
Ally punches him in the chest and he pushes her down. Dave runs up to James and pushes him.
DAVE
What's up man? Is that how you treat women, Kravinov?
JAMES
I'm gonna kill you, Breaker.
James punches at Dave, who moves out of the way and punches James in the face. James fell to the ground hard. Dave holds out his hand for Ally. She takes his hand and he pulls her to her feet.
DAVE
Are you all right?
ALLY
Yeah.
DAVE
Do you want me to walk you home?
ALLY
(smiling) I'd like that.
DAVE
Well, all right. Where do you live?
ALLY
Cason Brooks.
DAVE
Cason Brooks? You're a Preppie?
ALLY
Yeah.
DAVE
(sighs) Okay, let's go.
Ally takes off her ring and throws it down at James. Dave and Ally walk away. CUT TO: Outside Eddie's house. Eddie and Dave walked down the street.
DAVE
So, how'd things go between you and Avril Lavigne.
EDDIE
Pretty good. There are still a few bruises, but things are all right. What about you? Did you ever talk to Ally?
DAVE
Yeah.
EDDIE
You did? And?
DAVE
She's a Preppie, dude.
EDDIE
Oh my God. You can't be serious.
DAVE
It is forbidden. Breakers and Preppies cannot go out.
EDDIE
I thought you were finally going to grow up and put an end to this childish crap.
DAVE
Are you saying you would go out with someone from the Prep Squad?
EDDIE
It wouldn't matter if I liked the girl a lot.
DAVE
Whatever dude. So, what are you going to do now?
EDDIE
Probably go on to bed. I'm tired. I've got to work tomorrow.
DAVE
Yeah. I think I'll go on home myself.
EDDIE
See you man.
Eddie walks towards his house and then steps and looks up at the sky. He could sense tomorrow, something great was going to happen. He went inside. A truck passes by Dave as he walks away and pulls up into the house beside Eddie's. Three people get out of the truck. Two girls and a guy.
Kyle
Hurry up and get inside you two. Just because your cousin is here now Katie, doesn't mean you can slack on your chores. I'm hungry.
KATIE
Okay Kyle.
Kyle and Katie walk towards the house. Katie steps and turns to her cousin.
KATIE
You coming Lucy?
LUCY
No. I just want to stay here for a moment and look at the stars.
KATIE
Suit yourself.
Lucy looks from her cousin and up to the sky. 
LUCY
(to herself) It will be all right, Luce. You have to face your demons. But can you do alone?
CUT TO: Eddie's room. Eddie sits looking at a picture of him and Amber. He sits it down and then looks out the window at the sky. PAN OUT THE WINDOW.
FADE OUT
“FilmBUFFS”
Screenplay by Eric Hiers
Eddie (v.o.)-
Pop quiz, hotshot; what was Tom Hanks’ first movie and what genre was it in?
FADE INTO: Reel Video Store.
PAN THROUGH THE VIDEOS ON THE NEW RELEASES SECTION.
Eddie (v.o.)-
A lot of people don’t know the answer.
PAN OVER TO EDDIE STANDING BEHIND THE COUNTER AND DAVE STANDING ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE COUNTER.
Eddie (v.o.)-
People always say----
Dave-
The Money Pit. Comedy.
Eddie-
Wrong buddy. It wasn’t The Money Pit and it wasn’t a comedy.
Dave-
Well what was it then? An action movie?
Eddie-
No. Think Halloween.
Dave-
He wasn’t in Halloween.
Eddie-
I said think Halloween. It was a horror movie that was spawned by the success of Halloween.
Dave-
Friday the 13th?
Eddie-
Nope.
Dave-
The Slumber Party Massacre?
Eddie-
Nope.
Dave-
My Bloody Valentine?
Eddie-
Nope.
Dave-
The Fog? Terror Train? Prom Night?
Eddie-
Nope.
Dave-
Was it a Halloween sequel?
Eddie-
You’re pathetic, man. You know he wasn’t in a Halloween sequel.
Dave-
Damn. Well, what the hell is it, then?
Rosa, the owner of the store, walks up behind Eddie with several videotapes.
Rosa-
He Knows You’re Alone. 1980. Tom Hanks’ first movie.
Eddie-
Correct.
Rosa puts the video, He Knows You’re Alone on the counter and slides it to Dave.
Eddie-
Check it out. It’s pretty good.
Dave picks it up.
Dave-
Hmm, I think I will.
Eddie-
Cool.
Rosa-
Tom Hanks in Halloween? God, you’re dumb. Maybe one of the earlier ones, but not like Halloween 4- H20. He was too big a star by the time they came out.
Eddie-
Not really. He really wasn’t a big star really until Philadelphia. He became the star he is today after doing Forrest Gump.
Rosa-
See, that’s why he works here. He knows his stuff.
Eddie smiles.
Dave-
Yeah. Hey Rosa, I think that pizza back there is on fire.
Rosa-
Oh.
Rosa turns around and runs back in the back.
Dave throws 99 cents on the counter.
Dave-
I’ll see you later, man.
Eddie-
Okay, man. Enjoy the movie. The opening scene will remind you of another movie.
Dave-
What?
Eddie-
Just watch it. You’ll know it when you see it.
Dave-
Okay, see you dude.
Dave walks outside and jumps on his bike and rides away. 
Rosa comes rushing back.
Rosa-
Where did that little shit go?
Eddie-
He left.
Rosa-
Maybe I can go catch his monkey---
Eddie-
He’s gone, Rosa.
Rosa-
When he comes back, I get that little bastard.
Eddie-
Yeah, but who’s the one who fell for that trick?
Rosa rolls her eyes. She starts back in the back.
Rosa-
It’s closing time, Eddie, so---
Eddie-
Okay, Rosa.
Eddie smiles and goes up to the front door and turns off the OPEN sign.
FADE TO: Opening Credits with the Stone Temple Pilots song, “Interstate Love Song” playing.
FADE IN.
The next morning. 
PAN AROUND EDDIE’S ROOM, SHOWING ALL HIS FILM POSTERS AND FILM PROPS THAT FILL HIS ROOM.
Eddie lays on his bed asleep. He rolls over and moans.
Soft Voice (v.o.)-
Eddie.
PAN OVER TO THE OPEN WINDOW.
Soft Voice (v.o.)-
Eddie.
Eddie’s eyes open. 
Soft Voice (v.o.)-
Eddie.
Eddie gets up and slowly walks over to the window. Then a figure plunges through the curtain at Eddie.
Loud Voice (v.o.)-
WAKE UP WHITE BOY!!!
Eddie (gasping)-
Jeez---
Eddie falls to the floor.
The figure pushes the curtain from his face. It is Dave.
Dave-
Break yourself white boy.
Eddie scoffs.
Eddie-
Man Dave. You scared the hell out of me.
Dave smiles.
Dave-
Scream 2.
Eddie-
What?
Dave-
The beginning is what Scream 2’s beginning was taken from.
Eddie-
Oh yeah. Good. I didn’t know if you’d notice it.
Dave-
Not everyone’s as movie freaked as you, but some people can see things like that in films. The same thing goes for Scream’s beginning. It was taken from that film about that babysitter being harassed on the phone by the dude upstairs.
Eddie-
When A Stranger Calls, yeah.
Dave looks down.
Dave-
Get some pants on and come outside. I’ll be waiting in the front.
Dave exits the window.
PAN OUT THE WINDOW AND CATCH UP WITH DAVE AS HE WALKS TO THE FRONT OF THE HOUSE. 
Dave sits on the steps.
Dave looks across the street.
Dave’s jaw drops.
Dave-
Hell yeah.
Across the street, Miss Campbell; in her late twenties, recently divorced, and wearing the skimpiest, tightest clothes that she can fit on the porno star style body she has; walks to the mailbox, shaking her barely covered backside.
Dave sits there on the steps, drooling.
Miss Campbell looks over and sees Dave and waves sexy-like.
Miss Campbell (soft and sexy-like)-
Hey.
Dave-
Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeey.
Miss Campbell walks back inside her house. Eddie walks out the door and sits by Dave.
Eddie-
Wipe the drool, bud. You have no chance with Ms. Campbell.
Dave wipes his chin and mouth.
Dave-
Man, she wants me. She comes out here dressed like Emmanuelle in heat, because she wants me to come over there and put it to her the right way.
Eddie laughs.
Dave-
What?
Eddie-
You’re so massively deluded.
Dave-
Yeah, whatever, but when you hear her screaming her lungs because I’m tapping---
Eddie-
Yeah, whatever Dave. Whatever.
Dave-
You’ll see. Me and Miss Campbell, Boom shocka locka.
Eddie (sarcastically)-
Yeah.
In the background, two guys can be heard arguing. Eddie and Dave look down the street.
Eddie (to us)-
There’s Jesse and Brandon, my crazy compadres.

THE ANGLE SHIFTS TO:
Jesse and Brandon; two guys the same age as Eddie and Dave, dressed in the whole “ghetto” attire, as they walk into Dave’s yard.
Jesse-
You’re full of shit, man.
Brandon-
I swear to God man. I saw a movie last night on Cinemax that had Eminem, Britney Spears, and Christina Aguilera going at it like dogs.
Eddie and Dave look at the two strangely.
Jesse-
There is no way man. Shady hates those two Barbie doll bitches.
Brandon-
That may be so. But I know what I saw.
Jesse-
It wasn’t him, man. Damn!
THE ANGLE SHIFTS TO:
Eddie (looking at us)-
Brandon and Jesse are the town slackers. We all went to Brooks County High together. Class of 2000, man. Greatest class to ever go to and graduate from Brooks County High. We’re all the same, but yet we’re all totally different. Brandon and Jesse just like hovering around town, Dave is almost the same way, but he at least has some direction on his road to nowhere. All they think about is just chillin’ and getting laid. They’re thinking with their heads, just not the right ones.
Brandon and Jesse walk up to Eddie and Dave.
Brandon and Jesse-
Wazzup!
Eddie and Dave-
Wazzup!
They all laugh.
Eddie-
So, what are you two slackers doing?
Jesse-
Nothing.
Brandon-
Just chillin’.
Eddie (to us)-
What’d I say?
A pick up truck drives up to the house beside Eddie’s house. Justin Timberlake’s “Like I Love You” is blasting from the cheap speakers of the truck.
Eddie (to us)-
Oh God, here we go.
Three guys and a girl step out of the truck. The three guys look all raggedy and messy. The girl is dressed like a slut.
Eddie (to us)-
That’s the class of 2000’s graduating Prep Squad. You’re probably wondering what the Prep Squad is. You see, there are two big cliques at Brooks County High School; The Prep Squad and The Breakers. We’re the class of 2000’s graduating Breakers. The Breakers are called the Breakers because of the fact that most of us live down in the Breaks, a white and black hood. We’re all your average broke as, well let’s not go there. The Prep Squad, on the other hand, are all rich popular inbred dickheads and sluts. They all, except those dipsticks over there, live in Cason Brooks, which is the direct opposite of the Breaks. Nothing but a bunch of stuck-up, rich, snobbish freaks live there. The Prep Squad and The Breakers are like the Capulets and the Montagues. We’ll be at war eternally.
Kyle (one of the guys)-
Yo! What’s up you wigger faggots!
Brandon-
Hey man, you want some of this?
Jesse-
Don’t think we won’t come over there.
Dave-
Yeah, we don’t care if you get your twelve gages. We’ll still knock you DOWN!
Eddie (to us)-
That one guy is Kyle. He’s a little punk who likes to start stuff and back down when he sees someone’s serious. He’s great leadership for the Preppies. That little slut over there is Katie, the worst waste of silicone and make-up in the history of the universe. I hate that fu--- well, you can guess the rest. Those two over there, Vanilla Ice and Flubber, that’s Jeremy and Tyler. Jeremy is a little momma’s boy and Country is a miniature Stay Puff Marshmallow Man, as you can see.
Kyle-
Yo Tyler, get the guns.
Katie (rubbing up against Kyle)-
No baby. I want to go upstairs.
Katie rubs Kyle’s shoulder.
Kyle (to The Breakers)-
We’ll finish this later, punks.
The Preppies walk inside their house.
Brandon-
We’ll be waiting!
Jesse-
I can’t stand those bastards.
Miss Campbell walks out of her house. Dave notices her. Brandon and Jesse follow his gaze to her.
Brandon and Jesse (together)-
Daaaaaamn!
Miss Campbell picks up the water hose and starts watering her plants.
Brandon-
Ooo God, Miss Campbell is H-O-sexy T-T!
Dave-
You got that right.
Jesse-
Oh yeah.
Brandon-
I’m going over there.
Brandon silently walks up behind Miss Campbell. She bends over to pull up some weeds. Brandon gets behind her and starts fake humping her.
Dave, Jesse, and Eddie bust out laughing. Miss Campbell turns around and sees Brandon.
Miss Campbell (slaps Brandon)-
Little pervert.
The guys laugh more. Eddie looks at his watch. It is time for him to go to work.
Eddie-
Hey guys, it’s been fun. But I’ve got to get to work.
Dave-
Yeah, me too.
Eddie-
Yeah, you wish.
Jesse-
Okay guys.
CUT TO: Eddie and Dave walking down the street.
Dave-
Hey man, I’m going down to Club 2K tonight, ho searching. You should come with me. Maybe you’ll find yourself a ho there. You need to get laid already.
Eddie-
I can’t dude. I’m polishing up the script tonight.
Dave-
Man! When are you going start filming that chicken head movie?
Eddie-
Next week.
Dave-
Dude, you’ve been trying to make that movie since 7th Grade. That’s seven years dude.
Eddie-
I’m actually going to do it this time.
Dave-
Normal guys think about girls. You think about movies. Eddie, I’ve got to ask you something. Are you gay?
Eddie-
Shut up.
CUT TO: Reel Video Store. Eddie is behind the counter, checking in some videos. Dave stands looking at the film poster for Space Opera, a futuristic version of Grease starring Britney Spears.
Dave-
Damn man, why can’t I find a chick with jugs like that? My life sucks.
Eddie-
Put her in your spank sag, dude. Live in reality.
Dave (walking up to the counter)-
Yeah, well reality bites.
Eddie-
Drama section, row 20; right between The Real McCoy and Reap The Wild Wind. 1994, Winona Ryder and Ethan Hawke; Directed by Ben Stiller.
Dave-
That movie sucks, man.
Eddie-
Any movie with no jugs or tail in it sucks to you. It’s a really good movie.
Dave-
Yeah whatever. Is The Texas Cheerleader Masseuse in yet?
Eddie-
No, but the others you want; Lady and Her Tramps, The Sperminator, and Far From Behind are in.
Dave (smiling)-
Ah, immortal pornographic classics.
Eddie-
Might I suggest a film for you to watch?
Dave-
Sure man, why not?
Eddie walks to the back of the store and gets a video and hands it to Dave.
Dave-
The Deliberate Stranger? Isn’t this about Ted Bundy? Why would I want to watch this?
Eddie-
Research Dave, because if you don’t stop with the porn, you’re going to end up just like him.
Dave-
No man, I’m not going to end up like that. I love naked women getting it in strange positions and I want to try some of those positions out on a woman one day, but I’m not gonna go out and rape a woman just to temporarily fulfill my nasty sexual desires.
Eddie (laughing)-
What about a man?
Dave-
No! I ain’t gay.
Eddie continues laughing.
Rosa (walking by)-
Denial. Denial.
Dave-
Hey shut up Rosa.
Eddie (laughing)-
I love hearing you defend your sexuality.
Dave-
Man, forget you.
The door opens and a girl enters the video store. She catches Dave’s eye and then Eddie’s.
Dave-
Wow, check this shorty out.
Eddie does not hear Dave’s remark. He is too caught up in the girl’s beauty. The sunlight seems to follow her as she walks up to the counter.
Lucy (the girl)-
Hey.
Eddie-
Hey.
Dave stands at the side of the counter watching Lucy and Eddie.
Lucy-
I’m new in town and I’d like to get a membership.
Eddie-
What? Oh---membership, right. Okay.
Eddie reaches under the counter and gets a form, then he gets a pen and drops it. Dave and Lucy both laugh. Eddie quickly picks it up and hands it to Lucy.
Dave-
Well you’ve come to the right place. Reel Video is the best video store in Hollow, Georgia.
Lucy-
That’s why I’m here. I hear you’ve got the best selections.
Eddie (stuttering)-
Yeah, that’s right. New and old.
Dave-
Lucy Sherman. That’s nice.
Lucy-
Thanks, what’s yours?
Dave-
I’m Dave Herring.
Eddie-
I’m Eddie Hines.
Lucy-
That’s nice.
Lucy seems to be uninterested with Eddie.
Dave-
So what are you looking for today?
Lucy-
Hmm, I don’t know. You said you’ve got new and old?
Eddie-
Yeah.
Lucy-
Okay. What about Chasing Amy?
Dave-
Chasing Amy? As in the third Jay and Silent Bob film.
Lucy-
Yeah, the third View Askew film.
Eddie-
Follow me.
Eddie and Lucy walk down the Comedy section. He picks up Chasing Amy and hands it to her.
Eddie-
Chasing Amy. 1997, Ben Affleck, Joey Lauren Adams. Directed by Kevin Smith. Follow-up to Clerks and Mallrats. Followed by Dogma and Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back.
Lucy-
And the short-lived Clerks cartoon series and the brief cameo in Scream 3.
Eddie-
Of course. Anything else?
Lucy-
Um, yeah. Edward Scissorhands.
Eddie-
1990, Johnny Depp, Winona Ryder. Directed by Tim Burton.
Lucy-
You know the film?
Eddie-
Oh yeah. It’s my favorite film.
Lucy-
Really?
Eddie-
Yeah.
Eddie walks over to the Drama section and Lucy follows him. He picks up Edward Scissorhands and hands it to Lucy.
Eddie-
Anything else?
Lucy-
No. That’s it for now.
Eddie-
Okay.
Lucy-
How much?
Eddie-
First rentals are free.
Lucy-
Okay, thanks. Bye, Andy.
Eddie-
Eddie.
Lucy-
Yeah, Eddie. Sorry.
Lucy exits the store.
Eddie (to us)-
How do you guys think I did? (BEAT) I know, I acted like a loser.
Eddie walks back behind the counter.
Dave-
So, when are you two going out?
Eddie-
What are you talking about?
Dave-
You and Lucy were really hitting it off.
Eddie-
I don’t know what you’re talking about.
Eddie picks up some videos and walks off. Dave laughs. 
CUT TO: Eddie walking past the lake and into his yard. He squats down and ties his shoes. When he gets up, he looks at the lake and sitting there by the lake is Lucy. Eddie smiles and walks behind her.
Eddie-
Hey.
Lucy looks up at Eddie. She smiles and looks back at the lake.
Lucy-
Hey.
Eddie sits down beside her.
Eddie-
So, how were the movies?
Lucy-
Good. Chasing Amy was really good. It’s not as funny as Mallrats, but it’s just as good, if not better.
Eddie-
Yeah, the laughs are smaller, but it goes more for the story.
Lucy-
And Edward Scissorhands was just as tragic as I remember.
Eddie-
That it is. That’s why it’s my favorite movie.
Lucy-
My favorite movie is An Officer and A Gentleman.
Eddie-
I hate Richard Gere movies. They just don’t reflect reality.
Lucy-
And Edward Scissorhands does?
Eddie-
The emotions do. It’s more believable than, Pretty Woman, for instance. It’s more believable than that whole “hooker and rich guy fall in love” thing. It wasn’t love they felt, it was sex.
Lucy-
You’re a guy. You wouldn’t appreciate a good love story.
Eddie-
On the contrary, I do appreciate good love stories. Love Story, for instance. What about Say Anything?
Lucy-
Yeah, those two are good ones. I guess you do appreciate good love stories. I just love An Officer And A Gentleman. I love the ending. Each time I watch it, I wish I was Debra Winger. I love happy endings.
Eddie-
Yeah, well I prefer the tragic ones to the ones with happy endings. My life’s full of tragedy.
Lucy-
Really?
Eddie-
Yeah, a film buff’s life full of tragedy.
Lucy (softly, almost unaudiable)-
I know what you mean.
Eddie-
So, what are you doing on MY lake?
Eddie laughs.
Lucy-
I didn’t see YOUR name on it.
Eddie puts his finger in the dirt and writes something in it.
Eddie-
Look down here.
Lucy looks down at the dirt. Written in the dirt is- EDDIE’S LAKE, ALL BEAUTIFUL GIRLS KEEP AWAY. Eddie and Lucy laugh.
Lucy-
Cute.
Eddie-
Well do what the ground says.
Lucy-
I’m not a beautiful girl.
Eddie-
You had me fooled.
Lucy laughs.
Lucy-
Smooth, Eddie.
Eddie and Lucy both laugh.
Eddie-
Really. What are you doing here?
Lucy-
Just sitting by and admiring your lake. My cousin’s house is so full of smoke and loud so called music.
Eddie-
Where’s your cousin live?
Lucy-
In that house over there. She lives with her boyfriend.
Lucy points to Kyle’s house. A look of shock fills Eddie’s face.
Eddie-
That house?!
Lucy-
Yeah.
Eddie-
You’re a Preppie?
Lucy-
I was. I’m out of high school, so I don’t do the whole “squad” thing anymore. What about you? Where do you live?
Eddie-
That house.
Eddie points to his house.
Lucy-
Really.
Eddie-
Yeah, it’s not too much of a good house. But it’s a film buff’s house.
Lucy-
Can I see it?
CUT TO: Eddie’s room. Eddie opens the door and he and Lucy enter the room. What seems to be a hundred movie posters cover the walls of his huge room.
Lucy looks around, amazed at the room. Her jaw drops at some of the posters Eddie has.
Lucy-
Wow, you weren’t lying when you said you said it’s a film buff’s house.
Eddie-
Yeah, well--- movies are my life.
Lucy-
Apparently.
Lucy looks up at a poster of Say Anything.
Lucy-
Say Anything. I love this movie.
Eddie-
Cameron Crowe at his best.
Lucy nods and looks down at Eddie’s desk. There is a script sitting on the desk. Lucy picks up the script.
Lucy-
What’s this?
Eddie-
Oh, that’s just the script to the movie I’m making.
Lucy-
You’re making a movie?
Eddie-
Yeah. I’m starting shooting this weekend.
Lucy-
“The Reaper. A Screenplay by Eddie Hines”. Horror?
Eddie-
Actually horror/suspense/drama. It’s a homage to all the films I love in every genre. Halloween, Psycho, Sixteen Candles, Edward Scissorhands, just about everything John Hughes, John Carpenter, Alfred Hitchcock, or Tim Burton ever did, is paid homage in the movie.
Lucy-
Wow. Is it all right if I take this home and read it?
Eddie-
Sure. Yeah. Of course. Just don’t let your cousin or her little punk boyfriend see it. They might burn you at the stake.
Lucy-
Don’t worry. I started on a script once, but I never finished it.
Eddie-
Really?
Lucy-
Yeah, it was called --- (Lucy’s beeper goes off) Hold on.
Lucy pulls out her beeper and looks at it. It says- 911. It’s Katie.
Lucy-
My cousin. I’ve got to get home.
Eddie-
Okay.
Lucy smiles and then says-
I’ll come back by later and we’ll continue our talk.
Eddie-
Yeah, sure.
Lucy smiles and walks out of the room. Eddie stands there, smiling and then he looks at the camera.
Eddie-
She’s amazing, isn’t she? (beat) How can somebody like that be related to a thing like Katie? (beat) Maybe she was adopted. (beat) I don’t care, I still like her.
CUT TO: outside the house. Jesse, Brandon, and Dave are sitting outside. Brandon is telling Dave and Jesse a story.
BRANDON
There’s this guy and he meets this hot chick. I mean, this chick’s got big tits and a phat ass. I mean this chick’s fine as hell. Anyway, the guy and the chick go out and eventually end up at Make-Out Bridge and they lay on the hood of the car. The guy looks over at the chick and thinks to himself, “God, how’d I get this lucky?” Then he notices something sticking up in between her legs. He’s like in his head, “Oh God, this chick’s got a dick.”
JESSE
So she’s a guy?
BRANDON
Shut up. Let me finish. Anyway, this shocks this guy and he can’t just ask her if she’s a guy, cause he doesn’t want to piss her off, cause she is fine, so he just ignores it. The next time they go out it’s still there. So the guy says he’s got to find out if this chick’s a guy. She says she’s ‘got to go to the bathroom’. Thinking this is his perfect time to see if this chick has a dick, he says he’s going to go pee out in the bushes. The girl leaves and the guy secretly follows her. The girl squats behind the bushes and the guy hides behind her. She pulls down her pants and this long tubular thing drops out. They guy yells “I knew it,” and grabs it. then he yells “Ooo, I didn’t know you were taking a shit!”
All three guys burst out laughing. Eddie walks out of the house and sits on the steps with the guys.
JESSE
Where the hell have you been?
EDDIE
I just got back from work.
DAVE
And pimping Lucy Sherman.
BRANDON
Lucy Sherman?
DAVE
I saw ya’ll walking by the lake. Eddie’s finally going to get some.
BRANDON
Lucy Sherman? The Preppie!
Eddie’s eyes widen and he turns his head, pretending he didn’t hear.
DAVE
She’s a Preppie?
JESSE
Oh Eddie, I know you aren’t trying to get some from some Preppie.
EDDIE
I’m not trying to get some, period.
BRANDON
Lucy Sherman is a Preppie bitch who’ll rip out your heart and stomp all over that motherfucker.
EDDIE
Nah man, she ain’t like that.
BRANDON
How would you know? You’ve known her like what? A day?
Eddie rolls his eyes in annoyance. He knew his fellow Breakers would be pissed.
JESSE
I remember her.
BRANDON
Yeah, I remember that bitch too, and all the shit she used to do.
JESSE
Wasn’t nothing but a slut.
BRANDON
A shitty ass slut Eddie.
EDDIE
Hey man, I get the point. But I like her. Dave likes her too, don’t you?
Dave looks up, pissed that Eddie put him on the spot. He shakes his head.
DAVE
She’s a Preppie, Eddie. I hate all Preppies.
BRANDON
I RM fucking C. Now, you’re one of us, man. You’re a Breaker. She’s a Preppie. Breakers and Preppies can’t go out. It is forbidden. It will only end in a blood bath.
JESSE
Yeah Eddie.
DAVE
You can’t go with that slut-ass-whore.
Eddie can’t take it anymore. He jumps up and walks out of the yard and down the street, leaving his Breaker brothers at his house. CUT TO—Lucy’s room at Kyle’s house. Movie posters cover her walls. The posters range from Titanic, Twister, Scream, to Sweet November. Over her computer desk is several small printed posters. Pretty in Pink, The Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles, Say Anything, Pretty Woman, Terms of Endearment, and of course her favorite film, An Officer and A Gentleman.
Lucy lays on her bed, reading Eddie’s script. Loud rip-rock music plays in the background. Kyle is blasting it downstairs. Lucy slams the script down on her bed and yells out the door.
LUCY
(almost inaudible) Turn that crap down!
Lucy runs downstairs to the living room. Katie and Kyle are dry humping on the couch.
LUCY
Turn that crap down Kyle.
KYLE
What?
LUCY
Turn that crap down!
KYLE
What?
LUCY
Turn that crap down!
KYLE
If you don’t like it, leave!
Lucy grabs her keys and goes out the door.
LUCY
Fine.
KYLE
Bitch.
CUT TO—Outside. Lucy gets in her car and drives down the street. She sees Eddie walking down the street and drives up to him.
LUCY
What’s the matter?
EDDIE
Nothing, just my friends. They’re ass-holes.
LUCY
Get in the car.
Eddie gets in and they drive off.
LUCY
My cousin’s boyfriend pissed me off. He was blasting some Limp Bizkit or something. I was trying to read “The Reaper” but I couldn’t hear myself think over all the noise. Then I went downstairs to tell him to turn it down and he and Katie were down there having sex on the couch. So I just left.
Lucy turns on the radio. The Bon Jovi song, “It’s My Life” is playing.
LUCY
So how come you were walking? Don’t you have a car?
EDDIE
No. Well, yeah. But it’s at my brother-in-law’s car dealership.
LUCY
Your brother-in-law works at a car dealership?
EDDIE
Yeah, Tom Everett Fords. He owns it.
LUCY
Wow! Why’s your car there?
EDDIE
I haven’t paid for it yet. But Tom’s got it saved for me. I’m saving half of my paychecks for the car.
LUCY
About how much more do you need?
EDDIE
Just one more whole paycheck and it will be mine.
LUCY
Wow. So where’re you going?
EDDIE
I don’t know. I was just thinking about walking down to the theater and watching The Crow: Salvation.
LUCY
It’s finally out?
EDDIE
Yeah, some theater’s got it. I have a friend who works there and he told me he snatched it for the theater.
LUCY
Wow, the first one was really good. The second one sucked though.
EDDIE
I kind of liked it. if you don’t think about the first one while watching it, it is somewhat good.
LUCY
It copied too much of the original.
EDDIE
In a way, but this one, it’s really good. It’s almost as good as the first one.
LUCY
You’ve seen it?
EDDIE
Yeah, I’ve got it on DVD.
LUCY
Then why are you going to go see it if you got it on DVD?
EDDIE
Because I believe you haven’t truly seen a film until you’ve seen it in a theater.
Lucy looks at Eddie strangely, then she smiles.
LUCY
That’s true. That’s a good theory.
EDDIE
That’s what I love about the Rialto. They play both new and old movies. My friend, Tobey, a couple of the other Breakers and I fixed up the old back theater room and now it’s my own theater room.
Lucy looks astonished
LUCY
Really? What’s the manager say?
EDDIE
Nothing. He doesn’t mind.
LUCY
Well, that sounds cool.
EDDIE
Plus I told him when I make it big, I’ll always have premiere parties at the Rialto.
LUCY
And who’s going to be your date to the parties?
EDDIE
(smiling) Hmm. I don’t know. I’d say it will be three, maybe four years from now. Let me think. You think Britney Spears might be available?
LUCY
Britney Spears?
EDDIE
Yeah. You know, she looked really sexy in her last video. But “Don’t Let Me Be The Last To Know” is my all time favorite. I wish I was stuck on a deserted island with her like that guy was.
LUCY
(mocking Britney S.) “Don’t let me be the last to know”—ahh.
EDDIE
Maybe “Stronger”.
LUCY
Stronger?
EDDIE
Then again, a true classic never dies. “….Baby One More Time.”
LUCY
(mocking B.S.) “Make my boobies one more size.”
Eddie starts laughing. Lucy rolls her eyes in annoyance at Eddie’s Britney Spears comments.
EDDIE
(still kind of laughing) Lucy, I’m just messing with you. I wouldn’t take Britney Spears to the premiere parties.
Lucy starts to smile, thinking Eddie will say he’ll take her. Eddie smiles.
EDDIE
I’d take someone more sophisticated and better looking and more talented.
Lucy smiles as she parks in front of the Rialto, and then she looks over at Eddie with his undeniably gorgeous look, that shows how incredibly beautiful she is.
EDDIE
Shannon Elizabeth’s going to be my date.
Lucy looks at Eddie with utter disgust. Eddie stops laughing. Both of them get out of the car.
EDDIE
I’m kidding. You can be my date.
LUCY
I can be? I don’t remember you asking.
EDDIE
I didn’t, but I am now.
Lucy smiles as she walks toward the Rialto, leaving Eddie behind. Eddie quickly follows her.
EDDIE
Well, will you?
LUCY
(smiling) Will I what?
EDDIE
Don’t play Lucy. You know what I asked you.
LUCY
You didn’t ask me anything. I have heard those nine little words.
EDDIE
Nine?
LUCY
Nine words and a question.
EDDIE
Will you be my date to the premiere parties Lucy?
LUCY
You added a word.
EDDIE
(groans) Will you be my date to the premiere parties?
LUCY
Yeah, I’d like to.
EDDIE
(playing around) “Like to”? You just made me say all that stuff. You had better “love to”.
LUCY
(loudly) I do!
They both start laughing.
EDDIE
So you want to see The Crow: Salvation?
LUCY
If it’s worth the $6.41.
EDDIE
Oh, it’s worth it. But I’m paying.
LUCY
You don’t have to.
EDDIE
I want to.
LUCY
Okay. Well, then let’s go.
EDDIE
Ladies first.
LUCY
Then go ahead. (starts laughing)
EDDIE
(boos) That was cold.
Eddie and Lucy walk up to the box office. 
CUT TO—Eddie’s house. Jessie and Brandon stand at the stereo fighting over which CD should be played.
JESSE
Man, I don’t want to hear that 311 shit.
BRANDON
Bitch. I don’t want to hear that Eminem shit. We’re going to listen to From Chaos.
JESSE
No, “the Slim Shady Show”
BRANDON
Bullshit. “From Chaos”
JESSE
Bitch. I’m gonna kill you.
BRANDON
That song ain’t even on the CD.
JESSE
No, I’m really going to kill you.
Dave walks into the room with a video in his hands. Dave seems to be very anxious to watch the video.
DAVE
Guys, I’ve got something better then both of those cds.
JESSE
Which is?
DAVE
Muffy The Vampire Layer.
BRANDON
Fuck listening to music, I’m up for some porn.
CUT TO—Inside Eddies private screening room. Eddie and Lucy sit in the theater, watching The Crow: Salvation. It is at the graveyard scene.
(MOVIE) ERIC MABIUS
I can’t be alive…..not without you.
Eddie looks over at Lucy. Her eyes are fixed on the movie screen she’s caught up with the emotional moment within the film. Eddie stares at Lucy’s lovely red hair and her beautiful blue eyes, though she was facing the movie screen. Eddie pinches himself to make sure he isn’t dreaming.
EDDIE
(mouthing along with Eric) I wanna be with you forever.
Lucy turns to Eddie. Eddie quickly turns to the movie screen. Lucy smiles.
LUCY
Did you say something?
EDDIE
(pretending he was watching the movie) Huh? No, I was watching the movie.
Eddie turns back to the screen. Lucy softly laughs. She knows what he said. 
CUT TO—Eddie’s house. Dave, Jesse, and Brandon sit, drinking beer and watching Muffy The Vampire Layer. Three vampiresses and a guy are having sex in the movie.
JESSE
Damn man. Look at that vampire chick’s tits, man. Fucking huge.
BRANDON
God, I’d love to be that guy. Bitch looks like she knows how to suck it.
DAVE
Shit, I wouldn’t let some vampire chick near my dick. She might bite that shit off.
The guys laugh. Loud rip-rap music blast from the outside. The guys groan.
JESSE
Oh hell no.
BRANDON
What the f---
CUT TO—Outside. Kyle, Jeremy, and Tyler are outside the house in Kyle’s truck. Dave, Jesse, and Brandon run out of the house. They each have their beer bottles.
BRANDON
Goddammit!
Brandon throws the bottle at Kyle and his clique. The bottle shatters on the side of Kyle’s dusty truck.
KYLE
What the hell? Dick hair!
JEREMY
Faggot-ass-wiggers!
Kyle and his little clique quickly walk over to Eddie’s yard. Jesse, Brandon, and Dave meet them halfway.
DAVE
You need to turn that shit down, Preppie. You’re disturbing the neighborhood.
Jeremy reaches for something, but Jesse punches him. This catches the Preps off guard and Dave busts a bottle over Kyle’s head and Brandon head butts Tyler. The Preppies all jump back up and punch the Breakers. With that, each of the six pull out either a knife or a gun and quickly put it to an opponent’s neck. They then pull out another knife or gun and put to another opponent’s neck. There they realize they are all dead if even one person shoots or cuts.
KYLE
I’ll shoot dammit.
BRANDON
As will I, bitch boy.
DAVE
You ready to die faggie?
Kyle thinks and looks over at Jeremy and Tyler. They are all thinking the same thing. Kyle removes his two guns and puts them away. The others do the same. The Preppies start to walk away.
KYLE
Until next time, bitches. It will end differently.
Brandon fires his gun at the ground. The Preppies run off. The Breakers laugh and go back inside. 
CUT TO—Outside the Rialto. After the movie is over. Eddie and Lucy walk out of the theater.
EDDIE
So what’d you think?
LUCY
It was really good. It’s almost as good as the first one.
EDDIE
I told you.
LUCY
That movie makes you appreciate life and those special people you have in it.
EDDIE
Yeah, I guess it does.
LUCY
You wanna go get something to eat?
CUT TO—Slater’s, a fast food chicken restaurant. Lucy and Eddie sit, talking and eating.
LUCY
So, when did you first decide you wanted to be a filmmaker?
EDDIE
Well, since I was in first grade, I’ve wanted to be a filmmaker. I remember one day I took my parents’ 8mm to school and tried to make my class star in a Spider-Man movie. It was horrible, but I kept on. When I was in fourth grade, I discovered the horror genre and got pulled into the world of Freddy Krueger and Michael Myers. I decided that I wanted to make a scary movie. Then in sixth grade, I discovered Hitchcock, among others and that was when I decided that I wanted to make serious films with meaning and morality. I wrote “The Reaper” when I was in 7th grade and I’ve been trying to make that film for about seven years now.
LUCY
Seven years? That’s a long time to be trying to make a movie.
EDDIE
Yeah, it is. But you know it took George Lucas about seven years to make Star Wars.
LUCY
True.
EDDIE
(sips his drink and Lucy sips hers) So, what’s your story?
LUCY
(nearly chokes) What do you mean?
EDDIE
Your script. Didn’t you say you started on a script?
LUCY
Oh, yeah. It was about this girl who is, like, part of the high school popular clique, where everything seems perfect and that nothing will ever go wrong. Then one night, her world is shattered and she moves away to get away from those who destroyed her life. Then a few years later, she moves back and has to face her demons before she can get on with her life.
EDDIE
Sounds like a good script. Are you going to film it?
LUCY
You mean actually film it? Like a movie?
EDDIE
(nodding) Yeah. Like I’m doing with The Reaper.
LUCY
I don’t know. I don’t think I could.
EDDIE
Why not?
LUCY
Time, money, actors, crew. I don’t have any of this.
EDDIE
I’ll tell you what. You be my assistant on The Reaper and I’ll help you get your movie made.
LUCY
(smiles and gives it thought) Yeah, that would be nice.
EDDIE
Cool. After you get the script done, we can go down to the Drama Building at GSU and get some actors to audition.
LUCY
Is that what you did for The Reaper?
EDDIE
Yeah. It took a few times, but I think I found the perfect cast. All of them can act, all of them want to do the movie, and all of them have complete potential.
LUCY
That’s good. Hopefully, I’ll get lucky and get a good cast.
EDDIE
Maybe.
Eddie finishes off his chicken fingers and takes a sip of his drink. Lucy sits there, staring at him. Eddie realizes Lucy staring at him within a few seconds.
EDDIE
What? I got sauce on my face?
LUCY
Oh no. No, there’s nothing on your face. I was just noticing something. If you shaved, you’d look just like Eric Mabius in the movie.
EDDIE
(feeling his face) Really?
LUCY
Yeah. It’s almost an uncanny resemblance.
EDDIE
I like my facial hair though.
LUCY
You’d look better without it.
EDDIE
(smiles) Well, you look a little like someone too.
LUCY
Who?
EDDIE
Natalie Wood.
LUCY
Really?
EDDIE
Yeah. It’s uncanny.
Eddie and Lucy smile at each other. There is a moment where they just stare at each other, then they both look at their food. Neither one is trying to show their interest in the other.
CUT TO—Kyle’s house. Lucy’s car drives up. Eddie and Lucy get out of the car.
LUCY
Tonight was fun, Eddie. You are the first decent person I’ve met in this crazy town. I had a really good time tonight.
EDDIE
Yeah, I did too. You want to do it again sometime?
LUCY
Yeah, how about tomorrow?
EDDIE
Sure. What do you want to do?
LUCY
I don’t know. What do you want to do?
EDDIE
I don’t know. There’s not much to do here in Hollow, Georgia.
LUCY
So it seems.
EDDIE
Wait a minute, do you like rides?
LUCY
(eyes him strangely) What kind of rides?
EDDIE
Like roller coasters?
LUCY
Oh, yeah. But there aren’t any amusement parks around here.
EDDIE
Yeah, there is. Animal Island is just an hour away from here. There are some of the best roller coasters there.
LUCY
Well then, Animal Island it is.
EDDIE
Great. (Looks over at his house) I’d better go now, better make sure the Three Stooges haven’t messed up my house.
LUCY
Okay.
EDDIE
I’ll see you tomorrow.
LUCY
Bye.
EDDIE
(walking off) Bye.
Lucy goes inside. CUT TO—Inside the house. Lucy shuts the door and falls back against it. she smiles and then squeals in happiness. Kyle and Katie walk into the hallway.
KYLE
Where the hell have you been?
LUCY
Shut up.
KYLE
Bitch. This is my house. I’m the boss in this crib.
LUCY
Leave me alone. (walks up the stairs)
CUT TO—Outside Eddie’s house. Eddie walks towards his house singing to himself. Someone stands on the side of the house in the dark, watching him. Eddie walks up to the door and is about to open it, but a familiar voice stops him.
VOICE
Have fun?
Eddie looks tot he side of the house and sees Dave come into the light.
EDDIE
Hey Dave.
DAVE
Did you have fun with your Preppie bitch?
EDDIE
(scoffs) She’s not a bitch, Dave.
DAVE
Fine then. Did you have fun with you Preppie slut?
EDDIE
Dammit Dave, don’t be such an asshole.
DAVE
Oh, I’m being an asshole? You’re the one who is out parading around town with the enemy.
EDDIE
Christ Dave, she’s different. She doesn’t do the clique thing.
DAVE
She hasn’t pledged Breaker, so she’s the enemy. She’s a Preppie.
EDDIE
She was a Preppie.
DAVE
Once a Preppie, always a Preppie.
Eddie scoffs and walks up to the door. Dave follows him.
EDDIE
I don’t have time for this trash.
DAVE
We used to think of you as our leader, Eddie. You can’t go Benedict Arnold on us now.
EDDIE
Dave, “The Breakers vs. The Prep Squad” was a high school thing. We’re out of high school now. I think it’s time to put away high school grudges. It’s time to grow up. (starts to open his door, Dave stops him)
DAVE
Soon, you’ll have to choose between your boys, your brothers, who you have known all your life; and your Preppie slut. It’s your decision, Eddie. Us or her, the slut. And I won’t be responsible for what happens if you choose the slut.
Dave turns and walks off. Eddie stands there, motionless watching Dave leave.
MONTAGE: the Van Halen song “Why Can’t This Be Love” plays over the montage.
Eddie and Lucy stand outside of a roller coaster, waiting for it to stop. When it stops they get on the roller coaster and it starts and speeds away on the track. Eddie and Lucy along with the other riders scream in excitement. 
Eddie and Lucy sit at a table at the amusement park restaurant, eating a pizza. Eddie stuffs a whole slice of pizza in his mouth and then nods his head like he is all that.
Eddie and Lucy get on a bigger roller coaster. It speeds off on the track and goes through it many loops.
Lucy sits on a bench, while Eddie has his head in a trash can, vomiting. He pulls his head from the trash and rubs his face and falls to the ground. Lucy laughs at him.
Lucy and Eddie stand inside Lucy’s house. Eddie stands behind Lucy holding his hands in front of her eyes. He takes his hands from her face. Lucy squeals in excitement. Up on the wall is a poster from her favorite movie, An Officer and A Gentleman. Lucy hugs Eddie.
Eddie chases Lucy around the park with his video camera. It looks like something out of the Blair Witch Project.
Lucy is looking around for Eddie. He jumps up behind her in The Reaper costume and scares her.
Eddie and Lucy sit on the beach, looking over storyboards. Eddie gets a coke and drops it in her lap. Lucy slaps him.
Lucy and Eddie sit on the dock, talking. Eddie is carving their names on the side of the dock.
END MONTAGE
CUT TO: Tobey McCloud’s House. Three Weeks Later. Eddie, Dave, and Tobey stand in the garage, playing Van Halen’s “Dreams”. Eddie is providing the vocals, Dave is playing the guitar, and Tobey is the drummer. They are no Van Halen, but they are good. Eddie looks at the clock.
EDDIE (going inside the house to get his jacket)
Damn, I’m late. I’ve got to go meet up with Lucy.
DAVE (under his breath)
Whipped bastard.
TOBEY
The infamous Lucy Sherman.
DAVE (disconnecting his guitar)
Who else. Asshole’s spends more time with her than he does us. I swear to God, he’s a chick. I mean, get this. He spends all this time together and she doesn’t give him none. Not even a little head. It’s bullshit.
TOBEY
Maybe he loves her.
DAVE
Bullshit. His balls have just dropped and he’s watched too many fucking chick flicks that he thinks being fucking John Cusack in fucking Say Anything will get him some pussy.
TOBEY
Damn man, you don’t give me so much shit and I’m gay.
Eddie walks out with his jacket on.
DAVE
Well you ain’t trying to get none from some Preppie bitch.
EDDIE
You’re just jealous, bro.
DAVE (getting up in Eddie’s face)
Jealous? Bitch, I am jealous of no one, let alone your movie obsessed ass. I can get and have gotten every piece of ass I have wanted.
EDDIE
What about Miss Campbell?
DAVE
Fuck you. In time, I will.
EDDIE
Keep dreaming, bro. I’ve got to go.
Eddie gets in his car and drives away. Dave stands there, pissed. Tobey just looks at him.
TOBEY
He’s right. Miss Campbell----
DAVE
Fuck him and you too, Tobey. I’ll have that bitch going down on me before this fucking day over, while he’ll jacking his dick off and you’ll be dreaming of getting rammed in the ass---- (realizes what he said) I didn’t mean that, man. I just got mad. I didn’t---- I didn’t mean it.
TOBEY
Whatever, Dave.
DAVE
Fuck this, I’m leaving. I’ll see you later, man.
TOBEY
Yeah, later.
Dave puts his guitar strap on his shoulder and he walks off.
CUT TO: The Lake. Amber walks along the shore of the lake, talking to herself. She is on the way to talk to Eddie. She wants to tell him how much she loves him. She is siking herself up.
AMBER.
“Eddie, I know how you feel about when best friends take that next step, but I think we should try it for a while.” No, that’s so girly girl obsessed nature. (strong voice) “Eddie, you and me in the bedroom. Now.” (she laughs) No, that will never work. Oh, screw it! I’ll just say what comes to me at the moment.
Amber looks over at the dock and sees Eddie sitting, waiting for Lucy. She walks over to the dock and sits beside him.
EDDIE
Hello, my gal pal.
AMBER
Hey, my guy---- ah, friend?
The two friends laugh.
EDDIE
What’s up? I haven’t heard from you in like what, three weeks?
AMBER
I’ve been going through weird times. My dad called me three weeks ago.
EDDIE (surprised)
Really?
AMBER
We’ve been talking, a lot, catching up. Each time, I’m sitting there, amazed that I am sitting and talking to the man I have hated for years because the moment my mom died, he went off and married that slut, Jennifer O’Brien, and sent me to live with my Aunt Rina.
EDDIE
You know, hate is a strong word, Amber. We hate our parents for not understanding us. But in reality, they do understand us, more than we’d like them to.
AMBER
Well, I hardly doubt David Parker understands me.
EDDIE
Of course, he does. He knew you didn’t like Jennifer O’Brien, so he sent you to live with your aunt and cousins.
AMBER
You’re defending him?
EDDIE
Amber, you at least have one parent. Both of mine are gone, forever. One’s pushing up daisies and the other is locked up like she is freakin’ Michael Myers or something. Take advantage of the situation. Enjoy being with you father. Amber, he’s all you’ve got.
Amber realizes her stupidity in how she has been acting towards her father and talking about parental problems to her best friend. She forgot that his father was mugged and killed at a gas station when Eddie was fifteen and his mother had a nervous breakdown and had to committed to a minimum security sanitarium when Eddie was eighteen- the very day he graduated from high school. She could see the sadness in his eyes.
AMBER
I have you, Eddie.
Eddie looks at Amber and smiles.
EDDIE
You’ll always have me, Amber.
They both look at each other. The strong bond they share and the history they have really shows in the way they look at each other.
Lucy walks up to them and both Eddie and Amber look at her.
EDDIE
Hey Lucy.
Eddie gets up and stands beside Lucy. Amber looks at both of them, confused.
LUCY
Hey Eddie.
EDDIE
Lucy Sherman, this is my best friend since sperm, Amber Parker.
LUCY (shaking Amber’s hand)
Nice to meet you, Amber.
AMBER (awkwardly)
Likewise. Lucy Sherman? Did you go to BCHS?
LUCY
Yeah, freshman year. But I left.
EDDIE
Everyone seems to remember her, but I can’t for the life of me. Even after I looked at our old yearbook. Can you?
AMBER
Uh, I don’t know.
LUCY
Well, I looked a lot different then. I didn’t wear glasses either.
Amber suddenly remembers her and her eyes widen. She takes Eddie’s hand.
AMBER
Excuse us. Eddie and I need to talk for a moment. Privately.
Amber drags Eddie off of the dock and onto the grass.
LUCY
Well, I guess I’ll see you guys later.
EDDIE 
No, don’t go. We’ll be right back.
AMBER (softly and angrily)
Lucy Sherman? The Preppie? What the hell are you doing with a Preppie?
EDDIE
Yeah, she was a Preppie, but she’s not anymore. Now don’t you get that way too.
AMBER
What way?
EDDIE
Hating Lucy just because she was a Preppie. She’s a truly great person, Amber and I think you’d learn that once you get to know her.
AMBER
Listen to yourself, Eddie. You, the self proclaimed leader of the Breakers, in love with a Preppie girly girl. Something isn’t right.
EDDIE
I think it is time for us all to grow up and put this whole “us/them” thing to rest.
Amber sighs and then forces a smile to her friend.
AMBER
I’m going to Muska Hill and I’ll be there all day. If you want to hang out, that’s where I’ll be.
Amber walks off. Eddie stands there for a moment, watching her leave and then he turns to Lucy and walks towards her.
CUT TO: Outside Eddie’s House. Dave walks, thinking to himself. Kyle and the Preppies are in his yard, working on Kyle’s truck. Tyler has his mouth full from a hamburger and the other two guys are under the truck. Tyler sees Dave walking down the street. He tries to tell Kyle and Jeremy, but they can not understand him.
TYLER (mouth full of food)
Guys, there’s that Breaker wigger.
JEREMY
What, Tyler?
TYLER (same thing)
The wigger…. There he is.
JEREMY
What?
KYLE
Just shut your fat ass up, Tyler.
JEREMY
Yeah man.
TYLER (same thing)
But guys…
KYLE
Tyler! Shut the fuck up!
Dave stops in front of Eddie’s house and looks at it. He thinks about all the times he and Eddie have had over the years and now how Eddie is spending all of his time with Lucy. It pisses him off.
Miss Campbell walks out of her house and calls to Dave.
MISS CAMPBELL
Hey, Dave. Dave Herring!
Dave turns around and looks at Miss Campbell. His eyes widen.
DAVE
Yes Miss Campbell?
MISS CAMPBELL
Come here, if you don’t mind. I need some help with something.
DAVE
Sure, no problem.
She goes inside and Dave smiles. He walks towards her house.
DAVE (singing to himself)
I’m finally gonna get that pussy. I’m finally gonna that pussy.
CUT TO: Amber’s House. Amber sits on her bed and Tawnie sits across from her on a beanbag chair. Tawnie is reading the latest issue of Ultimate X-Men.
AMBER (sarcastically)
How is the issue?
TAWNIE
Oh, it’s great. Wolverine and--- (she gets it) Oh, I’m sorry. It’s just I’ve been waiting for this issue for a while. It’s a milestone in the Ultimate universe.
Amber rolls her eyes at Tawnie.
TAWNIE
Okay, what is it?
AMBER
Did you know our friend Eddie has been lusting after that Preppie, Lucy Sherman?
TAWNIE
I could tell, yeah.
AMBER
And that does not bother you?
TAWNIE
I guess if I was in love with him like you are, then it would.
AMBER
I just feel betrayed. Eddie and I have been friends for a long time and since the moment we could walk, I’ve been in love with him. I just don’t see how we can have this special bond and some little Preppie girly girl can come along and take him away from me.
TAWNIE
Amber, Eddie will always care for you and maybe one day he will come along and realize you are “the one”. But until then, you will have to be the Amber he’s know all his life. Be his best friend. This is the happiest I have ever seen him. Don’t rob him of that.
AMBER
Eddie is doomed.
CUT TO: Slater’s. Eddie and Lucy sit, eating and going over storyboards for 'The Reaper'.
LUCY
I'm not so sure about this right here.
EDDIE
What do you mean?
LUCY
Well, by the way you draw it, the girl is covered with blood. All this blood, it kind of goes against your standards on blood in cinema.
EDDIE
they're not just storyboards. I don't plan on the film actually being that bloody.
LUCY
Good, because most of your production money would go solely into fake blood.
EDDIE
What production money?
Lucy rolls her eyes.
EDDIE
What are you doing tonight?
LUCY
Nothing.
EDDIE
Well, would you want to go to the Rialto. They're showing the John Hughes and Molly Ringwald trilogy. We’re talking Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, and then Pretty in Pink. You up for it?
LUCY
I don't think so, Eddie. I don't feel so good.
EDDIE
What's wrong?
LUCY
Just the sudden case of a stomach ache and a 'scanners' sized headache.
EDDIE
Well, I'll drive you home. Give me the keys.
Lucy gives him her keys and they leave. 
Cut to: Muska Hill. Drew and Michael are skating up and down the ramp of the hill. Both skaters are dressed similar to Jesse and Brandon. He has a Spider-man shirt on.
Eddie and Amber sit on the side of the concrete skating hill talking. Amber is dressed like the ultimate skater girl. She is an old friend of Eddie's. They have been friends since they were three.
AMBER
Well, what do you expect Eddie? She's a Preppie.
EDDIE
Not you too, Amber.
AMBER
Eddie, she's a Preppie. Preppies and Breakers can not mix.
EDDIE
Just because it didn't work out between you and Kevin Cunningham, doesn't mean it won't work for Lucy and me.
AMBER
You may be right Eddie, it's just, we've been friends for a long time and I don't want you to get hurt.
EDDIE
If it feels like this, I want to get hurt.
Amber sighs and picks up her skateboard. She lays it in her lap and starts spinning its wheels.
AMBER 
You know Eddie, this isn't some John Hughes movie. You are not Molly Ringwald and Lucy is not ---whoever that dude was with the red caar.
EDDIE
I don't think I'm a chick in a movie, Amber. I'm just happy I've found a girl that I can hang out with and have fun with and not have to pretend to be someone I'm not.
Amber's eyes widen and she stares at Eddie as though he just struck a nerve.
AMBER
Someone that you can hang out with? Have fun with? Not have to pretend to be someone your not?
EDDIE (not picking up on what Amber's trying to say) 
Yeah.
AMBER
Well, what the hell am I?
Eddie finally gets it and Amber grabs her board and jumps up and walks away.
EDDIE
Amber, wait! Amber!
AMBER (running off) 
Fuck you!
EDDIE (looking down and exhaling hard) 
Great.
CUT TO: Eddie is sitting at his computer talking to Lucy over the Internet. Jesse, Brandon, and Dave are drinking beers. Dave is telling the guys about what happened with Miss Campbell.
DAVE
She told me to come over there. She told me to move this huge box of stuff for her. After that, I looked at her and she was butt-ass-naked. She said she wanted to do it nice and hard. I wasn't about to say no. So we did it right there on the floor.
JESSE
Are you for real?
BRANDON
Or are you just bullshitting?
DAVE
No, I'm not bullshitting. All that happened....up until the butt naked thing. That from then on was bullshit.
Jesse and Brandon groan.
JESSE
You fucking suck, Dave.
BRANDON
Just turn on the movie, dude.
DAVE
But it will eventually happen.
JESSE & BRANDON (together)
Bullshit.
DAVE
You'll see.
Dave turns on the movie. The opening title says: Poke-a-hot-ass. Eddie sits typing to Lucy. He has his headphones on, listening to music.
EDDIE
(v/o as he types) Are you feeling better?
LUCY
A little. I still have a bad headache. But its probably because of this crap Kyle is blasting. That's why I'm usually never home. By the way, you know how I’ve been helping Mrs. Johnson at the high school? Well, I volunteered to help with the Prom this year. And I was wondering----
EDDIE
What?
LUCY
I don’t have anyone to go with, so----
EDDIE
Are you asking me to go to the Prom with you, Lucy Sherman?
LUCY
If you don’t want to, I completely understand.
EDDIE
I would be honored. I just don’t understand why’d you ask me though.
LUCY
Eddie, you are a great guy. Plus, I love spending time with you. You are like my soul mate.
Eddie smiles.
BRANDON
(reading over Eddie's shoulder) What's this? Soul mate? This bitch wants you.
Brandon pushes Eddie out of the chair and quickly types 'Can I do you in the ass?' and sends it to Lucy. Eddie jumps up and pushes Brandon away.
EDDIE
You bastard!
Eddie quickly types, 'don't mind that. That was just crack head Brandon. He got a hold of the keyboard' and sends it to Lucy.
EDDIE
(to Brandon) Go over there and jack off or something.
LUCY
(v/o) I didn't think that was you.
EDDIE
(v/o) Lucy, it' pretty late. You need to get some rest.
LUCY
(v/o) Okay.
EDDIE
(v/o) And if you can't get any rest over there, you'll be welcome over here.
LUCY
(v/o) Thanks.
EDDIE
(v/o) Hope you feel better tomorrow.
LUCY
(v/o) Me too. see you tomorrow at the shoot.
EDDIE
(v/o) Okay, good-night.
LUCY
(v/o) Good night, Eddie.
Lucy signs off. Eddie signs off. Eddie gets up and looks at Brandon.
BRANDON
What the hell's your problem? I was just trying to help you out with that b.
EDDIE
"Can I do you in the ass?" Hmm, that's really helpful.
BRANDON
I don't get why you are just screwing around. Why don't you quit stalling and boff her all ready?
EDDIE
Because I care too much about her. Brandon, I love the girl. And I don't mean, like I like her or something. I mean I actually love her. As in, I would do anything for her. Anything.
BRANDON
Well tell her Goddammit!
EDDIE
I can't. I just --- can't. You know what I mean?
BRANDON
Well write her a letter or something.
As Brandon sits down and starts drinking his beer again, Eddie sits at his computer and begins typing a letter to Lucy. 
CUT TO: The Next day. Eddie and Lucy sit behind the camera filming a scene for 'The Reaper'. Five teen actors sit on a bench under a tree.
ACTOR 1
What if it isn't a story? What if it really happened?
The other four look at each other.
EDDIE
Cut! That was great guys. 
They all hear thunder and look towards the sky.
LUCY
Looks like it's going to rain, so that's a wrap for today.
EDDIE
Yeah. Thanks for coming. Drive safely. You guys did great today. With any luck, we'll be done with this film in a few weeks.
The actors all nod and say good-bye. Eddie and Lucy get all the equipment and put it in the trunk of Lucy's car. Lucy and Eddie get in the car and it starts to rain.
EDDIE
I don't need to go home. I need to go to the McKinsey house to set it up for tomorrow night's shoot.
LUCY
Okay.
Lucy drives off.
CUT TO: The Grocery Store Moments later. Lucy walks down the aisle, pushing a buggy. Jeremy and Tyler are standing at the newsstand looking at magazines.
JEREMY
Look at this girl. Jesus Christ, I'd love to fuck the living shit out of her.
TYLER
(nods)
JEREMY
(looks up and sees Lucy) Hey Ty, look who it is.
LUCY
(gasps) What the hell are you two doing here?
JEREMY
We never left town, Lucy. Some of us don't run away from our problems. 
TYLER
Well Jeremy and I didn't have a problem.
JEREMY
We found it (pause) very fun, exciting, and very fulfilling. Am I right, Tyler?
TYLER
You better believe it.
LUCY
You sick bastards.
JEREMY
I had heard you were back in town. I was hoping we could have a reunion. Who's to say sequels or even remakes can suck. We can make this one better than the first. You think it should stay three, or go up to more people? Or what about just you and me?
Lucy's eyes water and she runs out of the store to her car. 
IN THE CAR--she sits crying and beats the steering wheel with her hands. She puts her head on the steering wheel and cries harder. She starts up the car and then she notices a fold up piece of paper sitting by her purse. She picks it up and unfolds it. ''Glycerine" by Bush plays in the background. The paper is Eddie's letter.
EDDIE (V/O)
Dear Lucy. What I am about to tell you is something that I have been holding inside myself since we first met three weeks ago at the video store. You are my best friend, my soul mate and the greatest person to come into my life. And though I love what we have and I would never do anything to jeopardize it, I want things to go to the next level. Lucy, I love you. This may be too soon to say, but I'm sure it's love. I think about you every second of every day and if you don't feel the same way, that's okay. I just had to get all of this out. I don't think anything could change how I feel about you. Always, there, no matter what the circumstances. Eddie.
Lucy looks up and wipes away the tears. She quickly drives off and speeds to the McKinsey house.
CUT TO: The McKinsey house.
Eddie stands outside, moving all the old furniture onto the front porch. He goes inside and grabs a mattress and tries to pull it into the hallway. He hears footsteps behind him. He turns around and sees Lucy standing at the door.
EDDIE
Lucy, what are you---(as Lucy walks over to him) doing here?
LUCY
This.
Lucy kisses Eddie. They fall onto the mattress and continue kissing.
LUCY
I love you Eddie.
EDDIE
I love you too.
They just lay there for a while and then Eddie laughs.
LUCY
What?
EDDIE
We are both wet and we're laying on an old dusty mattress. Our clothes are going to have crap all over them. 
They get up and inspect their clothes. Lucy laughs and they get off the mattress. 
LUCY
Oh my God. My blue jeans are white.
EDDIE
(starts to dust them off) Did you remember to get the costume?
LUCY
I thought you got it.
EDDIE
No, I thought you got it.
LUCY
(sighs) Come on. Let's go get it.
CUT TO: Lucy's car drives up to the park. Eddie and Lucy get out of the car and walk over to the tree where they were filming.
LUCY
Where did you put it?
EDDIE
Under the bench. (he reaches under the bench and pulls out the reaper costume) It ain't even wet.
He sits on the bench and Lucy sits beside him.
EDDIE
Are you going to tell Kyle and Katie about us?
LUCY
I won't have to. I'm going to move out of that house.
EDDIE
What? Where are you going to stay?
LUCY
I don't know and I don't care. Just as long as it's somewhere where Kyle and his redneck friends can't set foot.
EDDIE
Well, do you have places you can go?
LUCY
I'll live on the street if I have to.
EDDIE
You won't have to live on the street. You're moving into Hines Manor.
LUCY
No, I don't want to impose or be an inconvenience.
EDDIE
You couldn't be an inconvenience even if you tried.
LUCY
Oh, I could try. Believe me. I'm an inconvenience right now on Katie and Kyle.
EDDIE
Forget them. They don't mean jack to me. I want you to move in with me.
LUCY
I don't know Eddie. I mean, I love you---but I just---something happened-- and---I have this phobia. I can't live with someone I have strong intimate feelings about. I don't know why.
EDDIE
Well okay. But how about this, you move in temporarily until you find a place of your own?
LUCY
(smiles) Eddie, I have only one thing to say to you.
EDDIE
Which is?
Lucy kiss Eddie
CUT TO: Eddie's house- One Month Later. Eddie and Lucy walk out of the house kissing. Dave walks up and he scoffs.
EDDIE
I'll see you later. We'll start moving your stuff in after work.
LUCY
Okay. Bye.
They kiss again and Lucy walks away past Dave.
LUCY
Hey Dave.
DAVE
Lucy. (walking up to Eddie) I can't believe it man.
EDDIE
Don't start Dave. Things are still the same. We're all boyz right?
DAVE
(sighs and shakes his head) You know, this isn't going to have a happy ending.
EDDIE
Dave, I'm in love. Why can't you be happy for me?
DAVE
This isn't a love story. It's a tragedy. (walks off)
Eddie exhales hard and locks the door.
CUT TO: Lucy's Room. She's in her room packing her stuff and Katie walks in.
KATIE
What are you doing?
LUCY
I'm moving out.
KATIE
What? Where?
LUCY
I'm moving in with Eddie.
KATIE
Jesus. You're moving in with a Breaker?
LUCY
I'm not doing that Breaker, Preppie crap. I love Eddie.
KATIE
Hope it doesn't end up like last time.
Lucy's eyes widen as she looks up at her cousin.
CUT TO: Reel Video.
Eddie sits behind the counter. Jesses leans against the other side of the counter talking with Eddie. Brandon is looking through the adult section. The Creed song "Are you Ready" plays over the store radio. 
JESSE
So, she's moving in with you?
EDDIE
Yeah. She looked around for a house for about a month, but she didn't find anything, so later, she's going to move her stuff over to my place. I know how you guys feel about her and all but you know---
JESSE
You know Eddie. I don't know about the other guys, but I'm not going to give you any more shit about you and Lucy.
EDDIE
Serious?
JESSE
Serious. Matter of fact, I'm glad you got somebody. It's about time you got a girl.
EDDIE
No shit?
JESSE
Yeah man. I mean, I don't like the fact that she's a Preppie, but if you like her, she can't be that bad.
Brandon walks up to the guys.
BRANDON
Best selections in town, my ass. You ain’t got shit here.
EDDIE
Bite me.
The door opens and a man dressed in a black cap (with the Superman logo) on it, a blue button up shirt, with a black Batman shirt on under that, walks into the store. He walks into the Action section, then the drama section.
BRANDON
Holy shit, check it out. It’s Eric, with his retarded ass.
JESSE
Hey shut up man. Eric’s all right, he’s just----- quiet.
Eric walks up to the counter with three videos and hands them to Eddie.
EDDIE
Star Wars, The Godfather, and Back To The Future. That’ll be it, Eric?
Eric nods. Eddie rings up the videos.
BRANDON
Hey Eric. How the fuck are you this fine motherfucking day?

Eric lifts his head up as if to say what’s up.
EDDIE
That’ll be $3.20.
Eddie and Eric exchange the money and videos.
EDDIE
Enjoy.
JESSE
Later, Eric.
Eric waves his index and middle finger as he exits the store.
BRANDON
Shit, I need some porn.
EDDIE
God!
BRANDON
Do you have 'The Bootyknockers' or 'Tit'?
JESSE
Ain't those guy pornos?
EDDIE
Does it say Hard Core Video on the door? No, it says Reel Video.
BRANDON
I was just asking. You don't have to be such a bitch.
EDDIE
Well damn, Brandon----
Eddie notices a guy walk into the store.
EDDIE
It's that fudge bopper, Ronnie Riley.
Jesse and Brandon turn around.
JESSE
Shit.
BRANDON
Should have brought my gun.
Ronnie Riley walks up to the counter.
EDDIE
(to audience) That's Ronnie "Asslicker" Riley. He is the biggest Preppie in the world. He's so rich, Bill Gates asks the fag for money. Notice his over priced clothes, that attitude, and that haircut that looks like a---.
JESSE
(interrupting)
Hey man, who the hell are you talking to? (looks toward the camera)
EDDIE
(to Jesse) No one.
BRANDON
Hey dick lick what the hell are you doing here?
RONNIE
Trying to find a video, Breaker. I hear they've got the best selections in town.
BRANDON
Best selections in town my ass. They ain't got shit here.
RONNIE
Hey Hines. I've got a hot date tonight and I need a good date movie. Where's Titanic at?
Brandon and Jesse groan.
EDDIE
Titanic? A good date movie? What the hell are you on?
RONNIE
It's a chick flick. Chick flicks are good date movies.
JESSE
It's a good death movie.
EDDIE
It's 194 minutes of pure imaginative crap. Chances are, this girls has seen the movie fifty-thousand times anyway. So I'd suggest you get a good date movie like, Sweet November or Save the Last Dance.
RONNIE
Look, you Dawson's Creek wannabe Breaker piece of shit, I don't want no damn Sweet November or Save the fucking Last Dance. I want Titanic, now where is it?
EDDIE
Take a wild guess. We don't have a shit section, otherwise it'd be there. so it must be in the drama section.
RONNIE
(as he walks off) Fucking Breaker faggots.
Brandon and Jesse look at Eddie.
JESSE
Are you going to sit there and take that shit from him?
BRANDON
Yeah, I say you pull out your knife and shove it up his ASS.
EDDIE
(cutting Brandon off) No man. I can't do that. Rosa might fire me.
BRANDON
Unbelievable. Un-fucking-believable.
Ronnie comes back to the counter. Brandon reaches under his coat.
RONNIE
Hurry up.
Ronnie slams the tape down. Brandon pulls a knife out and shoves it into Ronnie's sleeve, pinning it to the counter. Ronnie gasps.
RONNIE
What the--
BRANDON
(cutting him off) Now if you don't get your Preppie, Tommy Hilfiger licensed ass out of here, I'm going to gut you and feed you to the other Preppies at the school.
Ronnie tears his sleeve from the knife and runs out of the store. Eddie, Jesse, and Brandon all laugh at Ronnie and high five each other.
CUT TO: Comic Book Heaven. Hours later. Dave sits behind the counter. Eddie stands on the other side. Eddie puts a stack of comic books down. Jesse and Brandon are in the back, looking at the Anime videos.
DAVE
Help her move in! What the hell, man? You guys playing house now?
EDDIE
She doesn’t want to live with Kyle and her cousin anymore.
DAVE
What? Their boffing disturbing the little princess?
EDDIE
Dave, don’t be that way.
DAVE
Eddie man, tell me something. Is that pussy so great that you are willing to throw away your boyz and your morals?
EDDIE
Dave---
DAVE
Oh yeah, that’s right. You guys haven’t done it yet. I find that disturbing considering when we were in school, she screwed every guy in the student body and probably some of the teachers too.
Eddie picks up a comic book and throws it at Dave.
EDDIE
Just ring up the fucking comic books.
Dave scoffs. He begins ringing up the comic books.
DAVE (Under his breath)
Asshole.
EDDIE (under his breath)
Dick. (normal tone) Why are you being this way, man? Can’t you see the serendipity in Lucy and I being together?
DAVE
Seren-what?
EDDIE
Fate, Dave.
DAVE (stops ringing up the comic books)
I see a lot of things. I see you are betraying us because of that Preppie--- (stops himself) girlfriend of yours. For what you’re doing, you should be expelled from the Breakers.
EDDIE
You sound like someone out of Star Wars or something.
DAVE
You were our Yoda, man. Now you’re down to Anakin status for what you are doing with that Preppie.
EDDIE
Well, I guess I’m bringing balance to the Force, Dave.
Dave sighs and continues ringing up the comic books.
EDDIE
Like I said. Serendipity.
Dave is really frustrated now. The door opens and a customer comes in.
CUSTOMER
Do you guys have a copy of Batman # 497 or Superman # 75?

DAVE
Bitch, does this look like a motherfucking comic book store to you?
The customer looks around and shrugs his shoulders.
EDDIE
Check in the back.
The customer walks to the back of the store.
EDDIE
What was that about?
DAVE
Do you know what those two comics are going for?
EDDIE
I don’t know. A lot?
DAVE
Yeah. A lot. A big fucking lot.
EDDIE
Really? I wonder where mine are.
DAVE
If we have them, they definitely wouldn’t back there with the two dollar comics.
Eddie looks around. 
EDDIE
Tawnie doesn’t work today?

DAVE
She’s taking the day off. She wants to spend the day with her new boyfriend. Hayden Picard, a Preppie.
EDDIE
Really?
DAVE
Looks like you’ve started a trend, Eddie.
Eddie sighs.
DAVE (hard sigh)
Look Eddie, I’ll help you move her out of that hell hole, but you’ll owe me big time bro and I mean big time.
EDDIE
Thanks man.
CUT TO: Eddie's house.
Eddie, Jesse and Tobey help move her stuff into the guestroom. Dave and Brandon sit on the steps drinking beer.
DAVE
I can't believe Eddie's dick us like this.
BRANDON
Hey man, Eddie's just trying to bury his melon. After he boffs her, he'll leave the Preppie bitch.
DAVE
He isn't like that, Brandon. He isn't smart enough. 
Eddie carries a big box of movies into the house. Loud Limp Bizkit music starts to sound next door. Kyle's truck drives up to his house. Kyle and Katie get out of the truck. Kyle has his Fred Durst costume on and Katie is in the world's smallest and tightest clothes.
KYLE
Katie, please shut the hell up!
KATIE
I don't believe it. They fucking forgot my birthday.
KYLE
Please shut up!
Kyle and Katie walk inside the house. Tobey is holding a box and walking through the living room. Kyle eyes widen with anger.
KYLE
You Breaker fag! What are you doing in my house?
KATIE
Get his Elton John ass out of here.
KYLE
Pulls out a gun.
TOBEY
Shit!
Tobey runs off and Kyle runs after him. Tobey runs out the side door, with Kyle right after him.
TOBEY
It's his time of the month the Preppie bitch is pissed and he's got a gun.
The Breakers and Lucy look over to see Tobey running. Kyle fires at Tobey and misses. Tobey drops to the ground.
BRANDON
Shit!
JESSE
Let's get the bastard.
DAVE
Last fucking straw!
The three Breakers pull out their guns and shoot at Kyle, all three missing him. Eddie grabs Lucy and takes her into the house. Kyle and the Breakers have their guns on each other.
KYLE
I'll shoot the flamer.
JESSE
And we'll shoot you.
Kyle cocks his gun. Jesse, Brandon, and Dave cock theirs.
JESSE
Say your prayers.
Kyle begins to sweat and the Breakers smile.
DAVE
One, two, Freddy's coming for you.
BRANDON
Three, four, better lock your door.
EDDIE
(looks out the door) They're still at it.
JESSE
Five, six, (shoots Kyle in the hand)
Kyle screams and falls back, dropping his gun. Brandon and Dave look at Jesse.
JESSE
I always hated suspense.
BRANDON
Get up Tobey.
Tobey gets up and stands behind his Breaker brothers. Kyle looks up at his enemies who are pointing their guns at him.
DAVE
I think it was you who said a month or so ago, "until next time bitches, It will end differently". Well you were right. This time, you'll die.
Dave starts to cock his gun but a scream stops him. Katie comes running to Kyle's side.
KATIE
Don't shoot him.
DAVE
You're lucky your whore came to your rescue. Otherwise, you'd be dead.
Katie helps Kyle up.
KYLE
Watch your back Breakers. You're dead. You're all dead.
BRANDON
Oh, I'm shaking in my fucking boots.
KYLE
I'll kill you all. One by one.
KATIE
Come on baby.
Kyle and Katie walk back into their house. The three Breakers put their guns away and turn around. Eddie, Lucy and Tobey stand on the steps looking at them.
BRANDON
I ain't studding him.
EDDIE
You guys have started a war.
DAVE
Man, forget that punk. He ain't nothin but talk.
EDDIE
The guy had a gun.
BRANDON
Man's he's just talkin' trash.
EDDIE
Guys, this isn't a game. There isn't anybody playing here. Kyle's a punk, but he's serious.
JESSE
Don't worry about it man.
EDDIE
You guys don't live here! Lucy and I do. He won't shoot up your houses. He'll shoot up mine. I don't go to your neighborhoods and piss people off. I respect the Breaks.
DAVE
Man, you don't respect shit. You don't respect us. You don't respect your brothers. You sure as hell don't respect yourself by going out with that Preppie b---- over there.
Eddie's eyes widen and he runs at Dave and knocks him down. Dave jumps to his feet and punches Eddie in the jaw. Eddie punches Dave in the jaw. Dave swings at Eddie and Eddie catches Dave’s fist and holds it. Dave looks at Eddie with anger in his eyes. Eddie looks back at him. Dave pulls out his gun and Eddie knocks it out of Dave's hand. Eddie grabs Dave's other hand and then kicks Dave down.
EDDIE
I'm sick to goddamn death of this Breaker/Preppie shit. I'm neither. If you guys want to continue that stuff and not grow up, then do it somewhere else, because either way, I'm out.
Eddie turns around and walks into the house. Dave gets up and looks towards Eddie's door. It slams shut. Dave shakes his head in anger. He signals for the other Breakers to follow him. They do.
DAVE
Let's get out of here.
JESSE
Just like that?
BRANDON
He's out?
DAVE
Forget him. I'm the leader now, and we are going to blow those fucking Preppies away if they so much as look at us.
TOBEY
What about Eddie?
DAVE
To hell with Eddie.
Dave and the Breakers walk out of Eddie's yard and down the street. 
CUT TO: Later that Night
Eddie and Lucy lay on the couch. Love Story is on the television. Lucy is asleep. Eddie caresses her head. He kisses her cheek. Lucy moans and opens her eyes.
LUCY
What time is it?
EDDIE
One.
LUCY
(sitting up) Should I go to bed?
EDDIE
No. Let's stay here and cuddle. 
LUCY
No, I should go to bed.
EDDIE
You don't want to stay here with me?
LUCY
It's not that---it's just---
Eddie looks at Lucy's face and he sees his own filling up with fear.
LUCY
Eddie, I can't.
EDDIE
What?
LUCY
If we cuddle, next thing you know, we're kissing, then the next thing you know, we're having sex.
EDDIE
Sex?
LUCY
Don't tell me you never thought about it.
EDDIE
I'm a guy. Of course I've thought about it.
LUCY
Well, there you have it.
EDDIE
What's so wrong with sex?
LUCY
Well, I don't know about you, but I’m a Christian and I'm not supposed to have sex before marriage.
Eddie gets up and walks over to Lucy. He gets down on one knee.
EDDIE
Lucy, will you marry me?
LUCY
Quit joking Eddie.
EDDIE
(getting up) Okay. I'm sorry. Forget it.
LUCY
Eddie, I'm tired. I'm going to bed. (she walks into her room and closes the door)
EDDIE
(softly to himself) Great man.
CUT TO: Tobey's house, the next morning
Eddie sits in the garage with Tobey.
TOBEY
It will probably be all right.
EDDIE
I don't know Tobey. She looked really pissed when I brought it up.
TOBEY
Maybe it's too fast.
EDDIE
Too fast? We've been going out for a month now.
TOBEY
Is sex all you're after?
EDDIE
No.
TOBEY
Is sex the only reason you care for her?
EDDIE
No.
TOBEY
Well, there you have it. 
EDDIE
What?
TOBEY
Don't think about sex when you're with her.
EDDIE
(sarcastically) Thank you for that helpful information.
TOBEY
Well, dammit Eddie. You're a creative guy. You think of something.
Eddie sits and thinks. In the background he can hear Brandon singing a song and playing the guitar. 
BRANDON (singing)
Some of them are hairy
Some of them are bald
Some of them are scary
And this what they are called…
Vagina
Jesse and Tobey start laughing. Eddie's eyes widen. He has an idea.
EDDIE
I've got it.
TOBEY
What?
EDDIE
Have you ever seen Sixteen Candles?
CUT TO: GSU Drama Building/Auditorium
Lucy sits in the audience while actors audition for her movie.
LUCY
Okay. Scene 14, Taylor’s big moment. You be Taylor. I'll be the other characters.
ACTRESS
Okay.
LUCY
(reading the lines) You lost you virginity two months ago and you didn't tell me.
ACTRESS
(acting) Yeah, that's why Chris and I started dating. We were at a part and it just happened, you know?
LUCY
No, I don't know. I don't want it to just happen. I'm waiting, you know that.
ACTRESS
Waiting for what? You and Walker ain't going to get married, and if you do, it's not going to last.
LUCY
Walker is a senior in high school and I graduated last year. We're still very young and so are you. You shouldn't get lost in the moment with someone you met at a party. And as far as getting married, we probably will in the not so distant future, but just not anytime soon.
ACTRESS
Oh please. You have been dating him for two years and he's never tried to get you to sleep with him.
LUCY
He respects me, which is more than I can say for your boyfriend.
ACTRESS
You wouldn't even know. You're a prude who doesn't even know how to have a good time. I'm sick of your goodie-two-shoe way of life.
LUCY
Well, it's getting me places. What are you going to do? You don't have a single goal you want to accomplish. You have no plans.
ACTRESS
I can't think that far ahead. I have to plan for a baby now.
LUCY
How are you and Chris going to support it? you have zero education. You don't even have a job--
ACTRESS
That's not my fault. I was fired.
LUCY
And why was that? You were being lazy and irresponsible.
ACTRESS
It seemed like I was because I took a pregnancy test a month and a half ago. I was worried.
LUCY
I can't believe you didn't tell me. I am your best friend.
ACTRESS
Oh really? Where were you when I was alone, bleeding and burned from the beatings I got from Berry? With Walter, not even thinking of me.
LUCY
He beat you? I told you that day would come.
ACTRESS
(crying) But you didn't notice.
LUCY
I'm sorry. (no longer reading) Okay, that's good. You've probably got the part Alana.
ACTRESS
(smiles) Really?
LUCY
Yeah.
ACTRESS
Cool. (gets off the stage)
LUCY
Okay, see you tomorrow.
ACTRESS
Later. (exits the auditorium)
LUCY
Okay, next.
The intro to The Thompson Twins "If You Were Here" starts playing over the speakers. Lucy looks around. The curtains on the stage open to reveal Eddie and his band (excluding Dave). Brandon is taking Dave's place.
LUCY
(softly) What is he doing?
Eddie starts singing the song to Lucy, slowly making his way toward her. After he stops singing, Eddie kisses Lucy. The guys clap.
LUCY
Eddie, we need to talk.
EDDIE
Okay.
LUCY
Privately.
Eddie and Lucy walk out of the auditorium.
BRANDON
About time he’s gonna tap that ass.
CUT TO: Outside. Eddie and Lucy are standing beside Eddie's car.
EDDIE
Lucy, I'm sorry about last night. I was--
LUCY
(interrupting) Eddie, I know I've told you that I love you, but I only say it not to hurt you because you say it to me.
EDDIE
What?
LUCY
I don't love you Eddie.
EDDIE
What? Why?
LUCY
I only said it not to hurt you because you said it first.
EDDIE
If my memory serves me right, you said if first.
LUCY
Whatever.
EDDIE
What brought this on?
LUCY
I don't know how you feel about sex, but I want to and will wait until marriage. Last night, I just felt like you were wanting to do it. That made me very (pause) uncomfortable.
EDDIE
Lucy, don't do this. You know I respect you and I love you, right? Right?
LUCY
I'm sorry Eddie. I really am.
Eddie stands there staring at Lucy. Both his eyes water. Lucy's eyes water.
LUCY
I'm sorry Eddie.
EDDIE
Love means never having to say you're sorry.
Eddie gets in his car and drives away. Lucy starts crying and drops to the ground.
CUT TO: Eddie's house.
Eddie's car speeds into the driveway. Ronnie is sitting on his steps. Eddie jumps out of the car and walks over to Ronnie.
EDDIE
What the fuck are you doing here?
RONNIE
What's the matter, Eddie? You've lost your buddies and your girl friend dumped you. Damn, you must feel like shit right about now.
EDDIE
(just stares at him)
RONNIE
This will brighten up you day even more. I'm going to be Lucy's date for the Prom. I’ll be doing Lucy hard in the ass, while you're sitting here jacking off.
Eddie pulls his knife from under his shirt and holds it against Ronnie's face.
EDDIE
Get the fuck outta here before I kill you Ronnie.
RONNIE
So violent, aren't you? It's no wonder Lucy wouldn't let you fuck her. (walks off laughing)
Eddie growls and goes inside his house. 
CUT TO: The lake
Eddie sits on the ground, looking at the lake. The lake where he and Lucy first had their deep conversation. where they became friends and not too far from where they became more than friends. Amber walks up and sits by him.
AMBER
I only came because it seemed like it was important.
Eddie just sits there with a morose look on his face. A tear rolls down his cheek.
AMBER
What is it, Eddie?
EDDIE
(still sitting)
AMBER
She broke up with you, didn't she?
EDDIE
(nods)
AMBER
Oh, Eddie. (puts her arm around him)
EDDIE
(puts his arm around her) I'm sorry Amber. I'm so sorry.
AMBER
It's okay Eddie.
EDDIE
(crying) She's gone Amber. She left me.
AMBER
It's okay. It's okay.
Long Pan Back and Fade Out.
FADE INTO: Reiner’s- About a month later. Eddie and Amber sit in a booth. Eddie still looks down in the dumps because of he and Lucy breaking up. Amber is trying to be his best friend and be there for him. But it is starting to get really hard.
AMBER
How have you been doing?
EDDIE
All right, I guess. I go to work and I go home and sleep.
AMBER
That’s it? What about--- you don’t hang out with Dave and the guys anymore?
EDDIE
No, we got into it not too long before Lucy broke up with me. Dave, Jesse, and Brandon started some stuff with Kyle and the Preppies. Someone’s gonna get killed.
AMBER
You should start dating again.
EDDIE
Why? Every girl I’ll meet I’ll find something wrong with her and compare her to Lucy and overanalyze our relationship until she gets fed up and I lose her the same way I lost Lucy.
AMBER
How are things going with “The Reaper”?
EDDIE
Currently in Production Hell.
AMBER
What do you mean?
EDDIE
After Lucy dumped me, I called the whole production off. The whole cast’s gone off to other things now.
AMBER
Eddie, you need to get over her. Otherwise, you’re going to lose everything you have.
EDDIE
Yeah, well I’ll always have you.
AMBER
Eddie, my dad wants me to move to California to be closer to him.
EDDIE
Are you going to move?
AMBER
Yes, I am.
EDDIE
You’re leaving?
AMBER
Eddie. My father and I have never truly gotten along. My mom died when I was a young girl. At a time when my mother was most needed by me- when I was transcending from being a girl to womanhood. And I guess I always blamed my father for robbing me of that. I know it wasn’t his fault she died of cancer, but it was easier for me to blame him than it would be for me to blame God or fate or whatever deity exists. This could be my last chance at having a relationship with my father. The only thing that is keeping me here is the love I have for someone that I have loved for as long as I can remember. I loved him when he was a little boy trying to make a Spider-Man movie. I loved him when he was a young boy who would get up every morning at 6:30 and knock at my window and tell me to get up and go down to the lake with him. I loved him the day that young boy, now a young man, drove his mother’s car, against her wishes, all the way up to Aisland, Georgia and picked me up because I got drunk and went off with a guy who was way too old for me to be with. I loved him the day that young man became a man, a man who has always been my best friend and for all that he’s done for me, will always be my best friend.
Eddie realizes it all.
EDDIE
Amber, you and I----
AMBER
He is the only thing that will keep me here.
EDDIE
I can’t, Amber.
AMBER
Eddie, I love you and I don’t want to live without you. But I can’t sit here and watch you hang on to a girl that has done you terribly wrong. I love you and I will always love you, but--- I can’t stick around when you don’t return that love. Now, I feel somewhere deep down inside you, you feel something for me other than friendship. And I’m telling you this. If you realize you are in love with me and do not want me to leave, you have until Monday to tell me. Otherwise, I’m gone.
EDDIE
You’re giving me an ultimatum.
AMBER
Yes.
Eddie sits there for a moment and then he looks at Amber.
EDDIE
Goodbye, Amber.
He gets up and walks out of the restaurant. Amber’s face widens and her eyes tear up.
AMBER
What have I done?
CUT TO: Prom Night. Eddie sits in his dark living room watching Prom Night. It's the final scene. There is a knock on the door. Eddie just sits there ignoring it. The knocking turns to pounding.
BRANDON
(off screen) Open the door, Eddie.
Eddie moans and gets off his pull out bed and opens the door. Brandon, Jesse, and Tobey are standing at the door.
BRANDON
What's up Frankenstein? Day of the Dead, huh?
JESSE
Haven't seen you in a long time man.
TOBEY
How you doing?
EDDIE
It's Prom night and everything's FUCKING all right!
TOBEY
Good to know.
EDDIE
What do you guys want?
JESSE
We've got a surprise for you. But we need to borrow the car.
EDDIE
I'm not driving anywhere.
DAVE
(v/o) No need.
Jesse, Brandon, and Tobey move to reveal Dave behind them. Eddie's eyes widen.
DAVE
I'll drive us.
EDDIE
Dave?
DAVE
One and only. Dave, the leader of the Breakers and the boffer of Miss Campbell.
EDDIE
Dave man, I'm sorry about a few weeks ago. I was being a dumb ass. I don't know what to say to make it up to you.
DAVE
It's simple. Get on your knees and suck on deez. (points to his crotch)
The Breakers laugh. Dave holds out his hand and Eddie shakes Dave's hand. Eddie pulls Dave in and they hug each other.
EDDIE
Breakers till the end.
DAVE
That's our leader.
JESSE
Now let's go find some hos.
CUT TO: The Mall
The guys pull up and park. They get out and walk into the mall. The walk into the cd store. The guys all separate and go to different sections. Eddie and Dave went to the DVD area.
EDDIE
So am I the leader again?
DAVE
No. You'll have to do either of three things, and you what they are.
EDDIE
Oh yeah?
DAVE
Kill me, Kill a Preppie, or do two hos at the same time.
EDDIE
I doubt I'll be doing any of those things.
DAVE
Well, a drone you are.
EDDIE
Oh come on. I don't get at least Right-hand Breaker, like you were to me?
DAVE
No. You disowned us, and now you've got to redeem yourself. You know the rules.
EDDIE
Yeah, I know. 
Eddie pulls a DVD off the rack. It's 'Clerks'.
EDDIE
The price on this thing hasn't gone down yet.
DAVE
Let's go man. (he and Eddie leave the store.)
Pan Over To: Brandon flirting with the clerk.
BRANDON
Girl, you look so sweet.
CLERK
Thanks.
BRANDON
Can I eat you?
CLERK
What?
BRANDON
Just kidding. Do you like melons?
CLERK
Yes.
BRANDON
How about I give you this melon? (points to his crotch)
CLERK
(punches him) Jerk.
CUT TO: Food Court. 
Eddie, Dave, and Tobey sit, eating Chinese food. Bags are on the floor by their chairs.
EDDIE
It's eight o'clock. We're supposed to have met here by now. Where are Jesse and Brandon?
DAVE
They're probably molesting dogs in the pet store.
(sound) Loud Crash
Eddie, Dave and Tobey look behind them. Jesse comes running up and jumps behind the table, and hides under it.
EDDIE
What is it?
JESSE
Just shut up! I'm not here.
A security guard runs up to the guys.
GUARD
Did you see a guy run through here?
EDDIE
Did he have a dark blue FUBU hat on?
GUARD
Yeah?
TOBEY
Did he have a black over shirt with dragons and Chinese writing?
GUARD
Yeah.
DAVE
Did he have a big pink bunny costume on with a big ass cigar butt in his mouth and a cat stuck up its ass, singing “I Will Survive”?
GUARD
No.
DAVE
Then, no, we haven't seen him.
GUARD
(walks off mumbling) Damn slackers.
When the guard is out of sight, Jesse gets up from under the table and sits in a chair.
JESSE
That bitch is faster then those motherfuckers on COPS.
EDDIE
Where's Brandon?
JESSE
I don't know. He's probably beating his meat somewhere.
GIRL
(v/o) Pervert (a slap is heard)
Brandon, holding his face walks into the frame and sits with the guys. The guys laugh at him.
BRANDON
Hos man. They ain't worth it.
DAVE
The Great Bran-dean-o loosing his pimping skills?
BRANDON
Fuck you, Dave. (the guys keep laughing) Always hating. You fags are always hating.
TOBEY
You just ain't got skills.
BRANDON
Fuck you Tobey.
Eddie gets up to dump his tray. He looks ahead of him and his eyes widen. “If You Were Here” begins playing in his head as Lucy turns the corner in her Prom dress. Eddie gets lost in her beauty. She looks more gorgeous than ever. All the hate Eddie had for her was gone in that moment. Then Ronnie turned the corner. Eddie’s eyes widen and “If You Were Here” turned into the Psycho- Shower Music.

Eddie’s face fills up with both anger and sadness. Dave and the boys walk up behind Eddie and see Lucy and Ronnie.
DAVE
Oh shit.

BRANDON
Let’s fuck them both up.
Brandon reaches under his shirt, but Eddie grabs Brandon’s arm.
EDDIE
No.
Brandon leaves his gun under his shirt. Eddie looks at Lucy and Ronnie as they walk off. Lucy does not seem to see Eddie, but Ronnie does. He gives Eddie a wicked grin.
EDDIE
Let’s just go.
Eddie and the guys walk out of the mall.
CUT TO: Eddie’s car. Eddie is driving, while the Dave is in the passenger seat and the other three guys are in the backseat.
JESSE
Okay, there’s this married couple and one night after sex, the man gets out of bed and tells his wife he’s going out. The wife says, “the toilet is broken. Can you fix it?” The man says “Do I look like a plumber?” He gets dressed and walks toward the front door. She follows him and says, “My car is acting up. Can you fix it?” The man says, “Do I look like a mechanic?” Then he leaves. He comes back maybe three or four hours later, and his wife is in the living room. She says, “I found a man who’s both a plumber and a mechanic and he fixed both the toilet and my car.” The man says “how’d you pay him? We don’t have no money.” The wife said, “I told him that and he said that I could bake him a cake or I could fuck him.” Then the man said, “So you baked him a cake?” She says, “Do I look like Betty Crocker?”
The guys laugh, except Eddie who has an emotionless look on his face.
BRANDON
Okay, I’ve got one. Which of these doesn’t belong: a blow job, an egg, a woman, and a dick?

TOBEY
An egg?
BRANDON
No. Give up?
DAVE
Yeah, say it.
BRANDON
A blow job.
JESSE
Huh?
BRANDON
You can beat an egg, you can beat a woman, and you can beat a dick, but you can’t beat a blow job.
The guys all laugh again, except Eddie, who still has the same emotionless look on his face. Brandon notices the expression.
BRANDON
What the fuck’s your problem?
EDDIE
Nothing man. Nothing at all.
DAVE
I know you ain’t still trippin’ because of that Preppie bitch and that faggot.
Eddie does not acknowledge his friends’ remarks.
CUT TO: Eddie’s House. The guys walk into the house. Eddie walks into his room and slams the door. The four guys all look at each other.
TOBEY
What’s wrong with Eddie?
INT: Eddie’s room. Eddie stands, throwing darts at his dartboard. With each dart, he starts to crack. He throws the last dart. He growls and picks up his tripod and throws it at the dartboard.
Eddie picks up the tripod and swings it at his desk and knocks all his pictures off. He sees a newspaper on the ground and picks it up. Ronnie’s picture is in the newspaper.
Eddie tears the picture out of the newspaper and puts and tacks it onto his dartboard. He takes all of the darts and stands in front of it.

EDDIE (throwing the darts as hard as he can)
Cock-sucking, motherfucking piece of shit!!!!
He runs over to the dartboard and punches Ronnie’s picture as hard as he can.
EDDIE (punching the picture)
Son of a bitch! Goddamn cunt rag! Preppie asshole! Fuck faced, pussy haircutted pile of shit and spoo!
Dave, Brandon, Jesse, and Tobey run into the room.
DAVE
What the hell’s the matter with you, man?
EDDIE
I hate that bastard, Ronnie Riley.
JESSE
Forget about it man.
EDDIE
Why the fuck did she go with him, guys?
BRANDON
Fuck that bitch, man!
EDDIE
She wouldn’t fucking let me, remember?
TOBEY
Eddie, don’t worry about that bitch. She ain’t worth it.
EDDIE
Tobey, when you get a fucking boner from looking at a girl, and not a fucking dude, then you can talk to me about girls.
DAVE
Eddie! Christ, why can’t you forget about that little bitch?
EDDIE
Because I love her man. I fucking love her and she doesn’t fucking love me back.
The four Breakers just stare at him, silent.
EDDIE
I loved her. I would have done anything for her. ANYTHING! Even blow off you guys, because when we were together I was happy. I had no worries, aside from her finding something wrong with me. One little fucking thing that would cause her to dump me. Well, I guess she found it, because guess what. She dumped me.
JESSE
Eddie, she was just a bitch, man. She wasn’t right for you.
Eddie grabs his hair.
BRANDON
Don’t let that bit---
EDDIE (yelling out)
If you guys call her a bitch one more time, I swear to God I will fuck each one of you up.
DAVE
You don’t have to cough no fucking attitude with us, Eddie! We’re your boyz and you shouldn’t throw away years of friendship with us because of some Preppie trot!
EDDIE
Get out all of you! I have no friends. I don’t need nobody.
JESSE
Eddie, man---
EDDIE
Get out.

TOBEY
Edd---
EDDIE
Get out! I am not a Breaker anymore. I’m not anything. And if I see any of yall near my house again, I will kill you.
All of the Breakers’ eyes widen. They could not believe him. Eddie was dead serious. Tobey’s face crumbled up and he ran off. Jesse, his face with disbelief, walked out of the room.
Brandon stood there and stared at Eddie with a disgusted look on his face.
BRANDON
Fuck you Eddie!
Brandon walks out of the room. Dave stood in front of Eddie.
DAVE
You’re unbelievable, Eddie. You choose her over us. And you don’t even have her.
Eddie stands there, continuing to stare at Dave.
DAVE
Goodbye Eddie.
Dave leaves the room. Eddie sits on his bed and closes his eyes.
FADE OUT.
FADE INTO: Two days later, Eddie sits on his steps, in a morose, almost catatonic state, pulling up weeds from the ground. A shadow appears on him. He looks up to see Katie, dressed nice for once.
KATIE
You are pathetic, Hines.
EDDIE
What do you want?
KATIE
Don’t think I’m turning Breaker, Eddie.
EDDIE
Are you relaying a message from Kyle? I’m not in this damn war anymore.
KATIE
I’m here for Lucy.
Eddie’s eyes widen.
EDDIE
Lucy? What about her?
KATIE
I have never seen Lucy more happier than when you two were together. And I haven’t ever seen Lucy as hurt as much as she was when she broke up with you.
EDDIE
Well it’s her own damn fault. She dumped me. I didn’t dump her.
KATIE
Do you know why she dumped you?
EDDIE
I don’t know. She didn’t love me?
KATIE
No. She did love you. She was head over heels in love with you, Eddie. She dumped you because she thought you wanted to have sex with her.
EDDIE
Jesus Christ. Sex was not what I wanted from her. That was one of the things furtherest from my mind.
KATIE
Well, she thought you wanted to have sex with her and that scared her.
EDDIE
Why is she so scared of sex?
Katie looks at Eddie in a frustrated way.
KATIE
You never heard why she left at the end of our 9th grade year, did you?
EDDIE
No. Why did she?
CUT TO: Comic Book Heaven. Tawnie sits behind the counter. Business seems to have been slow today. She skims through the latest issue of Wizard. Eddie walks through the door. What Katie told him has shocked him.
TAWNIE
Hey Eddie.
EDDIE
Oh, hey Tawnie. Dave isn’t here, is he?
TAWNIE
No. He quit.
EDDIE
Quit? When?
TAWNIE
A few weeks ago.
EDDIE
Well.
Eddie groans and leans on the counter and lightly bangs his head on the counter.
TAWNIE
What’s wrong, Eddie?
EDDIE
In a span of a month, I have lost the majority of my friends. Dave and the guys hate me because of Lucy. Lucy---- oh God. I’ve got to find her. You will never believe what Katie told me about her.
TAWNIE
Do I want to know?
EDDIE
No, you don’t. I’ve got to find her.
TAWNIE
You know Amber is leaving, don’t you?
EDDIE
Yeah.
TAWNIE
And you aren’t going to stop her?
EDDIE
Why should I?
TAWNIE
Oh I don’t know, maybe the fact that you two have been best friends since forever.
EDDIE
I’ve got other things to worry.
TAWNIE
Are they more important than your best friend, Eddie?
EDDIE
If she wants to go live with her father, I’m not going to stop her.
TAWNIE
Eddie! You idiot! She’s not moving away to be near her father! She’s moving away to get away from you!
EDDIE
What? Why?
TAWNIE
She has been in love with you for years and years and all you ever talk about is Lucy this and Lucy that. Eddie, Lucy didn’t love you. Especially not the way Amber did. Notice I’m using the past tense in both cases, because you are such a dumb average male and probably, if you don’t get out of here, you will lose both of them.
EDDIE
Even if I did tell Amber how I feel about her---
TAWNIE
So you do have feelings for her?
EDDIE
Of course I do. She’s been my best friend for almost twenty years and she’s---
TAWNIE
I’m not the one you should be talking to about this, Eddie.
EDDIE
You’re right, Tawnie. But even if I were to go to her and tell her how I feel about her, what then? We kiss? We get together? No, Tawnie. All that we would have is a moment. An awkward moment, because either way, Amber is going to leave, and I will be even more hurt and the inevitable urge to listen to Pink Floyd with a handy bag of razor blades beside me will come along and I’d rather not go there.
TAWNIE
Eddie. Let me tell you a story about a guy I know. This guy was best friends with a girl named Caira and pretty soon, they took the next step and became a couple. They had one glorious night before all Hell broke loose and eventually broke up and they never talked again. This really hurt this guy to an extreme that he does not talk anymore. And I will never forget the last thing Eric said not only to me, but the last thing he ever said. And I will say it to you- “A moment, a single moment, no matter how small it is, a single moment of true happiness and joy is more powerful than a lifetime of sorrow and regret.” Maybe you should heed to our quiet little fanboy’s advice.
EDDIE
Oh my God--- Tawnie, you’re right. I’ve got to go. (heads for the door) Both you and that quiet bastard get free rentals from now on.
Eddie exits the store and runs down the street. Tawnie smiles.
A SHORT MONTAGE OF EDDIE RUNNING AND AMBER WAITING BY THE LAKE.
CUT TO: The lake. Amber stands, waiting for Eddie. She realizes she should not have just dropped this all on him all of the sudden. She knows he probably will not come, but deep down in herself, she feels he will. She looks at her watch. It is time to go.
Eddie comes running through the bushes. He is breathing hard. Amber does not notice him. She starts to walk away.
EDDIE
Amber!
Amber turns around and sees him. Her eyes light up and she smiles.
AMBER
Eddie.
Eddie runs to her. He puts his hands on her shoulders.
EDDIE
Amber, I don’t want you to leave. I love you, Amber. (he hugs her)
AMBER (amazed)
You do?
EDDIE
Deep down, I always have. (they remove their arms from each other) You’ve been my best friend as long as I can remember.
AMBER
Is that the only reason you----
EDDIE
No Amber. I love you. I love the way you’re always there for me. The way you are always honest, even if the truth will hurt. The way you bitch at me when I need it. I love the way you have never been selfish or superficial one day of your life. You are everything to me, Amber. I love you.
Amber’s eyes tear up.
AMBER
Eddie, don’t toy with my emotions. Because my feelings have been toyed with all my life by everybody. Please don’t---

EDDIE
I’m serious. I love you, Amber Parker. I do and always will.
Amber smiles. Then she notices something in Eddie’s eyes.
AMBER
How I’ve always prayed this day would come. But I have been selfish.
EDDIE
What are you talking about?
AMBER
For years, I have prayed and hoped that one day you would fall in love with me. I always knew I was the perfect girl for you. I was stubborn. Then I met Lucy. I see the way she looks at you. The way she treats you. She is the one for you, Eddie, not me.
EDDIE
What?
AMBER
Don’t deny it, she is. You still love her. You should be with her.
EDDIE
But I don’t want to lose you. You are my best friend.
AMBER
You will never lose me. I’ll always be with you. But you must go to her.
EDDIE
Amber, I---
AMBER
---love me. I love you too. However, you wwwill go to Lucy. You must. You two are meant to be together.
EDDIE
But I love you, Lucy--- Amber!
AMBER
See, you love her. You should go to her. Go.

EDDIE
Amber. I hope this does not change things between us.
AMBER
No. Things won’t change. Who knows? Maybe I’ll meet my “one” in California.
EDDIE
Maybe he’ll sit by him on the plane.
AMBER
Yeah. Maybe.
EDDIE
I’m going to miss you, my friend.
AMBER
I’ll miss you, my soul mate. Now go!
Eddie starts to run away. Amber starts to cry.
AMBER
Wait!
Eddie stops and Amber runs up to him. They hug and then they kiss. The kiss lasts about five seconds and then Amber pushes herself away from him.
AMBER
Goodbye Eddie Hines.
EDDIE
Goodbye Amber Parker.
Eddie runs off. Amber begins crying again. But she knows it is what is right.
CUT TO: Lucy’s House. Eddie runs up to the door and knocks on it. No one answers it. Eddie turns the doorknob and opens the door. He runs inside.
EDDIE
Lucy!
There is no answer. Eddie runs upstairs and looks in Lucy’s bedroom. She is not there. Eddie opens the door to her bathroom. Lucy sits in the bathtub. She looks weak. Eddie runs to her and hugs her.
LUCY
Eddie.
EDDIE
Jesus Christ, Lucy, I was worried.
LUCY
What are you doing here, Eddie?
EDDIE
I know, Lucy. Katie told me about what happened in ninth grade, what Tyler and Jeremy did to you. That’s why you’re so scared of sex. The girl in your script is you.
LUCY
They raped me, Eddie. Those bastards raped me.
Lucy starts crying. Eddie holds her.
EDDIE
I know.
LUCY (still crying)
And that asshole, Ronnie tried to rape me the other night.
Eddie’s eyes widen.
EDDIE
He did?
LUCY
Yeah.
EDDIE
Did he try or did he rape you?
LUCY
He tried, but I kicked him in the nuts and then he hit me and left me on the side of the road.
EDDIE (angry)
That son of a bitch.
LUCY
I should have never broke up with you. I should have taken you instead of him.
EDDIE
Don’t worry about it. It’s done. It’s in the past.
LUCY
Eddie, I’m so sorry. I am so sorry, Eddie.
EDDIE
Shh. “Love means never having to say you’re sorry,” remember? A month ago, you and I were laying on the couch, watching Love Story. You remember that?
LUCY (smiles)
Yes. Our last night.
EDDIE
Lucy, I wasn’t trying to have sex with you. I didn’t want to. I mean I want to, but not until you want to. I love you, Lucy and it does not matter if we ever have sex.
Lucy kisses Eddie long and passionately. Then she looks deep into his eyes.
LUCY
I want to.
EDDIE
What?

LUCY
You heard me. I want to make love to you, Eddie Hines.
EDDIE
Now? Here?
Lucy nods and kisses Eddie. They walk into the bedroom.
EDDIE (narrating as the camera pans out the window of the bathroom)
There Lucy and I finally made love. It was really unexpected on my part. It was perfect. I was with the girl of my dreams, the girl I truly loved. And as we made love, I learned Lucy loved me too. We were back together and nothing could tear us apart this time.
SHOOT TO BLACK.
FADE INTO: Eddie and Lucy lay on the bed, asleep. Eddie has his arm around her. They both have the blanket over them.
CUT TO: Later on. Eddie and Lucy stand at the front door, kissing.
EDDIE
I’ve got to go.
LUCY
Okay. I love you.
EDDIE
I love you.
They quickly kiss each other again and then Eddie cavorts to his car. Lucy closes the door and a hand from behind Eddie knocks Eddie down. Eddie looks at his attackers. It is Kyle, Ronnie, Tyler, and Jeremy. They all have knives.
KYLE
Goodbye, Breaker.
Ronnie kicks Eddie in face hard, knocking him out.
SHOOT TO BLACK.
FADE INTO: Outside Eddie’s House. The scene is in Eddie’s P.O.V. Eddie limps over to his door and opens it.
EDDIE (narrating)
When I had awoke, I was in a daze I had no idea what those bastards did to me or that they had stolen my car. All I knew was my face hurt and I had to get to Lucy.
Eddie walks into his bedroom and turns on the light. He sees his reflection and gasps. IN A COOL EFFECT THE P.O.V. SWITCHES FROM EDDIE’S TO THE REGULAR CAMERA P.O.V. His face is scarred and bruised up. The top of his face looks like The Toxic Avenger.
EDDIE
What’d they do to me?!
Eddie looks down and then back into the mirror again. His eyes tear up and he punches the mirror hard. He yells out in pain and grabs his fist. He pulls the pieces of glass out of his hand. He reaches down and wraps a towel around it. 

He looks into the shattered mirror at his reflection and he sees a Halloween mask on his dresser. His eyes fill with anger and he just stares at his reflection.
EDDIE (narrating)
They messed up my face and there I decided I retaliate ten times forward. They wanted a war, well they just got it.
Eddie grabs a black marker and darkens his eyelids. He runs to the closet and puts on a long black coat. He grabs his buckmaster and puts it under his coat. He grabs the Halloween mask and puts it on. He looks in the mirror and then he walks out of the house.
CUT TO: Ronnie driving down the street in Eddie’s car. He stops at a stop sign. He looks at himself in the mirror and fixes his hair. Eddie’s hand comes through the window and punches Ronnie in the face. Linkin Park’s “One Step Closer” begins playing on the radio.
EDDIE
Hey Ronnie.
Eddie jumps into the car, feet first, knocking Ronnie into the passenger’s seat. Eddie drops into the driver’s seat.
EDDIE (turning up the volume)
This is a good song. (puts on his seat belt) Happy Halloween.
Eddie speeds away. Ronnie pulls out his gun and Eddie pulls out his buckmaster and slices Ronnie’s hand, causing him to drop the gun. Ronnie yells out. Eddie punches him and picks up the gun.
EDDIE (putting the gun under his coat)
Thanks. (pause) So, you really want to piss me off, don’t you, Ronnie?
RONNIE
What the fuck are you talking about?
EDDIE
First, you go with my girl to the Prom and then you try to rape her. (punches Ronnie) Then you beat me and scar up my face. (punches Ronnie) Then you steal my car. (punches Ronnie again) Now you tell me, how would you feel if you were in my shoes?
RONNIE
Fuck you!
EDDIE
Fuck me? FUCK YOU!
Eddie slams on the brakes and Ronnie flies through the windshield. Ronnie groans in pain and tries to get up. Eddie gets out of the car and walks over to Ronnie. Eddie kicks Ronnie in the face, sending him back to the ground.

Ronnie punches up at Eddie, but Eddie pulls out the buckmaster and slices Ronnie’s fist. Ronnie yells out in pain and punches at Eddie with the other hand. Eddie shoots Ronnie in his other fist. Ronnie cries out.
RONNIE
Shit!
Eddie grabs Ronnie by his shirt and pulls him up into his face. Eddie pulls the mask from his face.
EDDIE (furious)
Look! Look what you fags did to me!
Eddie headbutts Ronnie, knocking him unconscious. Eddie throws Ronnie down and puts the mask back on his head.
CUT TO: Dave’s House. Brandon and Jesse sit on the couch, both smoking a blunt. Dave walks into the room with his gun. Tobey is sitting in a recliner watching TV.
DAVE
Can’t believe him, man. Chose that fucking slut over us. He fucking turned Preppie.
EDDIE (v.o.)
I’m not a Preppie. I beat up Preppies.
The four Breakers turn around to see Eddie standing in the doorway.
JESSE
Damn, I must be stoned. That comic book dude’s alive and he sounds like Eddie.
DAVE
What’s with the costume?
EDDIE
Gotta fight a war in style.
TOBEY
What war?
EDDIE
The war against the Preppies, Tobey. They struck first (he pulls the mask from his head and the four Breakers gasp) and we’re going to strike back.
BRANDON
Whoa man. Goddamn, now he’s the Toxic Avenger.
DAVE
You’re not one of us anymore, remember?
EDDIE (puts the mask back on)
You goddamn right. I’m the leader.
Eddie pulls out his knife and holds it in front of him. It still has Ronnie’s blood on it. The four guys gasp.
EDDIE
Riley’s blood. He’s not dead. But he’s fucked up, nonetheless.
DAVE
Where is he?
EDDIE
I kicked the shit out of him and then I hug him by legs outside Kyle’s house.
JESSE
Goddamn Eddie.
EDDIE
Tonight is the night, boys. Armageddon. Gather your weapons, cause we are going to take out some Preps tonight.
The four guys jump and cheer Eddie on.
CUT TO: Eddie’s House. Eddie and the Breakers drive up in Eddie’s car. Lucy sits on Eddie’s steps. The guys get out of the car.

DAVE
What’s she doing here?
EDDIE
Just get ready, this will only take a moment.
Eddie walks up to Lucy and the Breakers walk inside Eddie’s house.
LUCY
Eddie. It’s not Halloween. Why are you dressed up? And what happened to your car?
EDDIE
Brace yourself.
Eddie pulls off the mask and Lucy gasps.
LUCY
Jesus Eddie, what happened?
EDDIE
Ronnie, Kyle, Tyler, and Jeremy. After I left your house, they jumped me and did this.
LUCY
Oh God. Are you all right?
EDDIE
Don’t worry about me. What they did to me is nothing compared to what we are going to do to Kyle and his little clique.
LUCY
What do you mean?
EDDIE
Yeah. We’re going to get them back. They want a war and they are about to get it.
LUCY
No, Eddie. Don’t.
EDDIE
What?
LUCY
Don’t do this.
EDDIE
What?
LUCY
Let it go. You don’t have to do this.
EDDIE
Yes I do.
LUCY
No, you don’t. It’s not you. You don’t do stuff like this.
EDDIE
You don’t know me as well as you think you do.
Lucy’s eyes tear up.
LUCY
Please Eddie. Don’t do this. For me. Please, Eddie, do not do this.
Eddie turns around to hide the sadness in his face.
LUCY
I love you, Eddie.
Eddie’s eyes start to tear up.
EDDIE
I have to, Lucy. And if you won’t stand by my decision… then I think we shouldn’t be together.
Lucy’s eyes widen. Eddie closes his eyes.
LUCY
Are you serious?
EDDIE
I’m going to do it, Lucy. You can’t stop me.
Lucy’s face crumbles up and she starts crying.
EDDIE
It’s over, isn’t it?
Lucy wipes the tears from her eyes and she sniffles. She stares hard at Eddie, who’s still turned around.
LUCY
I guess so.
EDDIE
I’m sorry Lucy.
Lucy looks at Eddie with a disgusted look on her face. She cannot believe what Eddie was doing.
LUCY
Love means never having to say you’re sorry, remember?
Eddie’s face crumbles up and he starts to silently cry. He puts the mask back on.
EDDIE
I’m sorry.
Lucy’s eyes widen. She runs off, crying. Eddie shakes his head in sadness.
EDDIE
Stupid, Eddie.
CUT TO: Kyle’s House. Kyle, Tyler, and Jeremy sit in the living room, along with about ten other Preppies. There is a knock at the front door. Kyle gets up and goes to the door.
KYLE
Yo! Who is it?
JESSE (v.o.)
It’s Phillip.
KYLE
Phillip who?
BAM! GUNSHOTS! Bullets come through the door and Kyle hits the ground. The door shoots open and Jesse is standing there with his guns. Brandon is beside him.
JESSE
Feel up these nuts, bitch!
BRANDON
It’s war time, fuckers.
The Preppies, excluding Kyle, get up and run out the door. Dave, Tobey, Jesse, and Brandon start firing their guns at them. Several Preppies go down.
TYLER
Whoa! What’s with the guns?
JEREMY
Yeah, only pussies need guns to fight.
Jesse kicks Jeremy in the face.
JESSE
Shit, I don’t need no gun to kick your ass.
The Breakers put their guns away and fight the Preppies. It starts to rain.
Brandon grabs Tyler and throws him to the ground. Tyler’s leg shoots up and goes into Brandon’s jaw. Brandon falls down and kicks Tyler in the chest.
Jesse punches Jeremy in the face over and over again, until Jeremy gets dizzy and then Jesse does a roundhouse right into Jeremy’s face. Jeremy hits the ground hard. Jesse runs at another Preppie.
A Preppie tries to run out of the yard, but Dave grabs him and throws him back into the fight. He punches him in the face, sending him to the ground.
Tobey punches another Preppie in the face and pushes him into the side of the house. Another Preppie runs at Tobey. Tobey jumps up and kicks off the side of the house right into the Preppie’s face. Eddie throws one Preppie down and looks at Tobey.
EDDIE
Way to go, little bro.
Another Preppie jumps at Tobey, but Eddie grabs him and throws him into his yard and fights him.
Tobey kicks a Preppie in the face and the Preppie falls to the ground. He looks at his Breaker brothers and smiles at the fact that they are winning.
TOBEY
We are kicking their asses. (laughs)
A hand holding a gun comes into frame and points the gun at Tobey’s head. It is Kyle.
KYLE
Goodnight faggot.
BAM! Tobey drops to the ground, dead. Eddie turns around and sees what has just happened.
EDDIE
NO!

Eddie runs towards Kyle and jumps into him, knocking him to the ground. He kicks him in the chest. Kyle drops the gun and punches at Eddie. Eddie grabs Kyle’s fist and breaks his arm. Kyle cries out in pain and tears off Eddie’s mask. He punches Eddie hard in the face. He gets up and tries to punch him again, but Eddie catches the fist and viscously breaks that arm. Kyle cries out and Eddie kicks hard in the right leg, sending him to his knees. Eddie grabs him by the neck and pulls out his gun and puts it to Kyle’s neck.
EDDIE
You bastard!
KYLE (weak)
Do it. Do it! Do it, wigga!
Eddie’s eyes widen and he thinks about Lucy. SCENES MATERIALIZE INTO THE SHOT AS EDDIE HEARS THE VOICES IN HIS HEAD.
LUCY (v.o.)
You’re my soulmate… I love you… Don’t do it… For me… Please, don’t do it… Love means never having to say you’re sorry…
DAVE (v.o.)
… This isn’t going to have a happy ending…. This isn’t a love story, it’s a tragedy…
EDDIE (v.o.)
… a film buff’s life is full of tragedy…
Eddie hesitates and Kyle looks at him.
KYLE
Do it. Do it! DO IT, MOTHER FUCKER!
Eddie smashes the gun into Kyle’s nose. Kyle falls to the ground, unconscious.
EDDIE (narrating)
I couldn’t do it. I was a lot of things now, but I wasn’t a murderer. I realized I was wrong and I had really messed up.
Eddie walks over to Tobey’s dead body and bends down beside him. He takes off his necklace and jacket ad puts it over Tobey’s dead body. Then he puts the necklace on top of Tobey.
EDDIE
Goodbye, my friend.
Eddie stands up and walks off into the rain.
EDDIE (narrating)
“The lord is my Shepard, I shall not want.”
CUT TO: Later on. Police cars and ambulances are everywhere. Lucy runs through cops and paramedics.
EDDIE (n)
“He maketh me lie down in green pastures. He leadth me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul.”
Lucy runs up to Dave, who is being put in the back of a police car.
LUCY
Where is Eddie?
DAVE
He’s gone. He left.
LUCY
Where did he go?
DAVE
I don’t know.
The officer puts Dave in the back of the police car. The officer closes the door and gets in the car. Lucy looks around, hoping to see Eddie, but she does not see him.
EDDIE (n)
“He guideth me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake. Yay though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death. I will fear no evil. For thou art with me.”
Jeremy walks by with an officer.
JEREMY
Eddie’s safe, princess. Remember the code.
LUCY
Code?
Jeremy and the officer continue walking.
LUCY (thinking)
Code? What code? Think, Lucy. Think.
She runs to Jeremy as he is put in the back of the police car.
LUCY
What code, Jeremy?
The officer gets in the car.
JEREMY (softly)
We all have one rule: should an ally or enemy get away, we will never rat them out to the cops. We all abide by that rule, Lucy. Your beau’s safe.
The car drives off. Lucy watches as the car drives away.
MATERIALIZE TO: Hollow, Georgia. Two Years Later. Oak Hill Cemetery. Dave, Brandon, and Jesse stand at Tobey’s grave. They all have on long black coats. One figure stands in the background, far from the Breakers.
EDDIE (n)
“Thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me. Thou preparest a table before in the prescence of mine enemies. Thou anointed my head with oil; my cup runneth over. Surely goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.”
CUT TO: The Rialto. The GFS Film Festival. Lucy sits up in the projector’s room, watching the end of the film, Two Weeks Of Darkness. Lucy yawns in boredom. She turns off the projector and changes the film.

The GFS representative can be heard in the background talking about the director of Two Weeks of Darkness. Lucy loads the film into the projector.
GFS REPRESENTATIVE
Now, the final entry.
Lucy starts the projector and the film starts. The titles on the screen say:
EAS Productions Present
Film Buffs in Love
A Film By Eddie Hines
Lucy’s eyes widen and become glued to the screen. In her head, visions of her and Eddie appear. The visions appear as a montage.
CUT TO: Two hours later. The end of the film. The actor and actress on screen kiss and “Glycerine” starts playing. The screen goes black and “Forgive me, Lucy” come up on the screen.
The lights in the theater come on and everyone claps. A figure in the shadows walks out of the theater and up to the projector’s room. It is Eddie. His face is back to normal. He opens the door and Lucy turns around. Her eyes light up and she runs to him and kisses him. He picks her up and carries her out of the movie theater just like Richard Gere did to Debra Winger in An Officer and A Gentleman.
FADE OUT.
* * *
Shorter, you were right
I’M SORRY
The saga continues in
THEIR LAST SUMMER
Appendix:
This script is dedicated to my friends who were the inspirations for the characters, but most of all, this is dedicated to Sarah
Brandon’s Song by Brandon Hargrove
Eddie’s Script by Eric Hiers
Lucy’s Script by Sarah Shorter
May 24, 2000 – October 18, 2001 (First Draft)
October 26, 2002- October 30, 2002 (Revisions and New Scenes)
October 14, 2002- October 26, 2002 (FanBOYS)