Film Script

“Burnouts”

by

Rachel Bonnar

chapter 1

Students are walking into the school gates, a typical ‘popular’ boyfriend (Brad) and girlfriend (Jessica) are standing outside the gate having a heated discussion.

JESSICA

Brad, just tell me what’s wrong!

BRAD: Leave it Jessica.

JESSICA: To make this work we need to communicate with each other, what can I be expected to do if you won’t even talk to me!

BRAD: I know it’s just…

Jessica: Brad, just trust me!

BRAD: (reluctantly)…alright…

Brad stops giving Jessica the cold shoulder and turns his head towards her, eyes staring at the ground.

…It’s just, I love you so much (pause)it scares me.

JESSICA: Awwww Brad.

Brad and Jessica hug each other tightly, just as this happens Amy walks past, looks at the couple and roles her eyes. We follow her down the road where she bumps into Jay, Jodie Becky and Chris. They’re passing round a joint while Jay is half way through a story. The other friends quietly greet Amy while still listening to Jay’s story.

JAY: A couple of g of white rhino some northern some pure THC basically, this is the most weed I’ve seen in a long time,

Amy and Jay exchange a flirtatious smile.

and we put it all into this one batch of brownies. We’ve got 3 massive ones each, and I’ve already had a few j’s so the munchies are hitting me, hard. Im hungry like really hungry, and, I don’t know what im doing so, I eat all of mine.

CHRIS: (laughing) bad idea

JAY: yeh so I turn around to the other guys and they’ve eaten half a brownie each… and they’re like “Dude, what are you doing? You only wanna eat like half and see where it gets you…”… So anyway, I wake up a couple of days later in the same spot on my couch.

CHRIS: (laughing) tell em about the dog

JAY: Oh christ so I wake up in the same spot, still a little stoned, a little dazed and confused. I look up and my sister’s yelling at me. Apparently, while I’ve been out of it my dog’s eaten my last bit of brownie off the table. According to my sister she’s gotten home from work and the dog is just, repeatedly, walking into the walls. Then He’s got up, ran up the stairs, fallen back down them, pissed himself, and then fallen asleep.

All crack up and Jay takes a long toke on the joint. The bell rings to signify the start of the lesson.

AMY: Lessons starting…

None of them move for a while.

BECKY: So was the dog ok

JAY: Yeh he was fine, but I guess he has always been a litle off since then… just weird (long pause)

Wanna go get some munch?

They all nod and mutter in agreement and begin to walk off in the opposite direction to the school gate.

FAde Out:

The End