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- 0:00Speaker 1: Small Block written by Ashley Lauren. Thank you for listening
- 0:04Speaker 1: to Small Block. Please note that there is adult language
- 0:07Speaker 1: throughout that is not suitable for young listeners. Furthermore, there
- 0:11Speaker 1: are a few items that might be triggering for some readers.
- 0:14Speaker 1: These include suicidal ideation discussion, transphobic language, homophobic language, minor
- 0:21Speaker 1: instances of fat phobic language. All phobic language is used
- 0:25Speaker 1: intentionally for thematic reasons. It is not used without thought
- 0:29Speaker 1: or due to either naivete or bigotry. Thank you again
- 0:32Speaker 1: for listening to Small Block. Now onto the show.
- 0:39Speaker 2: Oh hey, cool, you're back. I'm glad I changed my
- 0:42Speaker 2: mind about my dark thoughts for the moment at least.
- 0:46Speaker 2: But now Beck's, my former best friend, is super pissed
- 0:49Speaker 2: at me.
- 0:49Speaker 3: Well, yeah, is that because I'm a girl?
- 0:52Speaker 4: What kind of question is that?
- 0:53Speaker 2: Plus I totally like keV, my current best friend, down
- 0:56Speaker 2: during the Battle of sexes. It's not the way I
- 0:59Speaker 2: envisioned things going.
- 1:00Speaker 5: Yeah, you think at least we get.
- 1:03Speaker 2: To spend home coming weekend at our friend in bandmate's
- 1:05Speaker 2: Dizzey's house. We're still fighting over whether or not to
- 1:07Speaker 2: go to the dance, though not that any of us
- 1:09Speaker 2: have dates yet.
- 1:10Speaker 6: It'll be fun.
- 1:10Speaker 5: We should go. Definitely not going.
- 1:13Speaker 2: I'd like to go, but anyway, we just met Miss
- 1:17Speaker 2: World and her sick DeLorean man. I hope he gets
- 1:19Speaker 2: a ride in it. I could use a win, especially
- 1:22Speaker 2: with my dad on me about girls. In Saint John's BacT.
- 1:25Speaker 1: Two interior, Dizzy's room, morning sun streams in p awakens
- 1:31Speaker 1: Top Bunk. Alone in the room, he listens nothing. He
- 1:36Speaker 1: quietly slips the yearbook from under his pillow. A kleenex
- 1:39Speaker 1: sticks out a makeshift bookmark. He opens to Beck, smiling
- 1:43Speaker 1: with the butterfly. He gazes fondly. He glances at the
- 1:47Speaker 1: DeLorean poster on the wall, then back to Beck's He
- 1:50Speaker 1: trials different ways to ask her the big question.
- 1:54Speaker 2: Do you want to go to the dance with me?
- 1:57Speaker 2: Do you want to go to the dance with me?
- 2:00Speaker 2: Do you want to go to the dance with me?
- 2:03Speaker 2: Do you want to go to the dance with me?
- 2:06Speaker 1: Through the wall toilet plush faucet, Pee quickly returns the
- 2:10Speaker 1: Kleenex with Becks and shoves the yearbook under his pillow.
- 2:13Speaker 1: keV enters from the bathroom an unopened but sweating sprite
- 2:16Speaker 1: and hand backpack in the other what about Cooma at
- 2:20Speaker 1: my funeral?
- 2:21Speaker 5: What it makes sense? You're not killing yourself.
- 2:24Speaker 1: keV opens the sprite, SIPs. Pee reaches keV passes him
- 2:28Speaker 1: the can.
- 2:29Speaker 7: You'll probably like die surrounded by your hat wife in
- 2:31Speaker 7: perfect kids.
- 2:33Speaker 1: Pee takes a long drink, returns the can. He adjusts
- 2:35Speaker 1: his purple beanie worn through the night.
- 2:38Speaker 2: You know the dance might not be so bad.
- 2:41Speaker 7: Please, I'm not going to be the dateless loser in
- 2:44Speaker 7: the corner with his other dateless loser friends while Becks
- 2:46Speaker 7: laughs at me.
- 2:47Speaker 2: She wouldn't laugh at you. I mean I could, I
- 2:51Speaker 2: don't know, like have her hang with us at the dance.
- 2:54Speaker 2: She's super nice?
- 2:56Speaker 5: Yeah you want her to hang with us? Now?
- 2:58Speaker 7: Maybe next time you two can have a heart to
- 3:00Speaker 7: heart and you can tell her how super nice I am.
- 3:02Speaker 1: keV chugs the sprite. He throws the empty can at
- 3:05Speaker 1: the trash. It misses. He sorts through his bag by
- 3:08Speaker 1: his pillow. Pee rolls over, facing the ceiling. He softly
- 3:12Speaker 1: sings guns and roses coma.
- 3:14Speaker 2: Hey, you cut me in a Cooma, and I don't
- 3:18Speaker 2: think Alana ever come back to this.
- 3:23Speaker 1: Pee looks at the closed door. No dizzy glances at
- 3:26Speaker 1: the door again. Deep breath, here goes.
- 3:29Speaker 2: There's some shit that I want to tell.
- 3:31Speaker 1: The door pounds open. Where's my dad's penthouse home?
- 3:33Speaker 7: All?
- 3:34Speaker 1: Dizzy storms into the room, glaring at Pee.
- 3:36Speaker 6: I know you took it from the stack of my parents' bathroom.
- 3:39Speaker 2: Her dad has a stack of penthouses. Did you take it?
- 3:42Speaker 1: keV shakes his head.
- 3:44Speaker 8: All fifty seven issues need to be fifty seven penthouses
- 3:48Speaker 8: in the bathroom, and you never told us everything.
- 3:50Speaker 6: Needs to be fucking perfect, or my dad.
- 3:51Speaker 5: Will be pissed.
- 3:52Speaker 2: I told you I didn't take it.
- 3:53Speaker 6: And I'm telling you you're a liar.
- 3:55Speaker 1: Dizzy grabs Pea's backpack. keV props his pillow behind him.
- 3:58Speaker 2: Don't just my bag, doe.
- 4:00Speaker 1: Dizzy dumps the contents onto the floor. Books cascade out,
- 4:03Speaker 1: followed by clothes and a zip lock with a T
- 4:05Speaker 1: shirt inside. A blue trapper folder falls out, papers, scattering
- 4:09Speaker 1: p rushes to the floor, collecting them.
- 4:11Speaker 2: That's our fucking lyrics man.
- 4:13Speaker 1: Dizzy spots something under PA's pillow. He tosses the pillow
- 4:16Speaker 1: to the floor. He holds the yearbook. Confused, dude, are.
- 4:21Speaker 5: You whacking off to the yearbook?
- 4:23Speaker 1: P Eye's the Kleenex book mark sticking out at the top.
- 4:26Speaker 6: Where are you hiding it?
- 4:27Speaker 1: P jumps up, grabs the yearbook. He lets it fall
- 4:29Speaker 1: to his side, the Kleenex drifting to the floor.
- 4:32Speaker 8: Just put the shit back, okay, and whatever else you're
- 4:34Speaker 8: hiding my dad?
- 4:35Speaker 2: Where is your dad anyway? I'm here like every weekend
- 4:38Speaker 2: and haven't seen him in months.
- 4:40Speaker 1: Dude, outside, Missus D pulls into the driveway.
- 4:43Speaker 2: I've seen your mom working her ass off, though, while
- 4:45Speaker 2: you bitch about how she won't make you bon tet
- 4:47Speaker 2: or ribs or a fucking sandwich.
- 4:49Speaker 1: Dizzy's on the verge of tears.
- 4:50Speaker 7: Some shit should stay inside, bro, It's got to be
- 4:54Speaker 7: perfect when it comes back.
- 4:55Speaker 1: P shakes his head and pushes past Dizzy into the
- 4:58Speaker 1: hallway interior your hallway, living room, kitchen continuous. P walks
- 5:03Speaker 1: towards the kitchen. Missus D quietly closes the front door,
- 5:07Speaker 1: her eyes ringed.
- 5:08Speaker 2: Dark morning, Missus D.
- 5:10Speaker 1: They enter the kitchen, Pee gets water. Dizzy enters quiet.
- 5:14Speaker 8: How's uncle Chris?
- 5:16Speaker 1: Missus D turns to Dizzy, tired a faint smile.
- 5:19Speaker 3: Okay, for now, your boys want omelets anything you want inside.
- 5:25Speaker 1: Dizzy glances at P first and shakes his head. Missus
- 5:29Speaker 1: D hands him three bontete. She winks conspiratorially, I can
- 5:34Speaker 1: make more.
- 5:34Speaker 9: Before he runs out.
- 5:36Speaker 1: P offers Dizzy a cold sprite. He takes it. They're okay.
- 5:40Speaker 1: Interior Dizzey's bathroom. Short time later. P opens a ziplock
- 5:44Speaker 1: in front of the mirror, an impeccably folded ban t
- 5:47Speaker 1: shirt inside sepultura. Beneath the remains, he inspects every milli
- 5:52Speaker 1: leader carefully leaning close, he spots a tiny crumb.
- 5:55Speaker 5: Real quick millimeter, Sorry.
- 6:00Speaker 1: I did. He inspects every millimeter carefully leaning clothes, he
- 6:08Speaker 1: spots a tiny crumb. He brushes until every trace is gone.
- 6:13Speaker 1: Exterior street, Planet VHS. Short time later, the sun shines
- 6:19Speaker 1: brightly on the perfect sepulteur of shirt Pee. Kevin Dizzy
- 6:22Speaker 1: walked towards the Planet VHS parking lot. They each hold
- 6:26Speaker 1: different ice cream treats. keV Flintstone's push Up, Pop Dizzy, firecracker,
- 6:30Speaker 1: Pee drumstick.
- 6:32Speaker 6: Come on, I want to get the crow.
- 6:34Speaker 1: He walks even faster, Pe grins at. Kevin walks even slower.
- 6:38Speaker 1: keV slows in kind. They talk quietly.
- 6:41Speaker 2: The crow soundtrack is so badass.
- 6:42Speaker 5: Why did you say becks could hang with us?
- 6:45Speaker 2: I just meant at the dance if we went, you
- 6:48Speaker 2: brought her up.
- 6:49Speaker 1: keV thinks about it.
- 6:51Speaker 2: We're cool, right, dude, always You're my brother, and yeah
- 6:57Speaker 2: I still like her, just not the same way I
- 7:00Speaker 2: used to.
- 7:01Speaker 1: keV nods thinking. Dizzy notices how far behind they are.
- 7:05Speaker 5: The fuck keV, We.
- 7:06Speaker 8: Just wanted to give you space, and I want to
- 7:08Speaker 8: give you my fat cock.
- 7:09Speaker 5: In your ass.
- 7:10Speaker 2: Ever, consider how tiresome it is hearing gay shit from
- 7:12Speaker 2: you all the time.
- 7:13Speaker 8: Ever, consider HOWRD like you better if your mouth was
- 7:15Speaker 8: full of dicks instead of words.
- 7:17Speaker 1: keV laughs. Pea smacks Kev's arm, but smiles. P Flat
- 7:20Speaker 1: tires Dizzy Dizzy nails to put his shoe back on.
- 7:23Speaker 5: Fucker.
- 7:24Speaker 1: Finally, at the store, pe reaches for the door handle.
- 7:27Speaker 1: Dizzy runs past him, flinging the door open. The door
- 7:30Speaker 1: flies into Pete, knocking his hand. The drumstick mashes onto
- 7:34Speaker 1: his chest, leaving a huge vanilla smear spattered on his shirt.
- 7:38Speaker 2: Fuck you, we.
- 7:40Speaker 8: Gotta go back, you wish looks like Kev's load blasted
- 7:42Speaker 8: all over your chest.
- 7:44Speaker 1: Kevin Dizzy laugh Seriously, Please let's go back interior Planet VHS.
- 7:49Speaker 1: Moments later, Beck stands at the front of the Blockbuster
- 7:53Speaker 1: style video store. Pe tries to hide his shirt, but
- 7:56Speaker 1: nothing doing.
- 7:57Speaker 4: Welcome to Planet VHS.
- 7:59Speaker 3: Pee looks keV dumped a load on your chest.
- 8:01Speaker 4: Reach out if you need me.
- 8:03Speaker 3: VHS stands for very Hospitable Service.
- 8:06Speaker 1: She walks off, smiling. Pea's face burns. Dizzy leans over
- 8:10Speaker 1: the tape return counter, trying to see what just came in,
- 8:13Speaker 1: but it's obscured. P follows behind keV closely China hide
- 8:17Speaker 1: his shirt. The three boys sort through the rows of
- 8:20Speaker 1: tapes on the counter.
- 8:21Speaker 8: Chick flick, chick flick. Seene it ah, chick flick, it's
- 8:25Speaker 8: not fucking in. Thanks for insisting we come here today
- 8:27Speaker 8: instead of yesterday.
- 8:28Speaker 5: Pee, we can do son in Law again.
- 8:32Speaker 1: Dizzy renews his efforts.
- 8:33Speaker 2: Pe pulls a tape naked Gun thirty three and a third.
- 8:36Speaker 6: Anything but Son in Law.
- 8:38Speaker 1: Tapes clunk into the return bin. Dizzy searches for help.
- 8:42Speaker 1: He signals to a manager. She talks into her headset.
- 8:45Speaker 1: Bex arrives. Moments later. P stands behind keV.
- 8:48Speaker 3: Need help, sounding out the titles.
- 8:52Speaker 6: Are any of those the crow?
- 8:55Speaker 1: Pe leans to keV quietly Gotten quarters interior Your Planet
- 9:00Speaker 1: VHS back room. Short time later, a small arcade setup
- 9:04Speaker 1: with a few game cabinets. P alone plays Super Street
- 9:08Speaker 1: Fighter two Turbo. He's Cami, a blond female military fighter.
- 9:13Speaker 1: He fights Gile, a blonde male military fighter. Cami and
- 9:17Speaker 1: Guile battle back and forth, the two blonde fighters looking
- 9:20Speaker 1: like mirrors. As a trade blows, they connect simultaneously with
- 9:24Speaker 1: each other. They collapse double ko. A quarter is placed
- 9:28Speaker 1: by the bottom of the screen. Next, P turns, Becks
- 9:31Speaker 1: is right there, shit.
- 9:32Speaker 4: Hey, now, till yesterday I thought we were still friends.
- 9:36Speaker 1: She inspects P's chin.
- 9:37Speaker 4: M you shouldn't shave your one hair. You look like
- 9:41Speaker 4: a girl without it.
- 9:42Speaker 1: Listen, I'm Beck's pushes in the quarter.
- 9:45Speaker 3: I'll be gentle since your Bodyguarden his gunzel are outside.
- 9:48Speaker 2: That's funny. Sam Spade calls a guide gunzel in Maltese
- 9:52Speaker 2: facl falcon. Sorry, this is like a tong twist. That's funny.
- 9:57Speaker 2: Sam Spade calls a guy a gunzel and Maltese falcon.
- 10:00Speaker 1: Bes stares dead eyed, answers deadpan.
- 10:04Speaker 2: Oh my golly, do you know where I could possibly
- 10:07Speaker 2: rent such a film? Listen I'm an idiot.
- 10:11Speaker 1: Beck's hits start short time later. Pe and Beck's eye
- 10:15Speaker 1: the screen intensely. Cammi pee flips, Blanca becks, a green
- 10:20Speaker 1: manimal grabs and bites her. Ko bes wins, t Zep
- 10:25Speaker 1: almost went around, though she checks her watch.
- 10:27Speaker 4: Seven minutes left, three or five.
- 10:29Speaker 1: Pe glances toward the door. No sign of keV. Deep breath.
- 10:34Speaker 2: This is kind of embarrassing, But is it about the shirt?
- 10:37Speaker 4: Bit fucked up?
- 10:37Speaker 3: You'd show with my favorite album looking more like Beneath
- 10:40Speaker 3: the Seaman.
- 10:41Speaker 2: But I'll forgive you for that.
- 10:43Speaker 1: He looks at his beneath the remain shred with the
- 10:45Speaker 1: huge ice cream splotch. He turns to the door, still
- 10:48Speaker 1: no sign of keV.
- 10:50Speaker 2: It's not the shirt. I wanted to ask listen, that
- 10:55Speaker 2: wasn't me yesterday. I mean, it was obviously me, but
- 10:58Speaker 2: not like the real the real me. You wouldn't do that,
- 11:02Speaker 2: Oh yeah, because it looked.
- 11:04Speaker 5: Like you the fuck dude.
- 11:07Speaker 1: keV shoots P a loaded look from the doorway.
- 11:09Speaker 3: Eight whole minutes without pee, postpartum much.
- 11:13Speaker 5: Maybe I wanted to see you flowers over there.
- 11:16Speaker 3: Please, I'm busy kicking P's ass.
- 11:18Speaker 1: At least I think it's p. There's a debate. P
- 11:22Speaker 1: avoids both their eyes. He stares into his reflection in
- 11:25Speaker 1: the game screen.
- 11:26Speaker 2: It's not what you think, dude. We just went a
- 11:27Speaker 2: few rounds with everything yesterday. You know, I didn't want
- 11:30Speaker 2: her to feel bad.
- 11:31Speaker 1: Beck snatches her remaining quarter as she leaves. Beck's wait,
- 11:35Speaker 1: guess this one.
- 11:36Speaker 4: Isn't the real you either, Right, she's gone.
- 11:39Speaker 1: P stares at the door.
- 11:41Speaker 5: Not like you used to, huh.
- 11:43Speaker 1: Interior Planet VHS. Moments later, P and keV midchat find
- 11:48Speaker 1: Dizzy at the wall of the crow boxes.
- 11:50Speaker 2: She called next, she.
- 11:51Speaker 5: Can call whatever the fucks she wants. You don't have
- 11:53Speaker 5: to play.
- 11:55Speaker 1: keV walks a couple of aisles over. Pe calls after him.
- 11:57Speaker 2: Who doesn't continue playing. When someone calls neck.
- 12:00Speaker 6: Forty seven fucking boxes and not a single goddamn actual tape.
- 12:03Speaker 6: It I knew we should have come yesterday.
- 12:05Speaker 1: keV rapturously brings the box for son in law.
- 12:09Speaker 7: May, I suggest, son in lawge, it's featuring the lady
- 12:11Speaker 7: of my dreams, Miss Carla Gugino.
- 12:13Speaker 5: I'd rather shoot myself in the butthole. You like it?
- 12:16Speaker 6: I used to like it?
- 12:17Speaker 9: Oh God.
- 12:19Speaker 1: A distressed video. Clerk runs past the boys, tearing towards
- 12:22Speaker 1: the bathroom. Dizzy turns to Pete, who peers over the
- 12:25Speaker 1: aisles looking for Becks.
- 12:26Speaker 6: Isn't there anything else?
- 12:28Speaker 5: You want?
- 12:28Speaker 6: Something more filmy or whatever?
- 12:30Speaker 2: You know, what I heard is pretty good? The crying
- 12:33Speaker 2: game brow either of y'all seen it?
- 12:35Speaker 1: No Peace spots Becks talking to a tall, thin woman
- 12:38Speaker 1: with a VCR case. The woman's short skirt shows her midriff,
- 12:42Speaker 1: yellow flower in her hair.
- 12:44Speaker 7: So, I'm sorry, short shirt shows hrt middrift.
- 12:48Speaker 1: Yes, I was wondering how her short skirt show. As
- 12:53Speaker 1: I was saying it, I'm like, how does that work?
- 12:59Speaker 1: I was like, okay, Pea Spots Becks talking to a tall,
- 13:02Speaker 1: thin woman with a VCR case. The woman's short shirt
- 13:06Speaker 1: shows her midriff, yellow flower in her hair.
- 13:09Speaker 6: So this ira A girl's gonna fuck this girl?
- 13:11Speaker 2: Right?
- 13:12Speaker 5: Irn guy? But great?
- 13:13Speaker 10: Oh that's such a director thing to do.
- 13:18Speaker 5: But that was so good.
- 13:25Speaker 6: So this ira A guy is gonna fuck this girl right.
- 13:29Speaker 1: Beck smiles broadly, almost beaming. She points at a shelf.
- 13:32Speaker 1: The woman turns, revealing her face Miss World, Miss World
- 13:36Speaker 1: surprise turns. She waves. The boys approach fourteen fifty for
- 13:41Speaker 1: the weekend.
- 13:42Speaker 3: Returns for the VCRs are inside the store.
- 13:44Speaker 4: I'm here Sunday.
- 13:45Speaker 3: If you wanted to hand it directly to me, anything else,
- 13:48Speaker 3: I may.
- 13:48Speaker 1: Help you with no thank you, becks reach.
- 13:53Speaker 4: Out if you need me.
- 13:54Speaker 3: VHS stands for a Very Hospitable Service.
- 13:57Speaker 1: Beck smiles wistfully. Reluctantly, Lee leeves Pea's eyes follow Dissey
- 14:02Speaker 1: tries to locate the Dolorean out the store window.
- 14:05Speaker 2: So lucky that we came today. I thought any more
- 14:09Speaker 2: about a ride. Our parents will be at the homecoming
- 14:11Speaker 2: game later we're playing Saint John's. You could meet them.
- 14:14Speaker 2: They'll tell you no big deal and we can go
- 14:16Speaker 2: for a ride there.
- 14:17Speaker 7: God, I'd love to see everyone from school. Look at
- 14:19Speaker 7: you ride around with a hot chick blasting pantara.
- 14:22Speaker 2: My parents will buy you a Freedo pie.
- 14:24Speaker 1: Miss World smiles, can't tonight it. Dizzy turns back to
- 14:28Speaker 1: the shelves.
- 14:29Speaker 11: It's fun talking music and you all seem nice. But
- 14:33Speaker 11: a ride's a bad idea. I'm an adult.
- 14:36Speaker 6: It's weird.
- 14:37Speaker 1: Peace face falls here it is. Dizzy holds up the
- 14:40Speaker 1: box to the crying game.
- 14:42Speaker 8: So, like I said, this IRA guy is going to
- 14:44Speaker 8: fuck the school, right, It's like any normal, boring sex
- 14:47Speaker 8: scene tits or whatever.
- 14:48Speaker 6: But then the camera.
- 14:49Speaker 8: Keeps going down and she has a fucking dick.
- 14:53Speaker 1: P and keV both stop what they're doing.
- 14:55Speaker 5: They show it.
- 14:56Speaker 1: Dizzy nods. Miss World listens intently.
- 14:58Speaker 8: She hot should be on dudes, plus, it should have
- 15:01Speaker 8: been huge. If you want to shock people, what does
- 15:03Speaker 8: the guide deal?
- 15:04Speaker 6: Hits her in bukes obviously.
- 15:06Speaker 1: Miss World's eyes circle the group. keV bursts out, laughing.
- 15:12Speaker 5: I'm sorry.
- 15:16Speaker 2: Then we go again, Pease.
- 15:20Speaker 1: keV bursts out laughing.
- 15:23Speaker 2: Aceventure is so smart.
- 15:25Speaker 1: Miss World steps in taking the tape from Dizzy.
- 15:28Speaker 11: Tomorrow morning, same house, Yes, deal, for real, promise eleven am.
- 15:34Speaker 5: I want to talk to your parents first, though, Sweet,
- 15:37Speaker 5: I'll wear my Metallica shirt. No, my Primus shirt again. No,
- 15:41Speaker 5: maybe my nine inch nail shirt.
- 15:42Speaker 2: You brought four shirts, but only one pair of underwear.
- 15:45Speaker 5: Five shirts.
- 15:46Speaker 1: Miss World puts the crying game back on the shelf.
- 15:49Speaker 5: Rent something else.
- 15:51Speaker 1: Dizzy points to the tape in her hand that the crow.
- 15:54Speaker 1: She displays her tape Peggy Sue.
- 15:56Speaker 11: Got married tomorrow At eleven, she leaves.
- 16:00Speaker 8: Shit, holy shit, I'm going to ride in the Dolorean tomorrow.
- 16:04Speaker 2: I can't even imagine what it'll be like to actually
- 16:06Speaker 2: be inside it.
- 16:07Speaker 1: keV waits till she's at the register, then quietly picks
- 16:10Speaker 1: up the crying game. He looks at P and Dizzy shrugs.
- 16:13Speaker 1: Pe gazes at Beck's cheerful smile as she rings up
- 16:16Speaker 1: Miss World Interior Planet VHS checkout. Moments later, Diszy checks
- 16:22Speaker 1: the tape return one last time. Becks works one of
- 16:24Speaker 1: two registers. P and keV wait for the other. Only
- 16:28Speaker 1: one customer ahead, but their video clerk, the same one
- 16:31Speaker 1: who ran by earlier, shifts back and forth uncomfortably. P
- 16:35Speaker 1: picks up a Cadbury cream egg from the discount bin.
- 16:38Speaker 5: Oh those don't deserve to exist.
- 16:40Speaker 2: I like the center.
- 16:42Speaker 1: Dizzy returns, the customer leaves. Their clerk turns to Becks.
- 16:45Speaker 5: Oh God, this new medification.
- 16:47Speaker 1: I can't hold it.
- 16:49Speaker 2: Cover me.
- 16:50Speaker 1: The boys look to Becks's register. She smiles sweetly at them.
- 16:54Speaker 1: Moments later, tapes slide across the counter. P adds the
- 16:57Speaker 1: cream egg. Shit tastes like butt, you eat butt, Bes
- 17:03Speaker 1: laughs loudly, then stops, abruptly deflating Dizzy. Pe swaps the
- 17:07Speaker 1: egg out for a purple grape tootsi pop. Bex holds
- 17:11Speaker 1: up the crying game. Pe looks at Becks. He adjusts
- 17:14Speaker 1: his purple beanie.
- 17:16Speaker 2: Yeah, let's put it back.
- 17:18Speaker 1: Beck slides it under the counter.
- 17:19Speaker 6: God, damn man, I want to rent two movies.
- 17:22Speaker 1: keV slides son in law across the counter. He and
- 17:25Speaker 1: Pee silently watched. Dizzy stare at it.
- 17:27Speaker 6: Fine, I get to ride in a dolare in. I'll
- 17:30Speaker 6: give you son in law.
- 17:32Speaker 1: P nudges Kevin, congratulations.
- 17:34Speaker 3: Touching a true sacrifice. That'll be a eighty Oh wait,
- 17:40Speaker 3: you guys wanted the crow right.
- 17:42Speaker 4: Guess what my mom just returned.
- 17:45Speaker 1: Dizzy raises his hands to the lord. P gives Becks
- 17:48Speaker 1: a sincere thank you smile, the kind with a sheepish
- 17:50Speaker 1: apology included. Beck smiles warmly. She slides the tape across
- 17:55Speaker 1: the counter. Yentel tense, crowd noise builds getting louder. P
- 18:02Speaker 1: drops his head the exterior homecoming game nearby field evening
- 18:08Speaker 1: peace head raises. Nearby crowd noise floats on the wind.
- 18:12Speaker 1: Pete charges down the field, weaving past Saint John's eighth
- 18:16Speaker 1: grade defenders. All the players are in street close a
- 18:19Speaker 1: playground game. The football floats through the dark night sky,
- 18:23Speaker 1: arcing downwards straight into the hands of the receiver on
- 18:26Speaker 1: the homecoming game mainfield. Simultaneous, the Varsity pond Hill receiver
- 18:32Speaker 1: catches the ball, tears toward the end zone. Bright stadium
- 18:36Speaker 1: lights bathe everything in fluorescent drama. Go pond Hill and
- 18:40Speaker 1: beat Saint John signs on one side. He walks with US.
- 18:44Speaker 1: Saint John's is King and pond Hill. Each ship signs
- 18:47Speaker 1: fill the opposing stands. The receiver cuts sharply, dodges a tackle,
- 18:52Speaker 1: dives touchdown. The pond Hill crowd erupts yes. Cheerleaders scream wildly.
- 19:01Speaker 1: Exterior homecoming game nearby field. Simultaneous, eighth grade girls talk
- 19:06Speaker 1: about anything else as they kind of watch pee in
- 19:08Speaker 1: the team play on a small field away from the
- 19:11Speaker 1: stands spill from the real games. Lights illuminate the play.
- 19:15Speaker 1: Cheers wapped across the night air. Pe turns looks for
- 19:19Speaker 1: the ball. The girls couldn't care less when a defender
- 19:22Speaker 1: tags Britt the QB. The boy who threw the football
- 19:25Speaker 1: to p in the hallway, keV is wrapped on the sidelines.
- 19:28Speaker 5: Come on, brit pe let it out, baby.
- 19:31Speaker 1: Peace Team huddles, Pea scans the sidelines. No becks fourth
- 19:36Speaker 1: and five, last shot. Dizzy's chest heaves, He spits, pe
- 19:40Speaker 1: adjusts his purple Beanie tugs his shirt taut.
- 19:43Speaker 2: Sorry, he's a cough the whole time. God Safeties are
- 19:50Speaker 2: playing close in center. I can't speak.
- 19:53Speaker 5: Sorry, have some water.
- 19:57Speaker 1: I'll have some too.
- 20:00Speaker 2: He's are playing close in center. I'll be free if
- 20:01Speaker 2: I go left.
- 20:02Speaker 5: Sounds good beef, guys.
- 20:04Speaker 7: Those Saint John's faggots are gonna blitz tiff I need
- 20:07Speaker 7: that juice, dance fake.
- 20:08Speaker 5: And go in the middle. Plug the left. Dizzy stop Jack.
- 20:13Speaker 1: Tiffany thick athletic girl at Britz locker before nods.
- 20:16Speaker 3: I'll have that fat fuck nursing my dick when we're done.
- 20:20Speaker 1: Moments later, they line up. Pee crouches ready.
- 20:23Speaker 5: To bluefore too hot.
- 20:26Speaker 1: Pea sprints, Dizzy, mirrors and blocks Jack at the line
- 20:29Speaker 1: of scrimmage. Britt drops back in the pocket. Tiffany plants
- 20:33Speaker 1: her feet and wraps her arm around Dan. She hurls
- 20:35Speaker 1: him to the ground. Dizzy slimps, collapsing into the dirt.
- 20:39Speaker 1: Jack's free. He runs through the gap. Dizzy left open.
- 20:42Speaker 1: Brit sees Jack getting closer, his arm goes back to throw.
- 20:46Speaker 1: Dizzy scrambles on the ground, lunges his craning fingers grasp
- 20:50Speaker 1: Jack's ankle. Jack tumbles brits free Pee buttonhooks. The ball
- 20:55Speaker 1: sails through the air. It's wide left. Pee leaps extending
- 20:59Speaker 1: his arm. Got it.
- 21:01Speaker 5: Fuck yeah, bitch p.
- 21:03Speaker 1: Runs safety scramble from the middle. They're too far. Touchdown, peace, cheer.
- 21:10Speaker 5: Now interference.
- 21:12Speaker 6: That was clean.
- 21:13Speaker 5: Jack, you lost, no way, he's he's dirty. We win you.
- 21:17Speaker 9: Saint John's fucks think you're owed everything.
- 21:20Speaker 5: That's what we're doing. You got caught.
- 21:22Speaker 6: Get over it, you and your bitch.
- 21:25Speaker 5: He nods it.
- 21:26Speaker 1: Dan. You want to go, bitch keV charges onto the field, Yeah.
- 21:30Speaker 7: Let's go, motherfucker. I'll scull fuck you so hard. Archaeologist
- 21:33Speaker 7: will think they've discovered a new fuck.
- 21:38Speaker 5: Oh no, that was perfect the way it was.
- 21:40Speaker 8: Yeah, what happened to you?
- 21:42Speaker 1: You want to go, bitch keV charges onto the field.
- 21:45Speaker 5: Yeah, let's go, motherfucker. Oh skull fuck you so hard.
- 21:48Speaker 7: Archaeologists will think they've discovered a new species.
- 21:52Speaker 1: Saint John's team laughs.
- 21:53Speaker 6: Archaeologists, me and your school is stupid.
- 21:55Speaker 5: Beating your ass though.
- 21:57Speaker 1: keV points to the giant scoreboard above the real field.
- 22:00Speaker 1: Pond hills ahead seventeen to seven. P runs over one
- 22:04Speaker 1: of the Saint John's players, trips him, Pee tumbles. He
- 22:07Speaker 1: stands fixing his purple beam.
- 22:09Speaker 5: Damn boy, don't I know you from the buffet?
- 22:13Speaker 6: I've seen less jigl Angello.
- 22:15Speaker 5: Guess there is always room.
- 22:17Speaker 1: The Saint John's team laughs. P looks down his soft
- 22:21Speaker 1: belly's partially exposed his shirt rode up in the fall.
- 22:24Speaker 1: He quickly yanks his shirt taut. Jack, Dan and the
- 22:28Speaker 1: Saint John's team leave, cheering. P joins Kevin Dizzy. Dizzy
- 22:32Speaker 1: high fives keV.
- 22:33Speaker 6: Thanks for having my back.
- 22:35Speaker 5: They ain't taking my boys t d away.
- 22:37Speaker 1: keV looks to P, beaming that stay was sick.
- 22:39Speaker 2: No way brit gets that pass off without you.
- 22:42Speaker 1: P extends his fist to Divvy.
- 22:44Speaker 5: P extensisty.
- 22:47Speaker 1: P extends his fist to Dizzy, but before Dizzy can
- 22:50Speaker 1: bump it.
- 22:50Speaker 7: But that catch, though, could you see P from the ground,
- 22:54Speaker 7: It was awesome man.
- 22:56Speaker 1: Dizzy dusts the grass and dirt from his clothes. P
- 22:59Speaker 1: and keV watch as A walks away past the edge
- 23:01Speaker 1: of the light throwing middle fingers to Saint John's exterior
- 23:05Speaker 1: homecoming game nearby field. Moments later, Kevin p walk.
- 23:09Speaker 2: Dizzy earned us that win. That kid's all hard.
- 23:12Speaker 7: You wouldn't have had to save it if he hadn't
- 23:14Speaker 7: fallen in the first place. And brit our class may
- 23:17Speaker 7: think that dude's hot shit, but it's garbage. Motherfucker's never
- 23:20Speaker 7: thrown an on target pass ever. The team owes you
- 23:23Speaker 7: the victory. You you deserve that shit. Fuck those Saint
- 23:27Speaker 7: John's bup puppets.
- 23:28Speaker 1: P E's keV. keV kicks a small rock deep into
- 23:31Speaker 1: the night pond hill for life bitches. keV tilts to
- 23:34Speaker 1: see the stadium lights. Pea studies him.
- 23:37Speaker 5: Next year, we'll settle in the real game. You gonna play.
- 23:41Speaker 7: Maybe maybe you'd be a starting receiver as a freshman.
- 23:45Speaker 5: Who knows how many touchdowns you'd score. Everyone would revere.
- 23:48Speaker 1: You peace silent. He steals a glance at keV.
- 23:52Speaker 5: What's your deal? Seriously, deep breath.
- 23:56Speaker 2: My parents are making me apply to schools for next year,
- 23:59Speaker 2: keV slowly, and if I get in anywhere, I'll be gone.
- 24:04Speaker 5: You want to go?
- 24:05Speaker 2: You're kidding me? Not unless you go?
- 24:07Speaker 1: They i'd the Saint John's eighth grader's laughing.
- 24:11Speaker 2: Ugh God, my dad would cream if I got into
- 24:13Speaker 2: Saint John's. Over my dead body though. I told the
- 24:16Speaker 2: Saint John's interviewers that I don't fit in at all
- 24:18Speaker 2: boys joint and that religion has no place in school.
- 24:21Speaker 2: And then I quoted Jesus Saves Slay.
- 24:24Speaker 7: Here you quoted those religious fucks Slayer.
- 24:29Speaker 2: I tanked the interviews at every school.
- 24:31Speaker 5: Dude, there's such a bro dude.
- 24:33Speaker 1: The whistle blows halftime shit.
- 24:37Speaker 5: I told my dad i'd find him before halftime.
- 24:39Speaker 2: Want me to come with Kev's silent. I don't get it.
- 24:41Speaker 2: When I see him, He's super nice to me, and
- 24:43Speaker 2: then he yells because you're on the phone with me
- 24:45Speaker 2: and all the other shit you tell me, he says,
- 24:47Speaker 2: would have to change for that asshole to like me.
- 24:49Speaker 1: keV laughs bitterly. He walks away, singing Metallica's Disposable Heroes.
- 24:54Speaker 5: You will do what I say when I say.
- 24:59Speaker 1: Pecked the exterior homecoming game stands. Short time later, P
- 25:04Speaker 1: locates his parents in the stands. Dad nods at the field.
- 25:08Speaker 12: Could be you. Next year, girls love football players. Hopefully
- 25:11Speaker 12: you'll be on the other side.
- 25:13Speaker 2: Though, I just go to touchdown with the guys, but
- 25:15Speaker 2: Saint John's jerks pulled bs and said it didn't count.
- 25:19Speaker 12: Don't hide behind excuses. Leave an opening and your opponents
- 25:22Speaker 12: will find a way to crawl out. Seal the deal.
- 25:26Speaker 12: Girls love football players. I wanted to play football, sweat
- 25:31Speaker 12: passion the guys.
- 25:33Speaker 9: Girls love rock stars too.
- 25:36Speaker 12: If they play real music.
- 25:38Speaker 1: P looks down he sees Beck's head toward the concessions.
- 25:42Speaker 2: Need drinks, corn dogs, terry peace.
- 25:45Speaker 1: Mom pulls out a crisp twenty dollars bill. She shuffles
- 25:48Speaker 1: through other twenties until she finds the most wrinkled one.
- 25:50Speaker 1: She hands it to Pee, saving the crisp one. Pean
- 25:53Speaker 1: nods to Dad freedo pie. Make sure they slather the
- 25:57Speaker 1: chili and cheese. I don't want to be able to
- 25:59Speaker 1: see on it. And a soda bucket. They got big Red?
- 26:03Speaker 12: Really the hell's wrong with big Red?
- 26:06Speaker 1: Pete turns to Mom.
- 26:08Speaker 9: Course, please, how about a cream soda? Harris go with
- 26:11Speaker 9: him for the beer.
- 26:13Speaker 1: Bexs is halfway to the concessions alone.
- 26:15Speaker 2: I want to make it easy on you both.
- 26:17Speaker 12: Wouldn't you prefer a cream soda?
- 26:19Speaker 1: Mom opens her wallet.
- 26:21Speaker 9: I'll put this twenty away.
- 26:23Speaker 1: Moments later, Pee and Dad head toward the concession stand.
- 26:27Speaker 12: Christine's wedding is Sunday. If you need to get clothes
- 26:30Speaker 12: or anything tomorrow for.
- 26:31Speaker 1: The dance, I get a date.
- 26:32Speaker 2: I'll let you know.
- 26:33Speaker 12: Chad. You know his uncle grown up. He couldn't find
- 26:38Speaker 12: anyone to take the dances at your age, not in
- 26:40Speaker 12: high school either, could have had anyone too, running back,
- 26:45Speaker 12: Good luck in That guy wasn't till much later he
- 26:48Speaker 12: found people he jibed with like him.
- 26:53Speaker 2: Get what I mean, I'm a loser and I won't
- 26:56Speaker 2: find anyone until I'm older.
- 26:58Speaker 12: No, what this guy was.
- 27:01Speaker 1: Dad looks around, then leans in clothes. He's, uh, he
- 27:06Speaker 1: likes I like girls, Dad.
- 27:09Speaker 12: Of course, of course I was just checking in, not
- 27:13Speaker 12: that there would be anything wrong with you didn't like
- 27:16Speaker 12: girls the nineties. You can be anything these days. Yeah,
- 27:21Speaker 12: when you lean when you lean in, can you give
- 27:22Speaker 12: me more of a quiet voice. Yeah, he's I don't
- 27:27Speaker 12: wake the baby and.
- 27:28Speaker 7: Just say to you on the of course, of course,
- 27:30Speaker 7: like and of course, of course I was just checking in.
- 27:33Speaker 7: It's like, thank you God, thank you God, thank you God,
- 27:35Speaker 7: thank you God.
- 27:40Speaker 5: He's uh, he.
- 27:43Speaker 1: Likes I like girls, Dad, Of course, of course.
- 27:46Speaker 12: I was just checking in, not that there would be
- 27:50Speaker 12: anything wrong if you didn't like girls. It's the nineties,
- 27:54Speaker 12: you can be anything these days.
- 27:56Speaker 1: Up ahead, he can just make out the back of
- 27:59Speaker 1: Becks's head.
- 28:01Speaker 12: I guess it's not so bad, go and stag. Plenty
- 28:04Speaker 12: of unbridled phillies.
- 28:05Speaker 5: Around, Jesus Christ.
- 28:07Speaker 2: Phillies.
- 28:08Speaker 12: Yeah, phillies. What do you call them?
- 28:10Speaker 5: Chicks? What about?
- 28:12Speaker 7: Her?
- 28:13Speaker 1: Dad points out a thin girl high school freshman junior.
- 28:19Speaker 12: Her.
- 28:20Speaker 1: He points out a more age appropriate, but even thinner girl.
- 28:24Speaker 2: Not for me. She thinks metal sucks.
- 28:27Speaker 12: That music's holding you back.
- 28:30Speaker 1: Her dad points out the thinnest girl yet, a cheerleader.
- 28:35Speaker 2: That's literally the varsity cheerleading captain.
- 28:37Speaker 12: Really, that's short taken Preston Jacobs makes sense. QB's always
- 28:44Speaker 12: get the girls. Muscular, but not too muscular. Handsome must
- 28:50Speaker 12: be a DNA thing. You ever see an ugly quarterback
- 28:54Speaker 12: and they're never fat, another benefit of playing.
- 28:57Speaker 1: He tugs the corners of his shirt. Taught Beck's is
- 29:00Speaker 1: just ahead. Pe pee wheels. Mister Welch approaches with a
- 29:05Speaker 1: large covered box.
- 29:07Speaker 10: Tough break yesterday, I shouldn't have spoken so openly in
- 29:10Speaker 10: front of the class.
- 29:11Speaker 6: Seen Becks around.
- 29:13Speaker 10: It's okay, and I know well, I doubt she's hiding. Okay,
- 29:17Speaker 10: gotta finish setting up the UH halftime surprise.
- 29:21Speaker 1: He motions to the box.
- 29:22Speaker 5: He carries hope you enjoy. Mister Richards Welch.
- 29:27Speaker 1: Nods and smiles of Dad, then leaves.
- 29:29Speaker 12: Doctor Richards, You uncouth fuck. I'd bet money that Saint
- 29:33Speaker 12: John's make sure their teachers know the station of their students' parents.
- 29:37Speaker 12: Who's Becks.
- 29:39Speaker 2: Beck's Bech's dad?
- 29:41Speaker 12: You know who she is, So what's the deal?
- 29:43Speaker 2: Nothing, I just gotta apologize Dad's size.
- 29:47Speaker 12: You gotta be courteous to women, be a mensch, right.
- 29:51Speaker 1: Dad points out different than girls.
- 29:54Speaker 12: Any one of these could be yours. You're just gonna
- 29:56Speaker 12: act right, Dad.
- 29:58Speaker 1: Spot's a larger girl from behind, buying cotton candy. He
- 30:01Speaker 1: doesn't recognize her. He chuckles and points with his thumb.
- 30:05Speaker 12: Some are easier to get than others.
- 30:07Speaker 1: P follows Dad's thumb to see Becks buying cotton candy.
- 30:10Speaker 1: He quickly averts his gaze, focusing on a large locust
- 30:14Speaker 1: shell on the ground. He scratches his whisker almost forgotten.
- 30:17Speaker 1: Be's is gone. Pee looks around. She's nowhere.
- 30:21Speaker 12: Happy belated birthday Mom insisted on the ridiculous ribbon.
- 30:26Speaker 1: Dad hands Pea something. Pe looks upward at him. Exterior
- 30:30Speaker 1: homecoming game. Short time later, Pea's face turns, scanning for Becks.
- 30:35Speaker 1: He walks past the concessions, past the restrooms, past everywhere.
- 30:38Speaker 1: She's vanished. Sighing, Pee turns around. Bex Is right behind him.
- 30:43Speaker 2: Jesus Christ.
- 30:44Speaker 1: Pee jerks Doctor Pepper, sloshing out of his cup and
- 30:47Speaker 1: onto his hand. Beck smiles.
- 30:49Speaker 4: I've been chattowing you for five minutes worth it.
- 30:53Speaker 1: She peers around him as he regains his wits.
- 30:55Speaker 4: No cav he's with his dad. My condolences to both
- 30:59Speaker 4: of them.
- 31:00Speaker 2: You'd like it if you got to know him.
- 31:02Speaker 3: Yes, I've always thought that, pe laughs.
- 31:06Speaker 2: Can I have some of your cotton candy?
- 31:08Speaker 4: Can I have some of your doctor Pepper?
- 31:10Speaker 1: They swap. She makes a face.
- 31:12Speaker 4: Does this diet.
- 31:13Speaker 1: Pa nods, Beck shrugs it off, drinks again.
- 31:17Speaker 4: So I've been tailing your ass? Who we looking for you?
- 31:21Speaker 1: Beck's turns the cup vertical and drains the soda. She
- 31:23Speaker 1: holds it above her mouth so that Pee can watch
- 31:25Speaker 1: the last drops fall in.
- 31:28Speaker 4: Now I'm sad we're alone.
- 31:29Speaker 3: You've been doing such a great job humiliating yourself in
- 31:32Speaker 3: front of people.
- 31:33Speaker 2: That's nothing new.
- 31:34Speaker 3: Mom still talks about Whattroplex.
- 31:36Speaker 2: Just your mom.
- 31:37Speaker 3: Oh, I do too, and my dad and my sisters
- 31:41Speaker 3: some cousins.
- 31:42Speaker 2: Haven't been to a water park since.
- 31:44Speaker 1: Pea smiles. He looks at the bright stadium lights in
- 31:47Speaker 1: the distance. His face shifts.
- 31:49Speaker 2: What just wondering if I'll ever have lights like that
- 31:53Speaker 2: shining on me.
- 31:54Speaker 4: Aren't you planning to play next year?
- 31:56Speaker 2: I mean the band No, it's hell complate to one
- 31:59Speaker 2: point six million people in Russia. Pantara played earlier in
- 32:02Speaker 2: the day and their crowd was over five hundred thousand.
- 32:05Speaker 2: They're from here and they played over half a million
- 32:07Speaker 2: fans going bat shit for their music.
- 32:11Speaker 4: What was that song you wrote me in fifth grade?
- 32:14Speaker 2: Sunshine Heart?
- 32:16Speaker 1: Beck smiles.
- 32:18Speaker 4: I just wanted to see if you still remembered.
- 32:20Speaker 2: Thought i'd forget.
- 32:22Speaker 4: It's not fifth grade anymore.
- 32:25Speaker 2: You know what I remember most about? What troplex?
- 32:27Speaker 3: Bex looks at him like he's a dumb ass shitting
- 32:29Speaker 3: your swimsuit on the lazy river and then duck walking
- 32:31Speaker 3: with an inner tube.
- 32:32Speaker 4: Stuck in your ass so your suit wouldn't fall off.
- 32:34Speaker 2: No one else would have laughed with me, I mean,
- 32:36Speaker 2: no one else would have made me laugh.
- 32:39Speaker 1: Their eyes meet connected, they look deep into each other,
- 32:43Speaker 1: the moment suddenly intimate, close and raw.
- 32:48Speaker 4: I missed you.
- 32:50Speaker 1: He pushes his purple beanie up. He puts a knee
- 32:52Speaker 1: on the ground, raises the cotton candy like a proposal.
- 32:56Speaker 2: Will you go to the dance with me?
- 32:58Speaker 1: Be's is shocked, you can't use my cotton candy. Pe
- 33:01Speaker 1: stands returns to the cotton candy. Boom alone, firework explodes,
- 33:06Speaker 1: painting this guy.
- 33:07Speaker 5: Whoa mister Welcher's surprise.
- 33:10Speaker 1: Boom boom, more fireworks. The glow paints their faces. Pea's eyes,
- 33:15Speaker 1: naked and deep, connect with Becks's.
- 33:18Speaker 2: I think you feel sometimes you're the only one who
- 33:20Speaker 2: knows how special you are, not when we were friends.
- 33:24Speaker 1: Boom boom boom boom.
- 33:29Speaker 4: Okay the dance okay.
- 33:33Speaker 1: Boom boom, boom boom. The finale of the fireworks. They
- 33:37Speaker 1: burst in aggressive beauty. Pee overjoyed screams excitedly. Dear Pee,
- 33:45Speaker 1: Pee turns keV is clearly worse for wear after his dad.
- 33:48Speaker 1: He might have been crying.
- 33:50Speaker 7: Thank got, I thought I was gonna find you with
- 33:53Speaker 7: fucking becks again.
- 33:55Speaker 4: Fucking becks. Huh.
- 33:57Speaker 1: Beck steps from behind Pee. Kev's face dre He looks
- 34:00Speaker 1: like he's been punched. He hurries away.
- 34:03Speaker 4: I take it you didn't mention this.
- 34:05Speaker 3: Yeah, seven tomorrow, if that shit's squared by then.
- 34:09Speaker 1: Moments later, boom, the last few fireworks ignite as keV
- 34:14Speaker 1: stomps ahead.
- 34:15Speaker 2: It's not what you think, Hey, it's not what you think.
- 34:18Speaker 1: keV strides forward without turning.
- 34:20Speaker 7: Yeah, well, every time I turn my back for a
- 34:22Speaker 7: fucking second, you run through her.
- 34:24Speaker 1: You're my best friend, man, swear. keV stops, closes his eyes.
- 34:28Speaker 1: Pee catches up.
- 34:29Speaker 5: Just tell me, man, the truth. Tell me.
- 34:32Speaker 1: P nervously stammers what.
- 34:35Speaker 2: We're just friends?
- 34:36Speaker 5: Do you even like me anymore?
- 34:38Speaker 1: Pee breathes again, relieved, of course, keV laughs bitterly stomps forward.
- 34:44Speaker 5: Can't even be honest with me?
- 34:46Speaker 2: Did your dad fuck you up?
- 34:47Speaker 1: keV wheels on him, eyes ringed red.
- 34:50Speaker 5: I love her, dude, I love her.
- 34:52Speaker 2: Okay, I told you when we're eighteen, I'll find a
- 34:55Speaker 2: way for you to meet carlos man.
- 34:59Speaker 8: X.
- 35:00Speaker 1: keV storms toward their classmates ahead. Pee dazed follows, X,
- 35:05Speaker 1: you think I'm stupid?
- 35:07Speaker 5: Just friends? My ass fucking piling it up with her
- 35:09Speaker 5: like old times.
- 35:10Speaker 7: You're gonna be best friends forever and I'm not gonna
- 35:13Speaker 7: have either of you.
- 35:15Speaker 5: Well, joke's on her because you're chasing me and she's alone.
- 35:19Speaker 1: They reached their classmates, passing around a soda bucket, a
- 35:22Speaker 1: ninety six ounce cup with a handle and lid. James
- 35:25Speaker 1: offers pe the bucket.
- 35:26Speaker 5: Beer, Pe, I'll have some. You fucked us, bro, Just
- 35:30Speaker 5: give me the fucking beer.
- 35:31Speaker 1: Pe nods at James. James gives keV the bucket.
- 35:34Speaker 8: Going to the dance tomorrow, Pee taking two breakfast becks.
- 35:38Speaker 1: PA's head snaps towards Zach. The whole group of boys
- 35:40Speaker 1: erupts in laughter. keV stares at the ground.
- 35:44Speaker 8: Can you imagine Pee going with double quarter pounder with
- 35:47Speaker 8: she's McDonald, Every dance would be a slow dance.
- 35:51Speaker 5: Maybe it's true, you guys are best friends forever.
- 35:54Speaker 1: People's down as Purple Beanie tries to play it cool, as.
- 35:57Speaker 5: If caught you alone with her twice today?
- 36:00Speaker 1: Oo p Eye's keV hurt a moment of guilt than
- 36:04Speaker 1: keV steals himself. James hands Keb the cup of beer.
- 36:08Speaker 1: Classmates laugh and holler. keV tilts his head back, drinks.
- 36:12Speaker 1: Moonlight and floodlights paint peas face different hues interior Dizzy's
- 36:18Speaker 1: room later that night, blue, red, white, yellow light flickers
- 36:22Speaker 1: on Pea's face. Bare Knuckle three, the import version of
- 36:26Speaker 1: Streets of Rage three, a video game on the TV.
- 36:29Speaker 1: The Boss, a ridiculous gay stereotype named Ash, enters the fight.
- 36:34Speaker 1: PA's purple beanie framed face focuses intently on Ashes. Ash
- 36:39Speaker 1: is heavily muscled, black goatee, purple cop hat, black legless leotard,
- 36:44Speaker 1: green stockings that end mid thigh, and women's knee high
- 36:48Speaker 1: heeled boots. A large gold women's symbol medallion hangs from
- 36:52Speaker 1: Ash's neck. Pea plays as blaze fielding badass female cop
- 36:56Speaker 1: in all red miniskirt, boots, crop top.
- 37:00Speaker 5: Sl That's all I'm saying.
- 37:01Speaker 8: I'm sure you could see everything I did wrong from
- 37:03Speaker 8: the sidelines.
- 37:04Speaker 1: Pee tries to ignore them. On screen. He expertly counters
- 37:08Speaker 1: Ash's prancing kicks. Ash laughs effeminately. My stomach Kurtz keV
- 37:13Speaker 1: walks past Dizzy. He covertly rummages in his pillowcase, removes something.
- 37:18Speaker 1: He exits.
- 37:19Speaker 2: You're right. The import version of this game is the shit.
- 37:22Speaker 1: Dizzy lowers his car magazine and watches the screen. I
- 37:25Speaker 1: kick this fagots ass light every day Blaze wins. Ash
- 37:29Speaker 1: lies on the ground and sits up sobbing outside. A
- 37:32Speaker 1: car starts and drives off. Pee pauses the game, freezing
- 37:36Speaker 1: Ash on the ground.
- 37:37Speaker 2: Mid cry, your mom's leaving this late. Dissy stares at.
- 37:40Speaker 1: The window even after the curtain goes dark.
- 37:43Speaker 6: My dad would have gotten a kick out of him.
- 37:45Speaker 6: He hates homos.
- 37:46Speaker 2: You can fight him now if you want.
- 37:48Speaker 1: P stands, puts the purple grape tootsy pop in his mouth.
- 37:52Speaker 1: Dizzy raises the magazine.
- 37:53Speaker 8: Maybe later if the moot hits, give me a coke too,
- 37:56Speaker 8: not coke interior hallway.
- 37:58Speaker 1: Moments later, P closes Dizzy's door. The bathroom door opens,
- 38:03Speaker 1: keV pulls him inside interior bathroom continuous. P surprised it
- 38:08Speaker 1: doesn't smell bad.
- 38:09Speaker 2: Thought your stomach was fucked up.
- 38:12Speaker 1: keV hands Pa. Penthouse Magazine, August nineteen ninety four. A
- 38:16Speaker 1: black and white photo of a beautiful, dark haired woman
- 38:18Speaker 1: on the cover. You did take it, keV angry takes
- 38:21Speaker 1: a breath to calm himself.
- 38:25Speaker 7: This is a peace offering. I was gonna show it
- 38:27Speaker 7: to you anyway, but I'm showing you now, So listen.
- 38:31Speaker 5: Do you want to look at this?
- 38:33Speaker 1: P shakes his head. keV takes the magazine. keV listens
- 38:37Speaker 1: at the door. No dizzy. He removes a box of
- 38:39Speaker 1: Q tips and a large bottle of hand soap from
- 38:42Speaker 1: under the sink hold this. P hands Pa, a white
- 38:45Speaker 1: first aid kid with a big red cross. He pushes
- 38:48Speaker 1: the magazine deep in the cabinet, replaces the other items,
- 38:51Speaker 1: and shuts the door.
- 38:52Speaker 5: Coming back, P shakes his head.
- 38:55Speaker 2: Grab Dizzy a drink.
- 38:56Speaker 1: keV leaves. P assesses his purple beanie reflect in the mirror,
- 39:01Speaker 1: pulls his shirt taut. He twists his arm looking for definition.
- 39:05Speaker 1: He examines his lone whisker, it's starting to sprout. Minutes later,
- 39:11Speaker 1: Pea's eyes peer out from behind the penthouse first aid
- 39:14Speaker 1: kit and other items on the counter. He idly rubs
- 39:18Speaker 1: his lone chin hair and examines the magazine. Flips through
- 39:21Speaker 1: stops at a pictorial with a man and a woman
- 39:24Speaker 1: He examines the images almost scientifically, almost confused. Quickly flipping through,
- 39:30Speaker 1: he suddenly stops, captivated by two women kissing, Debbie and Drahikza.
- 39:36Speaker 1: His face changes. He crunches through the last bit of
- 39:39Speaker 1: purple shell on the grape Tutsi pop. Finally reaching the center,
- 39:43Speaker 1: he gazes at the two women kissing, his face soft,
- 39:46Speaker 1: his eyes intense, searching no lust. P shakes his arm,
- 39:52Speaker 1: extending and curling his fingers. He turns the page delicately,
- 39:55Speaker 1: attention wrapped, his world existing only within the two women's
- 39:59Speaker 1: gloss paged fantasy interior Dizzy's room. Short while later, Pee
- 40:05Speaker 1: returns to find Dizzy and keV wrestling on the floor.
- 40:09Speaker 1: keV locks in a sleeper hold on Dizzy. Dizzey's face
- 40:12Speaker 1: reddens as he struggles. Finally, he taps keV.
- 40:15Speaker 5: Mate mate a fuck.
- 40:18Speaker 1: keV releases. He opens his sweating sprite.
- 40:21Speaker 5: Drinks start son in law, bitch.
- 40:24Speaker 1: Dizzy reluctantly opens the coke that keV brought.
- 40:27Speaker 5: Him, no wrestling for it was your suggestion. You're gonna
- 40:30Speaker 5: welch now.
- 40:30Speaker 6: I don't want to see that stupid movie again. Back
- 40:33Speaker 6: to the future, fucking please.
- 40:34Speaker 8: In less than ten hours, I get to ride in
- 40:36Speaker 8: a Deloreate of all the cook cars in the world,
- 40:38Speaker 8: I picked the DeLorean to ride in first, and for once,
- 40:41Speaker 8: I'm gonna get what I want and I want to
- 40:43Speaker 8: be hyped as fuck.
- 40:44Speaker 7: Bro, No one cares about that busted ass car outside
- 40:47Speaker 7: of you and Pee. It looks like an industrial fridge
- 40:49Speaker 7: with a windshield. It sucks, Bro, I won I want
- 40:53Speaker 7: to watch son in law. I don't get to marry
- 40:55Speaker 7: Karla in ten hours. You know how much I care
- 40:57Speaker 7: about her. Let me have this. She's the girl of
- 41:01Speaker 7: my dreams, the person I do anything to spend my
- 41:03Speaker 7: life with.
- 41:04Speaker 13: No one else comes close. She'll be an amazing mother.
- 41:07Speaker 13: You know when we get wake up. She's famous. She's
- 41:11Speaker 13: a fucking movie star, and you're nobody. You never will be.
- 41:14Speaker 13: Damn it, Get over it.
- 41:15Speaker 5: Fuck you.
- 41:16Speaker 6: I'm so fucking sick and tired of hearing you can
- 41:18Speaker 6: play all the time like a bitch. I slipped at
- 41:21Speaker 6: the game. I slipped, bitch.
- 41:24Speaker 8: At least I wasn't playing cheerleader on the sidelines. Fuck you,
- 41:27Speaker 8: and fuck Carla. You can't always get what you want.
- 41:31Speaker 1: Dizzy crashes out of the room with the door slamming
- 41:33Speaker 1: behind him.
- 41:34Speaker 5: Fuck, dude, what the.
- 41:36Speaker 1: The door flies open?
- 41:38Speaker 6: Why the fuck am I leaving? This is my fucking room, y'all?
- 41:41Speaker 8: Motherfuckers leave, Get the fuck out now.
- 41:45Speaker 1: Dizzy storms over, kicking the ground under their legs.
- 41:48Speaker 6: Get the fuck out.
- 41:50Speaker 1: Dizzy turns the TV back to bare knuckle three. The
- 41:53Speaker 1: game still paused, the effeminate ash frozen mid sob. Dissy
- 41:57Speaker 1: snatches the controller as P and keV shut out. He
- 42:01Speaker 1: kicks the door shut interior Dizzy's garage. Moments later, P
- 42:06Speaker 1: and keV enter the air is heavy. P sits with
- 42:08Speaker 1: his guitar. He idly plays it as is no amp.
- 42:13Speaker 2: Dizzy should focus on his love life, not yours.
- 42:17Speaker 1: keV slowly slides down the wall until he reaches the floor.
- 42:20Speaker 5: Play Something.
- 42:22Speaker 1: P flips the amp on clean channel neck pickup. He
- 42:26Speaker 1: plays a melancholic, somewhat bluesy lick. keV closes his eyes.
- 42:32Speaker 1: Guitar fills the room with a shared pain. keV flips
- 42:36Speaker 1: off the ceiling light, toggles the string lights lining the room.
- 42:39Speaker 1: The warm glow offers barely more light than candles or
- 42:43Speaker 1: a Christmas tree. keV picks up his bass, turns on
- 42:46Speaker 1: his amp. He plucks a single, rumblings his stained note.
- 42:50Speaker 1: He plays off P, driving the rhythm and weaving a
- 42:53Speaker 1: harmony around P's notes. Kev's groove in places. P plays
- 43:03Speaker 1: a slow, sorrowful lead line. keV adds chords as P
- 43:07Speaker 1: moves in and out of rhythm and lead. Their eyes
- 43:10Speaker 1: connect the way that only can happen with music. P
- 43:14Speaker 1: nods slowly at keV, whose mouth twists slightly. P kicks
- 43:19Speaker 1: to the distortion channel. They play, charged more complex than
- 43:24Speaker 1: during practice, the sound intricate, thoughtful, and their own building
- 43:29Speaker 1: to a furiously beautiful climax. They hit their final notes
- 43:32Speaker 1: in munison. keV leans back, shadows, covering part of his face.
- 43:42Speaker 5: That took my CDs.
- 43:44Speaker 2: You hung up at nine.
- 43:45Speaker 5: Same difference makes he only got the wallet.
- 43:48Speaker 1: Back on clean channel. P plays softly.
- 43:52Speaker 2: You're not Dave Mustaine, you know no Bex was. I'm
- 43:56Speaker 2: Kirk Well, he's still a Metallica.
- 43:58Speaker 5: Yeah, you like me. I had more than Metallica.
- 44:02Speaker 7: Look I get it, I overreacted, my bad bro just
- 44:07Speaker 7: no more becks tonight, okay.
- 44:09Speaker 1: Pean nods a few moments later, How did you know?
- 44:13Speaker 5: Yentel?
- 44:14Speaker 1: keV chuckles quietly.
- 44:19Speaker 7: My aunt told me that one of my parents' last
- 44:21Speaker 7: attempts at patching things up was weekly date nights. This
- 44:24Speaker 7: was when I was almost two, So they went to
- 44:28Speaker 7: Yentel because my dad's an idiot and doesn't know.
- 44:30Speaker 5: Shit about movies.
- 44:32Speaker 7: Midway through, my mom turns to my dad and tells
- 44:35Speaker 7: him she wants to divorce. He stands up in the
- 44:39Speaker 7: middle of the theater, yelling like an asshole.
- 44:41Speaker 5: You've heard him.
- 44:43Speaker 7: People are screaming at him to shut the fuck up.
- 44:46Speaker 7: They can't to stop the movie. Now they're on their
- 44:50Speaker 7: way back to the car. My mom hasn't said anything
- 44:53Speaker 7: since she said she wanted to get divorced. He finally
- 44:57Speaker 7: asks her why, and she says, I can't be myself
- 45:00Speaker 7: with you.
- 45:02Speaker 1: Peace studies Kev's face as he plays I.
- 45:04Speaker 7: Wish I knew what she meant when she wanted to
- 45:07Speaker 7: be but she died the next year.
- 45:12Speaker 5: I watched you until a Lot Now restaurant. She moved
- 45:16Speaker 5: back to Japan. Dad won't give me our number.
- 45:19Speaker 1: keV leans into the light.
- 45:22Speaker 7: Shadow King could be great. You know that shit just now.
- 45:27Speaker 7: People would die for us.
- 45:28Speaker 5: We'd be all over the radio.
- 45:30Speaker 2: Can you imagine looking out from the stage knowing every
- 45:33Speaker 2: single person there is with you, feeling what you.
- 45:36Speaker 5: Feel, thinking we're God's.
- 45:43Speaker 1: Kev's baseline sounds similar to Nirvana.
- 45:45Speaker 7: After a moment, Kraig fucked me up, man, How can
- 45:51Speaker 7: you give that shit up? The adoration and the recognition
- 45:55Speaker 7: he had everything.
- 45:57Speaker 5: Still?
- 45:58Speaker 7: Like you said in Senseless Prints, you can't fight me
- 46:02Speaker 7: because I quit. They could fight him if he walked out,
- 46:09Speaker 7: and they still beat him up. Kurve, fuck me up, man,
- 46:13Speaker 7: How can you give that shit up? The adoration, the
- 46:16Speaker 7: recognition he had everything.
- 46:20Speaker 5: Still?
- 46:21Speaker 7: Like you said in Scentless Apprentice, you can't fire me
- 46:24Speaker 7: because I quit. Fucking rock star move Now they talk
- 46:29Speaker 7: about his genius more than when he was alive.
- 46:33Speaker 1: He stops playing, He tugs at his purple beanie. Kev's
- 46:37Speaker 1: bass provides a dark minor key warmth.
- 46:41Speaker 2: He hurt. Man. I mean, you can laugh with your friends,
- 46:44Speaker 2: or play music toward the world, anything, everything's good. Then
- 46:49Speaker 2: in those moments, the good moments, the pain goes away
- 46:53Speaker 2: until you remember it, and then in the moments between
- 46:57Speaker 2: the laughs, you remember it, and then you can't remember
- 47:00Speaker 2: how to forget it. You can wish you were someone else,
- 47:04Speaker 2: anywhere else, but that's not possible, so you push it
- 47:08Speaker 2: back inside and keep it there, and eventually that's all
- 47:10Speaker 2: that's left. There was something beautiful once, but now it
- 47:14Speaker 2: doesn't exist because there's no more space to hold it.
- 47:18Speaker 5: Well comes to every night in my house.
- 47:21Speaker 1: Pse soft cords ring out as he speaks.
- 47:25Speaker 2: When I was four, I wanted a cabbage patch kid
- 47:27Speaker 2: more than anything. So Christmas morning, I'm tweaking, not knowing
- 47:31Speaker 2: which one I'll get because I've seen neighborhood kids with
- 47:33Speaker 2: all these cool ones, like different hair, different clothes, all
- 47:36Speaker 2: these colors and hairstyles. My friend Sarah had this girl
- 47:40Speaker 2: with an orange jacket and sneakers, and my next door
- 47:42Speaker 2: neighbor Emily had one with like big red hair. All
- 47:45Speaker 2: of them were so bright and exciting and wonderful. Some
- 47:48Speaker 2: I fucking this big wrapped box under the tree while
- 47:51Speaker 2: my parents make coffee. Then my grandparents had to have breakfast.
- 47:54Speaker 2: Is killing me. I don't think we got to presence
- 47:56Speaker 2: ntill like ten thirty, dude, No, I know. Finally I
- 48:00Speaker 2: unwrap it and there it is, like brown hair, blue overalls,
- 48:05Speaker 2: blue checkered shirt. I think he had a red hat maybe,
- 48:07Speaker 2: but I lost it. I hated him. Why would anyone
- 48:12Speaker 2: choose him. He was boring, ugly, but I didn't want
- 48:16Speaker 2: to be ungrateful because I wanted a cabbage Patch Kids
- 48:19Speaker 2: so bad, and I got one, and my mom said
- 48:21Speaker 2: my dad had gone all around town and found the
- 48:23Speaker 2: last boy doll in town. So I pretended I loved it,
- 48:27Speaker 2: But every time I looked at it, like I knew
- 48:29Speaker 2: it could have been better. That's not what I was given.
- 48:35Speaker 2: That was the first time I remember feeling the gray.
- 48:38Speaker 2: It was like I didn't know if the sun still
- 48:41Speaker 2: existed even though it was out. Everything was just cold,
- 48:47Speaker 2: like I'd forgotten what warmth was, and I didn't know
- 48:49Speaker 2: how to remember the sun. Maybe Kurt couldn't remember either,
- 48:54Speaker 2: Maybe all he knew was cold. You gotta know warmth
- 48:58Speaker 2: to feel the sun.
- 49:00Speaker 5: Write that down the last thing right now, sick fucking.
- 49:03Speaker 1: Lyric the folders in the room, keV looks round nothing piece.
- 49:07Speaker 1: He's a notebook by the drum kit. Oh, Dizzy's notebook.
- 49:10Speaker 1: keV rips out a sheet of paper, hands it to
- 49:12Speaker 1: pea interior Dizzy's room. Short time later, Pe returns with
- 49:16Speaker 1: a glass of water. Dizzy and keV begrudgingly coexist there
- 49:20Speaker 1: on the floor, not close but not separate, partially eaten
- 49:24Speaker 1: bontette on plates, almost like a burrito. The tube of
- 49:28Speaker 1: rice rests on the banana leaves. The pork is in
- 49:30Speaker 1: the middle, surrounded by a layer of beans and then
- 49:32Speaker 1: of rice. They watch Naked Gun thirty three and a third.
- 49:37Speaker 1: Kev's eyes stay on the screen. Every so often, Dizzy's
- 49:40Speaker 1: eyes drift to keV. Pe gets a CD wallet and
- 49:44Speaker 1: a yellow sports Discman from his bag on the bunk.
- 49:48Speaker 1: He removes a disc with a white skeletal spiral. He
- 49:51Speaker 1: adjusts headphones around his purple beanie nine inch nails. Eraser
- 49:55Speaker 1: starts insects or aliens, playing instruments made of straws until
- 49:59Speaker 1: the the drum start pounding. Pe gazes at Anna Nicole
- 50:03Speaker 1: Smith on the TV Curvy Beautiful. He carefully takes out
- 50:08Speaker 1: Dad's gift. Two sealed envelopes tied with a bizarre ribbon
- 50:13Speaker 1: guitars alternating with the classic Groucho Marx black glasses, big
- 50:17Speaker 1: nose mustache disguise. First letter is from Green Tree Prep,
- 50:22Speaker 1: second is Saint John's Green Tree. First we regret to
- 50:27Speaker 1: inform p exhales in relief. Jagged guitar's crashing. The song's
- 50:34Speaker 1: vocals start, need you, dream you, find you, taste you,
- 50:41Speaker 1: fuck you, use you, scar you break you. Pee quietly
- 50:48Speaker 1: and meticulously peels open the Saint John's letter. Trembling, He
- 50:52Speaker 1: unfolds the paper and reads congratulations. He closes his eyes slowly,
- 51:00Speaker 1: deep breath scans further. The panel was particularly impressed by
- 51:06Speaker 1: your distinct candor and courage that confirmed you are Saint
- 51:09Speaker 1: John's material above any other factor. The song continues, lose me,
- 51:15Speaker 1: hate me, smash me, erase me. PA's eyes dart above
- 51:20Speaker 1: the letter to his friends. Kevin Dizzy both laugh at
- 51:23Speaker 1: the movie. Resentment fades, smiles turn real. The song echoes
- 51:28Speaker 1: peas thoughts kill me, kill me, kill me. keV blissfully
- 51:34Speaker 1: eats the Vontette motions pe to push his headphones back.
- 51:38Speaker 5: We'll have them at our feet, dude.
- 51:41Speaker 1: P Weekly smiles. He puts the headphones on. Eraser continues,
- 51:46Speaker 1: kill me, kill me, kill me. End deck two, Yeah
- 51:53Speaker 1: Woo