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1.)
(Curlyfry launches into the air in a streak of rainbow, as the still greyed goths watch on, astounded.)
CURLYFRY: Gonna tell.
2.)
(Curlyfry sails down the stairs on a rainbow of justice.)
CURLYFRY: Goooonna tell.
KARL: NO!!
3.)
(Curlyfry accosts young Jack with the horrible revelation.)
CURLYFRY: KARL HAS
A GIRLFRIEND!
4.)
(Karl's all PSH WUT and Curlyfry's all PSH WUT WUT WUT U KNO WUT.)
JACK: What? ...Really?
KARL: No!
CURLYFRY: Yuh huh.
KARL: NO!
5.)
(Karl jerks Jack out of the world of color and back into the bleak world of teenagedom.)
KARL: You stay out
of this!
CURLYFRY: Ye coward.
6.)
(Jack and Karl have a conversation in the corner at the bottom of the stairs.)
KARL: I wasn't really going to--
I was just surprised.
JACK: Yeah but you're not even
talking to me and then this, why am I even here?
7.)
(Karl is a jerk.)
KARL: That's a good question.
JACK: What?
KARL: Nothing.
8.)
(Karl continues to be a jerk.)
JACK: You don't want me to be here?
KARL: God, stop overreacting.
JACK: You’re that afraid of people
knowing you're gay?
9.)
(Things get heated.)
KARL: No! That's not it...
maybe at first but--
JACK: Well what if I tell everyone then?
You won’t care?
KARL: That’s
not it!
JACK: What is it then?!
You think I’ll embarrass you
in front of those boring goths?
10.)
(Things devolve into a shouting match.)
KARL: STOP IT!
JACK: WELL?!
KARL: FINE!
I don’t
want you
here! No one wants you here
playing your stupid kid games!
People only like you because
you bring them drugs!
11.)
(Jack looks a bit horrified as Karl lays into him.)
KARL: I’m not like you, I need real friends,
not just a bunch of heroin addicts. You’d understand that
if you weren’t always so high
to forget how shitty your life is!
12.)
(Jack puts his hand to his face, trying to hold back tears. Karl softens a bit.)
KARL: ...I'm sorry, I didn't... Jack...
13.)
(Karl tries to play it off.)
BERNARD:Dude, Cerise is crying.
What did you do?
KARL: It’s nothing--
I’ll uh, I’ll go
talk to her.
14.)
(Karl rolls his eyes at Jack's ominous statement.)
JACK: Go ahead, I’ll never talk to you
for the rest of my life.
KARL: Whatever.
15.)
(Back in the present, Karl hides his face in shame and Jack wears a wistful expression.)
KARL: *groan*
JACK: --and I kept
my word... |