Thursday, August 21, 2008

This Is My Suicide Letter, The Conclusion

INT. MICAH’S BED ROOM - NIGHT
Micah (19) lies on the bed sleeping as the camera speeds up the shot showing Micah sleeping, changing positions and night and day flashing through the window next to him. Every few shots there is Cold standing in different places in the room. The scene culminates to Cold sitting on the side of Micah’s bed running his fingers through Micah’s hair as Micah shivers and cries in his sleep, retching at the hands of the evil one.
FADE OUT.
EXT. TRAIN TRACKS - NIGHT
Micah (19) walks down the tracks throwing stones at the ground as he walks. He is talking to himself.
MICAH
This is real. Come on Micah, Just breathe.
Micah lights a cigarette and continues walking down the tracks.
EXT. BASEBALL FIELD - DAY
He flashes to memory himself at 5 swinging and hitting a baseball off the tee into the infield, as the shortstop fields it and beats him to the bag, then flashes to the coach and him.
MICAH 7
(Wincing in pain and stuttering) I have diarrhea. (All the kids laugh at him.
FADE TO:
INT. CITY STREET - DAY
The old man and woman are on the porch. The woman has died and the man is holding her in his arms and weeping to the air as he cradles her dead body.
FADE TO:
EXT. JIM COURD’S HOUSE - NIGHT
The memory flashes to Micah seeing his dad for the first time, then to the gun as it unloads bullets into Jim’s body, then flashes to the rose dropping onto Micah’s body.
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EXT. OUTSIDE THE BAR - NIGHT
The flashback ends with Micah looking back in slow motion to Ellis who is waving him back, Micah stares then turns and walks away from him. The camera then cuts to Micah’s suicide letter dropping to the bed.
FADE TO:
INT. MAXINE’S HOUSE - NIGHT
Maxine is lying on the couch watching TV
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EXT. HORSE ISLAND - NIGHT
Ellis and Ollie are sitting fishing on Horse Island without Micah, silently sitting.
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EXT. JIM COURD’S HOUSE - NIGHT
Jim Courd is sitting in his family room with his wife, laughing at as they play a board game.
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INT. LIQUOR STORE - NIGHT
The pretty blonde girl is working at the liquor store giving change to a patron buying a bottle of Jack Daniels. She smiles warmly at the man as he walks out the door.
FADE TO:
INT. OLD MAN’S BEDROOM - NIGHT
The old man is sleeping as the camera shows his face on the pillow and a picture of his wife lying on her pillow next to him.
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EXT. TRAIN TRACKS - NIGHT
Micah stops walking in the middle of no where and lies down on the train tracks, putting his head on one of the rails as a headrest. He lights a cigarette and looks to his left where Cold had been, but is now gone. Micah is alone now. A tear rolls down his face as he is shaking in fear, and cold, his hand trembles as he puts the cigarette to his lips. The camera moves into Micah’s eyes again for his thoughts.
EXT. MICAH’S BACK YARD - DAY
Micah (12) throws the football up into the air and runs underneath it to catch it falling onto the ground as if he had been tackled in the end zone, he gets up and jumps up and down in victory and spikes the ball to the ground.
FADE TO:
INT. ELLIS’ CAR - DAY
Micah (19) peers in through the window of a child sitting crying in the backseat of his parents car as the two parents fight. Micah looks intently at the boy.
FADE TO:
EXT. OVERPASS BRIDGE - NIGHT
Micah (7) Micah is back in his Superman pajamas staring over the side of the overpass bridge at the traffic driving below him, he looks over and there is Cold laughing at him.
FADE TO:
EXT. MICAH’S DRIVEWAY - DAY
Micah (9) is staring at the tire tracks in the driveway and looking over his shoulder to his mother who also stares at the driveway.
FADE TO:
INT. CAMPER - DAY
Micah (age 5) and Mathew sit facing each other rocking simultaneously toward each other acting as if they are going to bump heads only to move in a chicken like manner to the side alternating sides with every turn.
MICAH
You ever think about your dad?
MATHEW
All the time, I asked mom about him, she got kinda mad, so I don’t talk about it. Try not to think about it. It won’t help anything.
MICAH
But still, it would be nice to see him.
MATHEW
Yeah, my dad was around before he left, makes it kinda worse to know him then lose him.
MICAH
Yeah.
Micah leans back and starts making shadow puppets on the ceiling.
MICAH
Look, Richard Nixon.
FADE TO:
EXT. TRAIN TRACKS - NIGHT
Micah (19) is smoking and lying on the tracks with tears streaming down his face as he turns his head to the right and sees a train approaching very quickly.
FADE TO:
INT. MICAH’S ROOM - NIGHT
Ellis walks into Micah’s room and goes to his bed and picks up the suicide note and starts to read it.
FADE TO:
INT. OLLIE’S VAN - NIGHT
Ollie is driving away from Micah’s house and he gets a puzzled, and alarmed look on his face, and turns the car heading for the tracks.
FADE TO:
INT. MICAH’S BED ROOM - NIGHT
Ellis throws down the notebook and runs to the door and exits to the outside, only to stand in helplessness outside the door, looking at Micah’s car and out into the distance.
FADE TO:
EXT. CITY STREET - NIGHT
Ellis begins walking down the street back to the Dive bar, where his band is playing still without him or Micah. Jimmy is walking out of the club with Lisa.
ELLIS
Jimmy, you see Micah?
JIMMY
No, he hasn’t been back here.
ELLIS
Alright.
Ellis goes back to the door and exits.
EXT. TRAIN TRACKS - NIGHT
Ollie gets out of his car and starts running down the tracks as fast as he can.
FADE TO:
EXT. TRAIN TRACKS - NIGHT
Micah is staring at the train in the distance as it quickly approaches. He is still thinking of different times in his life.
FADE TO:
INT. PLAYGROUND - DAY
Micah (12) swings the bat and hits the bully in the head with it watching him crumble to the ground.
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INT. ELLIS’S ROOM - DAY
Ellis lights Micah’s armpit on fire as he sleeps sending Micah into a panic to put it out.
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EXT. MICAH’S CAR - DAY
Micah and Cameron are fighting as she grabs her clothes and shoves them into the suitcase in the trunk and grabs the suitcase and walks away.
EXT. TRAIN TRACKS - NIGHT
Micah sees the train approaching very close to him, about 20 feet as the camera flashes from Micah’s face to the train approaching to Ollie running down the tracks and Ellis weeping violently outside the bar. The scene flashes to Micah’s face that has blood on it and to his eyes that are now closed.
MICAH
(Whimpers) Hear me.
FADE TO BLACK.
EXT. POWER LINES - DAY
The scene shows a flock of birds perched next to the shoes on the power line, the birds suddenly fly away.
FADE TO:
EXT. OVERPASS BRIDGE - NIGHT
Micah (7) is looking over the edge of the overpass and then back at Cold who is laughing at him. Micah looks back at the freeway, then back at Cold and he smiles at Cold which causes Colds face to change to bewilderment. Micah then steps up onto the railing and jumps head first in a swan dive off the bridge leaving Cold by himself, smiling.
FADE TO BLACK.
EXT. TRAIN TRACKS - NIGHT
Micah lies there motionless with his eyes closed for a few moments, blood smeared on his face. Micah opens his eyes and sees the train off in the distance about 20 feet away from him rolling by rapidly. He then looks to Ollie who is lying on top of him holding his hand in pain. Micah is puzzled as he tries to make sense of the situation.
MICAH
How did you?
Micah passes out.
FADE OUT.
INT. MICAH’S BED ROOM - NIGHT
Micah is writing in his suicide letter, sitting on the floor leaning against the bed.
MICAH
(Narrated) Ever wondered what your last couple minutes of life would be like? I have wondered this forever, now I know.
Micah sits on the floor of his bedroom just thinking and staring at the wall trying to figure things out.
INT. MICAH’S BATHROOM - NIGHT
He gets up and runs the bath water and grabs a razor blade out of the medicine cabinet and looks into the mirror at his reflection.
MICAH
(Narrating) My uncle Dink used to play with trains before he died. He had his whole basement turned into one big toy train track, and he would sit down there for hours just watching the train travel all around the walls through the trees and then back again. I guess it brought him comfort because you can always count on trains. Maybe it wasn’t the train, that failed me. I had hoped to someday make a hero out of those tracks, to someday kill the clown, and save the world from its ugliness. See the myth is that we are all innocent or even more that any one of us is innocent, you are all on these tracks heading the same direction right here with me. I pass by a group of teenage kids talking in the dark in their back yards, I see priests and pastors praying for themselves, I see an ambulance that is heading my direction on its way to pick up a dead kid, but most of all I see a five year old boy playing catch with himself in the front yard, throwing up the ball and running under it for a touchdown catch and all the glory of celebrating alone, that kid has no idea, that kid is golden, that kid is stupid, that kid loves his mother, he says he hates his brother, but really only says that to his friends to be cool, he has a stuttering problem, that kid is growing up.

Micah sits on the side of the tub staring at the blade as it shines and reflects the light in the room. The bath is full, so Micah gets into the water with his pants still on and lays back into the water.
MICAH
God if you have something to say to me, say it.
Micah closes his eyes and puts the blade to his neck.
FADE TO:
EXT. THE PARK - DAY
This is a vision. It is a beautiful day and Micah is sitting, older now on the grass as a little boy (Micah 3) runs around him laughing in circles. He glances over to his side and sees, the pretty blonde next to him, with the sun shining off her golden hair, she is smiling at him and leans over and kisses him.
FADE TO:
INT. MAXINE’S HOUSE - DAY
Micah (3) is being held by his mother in her arms and being rocked, the scene switches back and forth to him now and him then both being held in his mothers arms, rocking him back and forth as he weeps.
FADE TO:
INT. CHRIS’ ROOM - DAY
The scene shows the rope hanging on the ceiling fan of Chris’ bedroom as Chris walks away from it, grazing Micah’s hand as he walks by smiling at Micah. Micah’s gaze follows him right through the door as he dissolves before his eyes.
FADE TO:
EXT. CITY STREET - NIGHT
The vision goes to the bell tower again as it shows the cross on the church.
FADE TO:
INT. MICAH’S ROOM - NIGHT
Cold and Micah are in his room and Micah is bent over weeping on the ground as Cold stares at him as if he is giving up. Cold is now walking with a cane, and has gobs of blood dripping from his face, his eyes are cut and he looks like he has just been beaten up. Micah looks up at Cold with tears in his eyes, and Cold shoots him a knowing look and a nod and walks through the wall of his room and out of his life. Micah then lifts his head up to the sky and weeps uncontrollably and falls over in weakness.
FADE TO:
INT. BATHROOM - NIGHT
The camera focuses on the blade of the razor as it falls to the ground out of Micah’s hand to the ground clean of any blood.
FADE TO BLACK

Wednesday, August 6, 2008

This Is My Suicide Letter, Part 9

EXT. HORSE ISLAND - NIGHT
The three are sitting on Horse Island just under a tree in a field of popcorn blowing about in the wind. There is so much popcorn that you can hardly see the grass beneath.
MICAH
You believe in God?
ELLIS
Your lookin at him.
MICAH
Then were all pretty much screwed.
OLLIE
Never really gave it much thought, but if there is he sure doesn’t come around here much. Except, for this one time...
ELLIS
Ollie, for the last time, that happened to me!
OLLIE
Yeah but I saw it.
MICAH
Seriously.
ELLIS
Micah why do you care? What would change if there is a God? Would you quit stealing or something?
MICAH
No. I sit in chapel and listen to the generic, car salesman tell us that if Jesus returns before we accept him into our hearts, then we get to roast in hell or something, and never fails, every week there are 30 kids, not including Ollie kneeling down at that step crying for a half hour while all the teachers cry together with them and speak in tongues. Then after it is all over, those same teachers tell me I was the one who broke the bathroom window or crapped in the urinal.
OLLIE
But you did crap in the urinal.
MICAH
I know but they don’t know that when they accuse me. It just doesn’t seem real.
ELLIS
They have no concept of reality, but that doesn’t mean there is no God. Who knows, maybe I am God. And if I am, I’m sending Ollie straight to hell. Let’s go!
The three jump up from there spots on the ground and duck down face to the floor. All three of them have blow guns in their hands and they begin shooting rapid darts at the geese who have come in to eat the popcorn trap the boys have set.
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INT. OLLIE’S VAN - NIGHT
As the three drive home, music plays on the radio and Micah is in shotgun drinking a fifth of peach liquor.
MICAH
Ollie, you want some of this.
Micah looks back at Ollie who is trying to make a dead goose smoke a cigarette. Micah grins and shakes his head.
ELLIS
Micah, your mom say anything about your recent incarceration?
MICAH
Nah, she just kicked me out, this time for good. Good word, incarceration.
ELLIS
Where have you been sleeping?
MICAH
Me and Cameron had been sleeping in my car, till her mom made her leave town.
OLLIE
Micah, it’s cold outside, your going to freeze to death.
ELLIS
Micah, you know you can sleep at my house, you’re acting really wierd.
MICAH
When I think about death, I think about wearing a tie everyday to work, listening to your boss puking orders at you while you are up to your knees in camel crap as it is. I think of all of the people that do the same routine everyday of their lives. They get up, they eat and get ready for their tie, then, they go off to the same job and do the same thing that they did the day before, just to come home and go to bed to do it again. That, my friends, is death to me. I would rather freeze to death in my car.
Camera moves closer to Micah’s face as he just stares out the window.
FADE OUT.
INT. FUNERAL HOME - DAY
Micah walks into the front door of a funeral home and sits down in one of the waiting room chairs. A moment later a young looking girl in a black business suit approaches him and greets him with a warm hand shake.
FUNERAL HOME WORKER
Hi, I’m Diane how can we help you today.
MICAH
(Warmly) Hi Diane, I’m Micah and I need to make some funeral arrangements.
FUNERAL HOME WORKER
I’m sorry, but you have come to the right place. We have some really good deals going on right now. Casket, make-up, service, and burial for $10,000 out the door.
MICAH
(Smiling but in shock as if he doesn’t know if she is joking) That sounds pretty reasonable.
FUNERAL HOME WORKER
We have several different payment options, we take credit card, check, or financing for qualified buyers, although we will need $2,000 due at signing.
MICAH
That's OK, I’ll be paying in cash.
FUNERAL HOME WORKER
OK great. We just need to get some information from you about the deceased.
MICAH
Oh, not dead yet, but soon.
FUNERAL HOME WORKER
OK, do you have any idea how you would like the service.
MICAH
Yeah I thought it would be great if you could just set up a drive through window, so when people came for the viewing they could just pull around and look at me, you know, propped up in the window and pass any flowers or money in through a little shoot by the window, then leave.
FUNERAL HOME WORKER
(Looks in amazement) Um. We don’t...
MICAH
I’m serious. No I’m kidding. No serious.
FUNERAL HOME WORKER
About the casket. How tall is the soon to be deceased?
MICAH
(Checking his own height with his hand) About yay tall.
FUNERAL HOME WORKER
How much does he or she weigh?
MICAH
165 pounds.
FUNERAL HOME WORKER
Boy or girl?
MICAH
Pink caskets for girls, blue for boys?
FUNERAL HOME WORKER
No we set up the flowers differently for different sexes. How do you know the you know.
MICAH
I am he.
FUNERAL HOME WORKER
(Shocked) Sorry, how...
MICAH
Tuberculosis. I was diagnosed with a rare form and it is untreatable.
FUNERAL HOME WORKER
How long do you have?
MICAH
A couple of days. Maybe weeks.
FUNERAL HOME WORKER
You look great.
MICAH
Thanks, so do you.
FUNERAL HOME WORKER
(Blushing) Thanks. What would you like to do?
MICAH
Well maybe some music playing in the background and maybe people can put my limbs in weird positions you know for fun.
FUNERAL HOME WORKER
No, I mean, before you die, what do you want to do?
MICAH
Oh, I don’t know. I’ve been thinking about it lately. I think I would like to go see the ocean, or maybe see old friends and family. Go skydiving. I’ve always been afraid of airplanes, it would be great to jump out of one with no shoot.
FUNERAL HOME WORKER
Does it hurt?
MICAH
Yeah, really bad, I won’t cry though.
FUNERAL HOME WORKER
Is the pain going to get worse?
MICAH
Always does, doesn’t it?
FUNERAL HOME WORKER
I guess it does. Are you scared. Well, I’m and idiot, of course you are, I’m so stupid. I mean how does it feel to know your dying.
The camera closes in on Micah who seems to be pondering this questions very seriously.
MICAH
I’m not really scared. Kinda anxious to get it over with. The hard part is actually dying. Everything else is everyday stuff. I look at things differently, I see the world differently. Every conversation I have could be the last one. When I see someone I know, it may be for the last time. When someone gets mad at me, I don’t get mad, cuz I don’t want to leave on a bad note, then they feel bad about when that was the last thing they said to me. The thought is kind of liberating really. I don’t have to worry about what I am going to do for a living, or pay bills. I don’t have to look for a wife, or worry about raising kids. The pressure is off me, all I have to do is die.
FUNERAL HOME WORKER
How is your family holding up?
MICAH
They don’t know yet.
FUNERAL HOME WORKER
(Shocked) When are you going to tell them?
MICAH
I don’t know. When is a right time to tell your mom that she is about to lose her little baby? I’ve just been putting it off until a better time, but that time has not come yet. I don’t really talk to my family that much.
FUNERAL HOME WORKER
Is there nothing that the doctors can do?
MICAH
Not unless they can give me my life back. I thought about cremation, just getting roasted, then letting the wind blow me away. Kinda fitting for me. But there is something about a graveyard that says, forever. And a headstone, that sums up your life in $100 a letter.
FUNERAL HOME WORKER
I’ve never heard of someone dying of TB anymore.
MICAH
They don’t. There is always something they can do right?
FUNERAL HOME WORKER
No offense but don’t you think you should try harder, or get more opinions or try different medication or something?
MICAH
It doesn’t matter. I’m tired. I’m sick. No matter what the doctors do, I always be those two things. I don’t know, maybe this isn’t a good day to do this.
FUNERAL HOME WORKER
Maybe not, but you know who to see when you are ready. I hope and pray that you beat this and I see you again 20 years from now. You are too young to feel the way you do.
MICAH
I don’t feel young. Thank you for your time, and I will be seeing you soon, whether I can respond or not, I mean to say hi.
Gets up and leaves the girl standing there speechless.
FADE OUT.
EXT. CITY STREET (FALL) - NIGHT
Micah is staggering down the street, with tears in his eyes. He is holding a bottle of booze in his hand, the bottle is almost empty. Micah reaches the train tracks and he stops and pauses before stepping onto the tracks, but as he does he has a look of determination in his eyes, a look as if it really is time. He starts walking at a quick pace, he is breathing very heavy and his hands are shaking, shaking so much the bottle of booze drops and shatters onto the rail of the tracks, Micah can hear a very distant train whistle. As Micah walks he begins to think about different things in his life. He thinks of the home made rockets being launched into the air, the kid he hit in the head with the baseball bat, the old man sitting on the wicker chair on his porch. Cold has appeared behind him, actually having to try to keep pace.
COLD
Where you goin so fast?
Micah does not answer, if fact he doesn’t even acknowledge the presence of Cold walking behind him.
COLD
You don’t think you are actually going to do this do you. You are too afraid. In your whole life you never had the guts to try anything big, what makes you think this time is better. I have given you the opportunity many times and in every case, the same thing happens. You think about it, you almost do it...almost. Then you break down and sob like a little girl. Your a coward.
Micah picks up his step a little more and looks more determined. He thinks of his principle yelling at him, then flashes to his mothers friend zipping up the sleeping bag on him.
COLD
Aren’t you even going to say goodbye to me. I have been with you your whole life, don’t you think you owe me that much, a simple little, “Goodbye dad” Would that be so hard. By now you realize that I am not leaving, I am here for you, and I am not leaving because you are not leaving.
Micah continues on ignoring him. Cold is noticeably deteriorating as he pulls a small chunk of his hair out of his head, his complexion has a bruised look to it, his skin a little more pale, his eyes a little darker and bruised.
COLD
You really are going to do this aren’t you? I can’t believe it, You make a father so proud. Little coward finally listens to his old man.
Micah looks over his right and he can see the cross at the top of the bell tower at the Catholic Church.
COLD
(Looking at the church bell.) Not gonna help you at all. Cathedrals and towers are signatures of man’s arrogance. All of the bricks and mortar, all of the death and bloodshed, these things are mans things, your things. There is no more God in there than out here.
FADE OUT.
INT. CLUBHOUSE - DAY
Micah (12) sits in a large throne-like chair in the center of the club house. There are two guards (Vern and Ryan) standing at each side of him looking out to the front. Outside the club house there are two guards standing at the door guarding as though Micah were a king. Micah is breathing heavy as he looks out the front door, he is building up courage here. He pauses then leaps to his feet.
MICAH 12
Lets go!
EXT. STREET - DAY
Micah, the four guards and about 10 other kids start walking down the street with Micah leading the way. They walk for a while until they get to a park. As they cross the street the camera show a pair of shoes hanging over the electrical wire. They cross the street and meet about 15 kids sitting on a merry-go-round talking. The gang approaches quickly.
MICAH 12
What are you doing?
RIVAL GANG MEMBER
What? Sitting here.
MICAH 12
Exactly. Did you get permission to sit in my territory?
RIVAL GANG MEMBER
Your territory?

Micah points to the shoes hanging on the wire.
MICAH 12
My territory.
RIVAL GANG MEMBER
(Getting up) Your name isn’t written here. I can go wherever I want.
MICAH 12
(Punches him in the face, the kid falls backwards) Now my name is written on you.
The rival gang members gaze at there fallen leader, then at Micah and attack. A large rumble ensues as Micah’s gang (The Brat Patrol) Defeats the rival gang rather easily, leaving only one of the Brat Patrol members (Bobby) lying on the ground after being hit in the face with a plastic bat. During the battle, Micah has a look of rage and hatred as he takes his aggression out on as many kids as possible. The Brat patrol dusts themselves off and begin to leave.
VERN
What about Bobby?
MICAH 12
Leave him. If all he is going to do is cry, I don’t even want to know him.
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EXT. MICAH’S BACK YARD - DAY
Micah, Vern, and Ryan are sitting in chairs with the rest of the kids standing around as Micah instructs some of the younger girls of the day care how to fight each other. Micah has pinned two girls against each other who are not at all evenly matched. He approaches the corner of the older girl.
MICAH 12
OK, I want you to come right out at the bell, and devastate her with a right hand to the nose as hard as you can.
OLDER GIRL
(Nods) OK.
Micah walks to the other side.
MICAH 12
I want you to come out at the bell and just stand there. She won’t know what to do, and she will get confused, and after a minute or so, then heave a left hand at her arm.
SMALL GIRL
What if she hits me?
MICAH 12
She will be too confused to hit you.
SMALL GIRL
OK.
Vern rings the bell and out come the two. The smaller girl just stands there as the larger girl wrecks her in the nose, spurting blood all over her face and dropping her to the ground in a screaming mess. Micah tries to get her to be quiet, but he is unsuccessful as Maxine comes running out to the little girl and comforts her. She hugs the little girl and looks over to Micah who is just staring at the mess he has made of this little girl.
MAXINE
Who are you? Who are you! Your a monster.
FADE TO:
INT. FAMILY CAMPER - NIGHT
Maxine is driving the camper with the boys playing in the back. Micah is 7 years old.
MICAH 7
(Hopping down from the bed above)Mom this is the greatest car ever!
MAXINE
I am glad you like it cuz it is all we have right now.
MATHEW
(13 years old) Can my friends spend the night out here?
MICAH 7
Mine too?
MAXINE
I don’t think so, there isn’t a lock on the back door, I don’t want anyone to steal you.
MICAH 7
How long will we have the camper?
MAXINE
Well at least a couple of months, we are paid up until then.
MATHEW
Then what?
MAXINE
We’ll have to find a different way of getting around, but I think we will have it forever.
Micah smiles.
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INT. MICAH’S HOUSE - DAY
Micah gets up in the morning and throws his clothes on and runs toward the front door.
MAXINE
Where you going?
MICAH 7
To the camper.
Maxine looks sad and just allows him to go.
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EXT. MICAH’S FRONT DOOR - DAY
Micah flings the door open and walks outside to see nothing but the driveway with an oil spot and tire marks leading out of the driveway. Maxine approaches from behind him.
MICAH 7
Mom, what happened to the camper.
MAXINE
Someone stole it last night.
The camera goes to Maxine who is gazing into the street with guilt on her face.
MICAH 7
Why would anyone steal our camper?
MAXINE
I don’t know hunny, but they caught the guys, and we have to go get our stuff out of it.
MICAH 7
Then we can take the camper home too?
MAXINE
No they need it for evidence, anyway, we don’t need that camper anyway, you can walk to school and we can get rides to church.
MICAH 7
Mom, I want it back!
MAXINE
Sorry buddy. There will be other campers.
Micah just looks in disappointment at the empty space in the driveway.
FADE OUT.