Practical Magic Page #4

===INT. BOTANICAL SHOP===

You'd think, after 300 years, they'd make up a better ryme.

===EXT. BOTANICAL SHOP===

A Mother:
Really, you troublemaker started this.

Kylie:
I hate you!

Sally:
Put the finger down, Kylie.

Kylie:
I hope you get chikenpox.

Sally:
She was just kidding.

Antonia:
No, she wasn't, Mom. She was not kidding.

Sally:
What's wrong with you? We do not cast and we do not toy with people's lives. Do you understand? This is not a game.

Kylie:
No, you don't cast. You probably couldn't even if you tried! She has all this power and doesn't use it!

Antonia:
I think you really hurt Mom's feelings.

===INT. HOUSE===

Antonia:
Kylie thinks any man who marries us is going to croak.

Aunt Frances:
That's such hogwash. What about your grandparents, Jack and Regina?

Kylie:
grandma Regina died of broken heart, didn't she? How could she do that? Leave Mom and Aunt Gilly behind when they were just little girls?

Antonia:
Why won't she talk about it?

Kylie:
Was Mama good at spells as a girl? Why won't she do spells now?

Sally:
What's going on in here?

Aunt Frances:
Nothing.

Aunt Jet:
Just making toast, is all.

Sally:
Did you guys finish your homework? As stom's coming. Go check the windows for me, Okay. (To Aunt Frances) Making toast? I want you both to watch what you say to those girls. I don't you filling their heads with any of your nonsense, okay?

Aunt Jet:
We'd never tell them nonsense, dear.

Sally:
Good night, sweetie.

==INT. SALLY'S ROOM===

(Sally writes letter to Gillian)

Sally (V.O.) Dearest, Gilly. Sometimes I feel there's a hole inside me an emptiness that, at times seems to burn. I think if you lifted my heart to your ear, probably you could hear the ocean. And the moon tonight, there's a circle around it. A sign of trouble not far behind. I have this dream of being whole. Of not going to sleep each night, wanting. But still, sometimes when the wind is warm or the crickets sing I dream of a love that even time will lie down and be still for. I just want someone to love me. I want to be seen. I don't know. Maybe I've had my happiness. I don't want to believe it but there is no man, Gilly only that moon. (Phone rings) Gillian.

===INT. HOUSE===

Aunt Jet:
It's Gillian.

Sally:
I know.

Sally:
What's wrong?

Gillian:
I'm scared. Can you come and get me?

Sally:
Where are you? I'm taking the first flight out. Watch the kids.

Aunt Jet:
Just go to Gilly. The children'll be fine. We'll take them to the solstic celebration.

Sally:
Why can't you two just stay here?

Aunt Frances:
We can't back out. We're on the committee. We are presenting.

Sally:
Fine. But I don't want them dancing naked under the full moon.

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