Marlowe Page #5

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down. Cole presses some keys until a program comes up that

shows words and how to pronounce them.

COLE:

I tried as hard as I could not

to tell anybody in school about

you. I almost did but I didn’t.

I just had to think really hard

about what would happen – if I

said anything. Right?

COLE:

Look at my hand. Cole points

to his hand as he pushes the

mouse and shoves the cursor over

the word ‘right’ and the computer

speaks the word. See?

Marlowe sees everything on the screen, on the desk and in

the room but his eyes are focused on Cole’s hand as his

finger pushes the mouse and the computer talks.

COLE:

It’s not really funny I guess

but this is called a mouse.

Pretty crazy. Okay, this is

what I am gonna do. I can

leave this program on and you

can learn if you understood

anything I said and I know you

did because you are a smart

aleene and it’s my job now to

teach you. Now it’s on and you

can type from here any word.

Cole slowly types out Marlowe and then puts the cursor over

the word and just before he pushes the mouse, Marlowe jumps

right next to his hand and pushes the mouse button and the

computer says his name,’ Marlowe’.

Marlowe and Cole look at each other for a long time and then

a huge smiles grows across Cole’s face which lights up

Marlowe’s face.

COLE:

Smile.

Cole types in the word, points to his face and his smile

and Marlowe pushes the mouse button with his tiny little

hand and the computer says the word, smile.

LLOYD (O.S.)

Cole, do we have to wait dinner

for you every night of the week?

COLE:

Coming, coming. Okay. I have

to go but I’ll bring more food

and ah some water and other stuff

you might need – here. Okay,

see you Marlowe.

Marlowe watches sadly as Cole goes out the door and closes

it. He briefly sees the sign to keep the door closed before

it whizzes past his face. Marlowe stares at the computer

screen. He looks over at the book and back at the screen.

He looks at the paper where Cole wrote the words and slowly

Marlowe starts to piece the puzzle together.

He pushes the mouse again over his name and again the

computer says his name, Marlowe. A smile slowly grows on

Marlowe’s face and he feels it.

He instantly runs down to the tiny house and rushes inside

where he finds the mirror and he looks at himself. He

smiles slowly and his eyes almost bulge out of his head in

excitement.

Marlowe bolts out of the toy house. He runs so fast he

runs across a wall sideways until he jumps on the bed and

then bounces all the way back to the house where he sits in

front of the mirror and he smiles over and over and over

again.

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