Beautiful Creatures Page #2

[STUDENTS GROANING AND MURMURING]

Ethan?

MR. LEE:
The reenactment will be held

on the day of the battle, December the 21st.

Even though that is the middle

of Christmas Break...

...you will be expected

to participate wholeheartedly.

[BOB DYLAN'S "SUBTERRANEAN HOMESICK

BLUES" PLAYING ON CAR RADIO]

[SINGING]

Get sick, get well, hang around an ink well

Ring bell, hard to tell

If anything is going to sell

Try hard

[MUMBLING LYRICS]

[GASPS]

[TIRES SCREECH]

Are you nuts? You almost killed me!

What are you doing

standing in the damn road?

I need help, genius!

- Forget it!

- Wait, wait, wait!

I'm sorry! Look, get in!

This is a shortcut, nobody

comes down this road. You'll drown--

- Is this old man Ravenwood's car?

- You're one of them, aren't you?

What are you?

The All-American jock star, prom king...

-"jock?

- Look, can you insult me in the car?

It's getting a little Titanic out here.

You know, I never understood

why Leo had to die in the end.

Why couldn't they take turns?

"You float on the wooden thing 10 minutes,

I'll float on the thing 10 minutes."

She kept saying, "I'll never let you go, never,"

and then she lets him go!

If I get in the car, will there be more

of this fascinating conversation?

Because I'd rather drown.

No, I got groceries back there.

I can't believe you told me

the ending to Titanic.

- You've never seen it?

- No.

You really are from out of town.

Hey.

Thanks.

You know where you're going?

Rarely.

Hey, I'm sorry about those clichs in class,

but I'm not one of them.

"Clichs"?

Girls who once were human, but for whom

absolute popularity has corrupted absolutely.

Hmm, bet you're real proud of yourself thinking

that one up. You probably dated one of them.

- You cut Emily like a surgeon.

- Years working with the b*tch virus.

- No cure yet, huh?

- We continue to research and hope.

- You been to a lot of schools?

- Yeah.

- That must be nice. I've only ever lived here.

- Must be nice.

So where y'all lived?

Pretty much every state

that seceded from the Union.

Moved around since I was 4,

after my parents died.

I only have my dad, my morn died

last spring. How did it happen?

- Fire.

- Car accident.

[STAMMERS]

Ha, ha, that was a dead-end conversation

on a road going nowhere.

I must have missed the exit to "fascinating,"

heh.

You, uh...

Bukowski? He--? He any good?

Define "good."

[CHUCKLES]

ETHAN:
I can drive you to the house.

LENA:
This is fine.

ETHAN:
No, I don't mind.

- Look, I appreciate the ride...

...but I don't feel like being a haunted house

attraction today.

No, I-- Now, that's fairly rude

and not true at all.

Perhaps it's because

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