Wonderstruck Page #2

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and backdoor lots

Trying to hike

For any other type of ride

All the way down.

(city sounds and chatter)

WOMAN:
Hey,

I'll catch up with you later!

Hey! Stop!

Give that back!

(groans)

Hey, taxi!

(Ben groans)

(indistinct shouting

and chatter)

(no audio)

(no audio)

(no audio)

("Sunrise" by Norman Whitfield

playing)

(water spraying)

-BOY:
Yeah. -BOY 2: Go through,

go through, go through.

(laughter)

BOY:

What you looking at?

(whoops)

(inaudible sound)

(muffled siren rising)

(sounds cut back)

-Ahh!

-Watch it.

Sorry.

If you're looking

for the bookstore,

it moved around the corner.

-MAN:
Qu pasa?

-A few blocks down.

-On 74th.

-Vamos, Jamie.

Llego tarde.

-I was just telling him.

-Come on.

Hey.

(man and Jamie

speaking Spanish)

(no audio)

(city sounds)

Wait. Espera.

Okay.

Ahora.

(laughs)

Okay, Jamie. Entonces...

3:
00 en punto en mi oficina.

Okay?

-S, Papa.

-No se meta en problemas.

-I don't want another call

from security. -Okay.

(exhales)

JAMIE:

Hey, kid!

(shoes squeak)

Hey, that's mine.

(Jamie laughs)

(shoes squeak)

(camera shutter clicks)

(panting)

(panting)

(panting)

(laughs)

(moans)

(panting)

(laughs)

(indistinct chatter)

"This meteorite fell to Earth

"thousands of years ago.

"It was brought

to the museum in 1902.

"All meteorites begin

their journeys to Earth

as shooting stars,

burning across the night sky."

(no audio)

(indistinct chatter)

(no audio)

WOMAN:

Mm-hmm, and look.

This is, like, the outside.

(indistinct voices overlapping)

In the nighttime.

(no audio)

(panting)

(echoing):

Anyway...

I thought you would like

this one over here.

This one here.

Since you have it on your...

Over here.

(Ben panting, gasping)

(wolves howling)

Oh, my...

What's going on?

(breathing unsteadily)

Are you... are you okay?

What's happening?

Are you sick?

Why did you stop here,

in front of this?

JAMIE:

Shh.

I thought you liked wolves.

You dropped it in the rotunda.

I can't hear you.

Why?

Because I'm deaf.

Really?

Oh.

That's... I thought

you were ignoring me

when I was calling for you,

and you didn't answer.

-Makes sense now.

-Here.

Oh.

(slowly):

I didn't know you were deaf.

Me... Jamie.

BEN:

Jamie.

I'm Ben.

Shh.

I learned it in school.

I don't know sign language.

Why?

I've only been deaf for...

Actually, it just happened.

How?

(Ben sighs)

-Lightning.

-Lightning?

I thought lightning kills you.

Oh.

Lightning... kills you.

BEN:

Not always.

(sighs)

Being hit by lightning?

Uh-uh.

Oh. Not...

Sometimes.

Mostly it's just quiet.

JAMIE:

See that lady over there?

BEN:

What?

JAMIE:
She's always here.

It's so weird.

You... runaway?

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