One Chance Page #5

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A CHIMING/BOUNCING MESSAGE is seen on the screen... Paul

clicks on the message revealing a kitty-kat avatar, which

expands into a Chat Invitation from “julzRulz”.

JULZ:

(typed)

How did it go?

Paul TYPES his response...

PAUL:

How did what go?

JULZ:

Job? Italy? Job? Italy?

PAUL:

Job, yes. Smallest apartment in Britain,

yes. Italy, no. How are you?

JULZ:

I’m so sorry, Paul. I guess you’ll have

to settle for visiting me in Bristol.

Hint. Hint. ;) :
)

A beat as Paul flushes... He types...

PAUL:

I’d love to, but the job starts tomorrow

and until I get the cast off my leg, it’s

too difficult for me to get around.

Paul grimaces at the lie.

JULZ:

(after a beat...)

Right.

PAUL:

If I ask you something, promise not to

get offended?

JULZ:

Anything?

13.

PAUL:

You are a girl-(

deletes the word girl,

replaces it with...)

--a woman, right?

He sighs with relief at her response and continues

“chatting.”

BRADDON (O.S.)

I could feel the firming of her breasts

as she pressed them into me.

CUT TO:

INT. CAR PHONE WAREHOUSE - DAY

Where Braddon is in mid-soliloquy as he and Paul stock

shelves with bluetooth ear-pieces...

BRADDON:

“Be gentle,” said she. “Unicorns are not

meant for human love.” “But lady,” said

I, “I am only half human.” And I laid her

down and took her there, amidst the moss

and leaves of the forest floor.

PAUL:

And that was your weekend?

BRADDON:

In a nutshell. Yours?

PAUL:

Sorry, but... Did you say you shagged a

horse?

BRADDON:

It’s a game, role-playing, like Dungeons

& Dragons but for real.

PAUL:

So she was a girl, pretending to be a

horse.

BRADDON:

A unicorn!

PAUL:

Right... Sorry. And you were--?

BRADDON:

A half-elf wizard from the Black Mages

Guild of Quilanthum.

14.

PAUL:

Right.

BRADDON:

When’s the last time you had a bit of

fluff?

PAUL:

Em, well...

BRADDON:

Right.

PAUL:

She is a girl, by the way. My girlfriend.

BRADDON:

When shall we double-date then?

PAUL:

Um, she doesn’t really live here.

BRADDON:

Where’s she live, then?

PAUL:

Bristol.

BRADDON:

Bristol? That’s miles from-- You have

actually met her, haven’t you?

PAUL:

Well, we chat all the time...

Shows Braddon his phone-chat which shows a lengthy text-

thread between he and julzRulz.

PAUL (CONT’D)

She keeps inviting me up for a visit,

but...

BRADDON:

But what?

PAUL:

Well, she looks like Cameron Diaz and...

BRADDON:

And?

Suddenly Paul sees something over Braddon’s shoulder and

darts through the curtains into the back of the store.

15.

BRADDON (CONT’D)

What’s crawled up his-

He turns to the storefront where Matthew enters

belligerently, wearing a blue janitor’s uniform and

carrying a smashed cell phone...

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