Paranormal Activity Page #7

Josh, Barbara and Adam having dinner.

BARBARA:

We have a clean slate with Ted and

LaSandra and I’d like to keep it

that way. As far as they’re

concerned we’re a perfectly normal

family.

JOSH:

You mean we’re not?

BARBARA:

Nobody else in the neighborhood

seems to think so.

JOSH:

If you’d just let me talk about my

work it wouldn’t be such a big

mystery.

BARBARA:

There’s only so much people can

accept, Josh. It’s one thing to say

you believe in UFO’s, it’s another

thing to say you’ve been on one.

DANNI enters. 16 years old, slovenly, not quite cute, a

poster child for low self-esteem.

JOSH:

Hey, kiddo.

DANNI:

Hey.

Danni sits down, starts eating. Barbara shoots a look at

Josh, then:

JOSH:

You skipped school, Danni?

DANNI:

Everybody skips school, Dad. It’s

like, what you do?

ADAM:

Didn’t your contract stipulate

penalties?

DANNI:

Don’t tell me you signed that

stupid thing.

18.

BARBARA:

(to Josh) Cal made her skip school.

DANNI:

Cal didn’t make me do anything.

ADAM:

(to Danni) Mom said I had to sign

it or I wouldn’t get my allowance.

BARBARA:

We negotiated, sweetheart. It was

give and take.

JOSH:

So why’d you skip, Danni?

DANNI:

Cal’s band was rehearsing and he

needed me to like, do stuff.

BARBARA:

He treats you like a maid servant.

DANNI:

He does not!

BARBARA:

(to Josh) She cleans his house,

which by the way, is down by the

landfill.

DANNI:

Okay, Mom, we get it. You hate my

boyfriend, just like you hate

everything else about me.

BARBARA:

(hurt) Danni!

They hear a car ROAR up to the house, the horn HONK.

DANNI:

That’s Cal. I have to go.

JOSH:

I think I need to talk to him.

Danni groans.

EXT. JOSH’S HOUSE --SAME

Josh and Danni come out of the house, cross to the driveway.

19.

DANNI:

(whispers) He’s the first cool

boyfriend I’ve ever had. Don’t

embarrass me!

JOSH (V.O.)

Don’t embarrass her, like I’m the

freak here.

They approach a tricked-out ACURA, a guy named CAL in the

driver’s seat. 18, unshaven, unwashed, tats, thinks a lot of

himself. Danni gets in. Josh moves up to the driver’s window.

JOSH:

Hey, Cal, how are you?

Cal shrugs, too cool.

JOSH:

Listen, we’re a little concerned

about Danni skipping school.

Cal REVS the engine, drowning out Josh’s voice.

JOSH:

It’s really important that she keep

up her attendance --

Cal keeps REVVING the engine, Josh trying to talk over it

until finally:

DANNI:

We gotta go, Dad!

Cal gives Josh a f***-you sneer and peels out of the

driveway. Josh watches after the car, confounded.

JOSH (V.O)

People ask me all the time. Have

the aliens landed? Are they living

among us disguised as human beings?

(beat) Yes, they are.

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