Smashed Page #5

16.

The students GIGGLE.

KATE:

(quickly moving on)

Wonderful, Angela. You get a Camaro

with flames painted on the hood.

The students CHEER.

KATE (CONT’D)

Now --

(to the class)

-- what’s another word I could make

by adding a letter to “an”?

Nobody raises their hand.

KATE (CONT’D)

C’mon...

Finally, a student in the back -- RAMON -- raises his hand.

KATE (CONT’D)

Yes -- Ramon?

RAMON:

P.

KATE:

P...okay, what word would that make

if I added a “P”?

RAMON:

Um...pan?

KATE:

Pan! That’s right. Ramon

Martinez...COME ON DOWN!

Ramon walks up and begins to write “PAN.”

KATE (CONT’D)

Wow! Just look at that excellent

penman -

Kate stops suddenly and raises her hand to her mouth. She

quickly runs behind her desk, leans over, and discretely -

-- VOMITS on the floor!

Ramon -- who’s just inches from the pool of vomit -- looks

horrified.

Kate glances up from behind her desk to see -

17.

-- the kids all make grossed-out faces and say things like -KIDS

EW! GRODY! GROSS! YUCK! IT SMELLS

LIKE CHEESE! SLOPPY JOE! GRANDPA!

SHRIMP! BACON!

Embarrassed, Kate quickly gets TISSUES from her desk andbegins cleaning up the mess.

KATE:

(to the class)

I’m so sorry you had to see that.

HILLARY stands up. *

HILLARY:

Mrs. Hannah -- are you pregnant?

*

What?

KATE:

HILLARY:

My mommy threw up when she waspregnant with my little sister. Areyou pregnant?

*

Some of the kids begin WHISPERING (saying things like “Ooh!”

“She’s gonna have a baby.”).

Are you?

RAMON:

Kate seems flustered and says -Yes.

KATE:

15 INT. ELEMENTARY SCHOOL - PRINCIPAL’S OFFICE - DAY 15

Kate sits across a desk from ---

PRINCIPAL BARNES: female, early 50’s, stern, scattered,

and clearly a softy at heart, she wears a pair of GLASSESaround her neck.

*

*

*

PRINCIPAL BARNES

Vice Principal Davies will belooking after your students for therest of the day -- so you don’t

need to worry about that.

18.

KATE:

Oh, that’s really good to know.

I’ll have to thank him.

(beat)

I just feel awful for getting sick

in front of my students.

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