Wadjda Page #5

As Wajda moves forward she hears a SPLASH! She looks down.

She’s standing in a stream of water. She moves to the side.

As the truck pulls away the TOY SHOP OWNER goes into the shop

and brings out THE BICYCLE. He puts it on display in the

front, out in the sun. He takes a sign from his clipboard,

writes, "Only 500 Riyals," and places it on the handlebars.

He goes back inside the store and puts an "Talal Maddah"

record on an old record player, glancing at this strange

little girl still standing outside his door.

Her eye then shift to the sign and the price as the MUSIC

drifts out of the store.

15 EXT. THE CONSTRUCTION SITE - DAY 15

Wajda counts the small wad of money she made at school today

and stuffs it back into her pocket in frustration. She takes

out the black stone from her pocket and throws it across the

field at a coke bottle. A group of WORKERS yell suggestive

insults at her.

INDIAN WORKER:

Nice throw! Come up and play

with us! Let me touch those little

apples.

Wajda freezes and pretends she didn't hear him.

They laugh vulgarly at her. As she hurries towards the rock,

Abdullah appears and picks it up. He throws it far across the

lot, knocking another coke bottle out of its place.

Wajda relaxes, relieved to see him, but then acts upset as

she runs and picks up the stone. She picks up another one and

throws it back towards him.

WAJDA:

Take this! And stop following

me. I don't want to play with you

any more. They made me stand up all

day at school in the sun for not

having a veil today.

The rock falls short of Abdullah's feet. He looks at Wajda,

ashamed. Wajda puts her stone in her pocket, glaring at him.

He picks up the rock and runs to his bicycle and pulls out a

package.

11.

ABDULLAH:

Here, I got you this.

Wajda looks at him, walks over and takes the package. She

opens it and unfurls a new black veil with a yellow flower

made of beads on the corner. She acts defiant as she puts it

in her bag.

WAJDA:

This doesn't make us even, you

know. We'll get even when we race.

I’ll have my new bicycle very soon.

ABDULLAH:

What? Girls can't have bicycles!

WAJDA:

Then I guess it will be that much

more embarrassing for you when I

beat you!

Wajda walks away in a huff. Abdullah looks at the stone she

threw at him and stuffs it in his pocket.

Abdullah rides away on his bicycle as a small pick-up truck

passes by causing a huge cloud of dust over Abdullah. Wajda

looks back and laughs.

The CONTRACTOR gets out of his car and heads towards the

workers.

He looks at Abdullah.

CONTRACTOR:

Hey, you, go away little boy!

Abdullah is upset. The Contractor goes over to the workers.

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