Page 192 - Student: dazed And Confused

One photo on the wall is upside down. Crash goes to look
while Shay drops to the floor. She glances all around her
then puts her hands over her ears.
SHANNON (CONT'D)
Stop it. Shut up.
Crash crouches before her and coaxes her hands away. Shay
lowers her head to her knees and crosses her bare feet. A
shattered ornament lies in pieces around her and the jagged
head of a china figure stares up at her.
HOSPITAL CARPARK - MIDDDAY - EXT
A police car is prowling the carpark and a queue of cars
has formed to get out. A black motorcycle roars past the
cars and gets stuck behind the same barrier.
Lee is leaning on the roof of the Astra and fumbling to
light a cigarette with a wolf head Zippo. Her hands are
trembling but she finally manages to light up and put the
lighter in her pocket. She takes a long drag and glances
up at a third floor window. Shadows of people pass behind
it. A few seconds of steady beeping and then a flatlining
noise. The sky around the hospital darkens to a midnight
blue, lightning cracks and rain lashes down. She continues
to watch as four lines appear just outside the window, as
if a scratch, thin and red with blood.
Footsteps walk lightly behind her and a hand touches her
shoulder. Lee turns quickly to the hand. There is a
middle-aged woman with eyes rimmed lightly pink and she is
ho;dong the hand of a young blonde boy. Everything has
returned to normal.
LEE
Hey, little dude. Had fun with
Nana?
22.
MAXIE
Uh-huh.
LEE
We were thinking. It was stupid
of me to leave you with Maxie
last night.
Lee takes a final puff then crushes out the cigarette under
her foot.
MAXIE
Is Daddy going to die?
LEE
Of course not.
Everything has returned to it’s clean and bright normality
but both women glance up at the same window. An ambulance
shrieks past the carpark.
NANA
I never got to say that. How’s
Felix?