THE NEW
GIRL IN TOWN
BRIANNE
sits at the head of a circle of ladies in a living setting. NADIA
sits next to BRIANNE. JANETTE and ABBY sit side by side.
BRIANNE
Welcome
everyone. It's been a year since Nadia has joined our little
community and discovered our dirty little secrets. She has found out
that our very own Janette, who has been struggling with cancer, is
actually a ghost, but God love her for sticking around even after her
death. She learned that Abby is really a demon princess from another
dimension. Girl power. And finally, she has revealed to all of you
that I am in fact not a human being, but a very complicated piece of
machinery. A Stepford if you will. It was quite a shock to me too,
but if there's anything I have learned in our "adventures"
it's that we are all friends still. We have these dirty secrets and
we're all still together. Now Nadia, it's your turn.
NADIA
My turn?
ABBY
Yeah,
reveal your dirty secret.
NADIA
I don't
really have one.
JANETTE
Oh come on.
We know you do.
NADIA
How could
you possibly know that?
ABBY
Because we
were snooping around and found a locked box in a locked safe in a
locked room in your locked house.
NADIA
You guys
broke in?
JANETTE
It's kind
of easy if you're a ghost ya know.
BRIANNE
Nadia,
we're not trying to gang up on you. We care about you, we're your
friends, if something is wrong, we'd like to know.
NADIA
Nothing is
wrong, and if you're really my friends you'll let it go.
JANETTE
Okay fine.
If you want us to drop if we will.
NADIA
Thank you.
Nighttime.
JANETTE leads ABBY and BRIANNE outside as they attempt to break into
NADIA's house yet again.
BRIANNE
Girls, what
are we doing?
JANETTE
We're going
to find out for sure what's in that stupid box of hers.
BRIANNE
Janette we
promised.
JANETTE
So. I'm a
ghost, what is she going to do.
BRIANNE
She's going
to get you exorcised. Me reprogrammed and send out Buffy the Vampire
Slayer for Abby.
ABBY
Oh that's
funny.
JANETTE
She is not
going to do all that. We're her friends.
ABBY
I love that
show.
BRIANNE
Her
friends? We're breaking into her house.
JANETTE
Yeah I
know, so hurry up before she wakes up.
JANETTE
"ghosts" through the walls and opens the windows from
inside for ABBY and BRIANNE. They both get in.
ABBY
I always
thought it was spooky in here.
JANETTE
Really
demon princess?
JANNETTE
floats around and gets hold of the box. She puts her finger in the
complicated lock system, supposedly picking the lock.
ABBY
Hey I
didn't know about that until a few months ago. Not surprised though.
I'm just too awesome. There's no possible way I'm human.
BRIANNE
What is it
to be human really?
JANETTE
Oh God. You
need to stop watching Blade Runner okay.
BRIANNE
I have not been watching Blade Runner. I've been watching A.I.
NADIA
enters.
NADIA
What are
you all doing here?
JANETTE's
fiddling has opened up the box.
JANETTE
Uh oh.
NADIA
Abby,
NO!!!!
A
plethora of demons exit the box and start flying about.
BRIANNE
What is
that?
NADIA
My dirty
secret. Ladies, meet all the negative things I keep hidden from all
of you.
BRIANNE
Those are
negative feelings?
The
demons crash out of the show. The girls run outside.
Nighttime.
NADIA leads the girls to find the demons.
NADIA
My mother
was a witch who put a spell on me. All of my negative feelings would
turn into little demons that would fit into that little box, as long
as they stayed locked in.
The
demons are seen flying through the night.
JANETTE
Wow, these
are years of negative feelings?
NADIA
Yes, and
unless we get all of them, the world is doomed.
BRIANNE
Come on
girls.
ABBY use
her demon strength to throw one of the demons towards NADIA who opens
up her box and locks it up. BRIANNE uses her robot powers to
neutralize several demons. She throws them at NADIA who captures them
in the box too. JANETTE posseses a demon and knocks it out.
NADIA
Come on
girls, only 200 to go.
The
girls fight all night, defending the neighborhood.
Daytime.
The front porch. NADIA is sitting alone at thought. BRIANNE enters
holding a purse.
BRIANNE
How are you
feeling?
NADIA
I'm feeling
that I'm really upset that you girls invaded me like that.
BRIANNE
Nadia it's
because we love you.
NADIA
Well I
don't love this about myself. I hate how ugly I really am.
BRIANNE
sits next to NADIA.
BRIANNE
Nadia, you
are not an ugly person. Everyone has negativity.
NADIA
But mine
are so bad that I have to keep them bottled in a stupid box.
BRIANNE
Well, maybe
you shouldn't bottle them up. Look.
BRIANNE
takes out a little demon from her purse. It's crying very wildly.
NADIA
What is
that?
BRIANNE
It's one of
your negative feelings. It's a little one.
NADIA
Why didn't
you lock it up?
BRIANNE
Because
that's not the answer. You have to deal with your negative feelings,
or it'll grow and grow and eventually attack the whole town.
BRIANNE
hands NADIA the demon like a baby. NADIA holds it in her arms,
comforting it.
NADIA
You poor
dear. Please don't cry. It's going to be all right.
The
demon stars to calm down and glow.
BRIANNE
Nadia
look.
NADIA
What's
going on?
The
demon turns into a butterfly.
BRIANNE
You've
turned it into a positive.
The
butterfly flies away as the two friends look on.
END
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