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I.
RAMONE
A couple days ago on the street
I walked by this woman... beautiful -
green eyes and, uh green tennis
shoes.
HUGH
And she had the other half of
your ruby-eyed skull pendant, unlocking
the powers of-
Shot of GIRL from Ramone's POV,
pan from shoes upwards.
Shut up. There was something
about her... She looks at me for a second
or two, and she drops a
five-dollar bill on the ground right in front
of me like she meant to do it. So
I go to pick it up, get up to
give
it to her and she's gone in the
crowd.
Hugh is holding a rock, and
dismissively tosses it over his shoulder
into the bushes.
HUGH
What's your point? Is this your
idea of good luck?
RAMONE
No. It's not.
HUGH
(Scoffs.)
What, then you think it's fate to meet her and then never see her again?
RAMONE
This isn't about you... it just
happened.
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II.
RAMONE
It's no wonder you're good at
spotting it. Didn't you have big
problems with poison oak when we were
kids?
HUGH
Yeah well I didn't have a
friend with me.
RAMONE
I remember,
you spent like two weeks with it in third grade. Ms.
Rookwell was mad like it was
your fault.
HUGH
She had it out for me anyway.
RAMONE
(Laughingly)
You've still got a grudge?
Hugh stops walking.
HUGH
Well I'd drop it if I ever win
the estimation jar, but...
Ramone turns to face him.
RAMONE
Too late. Anyway I never won it
either, but (short thing, I liked it,
it was fun -just show it's not
weighing on his mind)
Ramone turns and walks. Hugh
pauses a second.
HUGH
(Retrospectively petulant)
Remember I had to make that
petition-
RAMONE
(Lightly derisive)
Hah, yeah, for a second place
prize...
HUGH
It was a dictatorship in the
third grade!
RAMONE
Ah well, all school's
unfair.
Hugh taps his walking stick
against a tree trunk. We can't tell if it
is in frustration or just an idle
gesture.
HUGH
(No longer nostalgic, seriously
grudging now.)
It was way more unfair for me, I was a really good guesser.
RAMONE
A guess is a guess.
HUGH
Yeah but I was always closer
than anyone else, then somebody who didn't
think about it for a second would
get lucky.
RAMONE
You're not kidding...
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