#11 [Video]
[The scene opens in a dark and slightly dingy-looking bar. If is full of dark wood, and every available surface is graffitied and covered in scratches and stains. Native Torontonians will recognize it Sneaky Dee’s, a tex-mex restaurant and regular hipster haunt. Stephen Stills is sitting in a booth with a few friends. Next to him sits a petit Asian girl with short hair. The recording cuts in mid-conversation between Stephen and his friends.]
SCOTT: When I tell her she’ll stop hating me!
KNIVES: She hates you?
KIM: Pssh, come on. Everyone hates him, Knives.
[STEPHEN nudges Knives with his elbow and gives her a cheeky grin]
STEPHEN: Yeah, don’t you?
[KNIVES blushes heavily.]
KNIVES: Y-yeah! Of course I do! Hahaha…
[Scott scoots out of the booth and heads for the bathroom. After he leaves, a girl storms over to the table. She’s tall-ish and thin, with brown hair in a ponytail and round glasses. She looks… less than pleased.]
JULIE: Stephen!!! What is she doing here?
STEPHEN: I ran into her on College and told her we were all hanging out. Are your pants too tight, or what?
[KNIVES blushes again and waves nervously]
KNIVES: It’s okay, Julie!
JULIE: Don’t talk to me! How do you even know my name?
STEPHEN: What the hell, Julie? Knives hangs out with us all the time! Why is it suddenly a big deal?
JULIE: Big deal? BIG DEAL? Stephen! I can’t believe what an asshole you are sometimes! How the hell can
you not see what the problem is here!
[The two of them are starting to make a scene. A few members of the booth party try to slip out discreetly. KNIVES is unfortunately trapped. ]
STEPHEN: Well I’m sorry, Julie, but not all of us think like a crazy psycho-bitch. So yeah, you’re going to have to
enlighten me. What the hell is wrong with Knives hanging out with us? And please be as specific as
possible.
JULIE: Oh, I’m sorry Stephen. I didn’t know I’d have to spell it out for you. I DON’T WANT YOU HANGING OUT
WITH THIS PIECE OF SLUTTY JAIL-BAIT SINCE YOU’VE BEEN DREAMING OUT FUCKING FOR THE PAST
THREE WEEKS!
[KNIVES squeaks and melts down into her chair. STEPHEN looks like he is about to punch something. Probably something named Julie Powers.]
STEPHEN: Julie, you can hate me all you want. Believe me, I’m fucking used to it. But LEAVE KNIVES OUT OF
THIS.
JULIE: I will not fucking ‘leave her out of it’, Stephen! This is about her, jackass! Maybe if you weren’t
parading your little Catholic schoolgirl wetdream around in front of me, I wouldn’t have to be
dragging her into this.
[JULIE leans with both hands onto the booth, giving KNIVES a rather impressive death-glare.]
You know he hasn’t managed to get it up for me for weeks? Every night it’s all ‘Oh baby, I’m just tired!
I had a long day at work! I’ve been recording, I’ve got a lot on my mind!’ But that doesn’t stop him
waking up with a morning boner after his pathetic schoolgirl fantasies!
[STEPHEN is trembling with rage. It is about as far away from his usual nervous panics as possible. He is breathing heavily through his nose, and using all his self-control to stay contained.]
STEPHEN: Knives, come on. I’ll walk you to the subway.
[STEPHEN storms out of the booth. KNIVES grabs her bag and scrambles after him.]
JULIE: Fine! Glad to see you’ve made your choice! Just don’t come crawling back to me when she turns out to
be too much of a whiny bitch for you to handle!
STEPHEN: Julie, for the record? We are over. FOR REAL THIS TIME!
JULIE: Like fuck you’re breaking up with me! I’m breaking up with you, asshole!
STEPHEN: Go fuck yourself, Julie! Like usual!
[STEPHEN grabs a stunned KNIVES around the shoulder and they storm out of the bar.]
TRANSMISSION ENDS
[ooc: Memory cam theatre! Stephen has been hanging around the apartment cleaning all day, so he hasn't been checking his device, so he has no idea it's up. btw, this is an extended scene from the middle of Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together (vol 4 in the series). And yes, I do like torturing him. :-D]