BIOLOGY CLASS
A frog is being torn asunder by several prongs and picks.
Niall and Liam go for the spleen.
NIALL: You're in school for one day and you ask out the most handsome boy? Do you
have no concept of the high school social code?
Liam grins away.
LIAM: I teach him French, get to know him, dazzle him with charm and he falls in
love with me.
NIALL: Unlikely, but even so, he still can't go out with you. So what's the
point?
Liam motions with his head toward Harry, a few labtables away. He's wearing biker glasses instead of goggles as he tries to revive his frog.
LIAM: What about him?
NIALL: (confused) You wanna go out with him?
The others at the lab table raise their eyebrows
LIAM: (impatient) No - he could wrangle with the brother.
Niall smiles. Liking the intrigue.
NIALL: What makes you think he'll do it?
LIAM: He seems like he thrives on danger
NIALL: No kidding. He's a criminal. I heard he lit a state trooper on fire. He just
got out of Alcatraz...
LIAM: They always let felons sit in on Honors Biology?
NIALL: I'm serious, man, he's whacked. He sold his own liver on the black market
so he could buy new speakers.
LIAM: Forget his reputation. Do you think we've got a plan or not?
NIALL: Did Zayn actually say he'd go out with you?
LIAM: That's what I just said.
NIall processes this.
NIALL: You know, if you do go out with Zayn, you'd be set. You'd outrank everyone.
Strictly A-list. With me by your side.
LIAM: I thought you hated those people.
NIALL: Hey -- I've gotta have a few clients when I get to Wall Street.
A cowboy flicks the frog's heart into one of the Coffee Kid's latte. Liam presses on, over the melee.
LIAM: So now all we gotta do is talk to him.
He points to Harry , who now makes his frog hump another frog, with full-on sound effects.
NIALL: I'll let you handle that.
WOODSHOP
Boys and a few stray girls nail their pieces of wood. Niall sits next to PEPE, a Coffee Kid, who holds out his jacket like the men who sell watches in the subway. Inside several bags of coffee hang from hooks.
PEPE: Some people like the Colombian, but it all depends on your acidity preference. Me? I prefer East African and Indonesian. You start the day with a Sumatra Boengie or maybe and Ethiopian Sidamo in your cup, you're that much farther ahead than someone drinkin' Cosia Rican or Kona -- you know what I mean?
Niall nods solemnly.
ACROSS THE ROOM
Harry sits at a table with SCURVY, making something that looks like a machete out of a two-by-four. Liam approaches, in full of good-natured farm boy cheer.
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10 Things I Hate About Harry |l.s.|
Fanfiction<Completed> A high-school boy, Liam, cannot date Zayn until his anti-social older brother, Louis, has a boyfriend. So, Liam pays a mysterious boy, Harry, to charm Louis. Adapted from William Shakespeare's play "The Taming of the Shrew".
