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SCENE THREE:

CUT TO:

EXT. DEVON SCHOOL PARKING LOT - DAY

VEGAS YAMADA, a Japanese teen with green hair is kneeling on the sidewalk, trying to pick up her things that are scattered across the ground as a car with WILL SCHMIDT inside drives away.

FLASHBACK:

VEGAS is watching the opening scene of a TV show on a laptop. Just as the theme song comes on, we hear WILL SCHMIDT, the abusive stepfather of VEGAS YAMADA.

WILL:

Vegas! Vegas get down here!

VEGAS groans and trudges down the stairs. The camera follows VEGAS into the light of the kitchen, where her mother, SOPHIA YAMADA, a worn-down woman with numerous wrinkles from stress, and WILL SCHMIDT sit. The camera focuses on the two parents but is INTERCUTTING between who is talking.

WILL:

Sit, Vegas. (BEAT as she sits

Down.) You know, I'm sick of

All your lies. First your hair

And now these pills for your

So-called depression? I'm not

Buying it. (holds up hand, stopping

VEGAS) You need some reform.

SOPHIA:

Will, I mean we, want to send

You to boarding school.

VEGAS:

But that's not fair! I've

Finally made friends here

And now you're taking them away from me?

WILL:

(interrupting) Friends that are

A bad influence on you.

VEGAS:

But- (cuts off)

The camera cuts to VEGAS' fist as she clenches it. Cut back to VEGAS.

VEGAS:

Fine.

WILL:

(smiles maliciously) Good.

We'll leave in a week.

SCENE FOUR: (CUT TO)

INT. DEVON SCHOOL OFFICE - DAY

PRINCIPAL:

Hello, where are your-

VEGAS:

(interrupting) Not here.

PRINCIPAL:

I see. Well, Jamon here

Will show you around the school.

JAMON walks back through the door.

JAMON:

Another one, teach? What's your

name , sweetheart?

VEGAS:

(mumbles) Not sweetheart...

JAMON smiles, hearing VEGAS' remark. VEGAS blushes.

VEGAS:

My name is Vegas.

JAMON:

What do you think of the name

Vega? (before she can answer)

Alright Vega. Let me show you

The horrors- I mean wonders

Of this place.

SCENE FIVE:

CUT TO:

INT. EVA AND VEGAS' DORM - DAY

VEGAS is standing in the doorway with her suitcase. EVA and her father, CHANCE, are hugging.

VEGAS:

(hesitant) Am I... interrupting something?

EVA:

(pulling away) No,we were just saying

Goodbye.

EVA waves as her father leaves. VEGAS sets her suitcase down on the bed. EVA looks around, feeling awkward.

VEGAS:

So uh... what's your name?

EVA:

I'm Eva Waren. What's yours?

VEGAS:

(clearly feeling awkward) Vegas Yamada.

EVA:

As in Las Vegas?

VEGAS:

Yes, as in Las Vegas. Don't bother

Asking questions. I get them all the time.

Did your parents have a gambling problem?

What's your real name?

EVA giggles and VEGAS is clearly surprised by this.

EVA:

I get questions all the time, too.

About my chair, I mean.

The girls are silent, not having much to say. The door swings open to reveal JAMON.

JAMON:

It's dinnertime, by the way.  

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