INT. JOAQUIN'S ROOM -- AFTERNOON
With Walkman headphones on his ears, Joaquin lays on his bed with his arms behind his head. The sounds of his parents fighting rattle through the house.
His door opens and HUNTER, Joaquin's brother, a guy with a surfer vibe, enters. Hunter is taller than Joaquin and wears white.
Hunter closes the door and recoils at the screeching coming from downstairs. He plops down in a bean bag chair.
Joaquin takes off his headphone. He hears the fighting and his lips tighten up as he shakes his head.
JOAQUIN
Still at it.
HUNTER
And it's not going to stop until the lion tamers step in.
JOAQUIN
So, what do you want?
HUNTER
You know everything right?
JOAQUIN
I know enough.
Hunter rocks forward and pushes up on the bean bag chair. Joaquin slips his legs off the bed.
HUNTER
He's going to Granny Cecelia's in Napa.
JOAQUIN
Cali?
HUNTER
Yup, that's going to leave you here alone when I take off for college. You think you can handle it?
Joaquin puts his hands on his knees.
JOAQUIN
Does it change anything?
HUNTER
True. With mom and dad in NYC all the time we practically raised ourselves.
Hunter runs his hand over his hair.
JOAQUIN
I guess.
HUNTER
When you taking off for tour?
JOAQUIN
A few days but I have to find a way to get it by mother.
HUNTER
She's pretty overloaded right now so it shouldn't be hard.
JOAQUIN
Don't want to have to come back between every show to make her think I'm just bouncing around at friend's houses.
HUNTER
You need a long term cover so she won't worry while you're gone.
JOAQUIN
That won't happen. She worried a lot when you went on the Appalachian trail hike last year.
HUNTER
YOU ARE READING
Long Strange Trip
General FictionA screenplay based on my adventures going on Grateful Dead tour as a 16 year old. Based on true events but none of it is real. Format is a bit odd since the system doesn't accept the proper screenplay layout. Reads more like an epic free verse poem...
