✈️FINDING HERSTORY CHAPTER ONE

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JULY 2019
NEW YORK CITY
11:54AM

ISABELLA STANDS ACROSS A STREET, DIRECTLY FACING A HOUSE.
SHE PULLS OUT A CIGARETTE OUT OF HER PURSE AND LIGHTS IT,  WALKING TOWARDS THE HOUSE...SHE KNOCKS ON THE DOOR, A MAN OPENS THE DOOR

DAVID: ISABELLA I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR YOU. COME ON IN LOVE

HE SAID REMOVING HER RAIN COAT. SHE WALKS INTO THE HOUSE SHE STAIRS AT A FAMILY PHOTO

DAVID: YOU KNOW WE DON'T SMOKE IN HERE DEAR, SEEMS YOU HAVEN'T STOPPED THE HABIT
ISABELLA: SINCE WHEN DID YOU STOP SMOKING DAVE?
DAVID: WAY BEFORE YOU THOUGHT OF COLLEGE(LAUGHS) COME ON

THEY BOTH ENTERED THE LIVING ROOM WHERE AN OLD WOMAN IS SITTING STILL LOOKING THROUGH THE WINDOW. ISABELLA WALKS TOWARDS HER

ISABELLA: GRANDMA... IT'S ME, ISSA. HOW YOU DOING... HOW'S SHE DAVID?
DAVID: HER CONDITION IS GETTING WORST, GRANDPA'S DEATH JUST SEEMS TO MAKE IT MUCH WORST
ISABELLA: HOW DID HE DIE?
DAVID: AUTOPSY CAME OUT LAST WEEK..UMM... AS DEATH BY HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE
ISABELLA: HE ALWAYS TAKES HIS PILLS

SHE SAID, CLEANING HER GRANDMA'S FACE WITH A FACE TOWEL

ISABELLA: HAVE YOU EVER SEEN HIM WITHOUT IT?
DAVID: DON'T START NOW ISSA, HE WASN'T KILLED OR MURDERED, JUST A SIMPLE HEART FAILURE AND NOTHING MORE
ISABELLA: HE WAS A GRUMPY OLD MAN DAVE... IT WILL TAKE MORE THAN A HEART ATTACK TO KILL THAT OLD FOOL
DAVID: LETS LEAVE THE DEAD TO BURY THE DEAD

ISABELLA LOOKS AT HIM IM DISGUST

DAVID: HONESTLY THAT SOUNDED BETTER IN MY HEAD
ISABELLA: GRANDMA ISN'T TRAVELING WITH US RIGHT?
DAVID: YEAH! UMM... DOCTOR SAID SHE CAN'T TRAVEL..... AT LEAST NOT FOR NOW.

HE WALKS A LITTLE CLOSER TO HER, HOLDING HER SHOULDER

DAVID: ISABELLA... EVERYONE WILL BE THERE AT THE FAMILY OLD HOUSE FOR THE FUNERAL PLEASE DON'T BRING UP ANY POSSIBILITY OF HIS DEATH BEING A MURDER, IM BEGGING
ISABELLA: IM NOT PROMISING ANYTHING TO YOU DAVE. THE POLICE ARE STILL INVESTIGATING, SO WILL I. I WON'T BOTHER THEM.... IF THAT'S WHAT YOU'RE IMPLYING
DAVID: ALWAYS A MYSTERY ISSA
ISABELLA: UNTILL THEY DECLARE HIS DEATH AS YOU SAY IT IS, I'll DROP IT
DAVID: ALRIGHT SHERLOCK HOLMES, BUT WE LEAVE TOMORROW TO ONTARIO
ISABELLA: BEEN A WHILE SINCE I LAST VISITED TORONTO, ONTARIO
DAVID: I'VE BOOKED YOU'RE FLIGHT OUR FLIGHT, I'M SURE THE FAMILY WILL BE HAPPY TO SEE YOU.
ISABELLA: SURE THEY'LL BE THRILLED



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