Act 1 scene X.... sleep to dream
{scene opens with a ....
* A dream sequence...* doo ddodle do do doodle do*
(a ten year old child laying on a couch in pink flowered pajamas. camera zooms out and appears to fly across the room entering into the dining room where a two black women sitting next to each other smoking a joint.. passing it back and forth. One is light skinned one is a medium complexion. The medium complexion one has long braids, she looks a lot like Mrs. Teresa (the therapist introduced earlier).. the woman is Zeda's mother Linda)
Linda: I know i am high, but i hate that bitch... all she does is fuck everything in
my life up.
Linda's Friend: So what are you gonna do
{Another seres of hard cuts, ** denoting different scenes, each scene in a different house}
* Linda throws a telephone at Zeda hitting her on the leg*
*Zeda sitting next to a window next to a greyhound bus*
*An middle aged heavyset African American woman beating zeda (naked aged 11) Clothed, shirtless, this cut is technically is as accumulation of three*
* Zeda Standing Before a cafeteria full of people dressed as Puck from a midsummer’s nights dream, hands to her side scanning the audience crying and running off stage*
* Zeda walking in to a large apartment dressed in the same attire, her mother laying on the couch asleep*
* Zeda sitting next to a window on an airplane*
*the middle-aged heavy set woman sitting next to a five year old reading a story on a waterbed zeda standing in the doorway*
(Break in music)
5 year old:(whines) GET OUT ZEEDA
Zeda: She's my grandmother too,
Old lady: I didnt see any blood tests
{Music comes back}.
*Linda pointing and screaming at zeda*
*Linda standing over zeda screaming* X 5
*zeda sitting in a corner rocking back and forth with her head in her arms*
(Music pauses)
*Linda throwing a pair of shoes at Zeda, Zeda Ducking , shoes miss, Linda rushes zeda pushing her against the door
Linda: I Shoulda aborted your ass
Zeda: I wish you did.. I never asked you to get knocked up
Linda: Get the fuck out of my house (grabs Zeda away from the door, opens it,
and pushes her out, and slams it
Zeda:(kicking and banging against the door) I hate you, I hate you
{Zeda is screaming I hate you in her sleep, she fell asleep at the desk the night before. Her arm has begun to scab over; it is bright red and stretched out in front of her. The female staff member comes into the room and shakes her shoulder it is now morning}
Zeda: (Screams) Don’t touch me! (knocks the staffs hand away)
Female staff: Are you okay
(Zeda just stares at the woman as if she is about to kill her breathing heavily)
Female staff: Mrs. Rorey is here from your group home, she's here to take you back.
[hard cut]
{Zeda and Rorey getting into Rorey's Siver lexus}
Rorey: Seatbelts
Zeda.: Yes mam, (Buckles seatbelt, and looks down at her arm)
(rorey starts the car)
Zeda: I, I thought i wasn’t going to be able to come back
Rorey: Mr.Erik made it perfectly clear that you didn’t have a part in the Riot, as did the police report.
(Zeda Nods)
Rorey: Look Zeda,. Your caseworker wants to send you to Harborbrook. Do you know what thats like.
Zeda: No mam
Rorey: Its intensive care Zeda, Five point restraints, thorazine, restraint jackets.
You dont need all that
Zeda: maybe i do
Rorey: Or maybe you just need to try to prove you dont. Which means doing no
more of this (lifts up Zeda's arm)
{The car pulls out of the driveway, there is a dual sided opening with one arrow pointing in on the opposite side. There is a sign that says Fulton county Children’s shelter posted in the center of a small "island" separating the two signs, There is no gate end at either side of the entrance to the driveway)
Zeda: (whispering) There’s no gate.. they set us up…
Mrs.Rorey: what was that Zeda
Zeda: Nothing
*Zeda’s notices this and her eyes get intense, she looks behind her at the shelter*
[hard cut]
~~~~~ Back in her head~~~~~
The shelter is on fire, kids are running around it in flames screaming in pain,
[hard cut]
~~~~~~ Reality~~~~~~~
The shelter is fine
and the car drives out
