(S.F.X.) Heartbeat. (B & W) Close up of a crescent
moon, errie clouds looming around it.

TITLE OVER MOON: Rumble High.

Bleak sea waves crash rocks on the shore.

TONYA: (V.O.) My name is Tonya Nimon. Night grows ever
shorter as I lay here in this dorm, dreaming the same
nightmare. Night after night since it happened. There
are no limits to what some people will do, they sink
to the lowest depts of evil. Unthinkable acts to most
human beings are indulged in by some. They leave
behind only death and the shattered lifes of the
survivors, if you could call this survival.

{DREAM IMAGES} Tonya stands on a balcony over looking
the rage of the sea in her dream, she's wearing a long
black gown. A shadow of a man with a knife comes up
behind her, as the knife comes down towards her the
heartbeat stops. Dramatic silence gives way to a
spooky opera type singing in the back ground as she
tries to run from the mans shadow.

TONYA: (V.O.) In my dream I always stare into the cold
dark eyes of the man who murdered my parents and I run
but I'm helpless as he kills me with the same way as
he killed them.

Tonya falls down as the shadow of the mans image.
Tonya cries out as footfalls grow closer.

TITLE OVER THE WAVES: Reurrection of Family Bonds.

The title drains into the waves as black and white
bleeds to color.

Tonya wakes up with a heavy gasp. A girl in the bunk
above her looks down at Tonya, it's obvious these two
don't like each other. Other girls are getting dressed
in the drom room.

LAURA: Ahem? (Irritated) What's your problem?

TONYA: (Dryly) Well for one thing having to wake up to
your ugly mug every morning.

LAURA: That does it! (Tosses a pillow at Tonya's head)


TONYA: Eh! (Tossing the pillow to the floor) Don't you
ever wash your sheets?

LAURA: Oh get up, bitch, I'm gonna kick your ass!

Tonya stands up and so does Laura.

TONYA: Yeah and if you keep it up I'll show you just
what a real bitch I can be. (Laura makes a fist) Don't
tempt me, skank.

Laura growls as she jumps up and lunges at Tonya but
she tosses the girl away from her like a rag doll. The
other girls just look on.

LAURA: Dammit! (Picks up a baseball bat in rage) I
will kill you!

Laura tries to hit Tonya with the bat but she chokes
slams Laura to the floor.

TONYA: Hum. (Yawns) Anybody else here wanna try to
screw with me?

KATE: We know better. (To the other girls) Let's just
go eat.

The other girls go about their business, as Tonya
kicks Laura onto her back. She then starts to get
dressed in her uniform herself. Then they all dressed
in the same uniform, as they eat at long tables. Tonya
walks in with her uniform but she's got on boots and
other accessories with it, she gets her tray. She
looks at the food and makes a face. Then she looks at
the fat, ugly lunch lady with a hair net over that
hangs over her forehead.

TONYA: I'll have some of the slop in that first pan
you got there. (Sarcasm) It's only the only thing that
looks like it was once food. (The lunch lady spoons
some on her tray) I take it the green and orange
things here were once... Hum, peas and carrots?

LUNCH LADY: Yes. (Points to another tray) You want the
meat dish, sunshine?

TONYA: Prime cut? (Scoffs) I can tell by the hoofs?
(Rasies an eyebrow) I'll pass.

Tonya takes a juice and sits at one of the tables, she
starts eating.

FULL FRAME TITLE: Crash Course.

Tonya sits on a park table outside in the recreational
area of the school. Above her 2 women look at her from
a second story window.

WOMAN: She's shows classic abandonment anger issues.
(Sighs) She is defiant, stubborn and at times sullen.
(Pauses) She's full of rage, so much so the other
girls fear her.

MARILYN: She's the picture of sadness. It has been
only six weeks since my sister and her husband were
killed. (Sighs) I'm not dealing with the loss well
myself since I haven't talked to my sister in awhile.
(Pauses) It still can't be as awful as what Tonya is
going through.

WOMAN: It's not my business to pry that deeply into
your personal life, Dr Nimon. (Clears her throat)
Unless you were to refect your estanged feelings for
your sister onto her child.

MARILYN: No it's not her fault. (Sighs) Besides that I
know she's been through enough in her short life. My
husband is dead as well and Allison... (Pauses) My
child is about the same age as Tonya and I feel that
they might help each other out with their problems.

WOMAN: You are the best member of the her true family
to take care of her and she needs family ties. (Taps a
file on her desk) She needs to learn to cope with her
loss, because she hasn't been. (Opens the file) She's
in a deep state of denial, she is very defensive if
you try to get her to open up about her true feelings.
(Sighs) She is very tough but there is a soft side to
her, I know I've seen it. (Pauses) There's a stray cat
she has been feeding.

MARILYN: I see. Well how soon can I take her home?

WOMAN: Now if you want.

MARILYN: I'll take her now then.

FULL FRAME TITLE: Walking on Broken Eggshells.

Marilyn walks into the dorm room where Tonya is
looking out a window at the moon.

TONYA: If you're a reporter, go to hell. (Turns to
face Marilyn) I'm not talking, got it?

MARILYN: Tonya, I'm your aunt Marlilyn.

TONYA: Aunt Marilyn? (Marilyn nods) The last time I
saw you I was five. You and my mother had some sort of
fight. (Looking away) Let me guess, guilt has cault up
to you since she and my father were butchered?

MARILYN: Tonya please?

TONYA: I heard you two yelling and all I heard was
that my mother did something to you. (Crosses her
arms) Something you couldn't forgive her for.

MARILYN: Look Tonya, all I will tell you is that it
was that bad but I still love my sister. (Pauses) Even
in death I hold a place in my heart for her and for
you.

TONYA: You don't even know me. (Scoffs) So what do you
want from me?

MARILYN: Fine vert your anger at me if you want. You
have two choices, either stay here or come live with
me and your cousin Allison.

TONYA: I can't stay here but if I come with you there
are a few things we have to clear up.

MARILYN: We will in time. (Smiles) Can I help you
pack?

TONYA: Most of my things are in storage after the
house was sold, because I didn't want anything good
stolen from me. As it is some of my clothes have come
up missing here.

Tonya picks up a large bag and stuffs it full of her
things.

MARILYN: We've been moving into her grandfather's
house this week.

TONYA: So one more isn't going to matter, huh?

FULL FRAME TITLE: Detachment.

Marilyn comes into the house, her father in law and
Allison are sitting in the living room.

ALLISON: Mom? (Stands up) How did it go?

MARILYN: She be right in.

Allison gives Tonya a huge hug when she walks in with
her bag in hand.

ALLISON: I'm glad you decided to live with us.

TONYA: You can stop hugging me now, little Miss Mary
Sunshine. (Allison backs off) I'm only here because I
my only other choice was that dorm, so lets take it a
tad slower.

MARILYN: I think you should show Tonya the bedroom you
two will share.

TONYA: There are only three bedrooms in this house?
(Rude) I take it is a little too much to ask for my
own room?

MARILYN: If there was one of course but sorry there
isn't another one.

TONYA: Were am I going to put all my stuff and the
stuff my parents had in our old house? It's in
storage. (Pauses) I don't know where it's all going to
fit in this house.

MARILYN: We'll put it in storage over the garage.

TONYA: Over the garage? (Allison points out the
window) Is that a garage apartment? (Allison nods)
Great then I can move in there and you can have your
room all to yourself.

MARILYN: I don't know about that Tonya, it's been
unused for years and I'd worry.

GRAMPA: Well why can't she use it? (Hacks) The
neighbors have two kids living in theirs and it ani't
even as big as that one. (Pauses) Hell why don't you
let them both live out there?

MARILYN: Well I was going to use part of it as an
office but if you girls wanna live out there. (Sighs)
I guess I can take your room for my office, Allison.

TONYA: Don't worry about us being alone out there.
(Pauses) I'll have a security and fire alarm put in.
(Scoffs) I also know Martial arts and other types of
hand to hand combat.

MARILYN: You do?

ALLISON: You mean like a Ninja Warrior or something?

TONYA: I don't have a crew of people adding camera
tricks for me if that's what you mean.

GRAMPA: (Laughing) You're all right kid.

MARILYN: There's some cleaning products in the
kitchen.

TONYA: You're about as subtile as a wild elephant in a
glass shop.

FULL FRAME TITLE: Scene of the Grime.

In the bathroom Tonya tosses an empty container in the
trash, as Allison walks in.

TONYA: That can of bathroom cleaner says it works
harder than you. (Scoffs) I've scrubbed, shined,
disinfected and deodorized. (Sits on the toilet lid)
All it did was bubble.

ALLISON: I can't believe you got all that gross mold
and mildew that was in here.

TONYA: You didn't see the worst of it, trust me.

ALLISON: It couldn't of been as bad as what was in the
refrgerator.

TONYA: I'm sure I don't want to know. (Yawns) How
about we hit the hay soon?

ALLISON: After I clean myself I'll make a space on the
floor for us to sleep.

TONYA: Yeah, the rest of this place can wait.

FULL FRAME TITLE: Reptile Lullaby.

Darkened room Allison sleeps peaceful on the floor
next to Tonya who isn't when she wakes them both up
with a hard scary gasp. Allison turns on the light as
she looks over at her.

ALLISON: Are you ok?

TONYA: It's nothing. (Pauses) Just a bad dream, that's
all.

ALLISON: Do you want to talk about it?

TONYA: It was dream, it's not real. (Rolls over)
Forget about and go back to sleep.

ALLISON: Suit yourself. (Turns off the light) Good
night.

TONYA: Yeah. (Sighs) Do you know what your mother and
my mother had a fight about?

ALLISON: I've always wondered about that myself.

TONYA: It must of been something really awful for two
sisters to stop talking for so long.

ALLISON: Cousin for what it's worth I'm sorry they
did.

TONYA: For what it's worth I think your mom feels even
more guilty about it since I saw her at the funerals
of my parents.

ALLISON: She wouldn't let me go for some reason.

TONYA: That's odd. (Yawns) Oh my, I think we need to
go back to sleep, huh?

ALLISON: Ok. (Sighs) Tonya? (Pauses) Sweet dreams
cousin.

{BLACK AND WHITE DREAM FLASH BACK}

Silence as a cemetery fades in, the funeral scene of
mourns becomes clearer and the peacher gives his
service. Silence gives slowly to the slight sound of
clock sounds. Tonya with two white flowers in hand,
looks over at her aunt Marilyn. Then she steps in
between her parents two coffins being lowered into the
ground she tosses the flowers on into each grave. The
wind blows her hair back, then rain starts falling.
The scene fades out.


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