At Sean’s house, Ellie and Sean are sleeping on the couch

Ellie: Sean! Sean!

Sean: (looks at the time) Oh! Wow.

Ellie: Double wow. I’m late! Home by eleven does not mean AM. Did you turn the ringer off? I need a cab, I need $10 to pay for a cab.

Sean: The ringers on, nobody’s called.

Ellie: My mom probably lost your number or fell asleep watching the same lame movie we did.

Sean: Snuggling up with a few empty bottles…

Ellie: I’m not talking about this.

Sean: You know you’re welcome here.

Ellie: Let’s see if I’m even allowed back.

Sean: I meant to stay…yeah as in to move in.

At Ashley’s locker

Ellie: What you just forgot to put any on?

Ashley: Left mine at my mom’s, didn’t want to use my dad’s sport scent or his boyfriend’s mountain race.

Ellie: Men’s deodorant gives me a rash.

Ashley: Yeah well you know what else gives me a rash is that my dad’s bringing his boyfriend to the open house today.

Ellie: Imagine the rash I got when Sean asked me to move in…this morning.

Ashley: What?

Ellie: Move in. Co-habituate. Live in sin.

Ashley: You can’t!

Ellie: My mom isn’t doing so well. It’s pretty bad.

Ashley: And how’s Sean?

(Ellie smiles and nods.)

Ashley: Was it good enough to risk giving your mom a heart att*ck?

In the foyer at school

Manny: Hey Spinner! (Spinner doesn’t say anything) Boy it’s nice to see you too Manny, have a good day!

(Manny keeps walking then turns around.)

Manny: Hey, you wanna earn some major points by helping with Paige’s spirit squad carwash?

Spinner: Paige sort of owes me the major points these days.

Manny: Okay so why not earn major points with me then? Paige is off sick with the flu.

Spinner: Yeah I know.

Manny: So I’m in charge and honestly I need help. We need to earn a lot of money to get those new uniforms.

Spinner: So you think it would help if I wash cars in my wet t-shirt?

Manny: No I want you to play! With your band, you idiot! No, you guys would attract so much attention.

Spinner: Yeah but the Squash isn’t my band. You’d have to ask-

Manny: Craig. Yeah that’d be just a bit awkward...

(Manny gets down on her knees (her usual position).)

Manny: Please please please! With ketchup and gravy and big hugs on top?!

Spinner: Gravy? I’ll see what I can do.

Manny: Okay thanks. Oh and get Craig to bring his camera ok?

Spinner: Kay!

In the auto shop room

Sean: Why not!?

Ellie: My dad’s got six months of service.

Sean: So that’s six months of homework. That’s six months of dinner.

Ellie: He’s in the middle east Sean! If the call came in he was hurt or worse my mom would…

Sean: She’d what? She’d crack open the third bottle for the evening?

Ellie: We can dinners okay? Maybe watch some crappy TV but after that…

Sean: Let me make it simple. Move in…with someone who loves you.

Ellie: I’m sorry. She needs me.

Sean: It’s finished. Nobody cares about auto shop anyways.

In the school during the Open House

Mr. Armstrong: No, Emma’s doing pretty well. Polynomials can be a bit of a struggle.

Spike: Me and math?! Mortal enemies. 

Emma: You balance your own books at the salon. Don’t believe her.

Mrs. Nash: Ellie must love your class. All her classes! She spends almost every night at her boyfriend’s doing homework.

Mr. Simpson: Well uh Media Immersion is a very intense course. The course is centered on-

Mrs. Nash: Media? Computers? I get it. Tell me, do you assign every project in pairs?

Mr. Simpson: Well no…in fact most of the work is-

Mrs. Nash: Thought so. Thanks very much Mr. Stanton.

Mr. Simpson: It’s Simpson.

Mrs. Nash: (laughing) Like the cartoon! That’s priceless.

In the hall

Ashley: Ellie hey!

Ellie: Mom, you remember Ashley!

Ashley: Mrs. Nash this is my father Robert and his partner.

Christopher: Hi I’m Christopher.

Mrs. Nash: Partners huh? Do you run a business together or is it pairs figure skating?

Mr. Kerwin: We’re life partners actually.

Mrs. Nash: Oh I know. Must be nice having a man around. My husband’s off fighting for his country.

Mr. Kerwin: That must be difficult for you and Ellie.

Mrs. Nash: Oh you have no idea! Or do they let you people in the military now? You re-decorate the enemy into surrendering! (Laughing)

Ellie: Mom. You’re tired. We should go.

Mrs. Nash: Bye!

Mrs. Nash: Oh wait, isn’t that your boyfriend?

Ellie: It’s okay. I’ll call him later.

Mrs. Nash: Sean isn’t it? I was hoping to see you.

Sean: It’s nice to see you too Mrs. Nash.

Mrs. Nash: Your parents…they’re not here to see this fine automotive display?

Sean: Um. I’m alone. I live alone.

Mrs. Nash: Not lately. 

Ellie: Mom!

Mrs. Nash: Midnight study sessions, dawn tutorials. Sometimes I can’t remember what Ellie looks like!

Ellie: Mom let’s go.

Sean: Look, I care about her okay?

Mrs. Nash: Not okay!

(Grabs Ellie’s arm and they walk away.)

In Craig’s garage

Craig: 1, 2, 3, 4!

(The band starts playing.)

Craig: Woah! Woah! Woah! You’re coming in way too early.

Spinner: Dude how are we supposed to get better if all we do is rehearse?! I mean we should play another gig.

Craig: We will! When we’re smoking hot!

Jimmy: In the twenty-third century! (Craig hits Jimmy)

Spinner: Exactly. We need to play smaller gigs to stoke us up to smoking hot.

Ashley: Spinner has a point!

Spinner: Who asked you?!? What? I mean…yeah…what she said. Sorry.

Craig: Alright well I guess we could put a little more pressure on ourselves.

Spinner: Yes! That’s why I booked us for the school spirit squad carwash this weekend.

Marco: What? Woah Spin. We’re not ready!

Spinner: Dude it’s a carwash. We’re not opening for Kid Elrick at the Dome.

Craig: Alright. We’ll take it to a vote. All for the gig?

(Spinner, Craig, Ashley raise their hands.)

Spinner: All against?

(Marco, Jimmy raise their hands.)

Spinner: Okay well three to two! Manny will be stoked!

Craig & Ashley: Manny?!

Jimmy: Speaking of smoking hot!

In Ellie’s house, the smoke alarm is going off and Ellie runs to the kitchen

Ellie: Mom! Mom get up! Get up! Mom get up!

(Ellie runs over to the stove and tries to turn it off and burns her hand on the pot and makes the f*re even worse.)

Ellie: Mom! Get up!

(Ellie drags her mom out of the house.)

At the hospital

Mrs. Nash: I must have taken in a life supply of smoke tonight. I’m not proud right now Ellie. I almost burnt the place down. Don’t make this any worse for me.

Ellie: I’m exhausted. I have to sleep.

Mrs. Nash: Fine. There’s a fold out at Elaine’s.

Ellie: Elaine’s? She lives in Fergis! Why do I have to go there?! I hate her!

Mrs. Nash: Because I’m still your mother and I said so!

Ellie: Okay. But what if I stay over at Ashley’s instead…in the city!

Mrs. Nash: Well I wouldn’t have to drive you into school everyday. 

Ellie: Exactly what I was thinking. But it’s up to you! Whatever you want.

Mrs. Nash: Well if it’s alright with Ashley’s mother it’s alright with me…at least until our place is ready!

Ellie: I’ll go call Ashley right now!

At Sean’s, Sean opens the front door and Ellie is standing there

Ellie: Yesterday you might have mentioned the words ‘move in’…

Ellie and Sean walking into Sean’s house

Ellie: Home sweet home.

Sean: Closest thing to being at your place.

Sean: Looks like my CD collection just doubled.

(Sean picks up Ellie’s CD case and opens it. It has all of her cutting supplies in it.)

Ellie: I was thinking we need a pet. A dog or a parrot or a…

Sean: I thought you stopped cutting!

Ellie: I did! I just didn’t want to leave it there…I wouldn’t lie to you about this.

Sean: I cleared a drawer.

Ellie: You did?

Sean: Yeah and some space in the closet and in the medicine cabinet just above the sink.

Ellie: Listen. There’s something we should-

Sean: I know. And it’s fine. I’ll just sleep on the couch.

Ellie: You have a bed.

Sean: You just had a f*re, so for now I’ll just sleep on the couch okay?

(They hold hands.)

At the carwash

(Spinner sprays Hazel with the hose.)

Hazel: I said stop it!

Spinner: What? It wasn’t me! New girl. (Points to the new girl Darcy)

Darcy: New girl? I prefer Darcy!

Spinner: Oh. Okay… Darcy! (Sprays her)

Manny: Hey Craig. Thanks for doing this. It’s really great.

Craig: Anytime Manny.

Ashley: Check 1, 2. We have Craig Manning in the house!

(Craig leaves Manny and goes over to Ashley.)

Spinner: Any more bitter and she’d be a lemon!

(Hazel throws a sponge at Spinner and he goes to grab it.)

Spinner: You think that’s funny?!

Manny: No, no!

(Spinner and Manny splash around and push each other jokingly while Craig watches.)

In the school

Marco: But you’re alright, right? I mean after breathing in all that smoke.

Ellie: I don’t have black lung Marco.

Marco: And your mom? How’s she doing?

Ellie: I only have a few mom free days left. If it’s okay I’d rather keep it that way.

Marco: I’m more interested in you anyway. So okay. First shower at your boyfriends. Were you naked?

Ellie: Yeah and alone!

Marco: What? Disappointing, but still party worthy!

Ellie: Me showering is party worthy?

Marco: No but, you being happy is. Plus you’re young, cute, clean and black lung free!

Ellie: And you’re sure Mama Del Rossi will let us have a party?

Marco: No but I know Papa Sean will!

Back at the carwash, the band is playing

Craig: That sucked.

Ashley: Keep smiling. No one noticed.

(Rick drives up in a car.)

Hazel: What are you doing here?

Rick: Um helping out my fellow students!

Jimmy: What’s your problem psycho?!

Rick: My mother wants the car washed.

Jimmy: Okay well unless you want a wash, I’d bounce!

(Rick drives off while Jimmy sprays the back of his car.)

Manny: Hey! I never knew what a great drummer you were before.

Spinner: I guess it’s kind of hard who’s me behind the lead singer sometimes.

Manny: Not today. Congratulations. Thanks for coming out!

(Manny hugs Spinner and puts her snow cone on Spinner’s back.)

Spinner: That’s how you repay me?!

(They start running around laughing and grabbing at each other.)

Manny: I’m sorry! I’m sorry!

(Craig takes a picture of Manny and Spinner looking really close.)

At Sean’s house, having a party

Ashley: Always with the banners Marco.

Ellie: Perks of a printer’s son.

(Marco is taking a bite of guacamole and spits it out and grabs a drink.)

Marco: What is this?!

Ellie: It’s guacamole! Sean made it for me. It’s my favorite. He’s sweet.

Marco: This was rancid!

Jay: Nice little house warming.

Sean: Whatever. She’ll go back in a few days. Maybe this time her mom will burn down the whole place. 

Alex: Now that would be a house warming.

Jay: So it’s actually a bon voyage, see you later, thanks for all the sex party.

(Ellie overhears and walks away.)

Sean: Ellie! He shouldn’t have said that.

Ellie: I don’t care that he did. I just don’t want to go back to her.

Sean: Then you don’t have to okay? You can stay here.

(Ellie’s mom walks in.)

Mrs. Nash: What is this?

Ellie: Mom?

Mrs. Nash: Housewarming...I went to Ashley’s and her mom told me you haven’t been staying there. You’ve been staying here the whole time haven’t you? Haven’t you?

(Ellie nods.)

Mrs. Nash: The cab’s waiting. Let’s go. Let’s go now. Let’s go NOW!

Sean: Mrs. Nash it’s better if Ellie stays here.

(Mrs. Nash slaps Sean.)

Mrs. Nash: You don’t come near me and don’t come near my daughter!

(Mrs. Nash grabs Ellie and walks away with her.)

At Ellie’s house in the kitchen all burnt

Mrs. Nash: This was a blessing. A blessing! Old furniture, grimy paint… We can start from scratch. What do you think? How about a periwinkle blue in here?

Ellie: Mom you slapped my boyfriend.

Mrs. Nash: Ellie that boy’s no good for you. I know you think it will be hard, that you love him. I know what’s best.

(Ellie keeps pulling at the elastic on her wrist.)

Mrs. Nash: Eleanor, stop doing that!

(Ellie opens the CD case and all her cutting materials fall out.)

Ellie: Pick one mom! Kn*fe! Razor!

Mrs. Nash: What are you doing? What is this?

Ellie: What’s best for me, mom?! Because if I stay here I’m gonna do it again. You’re making me do it again!

Mrs. Nash: Ellie…

Ellie: This is what it costs! Your drinking made me cut myself!

Mrs. Nash: No baby! Oh my god. You need to understand…

Ellie: No you have to understand… why I can’t keep living with you.

Mrs. Nash: No! Oh my god. (Starts crying and sobbing)

At the Dot

Spinner: Hey. 

Manny: Hey.

Spinner: Are you ready to order?

Manny: Um no, actually I’m not eating. I’m just waiting for someone.

Spinner: Okay. Who?

Manny: Paige.

Spinner: Right. Um look I have lots of tables to…

Manny: Yeah the excitement from yesterday must have gotten to my head or something.

Spinner: Yeah I know the feeling.

I wouldn’t want you or Paige to think that-

(Paige walks over.)

Spinner: Paige!

Paige: Two people I’ve literally been dying to see. But now I’ve risen to thank Manuela Santos, my guardian angel. $800 and our new uniform dream is a reality.

Manny: It’s no big deal.

Paige: Oh and I heard you guys rocked baby.

Spinner: I did it all for you.

At Sean’s house

Ellie: She dropped me off.

Sean: She drove?

Ellie: Sober. Honest. Hopefully will be for the next two months. She’s going to rehab and I’m here to stay. If I want to. Do you still want me to?

Sean: Yeah! Uh what is that?

Ellie: Hold on, hold on!

(Ellie puts the cage she’d been holding down and picks up a ferret.)

Sean: It’s a weasel!

Ellie: It’s a ferret. I saw him at the pet store and...

Sean: Shouldn’t we have talked about this first?

Ellie: A home isn’t a home without a pet!
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