(Scene fades in looking through River’s window. River is sitting on the floor meditating and listening to music with a slow drum beat and chanting. The view swings to another window a radio is on and Izzy is hanging up posters that are scattered on her bed)
Weather man (on radio): It looks like this weather’s going to keep on coming. Hot and Humid with a 30% chance of rain late tonight. Remember to wear you sun block if you go outside folks.
Radio DJ: This one goes out to everyone who has the bad luck of not having AC today.
(Summer in the city starts to play and Izzy starts to dance and sing into a poster tube)
(Camera swings out to the road in front of the house next door where a car is pulling up with the radio on the same station and Greg and Eli get out and Abdul walks out of the house to greet them. You can only quietly hear the music from Izzy’s room after the car gets turned off)
Abdul: Hey, it’s been too long man!
(manly hug between Greg and Abdul)
Greg: No kidding! (Turns to Eli) Meet our other house mate Eli. I got in as much trouble with him in college as I did with you in high school.
Abdul: Glad to finally meet you. (Abdul and Eli shake hands while Greg glances up at Izzy’s window and smiles when he sees her dancing) Let me show you guys where the house and then we’ll move your stuff in. (As they walk towards the house) We don’t have to worry about dinner tonight cause the girls said they cook this time, but we owe ‘em.
(Camera moves to a downstairs window of the girls house where Katrina is leaning over the sink watching what’s going on outside)
Katrina: Oh my god!
(Runs upstairs to Izzy’s room and turns the music down)
Katrina: Look out the window!!0
Izzy: (Looks out the window) So there’s a new car on the road?
Katrina: (Jumps to window) Oh, you missed ‘em. Abdul’s friends are HOT!
Izzy: You think most guys are hot. (Goes back to postering while music plays quietly in the background)
Katrina: Hey! Just because your not looking doesn’t mean I can’t.
Izzy: (sighs) I don’t even know what’s going on with Jeremy. I should know more after he gets back on- (Kat cuts Izzy off)
Katrina: Oh look they’re coming back out.
(Guys start unloading suitcases from the car below and Izzy comes to the window. Greg looks up at the window and Katrina jumps back giggling. Izzy waves.)
Izzy: (yells out window) Are you all still planning on coming to dinner?
Abdul: Wouldn’t miss it doll!
Katrina: (from place where she’s sitting on the floor) Shit the Chicken!! (Runs out)
(River walks in as Izzy goes back to setting up)
River: what’s up with Kat?
Izzy: (Rolls eyes and points to window while hanging up a poster) Boys. We had better go help with dinner.
(Girls leave room and camera moves out the window to where the guys are unloading the baggage onto the sidewalk)
Abdul: This all you guys have?
Greg: No, we shipped some stuff. It should be here tomorrow. Say, was that the Izzy you’re always talking about?
Abdul: Yeah, but don’t think about it. She’s got something going with this kid from England right now.
Greg: I’m not looking for a girl right now. I just got here.
(Scene fades to girls in the kitchen, Izzy and River are sitting at the table while Katrina is making a salad)
Katrina: Izzy?.
Izzy: Yeah
Katrina: Did Abdul tell you if the guys moving in with him were single?
Izzy: I didn’t ask. But they both come from old money so they’re probably too stuck on themselves for it to matter.
River: One of them is an old friend of Abdul’s so maybe you should give them a chance kid.
Izzy: (makes skeptical noise “hmmuth” out of nose), did I tell you guys that Darby called me? She just got in today so I invited her for dinner. We have enough don’t we Kat?
Katrina: Sure, I just wish we were cooking something fancier.
Izzy: (Grins at River and gets up to sneak a slice of cucumber) Why would Darby care?
Katrina: Don’t you two mock me. (waves large knife at Izzy) I just want to make a good impression ok?
River: Welcome to the 21st century Katrina, where domestic aptitude is no long a primary determinant of a woman’s worth.
Izzy: Don’t you dare get her to stop cooking. Then I would have to cook more. (Door bell rings and she snatches another cucumber before running out of the kitchen to answer the door)
Izzy: (Opens door to Darby) Darby!! (hugs her) How was your summer? (turns to the kitchen with her head facing Darby. Darby follows her) We’re just getting dinner ready.
River: You mean Kat’s getting dinner ready.
Darby: Summer was great! The kids I worked with were awesome. They were all so excited about everything. It’s so refreshing to be around so many people who don’t complain about roughing it. This was so different from the camp I was at last year.
River: So, how exciting is running water really?
Darby: Well, the thing I missed most was being able to read after sunset without worrying about my book starting on fire.
Katrina: I don’t think I could handle pioneer camp. It sounds intense. (Looks at bowl of salad) Does this look good?
Scene 2 Dinner:
Izzy: (rolls eyes at River and then turns to Darby): So tell me all about your summer. I want details
Scene 2 Dinner:
Gregory, Abdul, Eli, Katrina, Darby, Izzy, and River at the table and the chicken parmesan has been served everyone is sort of talking and eating. Kat is staring dreamily at Eli:
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Izzy: Kat….Kat!! Please pass the salad?
(Katrina blushes and passes the salad)
Darby: It was great working with kids who wouldn't have gotten a summer camp any other way. I told you it was all scholarship right? Well the kids were all so excited at first but then we went through the normal home sick and hating not being in the city stuff. But by the end of the two weeks they got to be there almost no one wanted to go home.
Greg: What kind of camp was this.
Darby: A pioneer camp, they got to come and learn what it would have been like to live as a homesteader during the land grant ere.
Greg: So you gave them the chance to come and work their butts off for two weeks? If you were going to make poor kids work wouldn't it make more sense to teach them skills that they could use to better themselves?
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