NEVAEH04:49 Nov 29 2010
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Franki Facker
B2
5/14/2012
Nevaeh, a play by Franki Facker
NEVAEH
Scene set in a foggy set of woods in South Carolina. A red pickup truck stuck in the ticket of it all with a dead battery. Camera pans in on young Jack’s face. He’s distraught. The light comes in from the back and all around the pickup you can see nothing but an increasing fog. Camera pans around the scene and falls at a framing distance of Jack in the truck.
Narrator: A fog so thick it silently smacked harshly against deaf ears. He turned the key again. "Pa t t t pu t t t " came from his brand new ford. He turned the key once more, the truck made an abnormal screech and now even the lights had gone out. But he didn't panic, his father always told him not to panic. He breathed in and out slower and slower until he was completely relaxed. His phone vibrated. He reached into his pocket feeling his phone he smiled.
Jack looks down to his phone, and camera scoots in.
Jack: "Must be Katie"
Flipping the phone open, it’s restricted.
Jack: "Stupid kids"
Narrator: He closed the phone and tried the key again. Nothing this time, the truck was completely done for. He flipped the phone open again about to dial when he realized the screen was black. He closed the phone and opened it again, still black. He held the power button, to no such luck. He spit, getting more and more agitated at the gaining seconds. He had no idea where he was. The fog was as thick as ice and he had no way of calling anyone to pick him up. He collected his hat, keys, and wallet. He opens his wallet on instinct. There in the fold a picture stood out, Nevaeh.
Light falls on the small picture of the beautiful blonde. Jacks drumming heart beat is the only sound as the camera pans up to jack and moves in on his terrified expression. Now pamera pans in and our making Jack seem delirious.
Narrator: Out of nowhere he started getting chills up his back. Where did that picture come from? He wasn't allowed any of her pictures after she died. Her parents hated, and blamed him that much. But it was his fault. He looked at the picture again shaking it off and tucking it safely back into the fold, just as he did his pocket started vibrating again. Feeling compelled to answer he jerked the phone out and flipped it open. RESTRICTED it read. Shakily he answered.
Jack: "Hello...?"
Narrator: There was a buzz in the background, a crash. The voice almost sounded familiar. He heard a splash. He heard a scream, Nevaeh's scream.
Jack: "NO!”
Narrator: Jack shuts the phone off. His brow was now seeping with a nervous sweat. He opened the phone again, black. He felt himself getting dizzy. Was he crazy? What was going on? Where was he? A thought struck him he looked around. He heard the water.
The camera pans out of the truck, and on to the surrounding area of the woods. The fog looks to be an eerie green and the trickle of water gets to be a sickening volume. Then as flashback begins, pan in on car accident. A little car flipping in the woods, Jack being pinned in his seat as his girl is thrown from the car in a heap. The light falls on his desperate face as he screams to the world.
Narrator: Jack finds a familiar path and followed the muddy trail to the lake. It all came back: the detour to the concert, the ice on the trail, the little neon flipping over, and over again and again. She screamed the whole way down; Crashing into the lake, and him unscathed. The steering wheel had pinned him. He sat there remembering her door busting open, and the endurance and impact of the car slinging her limp body out of the car. He was overwhelmed with helplessness and the pain of her scream. He had just proposed to Nevaeh. Both 17, they had decided to stay together forever. But now where was forever? He made a silent prayer, or request. "Please don't make me let her go" he screamed "Don’t you leave me Nevaeh! I told you not life or death!"
The camera takes a view of the woods giving a spinning dizzy affect. The light fades in and out the later becomes louder the echoing crash plays over and over and over.
Narrator: He screamed himself unconscious. But he, unlike Nevaeh made it. Tears rolling down his eyes, he looked down as his phone started vibrating again. He opened the phone. The screen flashed KATIE
He answered the phone.
The sounds fade out as a young woman’s voice rings out there the phone, Katie.
Jack: "Hey baby sorry I'm late my truck broke down and…"
Katie cut him off.
Katie: "Jack, I'm done with you. You’re late for the last time. I've been calling you all night and you've just ignored my calls. And when I finally got an answer some girl told me to fuck off, that she was your girl. I'm over your rotten cheating ways!!"
Narrator: The line went dead. He was so confused. He walked back to his truck and cried against the wheel. Something inspired him to try the key again. He stuck the key in the ignition and it fired up just fine. He smiled. Then His phone Vibrated again. He hoped Katie had changed her mind and was calling to say she was sorry. After all there was a mistake. She had called the wrong number his phone had been dead, and there was no other girl. Katie was the only other girl Jack dated... after Nevaeh. He flipped open the phone and said softly
Jack: "suddenly remembered I’m not a cheater huh?"
There’s a different voice on the phone. It’s not Katie this time it’s a new girl, Nevaeh. Jack is unaware the voice at first. His confusion fills his face as the camera sets on the frame of it.
Nevaeh: "No Jacky, you were a cheater. But I fixed it baby. I love you. Have you missed me?"
Narrator: Jack grew cold and confused the woods began to seem as though they were spinning.
Circling motion of the camera the fog gets thicker the crashing noises re-emerge and the terror fills Jack’s eyes.
Jack: "What…"
He began but instead he looked at the phone to scan over the caller I.D. That read...
Light falls on the phone framing the caller I.D. alone. The same is clearly printed across the screen.
Jack: "That can't be right"
Narrator: He shouted. Her sing song voice repeated.
Nevaeh: "You have missed me, right Jack?"
The clear name played across his phone’s screen is Nevaeh. Crash’s volume reaches the max and echoes as the camera zooms out of the frame of Jack’s terror stricken face.
COMMENTS
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SummerWerewolf
13:01 Feb 20 2014
Chills....Love it!