Wednesday, March 7, 2007

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FADE IN:

INT. NOVA CAFE - AFTERNOON

The SCENE of the rather quiet restaurant opens on a table in the smoking section
Ethan sitting together with Eric and Albert, all three of them in formal dressing, all three smoking

ETHAN
What a fucking waste of time..


ERIC
Don’t say that..you’re making me
feel bad for asking you to come..


ETHAN
(long pause)
You guilt me into coming with you
and now you are using guilt to talk
yourself out of wasting my time??
Nice try..


ALBERT
Actually..it wasn’t THAT bad..


ERIC
Yeah..so don’t feel as though you
wasted your time..you came for us..
remember???


ETHAN
(long pause)
Whatever man..


A very attractive waitress walks to their table to pass them a new set of order for
drinks

WAITRESS
(putting the drinks one
at a time)
Here are your drinks sir..
may I clean the table??


ALBERT
(fake Australian accent)
Yes please..


The waitress smiles and remove the empty plates from the table

Ethan and Eric exchanges look with a grin

She walks away thereafter

ETHAN
(checking out her ass)
She reminds me a lot of Dani..


Eric doing likewise

ERIC
Dani..got a nicer ass..


Both Albert and Ethan stares blankly at Eric

ALBERT
(to Eric)
Huh??


ETHAN
(stun)
Dude..you checked out my girlfriend??


ERIC
(uncomfortable laugh)
Nah..just kidding.......


Ethan starts judging Eric with a stare

ERIC (CONT’D)
Oh come on..I am sure ALL your
friends did it before also..


ETHAN
Yeah......but..never mind..


ALBERT
(smoking)
Talking about exes..I saw Allison
the other day..she was holding
hands with another girl..


ETHAN
Yeah..I know, she kinda changed
flavour after I broke up with her...


Eric and Albert laughs

ALBERT
She must have been so disappointed
with guys..till a point she thinks
that dating her own kind is better


ERIC
(wondering)
I wonder what could it be..


ETHAN
Yeah yeah..say all you want, I don’t
regret dumping her for Dani and besides
Dani was the kind of girl I was looking
for then..I do whatever I want..she do
whatever she wants..it was a beautiful
relationship..until she have to go
Russia..


ERIC
(grins)(to Albert)
Remember how he cried when she left??


ALBERT
(laughs)
Yeah of course..


ETHAN
I cried when you two left to
Australia..so what the fuck??


ERIC
Nah..I am just pointing out the
fact that its weird to actually
see you cry for a girl..


ETHAN
The tears just flowed out..I wasn’t
sad or anything..


ERIC
Yeah..tears of ‘no more sex for a long
time’


The three of them starts laughing

ERIC (CONT’D)
(to Ethan)
I saw you going into some jewelry
just now..buying something for Layla??


ETHAN
Her birthday is in six weeks..I don’t
wanna follow a good example (looks at
Albert) buy on the last minute


ALBERT
(points middle finger)
Whatever man...take her on a holiday
or something..


ETHAN
Cruise?? Maldives?? Dubai?? (long pause)
okay not Dubai..VERY creepy...


ERIC
Cape Town? Italy?? Spain??


ETHAN
Nah..still not ready to take her on
a real holiday..


ERIC
Fucker..its almost a year already,
get over it..no one saw it coming..
even Cheryl and Jennifer said everything
looks fine..


Ethan sighs of his disappointment

ETHAN
Ahh..forget it..maybe I will go check
out the Zodiac Cruise booth later..


ALBERT
Is the Rylai Inverse..the biggest cruise
ship they have..


In the background, Change the World, by Eric Clapton starts playing

ETHAN
(listening)
I remembered how the 3 of us was the
only one singing along when he
performed this song live in Singapore..


Al and Eric laughs

ERIC
4 months ago..seems like it was just
yesterday..


ALBERT
During the time of the concert..you
just got together with Layla right??


ETHAN
(laughs)
Yeah..two weeks..she was quite pissed
when I told her I was going Singapore..


ERIC
Even Cheryl was kinda upset..what more
a girlfriend of 2 weeks..


ALBERT
Cold war with Jennifer for a week..


ETHAN
You know what is the worst part??? she
knows I am a Clapton fan..I was like
‘what the fuck??’


ERIC
Same here..........maybe they got
pissed cause we didn’t bring them
along..


ALBERT
No..they got pissed cause they feel
like getting pissed at us..


Albert gets off his seat and walk towards the rest room

ETHAN
He seems pissed..


Eric grins and both of them starts smoking

Near their table, there is a television set hanging from the ceiling and the program that is currently on is an encore of ‘American Idol 5’ and ‘Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman’, by Bryan Adams, performed by Chris Daughtry is currently playing

Both Ethan and Eric looks at the television set

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