Chapter 10 (The SURFACK Club)

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INT. CLEARWOOD HIGH SCHOOL - DAY

Our main characters, now consisting of both our original surviving group and the SURFACK Club (Scott, Andrew, Iris, Nick, Daphne, Charlie, Derek, Gerald, Robin, Kyle, Kenny, Martha, and Nora), walk into the school together for the first time as one. They are seen by everyone.

This especially annoys Austin's team now that they're outnumbered. They don't dare mess with girls. But they certainly wouldn't dare to mess with Scott and Gerald, whom are both tougher than the jocks even as a group. But Austin is too overly confident and smug.

AUSTIN: We'll eventually take down this loser ass group of idiots.

SIMON: Yeah.

TRAVIS: Fuck em.

INT. ENGLISH CLASS - DAY

Cruise continues his lecture on their current assignment.

CRUISE: I think you should use other stories and movies as inspiration for how you'd try to change and handle things differently from your current story's situations. Derek, give me an example on how a character could escape from the snow that has buried him.

Derek thinks for a moment.

DEREK: He should get that inflatable jacket that James Bond used in The World Is Not Enough. He used it to cover himself and Electra while they were being buried by snow and then stabbed through the snow with a knife.

ANDREW: In Octopussy, Bond used a metal-melting pen to cut through the bars that kept him in a room.

CRUISE: Good examples. 007 has used a lot of gadgets to get out of things. If you do use gadgets, make sure to mention how your characters retrieved such gadgets in your stories.

INT. CARTER RESIDENCE - LIVING ROOM - DAY

Lorraine is sitting on the couch and watching TV. Suddenly, the sound of a bell ringing twice is heard from outside. It's a familiarfamilar sound to her. Lorraine realizes what this is and gets up from the couch and walks to the front door. She opens the door and sees Zero standing on the street with his tricycle.

Zero waves at her. Lorraine takes a moment before smiling and waving back to him. She walks over to him.

LORRAINE: How are you doing?

Zero smiles over his mother finally talking to him.

ZERO: I'm doing okay, Mommy.

LORRAINE: Please. We can't start with you calling me that.

ZERO: (confused and sad) Why not?

LORRAINE: Because...You know you can't stay with me.

Zero sadly knows his head.

ZERO: I understand. I know that you don't love me.

Lorraine is speechless. She doesn't know how to respond to that claim.

ZERO: I should get going.

Lorraine stands there as Zero sadly proceeds to ride off. He turns to her for a moment to say;

ZERO: I love you, Mommy.

Then Zero rides off. Lorraine just stands there as Zero rides off until see cannot see him in the distance anymore. His words finally hit her hard inside. Lorraine breaks down and sobs over this. Could she actually love Zero deep down?

INT. CLEARWOOD HIGH SCHOOL - HALLWAY - DAY

The main group and the SURFACK Club (with the exception of Kyle, who is in a lower grade than them) come together in the hallway.

ANDREW: (to Derek) Good job on the whole inflatable jacket idea.

DEREK: Thanks, man. You did good with the metal-melting pen idea.

ANDREW: Thanks. I...

AUSTIN: (Off screen) HEY!

Everyone, including the other unnamed students in the background, turn to find Austin and his teammates confronting the main characters.

AUSTIN: Just because you guys have come together as one, don't think you'll win a fight with us.

Both Scott and Gerald stand their ground, showing off how tough and fearless they truly are.

SCOTT: Do I need to remind you that we totally kicked your asses the other day.

Austin continues to be smug and arrogant.

AUSTIN: You just caught us with our guard down. We didn't see it coming. But the next time we meet, somebody is going get their ass kicked to near death.

This threat doesn't faze our main characters, which annoys Austin, who decides to put in one last insult before leaving.

AUSTIN: Watch your backs, losers.

Austin does threatening hand signals at the group before he and his teammates walk off. We PAN UP to a security camera that was watching this incident.

INT. UNKNOWN LOCATION

From an unknown location to us, we find an unmasked SKIFACE, whose face we don't see, watching this from a cell phone. Now Skiface is aware of Austin and is teammates goal to take out the main characters. But he has his own mission against the group.

SKIFACE: I cannot let you jocks in my way. So I will make sure that your "next meeting" will NEVER take place.

What will Skiface do about this?

INT. CAFETERIA - DAY

Iris is eating alone on a large table nearby the windows. Charlie walks out of the kitchen line with his tray of food. He sees Iris sitting alone on the other side.

CHARLIE: (to himself) Okay, you can do this, Charlie. Just go over there and talk to him.

Charlie approaches Iris.

CHARLIE: Hey, Iris.

Iris smiles upon seeing him.

IRIS: Hey.

CHARLIE: Can I sit with you?

IRIS: Of course.

Charlie sits next to her.

CHARLIE: How are you doing?

IRIS: I'm doing okay. Just trying to get through the day like always.

CHARLIE: So you know that I had gone on a date with Karen.

IRIS: Yes. I heard. I also heard that you ditched her over a hot cheerleader.

Charlie is confused by this.

CHARLIE: Hot cheerleader? No. I'm not into some hot cheerleader.

IRIS: Then who is the girl that you like that you left Karen for?

Charlie prepares for his confession.

CHARLIE: It's you, Iris.

Iris is surprised and shocked by this.

IRIS: You really mean it?

CHARLIE: I do. You're the one I want to be with.

Iris smiles and he smiles back. From the distance, we see Karen staring at them. She is clearly not happy about this. She now sees Iris as her enemy. She has stolen the man that she wants.