ELIZABETH 2

Written By

William Smith

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FADES IN

EXT. DARK ALLY - EVENING

It is late into the night a two teenage's (one male the other female) drunkenly stagger down an ally. They are drunkly singing Oasis. The ally is lit up by near by street lights.

The male is around 6ft tall and is quite lanky,and has dark brown scruffy hair. He is wearing a red loose fitting crew neck jumper, Faded blue jeans cuffed at the bottom, white socks and black dock marten boots.The girl is shorter, she has long blond hair. She is wearing a denim jacket, black jeans and a white converse.

The male teenager appears to have his arm around the female. The male teenager takes a swig from the bottle and the hands it over to the female teenager, she continues to drink from the bottle. She try's to hand the bottle back to him but his hand slips and the bottle smashes on the floor. He picks up the broken bottle.

MASONEllie, do you want to go back to mine.

ELLIE Why not

INT. MASONS BEDROOM - MORNING

Mason (now 35) wakes up all sweaty and flustered.

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Mason is running trough his morning routine, he is clearly in a rush. He packs a worm leather bag with a note book, papers and a lunch he prepared the night before. He runs outside to the shed and grabs a vintage looking bike. He throws the brown bag in the basket in the front, locks up

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the house and leaves through a side gate. He then quickly cycles up the street.

EXT. STREET - DAY

Mason is cycling down a street when he receives a phone call from a fellow colleague. Mason pulls over and accepts the call.

TEACHER 1Hey mason, are you at work yet?

MASONNo i'm not

TEACHER 1Well the coffee machine is broken at work, please could you collect some coffees from the coffee shop. Don't worry about money we will all pay you back.

MASONYeah sure, what would people like?

TEACHER 12 cappuccinos, 1 latte and a flat white.

MASONOk, that was 2 cappuccinos, 1 latte and a flat white?

TEACHER 1Yes, ooh and can they all be medium as well.

MASONOk, i will be at work soon.

He continues to cycle down some streets until he arrives at a coffee shop.He then dismounts and locks up his bike.

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INT. COFFE SHOP

The coffee shop is heaving with people, mostly students doing work. At the fount of the coffee shop is sofa's and filling the centre of the shop is tables and chairs. At the back of the coffee shop is a counter where you order the drinks.

Mason weaves through the maze of tables and joins the back of the queue.

BARISTAHello, what can i get for you today.

MASONPlease can i get 2 medium cappuccinos, on medium latte and a flat white.

BARISTAYes of course, please can i take your name.

MASONMason. Oh can i have the cups in one of those carrier trays.

Mason Pays the barista and the barista goes on to make mason his drinks, mason waits buy the side. A man at the end of the counter calls Mason to collect his drinks. As Mason heads down their he accidently bumps into a woman, this causes the women to spill her coffee over Mason.

LIZI'm so sorry, it was an accident, i just...

MASONDon't worry about it, it was my fault, i wasn't looking where i was going. Let me get you a new coffee.

LIZThank you so much

MASON(to barista) hey can you get this woman a new coffee, i will pay

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BARISTAOk

MASON(to liz)do you mind grabbing me a tissue?

LIZSure, give me a second

Liz collects a napkin and hands it over to mason.

MASONCheers, i don't think i have seen you before, are you from around here?

LIZYes i just moved in down the road, what about you?

MASONThat explains why i haven't seen you before. I'm actually a teacher in the local primary school.

BARISTAYour coffee is ready miss

She goes to collect her coffee and mason pays.

MASONI have to run sorry, i need to get these coffees delivered and get a change of shirt.

LIZI will see you around, hopefully next time i wont spill coffee over you!

MASON (laughs)bye.

Mason leaves the coffee shop, places the coffees in the basket in the front of his bike and then cycles off. When mason cycles away you can see liz inside the coffee shop smiling. Mason makes a detour past his house and changes into a fresh shirt. He then cycles to the school.

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INT. Staff room - Day (morning)

The staff room is a large room, surrounding the room are blue chairs, that had seen better days, to the left of the room was a small kitchen. It is lunch time and the staff room is busy, all the teachers sitting around eating their lunch talking about their weekend.

Mason enters the staff room and hands out the coffees.

TEACHER 1Took your time

MASONSorry i got caught up in the coffee shop.

Mason leaves the staff room with his coffee and goesto his classroom.

EXT. SCHOOL / STREET - EVENING

Mason finnish's working and starts to cycle home, on his way home he passes the coffee shop. He spots liz inside. Because of this distraction mason nearly cycles into a car. He falls of his bike and hits his head. Mason looks up at the coffee shop and liz is gone. Mason is left confused and then faints.

FADES TO BLACK