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by Walter Amador (wgamador@yahoo.com)

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Six inner-city high school students skip two class periods and plan to get back in time for one of them to take an important science test...but once they leave school grounds, things don't go as planned.

NO TIME TO LOSE

FADE IN:

INT. BRIEN MCMAHON HIGH SCHOOL HALLWAY - DAY

It's the end of first period it's a bit chaotic, ALL TYPES
OF STUDENTS are walking in the hallways anticipating the
bell announcing start of second period. Except for five male
students who are standing in front of lockers and a water
fountain.

MIKE GAY a black student recently moved from a Southern
state.
LOUIS "BIG LOU" GUERRERRO an overweight pale skinned latino
who looks 10 years older than everyone else.
TONY "TONE" BERMUDEZ is a medium-built latino who is an
aspiring disc jockey.
MICHAEL "FAT CAT" EVANS slightly obese, dark skinned new
student from rival town.
KEVIN "FORTY" AMADOR is a medium-built latino known for
sneaking in forty ounce beers into the school.

They all come from single parent homes and low-income
neighborhoods, but despite that, they all have the latest
sneakers and urban wear.

They stand near a locker.

MIKE GAY bends over to drink from the water fountain across
from the locker.

TONE
Ya checkin' this shit out.
Mike…you nasty bitch!! How can you
drink that nasty ass water?

MIKE
Man, im thirsty, son. I aint got
money for no soda machine, son.

TONE
Well you keep drinking that shit,
you gonna' grow a white-nipple on
yo' head.

MIKE gives TONE the finger.
BIG LOU pulls out a small dime bag of marijuana and holds it
in the air.

BIG LOU
Anyone got a blunt? Lets go burn
this shit---get liffffted.

FORTY
(to Big Lou)
Chill, man. Keep that shit down.
You wanna get us popped?

TONE pulls a dime bag of his own and shakes it in the air.

TONE
(smiling)
Word up. I got a bag too.

LOU and TONE high-five each other.

FAT CAT
(not to be outdone)
I got a bag of izm too. Some real
green shit.

MIKE
Don't look at me. I'm brokerrrrr
than a mother fuckerrrrr. I ain't
got shit

TONE
Damn Mike you never got nothing.
You never got no weed, no blunt,
no money, no cigarettes…when you
gonna' contribute something.

MIKE
Someday, son. You'll see. I'll
come through for us, son

BIG LOU
(to Forty)
So we got madd 'herbos' but
nothing to smoke it with...ain't
that a bitch.
Tell me you got some papers,
something.

FORTY
No, man. Sorry.
Maybe D. has one.
Here he comes now.

DAMON "D" BIGELOW is a very tall, lanky light-skinned black
student, he runs vigorously towards them.

DAMON
(panting)
What up niggas? Stupid van
wouldn't start this morning.
Just got here.

BIG LOU
We know we've been waiting here
for your silly ass to see if you
got a phillie.

DAMON
Whoa shit--- What up Lou. Fuck is
you doin here?

BIG LOU
We tryin' to go on this smoke
mission.
Please tell us you got a blunt on
you.

DAMON
I do. I got two right up here.

He reaches for the top shelf of his locker and pulls down
two cigars.
Big Lou's eyes light up and he snatches them from Damon's
hand.

DAMON
Hold on, cousin!
You ain't just takin' my shit. You
better put me down.

TONE
So lets go. We got three bags.
Fuck second and third period. Who
down?

FAT CAT
Im in like-a motha fukka.
Forty, you comin nigga?

FORTY
I don't know. We got a test in
science and I have to pass that
shit.

DAMON
Fuck the test. You be aiiiight.
I'll get niggas back in time.
Lets go get some brew and get
really fucked up, up in here.

FORTY
I don't know man, I really can't
miss that test.

FAT CAT
(to Forty)
Test? You ain't foolin' nobody
nigga. You wanna see that trick
ass ho' in our science class.
What's her name again?

FORTY
Who, Jill?

CLOSE-UP on FORTY as a bright light hits his face, we follow
the light to:

BEGIN FANTASY
SEQUENCE:

INT. SCIENCE CLASSROOM - DAY

Brilliant white light shines through the classroom windows.
Students are sitting at their desks. Teacher is up front
talking about the Sun and Earth relationship. [she moves in
Slo-motion]
Classroom door opens.

CLOSE-UP on FORTY at the door, backpack on shoulder.
They make eye contact.

CLOSE-UP on JILL.

He walks towards her, she slowly rises. They meet..
He takes her hand in his. Drops the backpack, it unzips
revealing a dozen roses.
JILL looks down at them and smiles. He speaks.

FORTY
What I feel for you is more
powerful than the light from a
trillion stars.

They hold hands again and approach for a kiss [Slo-motion]
A HAND [regular speed] comes across the screen and slaps
FORTY across the head.

Classroom dissolves back to hallway.

END FANTASY
SEQUENCE.

FAT CAT has slapped FORTY , snapping him out of trance.

FORTY
Come on man. What was that for?

FAT CAT
Forget about her, lets go smoke
nigga. She don't love you.

FORTY
You trippin'. We just friends.

TONE
Say what?!
When a girl says she likes you as
a friend, you done. That's her way
of putting up a 'No Trespass'
sign on her shit.

MIKE
You aint gettin none, son.

TONE and MIKE high five and laugh.

TONE
I saw her talking with that dude,
George in the hallway yesterday.
He was 'MACKIN that shit and you
know his daddy is-- rich. And you
ain't got-- shit.

FORTY
Not true. She don't even like that
kid. She said he tries too hard.
One day he asked her what I had,
that he didn't have.

BIG LOU
(interrupting)
What she say, big ass roaches?
Your family be riding them from
room to room.

They all laugh and high-five BIG LOU, except FORTY.

FORTY
Fuck You, Lou. Don't be dissin'
the projects when your house
smells likes like there's a zombie
taking a shit in every room.

They all laugh louder.

BIG LOU
Fuck ya'll!
We going to smoke or not?

Students continue to scramble up and down the hallway around
them.

DAMON
Yeah lets go, bell gonna ring any
minute now. You coming Forty?

TONE, MIKE, FAT CAT, DAMON and BIG LOU look at FORTY as they
wait his answer.

FORTY
Fuck it, lets go. But we HAVE to
get back before fourth period.
She said she wants to meet me
after class. She has a note for
me.

BIG LOU
(to Forty)
Fuck that Bitchboy shit. Lets go.

FORTY
Yo' D. Can you hold my backpack in
your locker til we get back?

DaAMON grabs and throws FORTY's backpack into his locker and
slams the locker shut.

MIKE
(excited)
Lets go get fucked up, son!

TONE looks at MIKE and shakes his head with disapproval.

MIKE
(under his breath)
Broke bitch.

FORTY
Lets split up and meet outside.
DOnt wanna alert the FEDS if they
see us all walking out together.

DAMON
Aiight lets go.

The bell rings. The hallway quickly empties.

FADE OUT.

FADE IN.

INT. DAMONS VAN (MOVING) - DAY

FAT CAT, MIKE, TONE, and FORTY are sitting in the back. BIG
LOU is riding shotgun.

DAMON is about to take a left out of the school when Forty
stops him.

FORTY
Where you going D.?

DAMON
To Carmello's Store.

FORTY
Nope. They got raided the other
day. They was selling 'rock' out
the store and madd people got
busted.

FLASHBACK CUT TO:

EXT. CARMELLO'S STORE FRONT ENTRANCE - DAY

Tons of Police Officers and SWAT are dragging handcuffed
drug dealers, mailmen, drag queens, crackheads,
cock-fighters and Whitney Houston out of Carmello's.

END FLASHBACK:

INT. DAMONS VAN (MOVING) - DAY

FORTY
(continues)
The police be driving by every 5
minutes now. That block is madd
hot.

DAMON
Word? Damn.

FORTY
We gotta hit the West Cedar Store.

DAMON
Damn. That's too close to my
house.

FAT CAT
C'mon nigga we on a mission. Lets
DO THIS.

DAMON takes a right turn as he does, BIG LOU turns on the
radio. Rap music plays.

Close-Up BIG LOU splitting the cigar as he throws the 'guts'
out the window. Pulls his dime bag out and skillfully pours
it in and begins to roll it.

            BIG LOU
      (nodding head to
       beat)
I'll be in and out at the store.
I'm just grabbing beer and blunts.
Where's everyone's money, lets get
it together now

They all reach into their pockets. Except MIKE.

TONE (O.S.)
Turn that shit up back here D.
that's my song.

EXTREME WIDE SHOT of the Van driving down residential
street, we see it disappear in the distance. Rap music
continues to play.

FADE OUT.

FADE IN.

EXT. FRONT PARKING WEST CEDAR STORE - DAY

A minority owned neighborhood bodega on the dangerous West
Side.
The stores windows are adorned with hand written signs
announcing the specials of the week. Litter lines the
streets and sidewalk. We see van drive up front and park.

INT. DAMON'S VAN (PARKED) - DAY

BIG LOU puts down rolled blunt on van's console.
He tosses a cigar and a bag of marijuana to FAT CAT.

BIG LOU
Here, roll this while I'm in
there.
Don't light shit without me.

            DAMON
      (looks around
       nervously)
Yeah nigga. Just hurry back.

FORTY
Yeah Lou, there's No Time To Lose.

BIG LOU exits the car and walks into store.

An extremely attractive woman walks by the van.
The boys spot her from inside the van.

FAT CAT
DAMN, that ho' blazin.
I'd break that bitches back. Get
up all in that ho's shit.

MIKE
Word, she fly as hell, son.
Yo baby.

FAT CAT
Yo Ho', come here. Ho'.

TONE
(to Fat Cat)
Why you be calling girls ho's and
bitches all the time. That shit
ain't right. No wonder you aint
got a girl.

FAT CAT
That's cause they all ho's.

MIKE
(to Tone)
Cat is right, they all bitches and
ho's. I be calling my girl a ho'
ALL the time.

FORTY
Yo Mike, ain't your girl legally
deaf?

MIKE
Yeah, but I still be calling her
that shit, son.

A Few minutes pass.

10.

BIG LOU
What's takin that nigga Lou so
long in there?

DAMON
I don't know but Big Lou is the
only nigga I know who will skip
school to go hang out at somebody
else's school.

MIKE
Niggas be buggin, son.

CUT TO:

EXT. WEST CEDAR STORE FRONT PARKING - DAY

Orange Cadillac drives by store and slows down.
MAN driving seems to recognize the van. Cadillac almost
comes to a stop but keeps going.

BACK TO:

INT. DAMON'S VAN (PARKED) - DAY

FORTY
Damn whats taking that nigga Lou
so long in there?

MIKE
Maybe they givin that nigga a hard
time.

TONE
No they aint, that nigga look
Thirty years old.

CUT TO:

EXT. WEST CEDAR STORE PARKING LOT - DAY

Orange Cadillac is back and drives up and parks next to van.
MAN is now with WOMAN and both get out of Cadillac. Walk up
to van's driver side.

MAN
(to Damon)
BOY! What are you doing here?

11.

DAMON'S MOTHER
Ain't you supposed to be in
school?

DAMON
(in shock)
Grandpa! Mom!
Shit.
Umm, we just came to the store we
going right back.

DAMON'S MOTHER
Boy, you best be getting out of
that van.

Everyone in van is in shock and begin to exit van as DAMON
gets out.
She gets in van and starts it.

DAMON'S MOTHER
We will deal with this later.

DAMON
But how am I supposed to get back
to school.

DAMON'S MOTHER
You should've thought of that
before.

GRANDPAgets in Cadillac and drives out of lot. DAMON'S
MOTHER drives off with van behind him.
Both cars disappear down the street.

DAMON, FAT CAT, TONE, MIKE and FORTY are left standing in
the parking lot looking at one another in complete shock and
disbelief.

TONE
Yo' what are we gonna do?

DAMON
I don't know.

BIG LOU comes out of store with two large brown paper bags.
The beer bottles chime against one another. BIG LOU sees
everyone standing in parking lot where van was. We can see
him do a 'visual count'.

BIG LOU
What's goin on?
Who's missing?

12.

FORTY
No one is missing.

BIG LOU visually counts each one of them again. Realizes the
van is what's missing.

BIG LOU
Where did the van go?
Where you park it?

He walks around corner of store looking for van. He sees
nothing and walks back to the group.

DAMON
I told ya'll this was too close to
my house. Damn, man.

BIG LOU
What?

TONE
Yeah. We stuck, Big Lou.

DAMON
My grandpa and my Mom they saw us
and they came and took the van.

BIG LOU
Stop playin'.

FORTY
It's true. We stranded like a
motherfucker now.

A few minutes of silence pass.

MIKE
We can walk back.

FAT CAT
You fucking crazy! That's a long
ass walk.

FORTY
How we going to look, the six of
us walking down the street with
all that beer when we should be in
school?

DAMON
I knew this was too close to my
house, dammit.

13.

FORTY
We are officially fucked.

FAT CAT
We can call for a cab.
Anybody got any money left?

BIG LOU
They wont give us the money back.

TONE
Return the beer. Get our money
back.

FORTY
No we can't- we put all our money
towards the beer.

FAT CAT
We might as well start drinkin
that bitch.

Suddenly MIKE has an epiphany and grand idea.

MIKE
(excited)
DAMN--- YO'!!

BIG LOU
What Mike? What ?

MIKE
My sister works for dispatch at a
taxi company in South Carolina. If
she was here she could help us.

They all look at each other and are speechless.
TONE breaks the silence.

TONE
Yeah, Mike and if we were in
London, this would've never have
happened.
You dumbass.

They all laugh hard but quickly realize they are still
stranded outside the store.

FAT CAT
So what the fuck we gonna do?

14.

FORTY
I don't know, but we can't just
stand here. We gotta move before
the police drive by.

BIG LOU
(reluctant)
I have $20 --- It's in my shoe.

FORTY
You was holding out on us man?

BIG LOU
It's my emergency money.

DAMON
Well this is an emergency nigga'.

BIG LOU
Niggas gonna have to pay me back
though.

DAMON
No problem. Now lets call and get
the fuck out of here.

BIG LOU
We still gonna chill, right?

FAT CAT
Yeah fuck it we ain't making it
back in time. Lets go to the
'tracks'.

TONE
Word. At least we'll be close to
the school.

BIG LOU
Let me go inside see if they let
me use they phone.

BIG LOU walks back in the store. Makes call and comes back
out.

FORTY
(to Tone)
Yo' what time is it?

TONE
Third period is just about to end.

15.

FORTY
Damn! Hope that cab hurries.

Big Lou walks back out of store.

BIG LOU
They said ten minutes.
They wont pick all of us up, so
niggas need to hide.

Yellow Cab pulls up. The DRIVER is Jamaican.
FAT CAT, BIG LOU still carrying the beer and DAMON are
standing waiting for the taxi to come to a stop. As soon as
they get in FORTY, TONE and MIKE run out of the store and
jump in. They squeeze in by sitting on each others laps.

DRIVER
Wha' dee Bum-Bah-CLOT! Cum nah,
get dee rass out me car.
What dee meening fi dis?

BIG LOU
Come on man, be cool. We all
stuck.

BIG LOU hands the DRIVER the $20. He reluctantly takes it
and puts the vehicle in reverse and begins to drive.

DRIVER
Where you fools fi 'eadin?

FAT CAT
Behind Brien McMahon, I'll show
you.

CUT TO:

EXT. RESIDENTIAL STREET - BEHIND SCHOOL - DAY

On the left of the street are a line of trees and bushes
there is a clearing where we can see the train tracks. There
is a small dirt trail that runs into the bushes. On the
other side of the street are some homes.

The song "Let it Whip" by Dazz Band plays loudly from out of
the taxi. The cab has come to a stop and the guys get out.
Cab driver watches them walk one by one as they disappear
into the bushes, he shakes his head and drives off. Turns up
the music even louder as he drives off.

16.

EXT. TRAIN TRACKS - DAY

The guys finally arrive and cannot wait to start drinking
and smoking.
They get in a circle and begin lighting up.
MIKE passes out the beer.
DAMON begins to light a blunt takes a few tokes and passes.

DAMON
(to Big Lou)
What took you so long in the
store?

BIG LOU
I was using they bathroom, man.
Then they didn't want to sell me
the beer. I had to convince
motherfuckers.

DAMON
(to Forty)
I can see that motherfuckin school
from here.
Sorry my nigga' for making you
miss that test. I can't believe my
Mom took the van.

FORTY
It's Cool, D. It's nodbody's
fault.

TONE looks at his watch.

TONE
(to Forty)
Fourth period started about 15
minutes ago.
You could still probably make it
to the test if you run.

EXTREME CLOSE-UP on FORTY. He thinks hard as he gazes in the
school's direction.

FORTY
Man…Fuck it. Pass that weed
nigga'.

FADE TO BLACK.

THE END

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