jordan

it looks like spring but it feels like winter i'm about to go eat cheese biscuits with my huggy bear here's the next installment of Ashley Land. it's kinda gross

INT. RAVE SAME NIGHT
Kid, looking tired and hurt, walks down a hallway painted with many layers of black. Strobe lights bounce off the wall, Kid walks with one palm pressed against the wall the whole time. He turns into a bright restroom; so bright it feels like he's walking out into a sunny lot after two hours inside a dark, dank theatre. He sees Josie's shoes her legs are sticking out from the last bathroom stall, she's lying down. The bathroom is empty except for her. Kid rushes over and opens the door. Josie's skirt is flipped up over her bottom; her underwear is nowhere to be seen. Kid picks her up and pulls her skirt down; there is blood on the floor.
JOSIE (Moaning): I don't feel good.
Josie places her hand on her face. She is sweaty and her bangs stick to her forehead.
KID: What happened in here?
JOSIE: My headstarted spinning and my heart was beating really hardthenKip
Josie starts sobbing on Kid's shoulder. He picks her up, looking stunned. Blood drips from between her legs, leaving dark red drops on the floor below her.
KID: Ohfuck(Josie's head weightlessly falls back, her eyes are slit open, looking at him) Josie, whatis it your period or
JOSIE (Crying): Yes. Kip got mad cause I didn't wanna screw him and he left and took my underwear and ripped out my
KID: Shhokay, we're gonna get you out of here
Kid eyes the toilet paper and pulls a bunch out, ripping some sheets off. He hands it to her, not knowing any other solution.
KID: Can youI mean will this work so you won't bleed on everything
JOSIE: No, I don't think so, Kid.
Kid knows it's a long way back to the exit door, and the club is crowded, so it will take even longer to push their way through the kids too fucked up to move even if they were nice about it. Kid looks around. Of course there is no tampon dispenser, nothing he can really see as sanitary enough to play a substitute.
KID: Josie, you don't have anything, where's your purse?
JOSIE: He took itKip took it. You shoulda heard him laughing.
Some girls walk into the bathroom. Their laughter fills the room.
KID: Look, just stay in here, on the toilet. I'm going to ask these girls if they can help us, okay?
Josie nods and sits down on the toilet, looking down at her own blood all over the floor. Kid walks out. The girls look at his reflection in the mirror. One is putting on lipstick and the other is watching her friend put on lipstick. Both are skinny and look too young to be here.
THE BLONDE: Oh, look, it's a boy. Look, Casey, a boy.
Casey, the redhead, turns around and looks Kid over.
CASEY (Bitchy, snotty): Hey, weren't you just upstairs getting your ass whipped by that girl?
KID: Um, yeah, that was me. Listen, do youwell, either of you, um, maybe have a sanitary napkin I could havea tampon or something?
The girls look at each other and laugh.
THE BLONDE (Sarcastically sympathetic): Oh, man, you really are messed up, aren't ya, kid?
They walk out, laughing the whole way.
Kid turns around and leans on a sink and looks at his reflection. He stares long and hard when Ashley comes in. They stare at each other for a minute in silence.
ASHLEY (Moving toward a sink): Hey.
Ashley puts on lipstick and runs her finger along the corners.
KID: Hey.
ASHLEY (Looking at him dolefully): Are you sore?
KID: No, I mean, not a lot.
Ashley looks back in the mirror, smirking, knowing he's lying.
KID: Ashley, Josie needs your help. She's in the last stall and she'sshe's
Josie comes out of the stall, crying, heading straight for Ashley's arms.
ASHLEY: Oh, baby.
JOSIE: he took my underwear, he ripped out my tampon, he took my purse, that asshole
ASHLEY: Who?
JOSIE: Kip. (In a slobbering rampage) I hate him. I thought he liked me, we've been spending all this time together and he justwanted to fuck me
ASHLEY (Letting Josie go): I'll fucking kick his ass when I see him.
Ashley looks down at the floor, noticing the blood.
JOSIE: Do you have anythingplease.
ASHLEY (Glances at Kid awkwardly): Um, yes.
Kid shakes his head at the incredible circumstance, pinching the bridge of his nose.
ASHLEY (Starts to look down in her purse, then looks up at Kid): You can go now, Kid, I got this.
KID: No, I want to help. I found her
ASHLEY (Laughing slightly with disbelief at his stubbornness): Kid, I got this.
Kid stares down at the floor looking scorned. He opens his mouth to say something, but only sighs and walks out.
FADE OUT.