CONVERSATIONS

INT. DINING HALL - NIGHT

Dozens of college students sit at tables talking loudly,
laughing, and eating their dinners.

MIKE
Lot of fuckin’ noise in here.

VICTOR
I was wondering why you were gonna
do it here.

MIKE
Um, I realized the other day that
I’m incredibly bad at
decision-making. I used to think
that I was just indecisive, but now
I realize that all of my decisions
fucking suck.

Victor laughs.

MIKE (cont’d)
Really badly.

Victor laughs again.

MIKE (cont’d)
Everything I do is fail.

VICTOR
Oh yeah?

MIKE
Yah.

There is a long pause as both Mike and Victor eat part of
their dinners.

VICTOR
I wouldn’t say all your decisions
suck.

MIKE
Name one that doesn’t. You don’t
even know any.





2.



VICTOR
You came to IC.

MIKE
Mmm.

VICTOR
You chose to take 220 this
semester.

MIKE
Actually, I’m not even the one who
did that. I was thinking here or
Dalhousie, which was in Nova
Scotia. I was on a field trip to
New York City and my parents sent
in the ...actual acceptance thing.
So, I could have been in Nova
Scotia right now.

VICTOR
Your parents decided whether you
went here or there?

MIKE
Yeah, pretty much. It - I wasn’t
sure what I was gonna do. And then
like traveling there is a bitch.

VICTOR
Connecticut to uh Ithaca is much
better than Connecticut to Nova
Scotia.

MIKE
Yah.

VICTOR
Also! If you think Ithaca is cold
huh huh...

MIKE
I don’t.

VICTOR
I know. Huh.

MIKE
I woulda loved it there.

Mike pauses for a bit.






3.



MIKE (cont’d)
Umm. Where was I? Oh right. One of
the reasons why I didn’t end up
going there is cus I never got
around to getting a passport
because I pushed that off for too
long.

VICTOR
Going to country; going to college
in-country makes a lot more sense.

MIKE
Yeah, um.

VICTOR
You don’t have to deal with
custsoms every time you come home
for break.

MIKE
I could of just stayed there, like
get a little, I don’t know, hotel
room or something. It’s actually a
popular place - Dalhousie’s right
on the capital city.

VICTOR
Where in Nova Scotia?

MIKE
The main city.. what was it called?
Um.

There is a rather long pause.

MIKE (cont’d)
The name is blanking on me.

VICTOR
Quebec?


INT. DORM HALLWAY - NIGHT

A group of girls giggle someplace far off screen. Doors
open and close constantly.

ALEXANDER
Josh. Open up. I know you’re in
there, I can see the light through
the peep-hole. And I can hear you.
Hurry up, we are goin’ to be late.
(MORE)



4.



ALEXANDER (cont’d)
Don’t make me late for this...
buddy ol’ pal. It’s 6:48 and I have
to be there 5 minutes early to sign
in. Let’s go... I can see you
looking. Come on, hurry up, we’re
going to be late.

A door slams in the distance.

ALEXANDER
Can we go? Fuuuck.

ALEXANDER (cont’d)
(singing)
Where over the vaaagina... A.. I
want you...

ALEXANDER (cont’d)
I can hear you. I can fucking hear
you.