MARY
My winning…the Mount Rose……American Teen Princess Pageant……really changed my life….Amber does my hair…once a week.

AMBER
Well…it’s the least I can do for the reigning Mount Rose Junior Miss Amer–

Amber pulls the brush away with a clump of Mary’s hair
dangling from it.

AMBER (cont’d)
Oh God…

MARY
What?

AMBER
Huh? Oh…Uh, just a little snarl…

Amber mouths, “Shhh! Don’t tell!” to camera as she tries
to pull the clump of hair from the brush. Amber ties the tiara and missing clump of hair to Mary’s
head with a ribbon.

AMBER
There we go.

She holds the mirror for Mary.

MARY
(delusional)
Beautiful… Maybe next week… a
perm.

AMBER
Yah… sure…

Amber gives a kind but worried smile to camera.
Suddenly, Becky Leeman enters with a large box of
chocolates. She’s fully aware of the cameras from the
moment she enters.

BECKY
Hellooo, Little Mary Sunshine!
(pretending to notice camera)
What?! Oh-oh my God! Lights!
Camera! And me without a stitch of
make-up on. What are you guys doin’
here?

AMBER
What’re you doin’ here?

BECKY
Oh, Amber, like you’re the only one
who visits Mary.

MARY
(to Becky)
Who are you?

BECKY
(covering)
“Who are you?!” Oh Mary, you kill me.
(to camera)
She always says that. It’s a little
game we play. Every week – same dippy
little look on her face. “Who are you
– who are you?” Just like that.
(in Mary’s face)
It’s me – Becky – and I brought your
favorites.

Becky puts the chocolates on Mary’s lap, a few spill.
Throughout the following, Mary slowly reaches for them as
if they’re forbidden fruit and she’s a very hungry Eve.

AMBER
How nice, Becky, she’s anorexic.

Becky roughly puts her hands over Mary’s ears, who’s now
gently petting the spilled chocolates in her lap.

BECKY
(sotto, reprimanding tone)
She’s skinny, not deaf, Amber.