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'South' Ch4 Minami - Writing on the Window

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          INT. ART FUNDAMENTALS ROOM

          The art fundamental students have a large room to
          themselves; filled with artist desks that adjust to the
          required height needed to draw. Most desks are clean, but
          some have drawings of drapes or fruit taped on them. Art
          supplies litter the floor while a statue of a mother holding
          her child sits in the corner. There is also a sink with
          empty bottles with paint brushes sticking out of them.
          Shelves adorn the back of the room, holding various art
          supplies and drawings. Two of the walls are covered in
          paintings from past artists, such as Salvador Dali, Picasso
          and MC Escher. The last wall, the wall by the hallway, has
          windows so that other students can see the artwork being
          made as they pass them in the hall. Minami sits at her desk,
          books piled around her, opened to human anatomy references.
          She is the only one in the room. She leans in to draw
          something up close, her tongue sticking out. Suddenly, her
          phone rings. She digs in her pocket for her phone, and upon
          retrieving it, answers.

                              MINAMI
                    Hello?

                              PERSON ON PHONE
                    안녕하세요!

          Confused, Minami looks at her phone. Remembering she doesn't
          have caller ID, she puts her phone back to her ear.

                              MINAMI
                    Um... Sorry?

                              PERSON ON PHONE
                    나는 올바른 번호가있는 경우 모르겠어.

                              MINAMI
                    Uh...

                              PERSON ON PHONE
                    Oh! You not A.J. Sorry, sorry!

          Sound FX: Phone makes a clicking noise, indicating the call
          is over. Minami looks at her phone again.

                              MINAMI
                    <Who the heck was that?>

          Stajianna enters the room, smiling. She waves at the
          confused Minami, motioning her to come over.

          INT. CAMPUS HALLWAY

          SIGN: 'ATTENTION STUDENTS: Halloween is just around the
          corner, and the city of Toronto wants YOU to make it the
          best ever!'

          Minami and Stajianna stand in front of the bulletin board
          looking at the advertisement. There are about 10 postings of
          the same contest advertisement on the board, as well as
          other announcements. Minami leans in closer at the sign as
          Stajianna reads aloud from a comfortable distance.

                              STAJIANNA
                    Create and visualize a Halloween
                    haunted house with your special
                    talent. Whether it be through
                    dance, animating, or photography or
                    anything else, we want to see what
                    YOU come up with.

                              STAJIANNA
                    The city of Toronto is giving away
                    a 1500$ cash prize to 5 students
                    who can visualize the haunted house
                    theme. The winning students
                    masterpieces will be a part of
                    Toronto's Haunted Mansion.

          Minami turns around to look at Stajianna.

                              MINAMI
                    Holy snaps, this sounds awesome.

          Stajianna giggles at Minami as she reaches forward to grab
          one of the many copies of the contest information off the
          bulletin board. She starts to fold the paper as she speaks.

                              STAJIANNA
                    I bet this would look great in our
                    portfolio. You going to enter?

                              MINAMI
                    Anything that makes my portfolio
                    look great, I'm going for.

          Minami reaches up and grabs a sheet for herself. She then
          takes another off the wall and grins at Stajianna.

                              MINAMI
                    For A.J.

          INT. ART FUNDAMENTALS ROOM

          Minami stands in the front of the classroom in a black pair
          of shorts with a black tank top. Behind her, 4 huge sheets
          of cartridge paper are tapped to the wall. On the floor is a
          paint tray with brushes and red paint tubes. Stajianna sits
          on a chair, cross legged, looking at her friend in a bizarre
          manner.

                              MINAMI
                    You think I mixed this paint to
                    look like blood? Think its going to
                    look scary?

          Stajianna looks slightly bored, waving her hand at her
          friend.

                              STAJIANNA
                    Sure, sure. Just try and keep this
                    clean. I have a feeling I'm going
                    to be playing Cinderella soon.

          Minami leans down to pick up a brush filled red paint.

                              MINAMI
                    Of course!

          She turns around and swings her brush, red paint flying onto
          the wall. Stajianna winces as she see's the paint hit the
          wall, some onto the floor. Minami continues to throw paint
          on the wall.

          INT. CAMPUS HALLWAY

          A.J is seen walking down the hallway, looking at her phone.
          She walks near the windowed hallway of Minami's class where
          the blinds are now closed.

                              A.J
                    What in the heck?

          Written on the window in red paint are the following words:
          'Question Authority.'

                              A.J
                    Question authority?

          A.J stares at the graffiti for a moment before quietly
          making her way to the Art Fundamentals classroom and opens
          the door. Inside the room, Minami squeezes out more red
          paint from the tube. Stajianna is now on the floor mopping
          up the mess Minami has created, humming to herself.

                              STAJIANNA
                    Oh, Sing Sweet Nightingale.

          A.J enters knocks on the door frame, then enters the room.

                              MINAMI
                    Oh! Hi A.J!

          A.J slowly walks up to them, looking around the room as she
          speaks.

                              A.J
                    What the heck are ya doin'?

          Stajianna puts down the rag, gets up and dusts off her
          cherry patterned dress.

                              STAJIANNA
                    She's making a mess, that is what
                    she's doing. Now I have to play
                    Cinderella.

                              A.J
                    Ah can see that. So, uh, Ah didn'
                    know that ya'll were rebels.

          Minami tilts her head.

                              MINAMI
                    Eh?

          A.J walks over to the windows and opens the blinds to the
          hallway, revealing the message. Though it is backwards from
          this angle, it is still clear on what it says.

                              MINAMI
                    Whoa!

          Stajianna points to the white paper with Minami's paint
          splatters.

                              STAJIANNA
                    The only writing on the wall we did
                    was the mess Minami made with her
                    paint.

                              MR HACHE
                    Miss White!

          The three girls give a start and look around at the doorway,
          where a very un-pleased Mr Hache stands. He turns his gaze
          towards Minami and Stajianna.

                              MR HACHE
                    You two, what are your names?

                              STAJIANNA
                    Stajianna Giade.

                              MINAMI
                    Minami Kyuki, sir.

          Mr Hache walks in the room, his hands behind his back.

                              MR HACHE
                    Miss White, will you tell me why
                    you and your... friends, defiled
                    school property to express
                    yourselves?

                              MINAMI
                    We didn't write on the wall, sir!

          Stajianna nods quickly. Scowling, Mr Hache looks at Minami,
          then back to the windows.

                              MR HACHE
                    Well, it doesn't matter who did it.
                    I expect this mess cleaned up
                    before classes start tomorrow.

          He glances at the three girls.

                              MR HACHE
                    Make haste ladies, this mess wont
                    vanish on it's own.

          At the last comment, Mr Hache turns and leaves the room. The
          three girls look at the window in dismay.

          INT. CAMPUS HALLWAY

          The three girls stand in front of the window in the hallway,
          each with a rag and a bucket and in the middle of cleaning.

                              STAJIANNA
                    I was expecting to play Cinderella
                    with you Minami, but this is more
                    than I asked for.

          A.J rubs the forehead and looks at Stajianna.

                              A.J
                    Mr Hache has it in for me Ah swear.
                    Ah wouldn' be surprised if he did
                    this himself just to get me ta do
                    more work.

          She bends down and wets her rag before proceeding to scrub
          the window.

                              A.J
                    So, Ah was just finishing some
                    extra homework for my grammar
                    class, when Ah decided to drop in
                    an' see what ya'll were doing... So
                    uh... What were ya doin'?

                              MINAMI
                    Oh!

          Minami drops her rag on the ground, a big grin on her face.
          She rummages through her pocket, tongue sticking out.

                              MINAMI
                    Aha!

          Happily, she hands A.J the paper she had just dug out of her
          pocket. A.J Takes the folded paper and reads it.

                              A.J
                    Holy heck! 1500$ huh? Ah sure could
                    use that. So this was for the
                    contest?

          Minami nods with a big smile. She then picks up her rag and
          continues to rub away at the wall.

                              A.J
                    Interestin'.

                              MINAMI
                    That was just my background. Going
                    to make cutaways or something of
                    some scary stuff. I'm not sure
                    where I'm going with it yet. But I
                    figured, if I started, I'd have
                    something to work with and then go
                    from there.

          A group of 5 students are seen walking down the hallway,
          laughing merrily. Three are girls, 2 are boys. One of the
          boys has his arm wrapped around one of the girls. He points
          at the writing on the window, laughing.  The girl sneers.

                              GIRL
                    Look Cyrus, maids.

          Stajianna stares loathsomely at the girls remark.

                              CYRUS
                    Hazel is right girls, and you've
                    missed a spot.

          Hazel walks next to Minami.

                              HAZEL
                    A job fitting for someone of her...
                    status and appearance.

          Minami awkwardly looks at the ground. A.J puts a comforting
          hand on her friends shoulder, speaking up.

                              A.J
                    Hey there! Ya don' know her!

                              CYRUS
                    Whatever, freckles.

                              CYRUS
                    Hey guys, this departments lame,
                    let's head back to the Vocal
                    department.

          They take off down the hallway, joking amongst themselves,
          disappearing around the corner.

                              STAJIANNA
                    Douche bags.

          INT. CAMPUS GIRLS DORM HALLWAY

          Minami and A.J wave bye to Staj in the campus dorm hallway.
          A.J walks with her hands in her pocket, looking at the
          ground. Minami walks next to her, paint still splattered on
          her arms from earlier.

                              MINAMI
                    By the way, I think someone tried
                    calling you earlier, but got my
                    number instead.

          A.J checks her phone.

                              A.J
                    Well, they didn' try an' call mine.

          She places her phone back in her pocket and returns looking
          at the ground.

                              MINAMI
                    I had a feeling they might not
                    have. They seemed very confused.
                    Well, they might not have been, but
                    I was.

          A.J turns her gaze away from the ground and now onto her
          room mate.

                              A.J
                    Oh yeah? How so?

          Minanmi rubs her hand through her hair before answering.

                              MINAMI
                    It was some guy speaking in a
                    language I don't know. He spoke in
                    what I think was Korean. It wasn't
                    Chinese. I know for sure it's not
                    Japanese. Must be Korean. Mind you,
                    it could be another Asian language.
                    I'm like 89.7% sure it was Asian
                    and 81.3% sure it was Korean.

                              MINAMI
                    Yup. I'd tell you what he said so
                    you can confirm to me if it was
                    Korean, but I really don't
                    remember. Not even sure if I heard
                    it 100% correctly anyway.

          A.J smiles to herself.

                              A.J
                    The way ya ramble on sometimes is
                    so cu-

          She places a fist to her throat and clears it, looking away
          to hide her sudden slight blush.

                              A.J
                    Yup. It's odd alright.

          It is now Minami's turn to raise an eyebrow at A.J as they
          continue to make their was down the hallway.

          INT. GIRLS DORM

          Minami and A.J enter their dorm room. A.J walks over to her
          bed, looking in her school bag. Minami puts her paints and
          brushes by her desk and goes to drop her bag by her bed. As
          she leaves, a single paintbrush rolls away from the art kit
          onto the floor, unnoticed by either girl.

                              MINAMI
                    Man it sucks that we had to clean a
                    mess we didn't make, huh.

          A.J sits on her bed, taking out a notebook form her bag and
          nods in agreement. Minami points to the bathroom area as she
          speaks.

                              MINAMI
                    I should probably go shower.

          INT. GIRLS DORM

          Shot of the back of Minami, taking her shirt off, revealing
          another huge scar on her back. Undressed, she enters the
          shower and begins to wash off all the paint. *Note for Ryuu
          here - *End note*

          INT. GIRLS DORM

***** [Removed for novel spoilers]*****


          A.J leaves the room, entering in the bathroom area. Minami
          lays unmoving on her bed, her head still looking in the
          direction A.J just left. Shot of Minami's face; she is
          slightly embarrassed, her face slightly turning red.

                    ----END CHAPTER 4----
*Edit* I've changed some things in the story, to make it flow better. Also, I've changed the school from a university to a college. So, I removed some things, added some others. In some chapters, not much changed. In others, lot's changed-ish. So if you could take your time to re-read it & critic it, I would love it! Let me know what you think, good or bad! Note that I'm keeping the name IAU for now until I can think of a better name. It might have 'University' in its name but it's no longer a university. *End Edit*

Ok, so that whole paint on the wall thing really happened between me & ~Ketey. Except I put paint all over myself to make it like I was cut up & we took pictures like that. I walked around the whole school & town like that in the dead of winter so that I could get that camera to take the pictures too haha. The security guard at the school just looked at me & shook his head saying 'animators'. I never did finish that project, I decided to go another way with it.

Anywho, critic away! A.J's chapter is now being written!

A little about the story:

A.J White has always been sure of herself; knowing what she wanted to in life and who she was. But after a night of bonding with her roommate Minami, the head strong girl begins to question herself. With this new strong friendship formed, will their relationship turn into more than just friends? Will the world accept them?

VOLUME 2:
Chapter 8: Minami - New Discoveries fav.me/d5s3voe
Chapter 9: A.J - Moonlight Date fav.me/d5thiqn
Chapter 10: Minami - The Voice fav.me/d5ve5wy
Chapter 11: A.J - Spiritual Awakening fav.me/d6hi6kh
Chapter 12: Minami - Aggressive fav.me/d6u19nz
Chapter 13: A.J - Interruptions fav.me/d6z9dd4

VOLUME 1:
Chapter 1: A.J - School of Dreams fav.me/d4vl18b
Chapter 2: Minami - A Friendship is Born fav.me/d4xy5t7
Chapter 3: A.J - A New Day fav.me/d4y4czz
Chapter 4: Minami - Writing on the Wall (HERE!)
Chapter 5: A.J - Day Dream fav.me/d50kzgq
Chapter 6: Minami - It Begins fav.me/d52lfdl
Chapter 7: A.J - On the Dance Floor fav.me/d5bxkkm

IMPORTANT NOTE: The preview image is of Minami, drawn by the ever most awesome *milkydayy. It's part of a commission I asked him to do of both Mina & A.J together (you can see part of A.J's blond hair to the left). ORIGINAL DEVIATION: fav.me/d4waqut Like what you see? You should probably commission this deserving artist. You wont be disappointed.

Oh yeah, this is going to be made into a comic, drawn by the ever most awesome *ryuuen. But I'm not entirely sure on how to write scripts for comics, so I'm writing it in film script version for now, but you get the gist of what's going on.

Story© by =Sorren-Chan
Comic artwork© by *ryuuen
Preview artwork image© by *milkydayy
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paintedpassion's avatar
I can just picture this all in comic form. Can't wait to see it =)