INT.

MR BRUNER'S CLASS ROOM

Nadine storms into the classroom

NADINE
Hey, um, I got to talk to you about
some homework

Mr. Bruner looks at her while she makes her way to the desk
and drops her stuff and takes out her lunch.

they look at each other

Mr. Bruner goes back to his crossword puzzle

NADINE
I don't need to talk about homework. I
lied

Mr. Bruner chuckles

NADINE
You enjoying my company?

MR. BRUNER
You're a barrel of monkeys

A pause. Nadine plays with her food

NADINE
You never told me if you have a
wife... You should date my mother! Her
last boyfriend turned out to be an
internet perv. She's very very
fragile. Very: Who'll save me? Men
like that right though? Cuz' at the
end of the day they all just wanna be
a hero. Everyone just wants to feel
important in life... Thing is, no
matter how important they are, there's
always gonna be someone more
important. People get so uptight about
that. Oh no they're better than me.
It's like God, they don't realize:
Important doesn't matter. It's
confidence. The most confident person
in the room wins everysingle time.

Stands up and sits next to Mr. Bruner's desk

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NADINE
Doesn't matter if its real, doesn't
matter if they're pulling it out of
there ass, people are dumb, they don't
know the difference

A pause while she gets confortable

NADINE
You know what? i'm gonna go ahead and
i'm gonna tell you the real reason why
i'm having lunch with you today...

You see... I don't really have any

friends at the moment, and to be
completeley honest with you, I don't-
Im not interested at all. My entire
generation is a bunch of mouth
breathers. They literally have a
seizure if you take their phone away
for a second, they can't communicate
without emojis and the actually think
that the world wants to know that they
are _______________________________
eating a taco exclamation point
smiley face smiley face smi- Like we
____________________________
give a fuck!

(sighs)

I am an old soul... I like old music

and old movies and old- even old
people... Bottom line is, I have
nothing in common with the people out
there and they have nothing in common
with me.

A pause.

MR. BRUNER
Nadine...

NADINE
Max...

MR. BRUNER
Maybe... nobody likes you...

Nadine is offended

NADINE
You're a dick.
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Maybe nobody likes you , huh? You know

you're always in a shit mood- You're a
really shitty teacher. You put zero
effort into anything you do here and
there's no way you're proud of that.
Look at you, like look- like you do
nothing. Look at your hair. You don't
even- You don't do your hair cause you
don't have any hair. You're bald! and
you know what? you know why you're not
married? Because bald men are gross
and they're disgusting, especially the
ones that make 45,000 thousand dollars
a year.

Nadine walks back to the desk and starts packing her stuff

MR. BRUNER
(laughs)

NADINE
What?

MR. BRUNER
...I've been doing this 23 years
and... you're the first person to ever
underestimate my salary

A pause

MR. BRUNER
That made me feel good. I mean, that
part

Mr. Bruner walks over to her with a cookie in his hand

NADINE
What are you doing?

Mr. Bruner starts to unwrap the cookie

MR. BRUNER
Im giving you half of my cookie

NADINE
Why?

MR. BRUNER
To make you feel better. Jesus

They look at eachother while Mr. Bruner holds the cookie up

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to her

MR. BRUNER
Guess what? ... You're my favorite
student... Does that help?

Nadine grabs the cookie and Mr. Bruner walks back to his desk

Nadine is left thinking

NADINE
Am I really your favorite student?

MR. BRUNER
It felt like the right thing to say

A Pause

NADINE
I didn't mean like completeley bald...
By the way. It's smart what you do
there too. You kind of...

Nadine actions to fluffing her hair

NADINE
I don't know... you kind of poof it up
a little bit. Give a little shuuzh

MR. BRUNER
Glad you cirlced back around and
cleaned that up. Certainly made me
feel better