Lauren Kolonusz

Where’s the Cat?

FADE IN:

INT. DINING ROOM - DAY

HOLLY and LAUREN are doing homework on their laptops on the

dining room table. They are busy typing their assignments.

LAUREN
Hey, how’s your homework coming along?

HOLLY
It’s going good.
(pause)
Have you seen MABEL?

The two briefly pause for a moment, briefly making eye contact,
and realizing that they both haven’t seen MABEL the cat for a
while now.

INT. KITCHEN - DAY

HOLLY and LAUREN look around the kitchen for her cat MABEL. They
decide to open the cabinets and the oven if the cat jumped inside
and if the oven door closed on her.

HOLLY and LAUREN walk towards the oven door.

HOLLY
Should we check?

LAUREN
Okay, sure. (nods in agreement)

HOLLY and LAUREN open the oven door and discover the cat is not
in the oven and close the oven door.
INT. FIRST FLOOR STAIRS - DAY

HOLLY and LAUREN walk up the stairs to now check HOLLY’s bedroom
for her cat.

INT. BEDROOM - DAY

LAUREN checks under the bed to see if the cat is hiding there,
and calls out her name.

LAUREN
MABEL?

HOLLY opens her closet to check for the cat in there too and
calls out her name.

HOLLY
MABEL?
(pause)
MABEL?

HOLLY and LAUREN sit across from each other in the bedroom to
think of another plan.

HOLLY
I can’t find her.

LAUREN
Me neither, want to make some flyers?

HOLLY
That sounds like a good idea. I got some supplies
right here. Let’s do this!

HOLLY and LAUREN proceed to craft some homemade flyer portraits

of MABEL. Written on the flyers are “LOST CAT” and “MISSING CAT”.

HOLLY
 How does this look? (holds up her flyer)

LAUREN
Pretty good, how about this one? (holds up her
flyer)

HOLLY
Pretty good, ready to hang them up?

LAUREN
Yes. (nods in agreement)

HOLLY and LAUREN both in agreement are ready to hang up their

flyers outside.

INT. FIRST FLOOR STAIRS - DAY

HOLLY and LAUREN come down the stairs from the second floor ready
to go outside.

EXT. HOLLY’S NEIGHBORHOOD -DAY

LAUREN walks down the street of the neighborhood to an old

outdoor basketball hoop and places the flyer on the pole.

She continues walking up the sidewalk.

EXT. GAS STATION - DAY

She walks up the street to the local gas station to get a quick
snack, assuming that HOLLY is still looking for the cat. She then
walks back to HOLLY’s house.

EXT. HOLLY’S NEIGHBORHOOD - DAY

HOLLY walks up to an old street sign and puts a flyer right over
it.

She continues to walk up the sidewalk.

EXT. MCDONALDS - DAY

HOLLY walks into Mcdonalds to get lunch, assuming LAUREN is
looking for the cat. She retrieves back to her house.

EXT. HOLLY’S NEIGHBORHOOD - DAY

HOLLY and LAUREN cross paths again after deferring from finding
her cat.

LAUREN
I thought you were looking for the cat!

HOLLY
I thought you were looking for the cat!

LAUREN
Then who’s looking for the cat?!

HOLLY
Well, no one is now… okay, come on, let’s go.

LAUREN and HOLLY walk up her street a bit and LAUREN hears a
“meow” sound.

LAUREN
I think I heard the “meow” from over there.
(points)

HOLLY
Ya, me too.

HOLLY walks over to a large climbing tree in her neighborhood

where she hears the “meow sound coming from.

HOLLY
Alright, I’m going to look in this tree because
maybe she climbed up it. MABEL? MABEL?

After looking for several minutes HOLLY finds a pusheen cat

stuffed animal meowing.
 LAUREN
Did you find the cat making the sound?

HOLLY
I think so?

LAUREN
What? This is a pusheen?!

HOLLY
Long story…

HOLLY comes down from the tree after tossing the stuffed cat to
LAUREN.

EXT. HOLLY’s DRIVEWAY - DAY

HOLLY and LAUREN decide to split up again.

LAUREN
I think I’m going to go up the street and look.

HOLLY
Ya, I’m going to take my car and look around the
neighborhood.

HOLLY begins to pull out of her driveway to drive around the

neighborhood.

EXT. HOLLY’S NEIGHBORHOOD - DAY

HOLLY is coming up the street in her car and LAUREN sees her
pulling up. LAUREN hears a cat sound and yells at her to stop.

LAUREN
STOP! STOP!

HOLLY’S cat MABLE runs in front of her car.

INT. HOLLY’S DOORWAY - DAY

HOLLY celebrates retrieving MABLE back in her arms safe and
sound.

FADES TO BLACK

THE END