28. Autophobia - Leslie

• FADE IN:


• EXT. BUSY CITY STREET - DAY


• NELLA stands in the center of a busy sidewalk as people jostle and push in their frustrated attempts to get where they are going.


• She stands still, her flared jeans rustling with the crowd’s movement.


• She plays nervously with her braids and looks around at the crowd.


• She grabs a BUSINESSWOMAN in an attempt to get her attention, but the woman simply shrugs the HAND off and races away.


• Nella looks around more frantically


• She tries grabbing other people, but they don’t acknowledge her.


• Frustrated she screams, but no sounds come out of her mouth.


• She tries to scream again, terror slipping into her eyes.


• Business-suited men walk past, grinning and telling jokes.


• She stands yelling again and again, but no sound comes.


• Nella stops, frustrated, and stands still, letting the crowds tides push and pull at her.


• Cars whiz past and people continually race by behind her.


• She shakes his shoulder and he glances at her, then back away.


• She shakes him again, and he doesn’t seem to notice.


• Her eyes travel down his thick torso and end at his belt.


• His gun holster stares back at her.


• She reaches for it, then stops, then reaches again, touching it.


• She pulls her hand away, then determined, reaches for the gun again and grabs it.


• Nella steps back to the center of the sidewalk and slowly places the gun to her head.


• She closes her eyes, swallows hard, and her finger straining, pulls the trigger.


• The explosion of the bullet leaving the barrel echoes around the buildings.


• Nella stumbles, then slowly dissolves, leaving the crowds whirling cluelessly around a girl-sized gap in the sidewalk.


• FADE TO BLACK.