149. Blind - Leslie

• FADE IN:


• EX. WHEAT FIELD DIVIDING WALL - DUSK


• DIANA walks along the stone wall dividing the wheat field from open meadow, her eyes closed as she feels the stone, her hand moving along its rough surface, fingers trying to learn every texture, every detail.


• ANDY walks up behind her.


• ANDY
• Boo.


• DIANA
• Heard you coming.


• ANDY
• You're getting good.


• DIANA
• I have to, in a few weeks...pfft.


• She makes a throwing away motion with her hand.


• DIANA
• You're quiet, which means you want to say that you're sorry, that you want to make me understand you sympathize. It's ok, I'm accepting this.


• ANDY
• Then stop pretending like you're already blind and enjoy what you can. Drink it in, and then remember it.


• DIANA
• I think it'll be less painful if I just forget what it was like to see.


• ANDY
• Just open them. There's a beautiful sunset happening right now. Just look. You got three weeks to just look.


• Diana keeps her eyelids tightly shut.


• DIANA
• Andy, I'm not really interested in making this even more painful.


• ANDY
• Please.


• Diana half opens her eyes.


• ANDY
• Thank you.


• He turns to the west and marvels at the beautiful colors.


• ANDY
• Look at that!


• Diana opens her eyes wider, guessing at where Andy is looking.


• DIANA
• It's beautiful.


• Her eyes are already a dead white, but Andy does not see.


• ANDY
• See!


• DIANA
• Thanks.


• She closes her lids again, and a tear forms on her eyelid, growing larger, then rolling down her face.


• FADE TO BLACK.