ACT ONE

SCENE A

FADE IN:

INT. TURNER LIVING ROOM – DAY

Skye Turner admires her poster for her class project.

SKYE

I am so getting an A.

Logan Turner enters from the top of the stairs still in his robe.

LOGAN O.S

Go long!

He tosses a football and dives onto the sofa to catch it. It flies over his head and rips through Skye's poster. Logan assesses the damage.

LOGAN (CONT'D)

I guess I didn't go long enough.

Skye stares at the hole in the center of her poster. She's irritated but remains calm.

SKYE

Thankfully, fifteen years of living with a big brother have prepared me for situations like this. Which is why I made a copy.

She pulls out an exact replica from underneath the table. Logan gets up from the couch and inspects the table.

LOGAN

You wouldn't happen to have my project underneath there too, would you?

SKYE

Did you do your project?

LOGAN

No.

SKYE

Case closed. (rolling up poster) Logan, why aren't you dressed yet? School starts in twenty minutes.

LOGAN

(offended) It looks like I'm going to be running a little late. Since someone didn't care to start my project, I have to do it all by myself. And you call yourself a sister.

He exits through the swinging doors into the kitchen.

SKYE

All this time I thought I was the baby of the house.

The front door bursts open and Sarah King enters arguing with her boyfriend Maven.

SARAH

Everyone knows that guys are supposed to open the door for their girlfriends. Back me up here, Skye.

MAVEN

(cutting Skye off) Are we or are we not inside?

SARAH

Yes.

MAVEN

I don't see the problem.

SARAH

You would say that because you are a jerk.

MAVEN

Oh okay. I wasn't sure after the first ten times you screamed it at me.

SKYE

Do you really want to know what Skye thinks?

SARAH                                              MAVEN

                  Yes!                                   I don't care either way.

SKYE

Skye...thinks this is ridiculous. The two of you are always fighting about things that don't matter. What matters is that you made it through that door together.

SARAH

(softening) Skye's right. I'm sorry snugglepoo.

Maven brings her in for a hug.

MAVEN

Me too, cuddlepoo.

SKYE

I think I'm going to be sickypoo.

Logan returns holding a DNA model of cereal held together by peanut butter.

LOGAN

It's amazing what you can come up with during breakfast. No wonder it's the most important meal of the day.

He exits up the stairs.

SKYE

Strangely, it's the perfect balance of brilliance and insanity.

SARAH

I agree.

MAVEN

Can't argue with that.

Maven moves to the door and opens it for Sarah.

SARAH

Isn't he a gentleman?

Sarah and Maven exit.

SKYE

(under her breath) More like a trained poodle.

Skye exits.