[ episode six opens up on Gabriel’s bedroom, he’s lying in bed shirtless next to Jordan who just rolled over its night time, Gabriel moves Jordan’s arm from overtop of him placing it neatly and meticulously at his side, he pauses for a moment to make sure he didn’t wake him then sneaks into the living room, and gets on the computer, in the glow of the monitor he fills out his financial aid information on the computer, then looks at his handwritten list of potential schools to go to, trying to decide which one he should attend when from behind an arm goes across his chest , he looks up to see Jordan]
Gabriel: did I wake you?
Jordan: I wasn’t really sleeping
Gabriel: (sarcastic) you checking up on me?
Jordan: always
Gabriel: well I’m sorry this is exciting as it gets, at least for now
Jordan: so have you decide yet where you want to spend the rest of your life
Gabriel: ha not even close
Jordan: well I haven’t either but I really want to go to NYU
Gabriel: gross, I’d much prefer UCLA.
Jordan: well, wherever you want to go you should go
Gabriel: but I don’t want to leave you behind
Jordan: well you don’t have to we can always make a long distance relationship work
Gabriel: or we could sacrifice, I mean both offer film school, so I could make do with either
Jordan: I suppose business is business no matter what school you learn it from
Gabriel: okay, well how about a coin toss
Jordan: you want to call or should I
Gabriel: how about just heads, NYU, tails UCLA
Jordan: okay
[Gabriel picks up a quarter and flips it in the air, it lands on the desk spins out and lands on tails]
Gabriel: well looks like were going to Los Angeles
Jordan: (yawning) that’s terrific, now come back to bed
Gabriel: hold on let me pull up my email and handle all this
Jordan: you can always do that tomorrow
Gabriel: your just dying to get me out of my clothes aren’t you
Jordan: by any means necessary
[Gabriel cuts the lights out and follows Jordan back to the bedroom the door closes fade out]
[cut to the exterior of a hospital as Jillian gets into a car after exiting the rehab center]
Jillian: I really don’t see why all this has been necessary
Jillian’s mother: well dear apparently it was, recreational drug use, self mutilation, obviously your in dire need of attention, I don’t understand the frustration on your part, you got what you wanted from your little stunt
Jillian: you think this is about attention
J.M.: Jillian dear quit being a drama queen
Jillian: you have no idea what ive been through
J.M.: yes your so oppressed, and over scrutinized, you live in a luxurious house, you go to the best school available, your popular, you’ve had everything you ever wanted handed to you on a silver platter. What enormous stress you must carry on your pampered shoulders
Jillian: Mother you wouldn’t know, your never there, if someone hadn’t found me when they did I would have died, of course then maybe you would be satisfied you always make it evident how much of a drag I am on your life, ever since dad died you haven’t spent anytime with me other than when I get in trouble, I could break into seizures in front of you and I doubt you wouldn’t even bat an eyelash, you spend so much time hitting the bottle im surprised you even came to pick me up today instead of calling a cab.
[Jillian’s mom slaps her across the face]
J.M.: now that’s enough, I have given you everything, my youth my life, my figure, before you came along I could fit through the eyehole of a needle now I can barely squeeze into a size two, but I wanted a daughter. I should have aborted you then maybe we’d both be happy
[Jillian opens the door to the car and the driver stops she gets out and starts walking]
J.M.: Jillian get in the car this instant
Jillian: I’ll find my own way home
[the car speeds off screeching its tires, Jillian breaks down and starts to cry as she does she swallows a pill from a bottle she has concealed in her purse and lights up a cigarette, fade out on her as she weeps]
[the next day at lunch]
Jillian: rehab was terrible, but the psych ward was worse
Lolliee: what made you do it
[lillith smacks lolliee in the back of the head for being insensitive, Jillian gets up and leaves and walks into the girls room and locks the door, Lillith follows her]
Lolliee: what did I say
Selena: a little tact would be nice Lolliee she just got out yesterday she needs time to heal, I cant stand the girl, and even Im not mean enough to rub salt in that fresh wound
Lolliee: do you know what happened?
Selena: yes I keep tabs on everyone around me at Francis Academy, of course I don’t know what caused it, although I blame the drug portion on peer pressure, but if I did I wouldn’t tell you, your like the national inquirer, Jesus
Lolliee: I cant help it
Selena: I know, but try to be a little more common sense honey
[the intercom comes on in the lunch room]
Voiceover: Selena Carter please report to administration
Lolliee: what did you do
Selena: not shit
Lolliee: ooh, someone framed you up
Selena: shut up its probably something stupid, my guess is its another complaint about my speakers from that cunt Heidi Donaldson who parks next to me
[Selena Walks out of the lunchroom as she walks by through the hallway she passes a partition camera cuts to the other side of the partition where Lillith is trying to convince Jillian to talk to her]
Lillith: come on Jilli-bean Lolliee is an airhead she didn’t mean to upset you
Jillian: im sorry its not you guys its just [she’ starts sobbing uncontrollably]
Lillith: Jilli will you please unlock the door
[the door unlocks Lillith enters and locks it behind her]
Jillian: I cant deal with this [she takes a pill out of her purse and swallows it]
Lillith: jilli honey I though you got clean while you were in rehab
Jillian: no rehab was a waste of time, the doctors don’t understand what my problem is, I need something to numb me
Lillith: honey what happened
Jillian: its everything its my mother its my head, and the dance … oh god the dance
Lillith: honey did something happen to you at the dance you can tell me
Jillian: I haven’t told anyone, what happened, noone can know
Lillith : Jilli what happened
Jillian: I was in the alleyway, throwing up from all the jagermeister I drank, ive been in a dark place for a while, and there was this guy, he kept placing his hands on my head at first it was comforting as if someone gave a damn,
Lillith: what did he look like
Jillian: he was looking for you, and he kept calling me some stupid pet name, and then he started moving his hand up my thigh , and I was to in pain to move I kept telling him no, no
Lillith: Jilli…
Jillian: he forced me, he pushed me up against a table, and all I could do was lay there, and after he was done he just left, and I felt so worthless and I made it to the bathroom and I locked the door and I just wanted the pain to go away I wanted to forget and I just kept swallowing pills and I kept hearing this voice in my head telling me to keep going, and I finally got to the point where I was so gone I couldn’t feel anything and I started to cut myself and I just kept going deeper and deeper and I couldn’t feel it, it was like tickling I could just see the blood coming out, I blacked out after that. I haven’t told anyone up until now, not even the doctors
Lillith: Jillian, you cant carry that weight all on your own
[Jillian collapses into Lilliths arms and breaks down completely/ fade out commercial break]
[open back up on the office]
Principle: come in Selena
Selena: okay before you say anything, Heidi is the one who comes in blaring that god awful country music and..
Principle: no, no, your not in trouble Selena, but it is important the reason for which I called you up here
Selena: okay whats this about then
Principle: as you know Francis, is a private school and we have certain tuition requirements, it seems your family’s income is no longer sufficient to carry on with your education here, I wish I didn’t have to tell you this but you’ll have to transfer to another school next month unless a miracle happens in the meantime and you’ll have to graduate from a public school, you wont be graduating with your class here at Francis.
[black out end of episode]
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