CHASE
You think it has anything to do with the fact that tomorrow’s Friday the thirteenth of October?
DANNY
Are you saying you actually believe in that?
CHASE
What? You were just telling me all about-
DANNY
Listen. I’ve been going to this school for two years. You’ve been coming for a little under two weeks now. I can almost guarantee you there is no ghost haunting it.
CHASE
Yeah, but I did some research on it. The last Friday the thirteenth of October was in 2000. You weren’t here when that happened. And we were too little to remember any media or news stories about it.
DANNY
Well then I guess we’ll find out tomorrow if there really is a ghost.
SCENE: ROSIE’S MATH CLASS, OF WHICH IS ALSO TAUGHT BY MRS. BASHFORD. IT IS ALSO THE CLASS THAT CHASE IS A TEACHER’S AIDE FOR. DURING A TIME IN WHICH THE CLASS IS INDPENDENTLY WORKING, CHASE TAKES THE NOTE UP (IN THE ORIGINAL ENVELOPE) TO MRS. BASHFORD.
CHASE
Mrs. Bashford.
MRS. BASHFORD
Yes, Chase.
CHASE
I’ve been seeing you and the other teachers in those groups, always talking bout the same thing, and always looking, as I might say, conspicuous.
MRS. BASHFORD
And?
CHASE
Yesterday I got this note in the mail. (HANDS THE NOTE TO MRS. BASHFORD) And it had no sender address or name. Also, Danny was telling me about Friday the thirteenth of October and how-
MRS. BASHFORD
And this is the original envelope?
CHASE
Yeah.
MRS. BASHFORD
Arrange for us to meet after school. You can use my phone to call your parents. You might want to have them come too.
SHE BEGINS TO WALK AWAY. CHASE HAD HOPED TO GET ANSWERS FROM HER, BUT SHE IS NOT GIVING HIM ANY.
CHASE
Mrs. Bashford. What happened on Friday the 13th of October? What happened?
MRS. BASHFORD
I think the situation is too serious for us to talk about right now.
CHASE
Were there other letters?
MRS. BASHFORD
Chase, right now all I’d like you to do is stay here and watch the class. After school.
MRS. BASHFORD LEAVES CHASE IN HER ROOM, AND HURRIEDLY WALKS TO THE OFFICE INTO THE ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL’S OFFICE. SHE PUTS THE NOTE ON HER DESK.
MRS. BASHFORD
We can’t let this happen again Marsha.
ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL
Who is it?
MRS. BASHFORD
A new student. Chase Brenson. He got this yesterday.
ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL
Where is he now?
MRS. BASHFORD
In my room, but he should be calling his parents to arrange an after school-
ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL
He’s alone? On the 12th?
SCENE: BACK IN MRS. BASHFORD’S ROOM. CHASE IS NOT CALLING HIS PARENTS, ALL OF THE OTHER STUDENTS ARE CHATTING, CURIOUS ABOUT THE PREVIOUS CONVERSATION.
ROSIE
Chase, what happened?
CHASE
I got a letter from I think the girl who supposedly haunts the school.
ROSIE
And so where’s Mrs. Bashford?
CHASE
She said that the situation was too serious to discuss in the current environment.
ROSIE
No wonder.
CHASE
Why do you say that?
ROSIE
Look at the white board.
THEY BOTH LOOK. IT’S BLANK. BUT LETTERS SOON APPEAR. IT SAYS:
TOMORROW COMES, TOMORROW GOES
BUT WHEN I COME, EVERYONE KNOWS
I COME FOR ONE, TO TAKE THEM DOWN
TO THE DARKNESS OF
ROSIE
To the darkness of what?
CHASE
I don’t know, it may just be their writing style. But that doesn’t matter.
ROSIE
I think you’ll come to find it will.
CHASE GOES HOME, FORGETTING TO CALL HIS PARENTS FOR A CONFERENCE AND TOO DISTURBED TO EVEN THINK ABOUT IT.
THE NEXT DAY IS FRIDAY THE 13TH OF OCTOBER, AND CHASE DOESN’T KNOW WHAT THE GHOST HAS PLANNED FOR HIM. HE WAKES UP EARLY TO WATCH THE NEWS, BUT WHEN HE TURNS ON THE TV, HE DOESN’T SEE THE NEWS, BUT A GROUP OF WHAT HE REMEMBERS TO BE SCHOOL KIDS AND TEACHERS, AT SOME SORT OF MEMORIAL. THEY ARE GATHERED AROUND A MONUMENT, AND DANNY IS SAYING SOMETHING.
DANNY
I’d only known him a few days, and he seemed like a pretty cool kid. (A ZOOM IN ON THE MEMORIAL SAYS: CHASE BRENSON).
CHASE’S EYES WIDEN, AND HE TURNS OFF THE TV (ZOOM IN ON EYES). HIS EYES SHUT AND WHEN THEY OPEN HE IS AT SCHOOL. DANNY, ROSIE, AND CHASE ARE ALL IN THE CAFETERIA EATING LUNCH.
DANNY
You alright?
CHASE
I’m gonna say it again Danny. I do think there’s a ghost.
DANNY
Alright, so there was a threatening note.
ROSIE
And then message on the whiteboard Danny.
CHASE
No, this morning I was gonna watch the news when-
INTERCOM
Chase Brenson, please report to the auditorium, Chase Brenson to the auditorium.
THE THREE LOOK AT EACH OTHER IN CURIOUSITY
CHASE
See ya.
HE STANDS UP AND WALKS TO THE AUDITORIUM. CHASE OPENS THE DOORS AND THEY ARE IMMEDIATELY SHUT (NOT BY HIM).
CHASE
Hello? I was called down here? Is anyone here?
HIS ATTENTION IS DRIVEN TOWARDS A LIGHT ON THE CEILING. IT IS SWINGING BACK AND FORTH. IT LIGHTS THE STAGE, AND HE SEES A GIRL STANDING ALONE. THERE IS A FLASH AND THE GIRL IS IN FRONT OF HIM.
GIRL
Hello Chase.
CHASE
Who are you?
GIRL
I’m the Ghost. I sent you the letters, and wrote the message on the whiteboard.
CHASE
And the clip?
GIRL
That too.
CHASE
Why? You come every Friday the 13th? Is that what the teachers are so quiet about?
GIRL
Yes, it is.
GIRL HAS BEEN MOVING AROUND THE AUDITORIUM SPONTANEOUSLY FOR THE LAST FEW MINUTES
GIRL
They’re concerned. They don’t know what happened to that girl in 2000. Or back in ’78. Every six years since construction of the school began in the early 1960s I’ve come on the Friday the 13th.
CHASE
But why? What did they do to you?
GIRL
There’s a bit more to it than you know, Chase. You’ve been here two weeks, I’ve been here forty years. You see, my family once owned this land, and it was also Native American land. But we were forced to sell. Why?
SHE MOVES AGAIN
GIRL
It remained unknown to me why. But those unlikely circumstances helped lead to my death and the death of my family. But I discovered that some of the people who were responsible for my death had their children registered at this school, built on the very site of my house. My family got no respects for our death, and our bodies were left somewhere still unknown to me. Naturally, I could of course hardly resist the opportunity to return and meet my killers’s young. I pledged my soul to Satan, if I could return to avenge my family.
CHASE
By taking out your loss on the students?
GIRL
No, the Friday the Thirteenth hauntings are all apart of the devil’s work. I just get the chance to return to the school and wreak havoc for those who destroyed my family and my life.
CHASE
You think us, the future generations did that?
GIRL
Of course you wouldn’t understand Chase, you’re new here.
CHASE
And you think Danny or Rosie, or the AP will understand.
GIRL
None of that matters now. In twelve hours you’ll be mine, and my mark on this horrible place will be at its forty year anniversary. You’ve got little time, Chase. I’ve got all the time in the world.
CHASE, DONE WITH THE CONVERSATION DECIDES HE IS GOING TO LEAVE AND WALKS TO THE DOOR. HE TRIES TO OPEN IT, BUT IT HAS BEEN SEALED BY THE GHOST GIRL.
GIRL
Silly Chase, you know I wouldn’t want to give you up that simply. This time, I’m going to make it easy on myself. I’ve got to go scare some kids. See you in the cemetery at midnight.
SHE DISAPPEARS. WE SEE HER TERRORIZING OTHER KIDS, SCARING THEM IN THE HALLWAYS AND SHE IS SCARING THE OFFICE WORKERS. MEANWHILE DANNY AND ROSIE WAIT FOR CHASE’S RETURN.
DANNY
Why isn’t he back by now?
ROSIE
Ya think he’s in trouble?
DANNY
Define trouble.
MEANWHILE, CHASE IS IN THE AUDITORIUM.
CHASE
Help! Is somebody out there? Help me out! Help.
BACK TO DANNY AND ROSIE
DANNY
Let’s go.
THE TWO WALK TO THE AUDITORIUM. THEY HEAR CHASE INSIDE.
CHASE
Help! Anyone! C’mon!
ROSIE
Chase is that you?
CHASE
Danny? Rosie? Help me outta here.
THEY TRY TO OPEN THE DOOR, BUT IT HAS ALSO BEEN SEALED FROM THE OUTSIDE.
DANNY
It won’t open.
CHASE
Its the Ghost girl!
DANNY AND ROSIE BOTH LOOK AT EACH OTHER.
CHASE
She’s looking to avenge her family. They used to own the land the school’s built on.
DANNY
Great. How are we gonna get him out?
ROSIE
I think I have an idea.
CAMERA SWITCHES TO CHASE, CLIMBING THROUGH AN AIR VENT SET.
CHASE
This isn’t worth it.
CHASE CLIMBS OUT OF AN AIR VENT IN THE HALLWAY AND RUNS OFF TO FIND DANNY AND ROSIE.
DANNY
How were the air vents?
CHASE
Lovely, thank you very much. Where’s the girl?
ROSIE
Last I heard she was outside, what do you plan to do?
CHASE
I’m not sure, but if I don’t figure out something quick, I’ll be down to eleven hours.
THEY LEAVE THE SCHOOL AND CAMP OUT AT A NEARBY NEIGHBORHOOD.
CHASE
You think she’ll have access to me if I’m off school grounds?
DANNY
Probably. You said this has happened how many times before?
CHASE
For the past forty years, that’s six times previously.
DANNY
She made a deal with the devil. She came back to the school, but to claim lives. You ever see the movie, Sleepy Hollow?
CHASE
No.
ROSIE
Hate that movie.
DANNY
You’re just scared. My point: in the movie, the horseman returns from the grave, to claim heads. The ghost has returned, but to claim lives. The horseman however will keep coming back, until his own head is restored to him. What does this girl need?
ROSIE
What? Her family? Her house?
CHASE
No, she said how they had never found her family’s bodies, and how they never had a grave. She must return to the grave. But where’s her body?
DANNY
Its got to be inside the school. It’d be a valid reason, not only being that the school was built on her house, but that this is where she’s come back for the past forty years.
ROSIE
Where in the school?
CHASE
I’m not sure, but we got a little under ten hours to figure it out.
HE STANDS UP AND BEGINS WALKING TOWARDS THE SCHOOL.
DANNY
Where are you going?
CHASE
I think the teachers might have some of the answers I’m looking for.
THEY ALL THREE WALK TO THE SCHOOL AND INTO THE OFFICE. MOST OF THE TEACHERS ARE THERE.
ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL
Chase, are you alright?
CHASE
We know the girl wants her body back. That’s the only way to stop her from taking another student, from taking me. We also think her body is somewhere inside the school, and that one reason for her returns is to reunite with it. Where is it?
ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL
Its gone, Chase. Already in a grave, in the cemetery.
DANNY
What?
MRS. BASHFORD
The girl’s already been buried. We don’t know how to stop her. And we don’t know how to stop you.
CHASE
What?
ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL
She’ll take you, and we’ll have no way to stop you, you’ll go to her.
MRS. BASHFORD
The most we can do, Chase, is tie you to a chair until its over
ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL
I’m sorry.
IT IS ALMOST MIDNIGHT. CHASE IS TIED TO A CHAIR AT HIS HOUSE. HE STARTS TO HEAR THE LITTLE GIRL.
GIRL
Chase, come to me Chase. It’s time to go.
CHASE HAS HIS HEAD DOWN.
CHASE
No. Leave me alone!
HIS HEAD IS DOWN. THE GIRL REPEATS HER LINE AND FILLS HIS HEAD WITH HER VOICE.
GIRL
Chase, Chase. Come.
CHASE
AHHHHHHHH!
HE SCREAMS AND MOVES HIS HEAD TO FACE THE CEILING. HE BREAKS THE CHAINS HOLDING HIM TO THE GROUND AND ABSENTMINDEDLY WALKS AS THE WAY THE GIRL IN THE PROLOGUE DID. AS HE APPROACHES THE DOOR IT OPENS BY ITSELF. HE SHUTS HIS EYES AS BEFORE AND WHEN THEY OPEN HE IS AT THE SCHOOL. DANNY, ROSIE, AND SCHOOL STAFF ARE THERE WAITING FOR HIM.
ROSIE
Chase, stop! Don’t let her control you!
CHASE TURNS TO FACE THEM AND THE GROUP IS FLUNG BACKWARDS. HE CONTINUES WALKING TO THE CEMETERY. DANNY MOVES IN FRONT OF HIM AND STOPS.
DANNY
Chase, don’t do this. Don’t.
CHASE
Get away from me.
DANNY IS FLUNG TO THE GROUND. HE IS THEN TORTURED AND LEFT BY CHASE. HE KEEPS WALKING TOWARDS THE CEMETERY. ROSIE LOOKS UP AND SEES THE LITTLE GIRL.
ROSIE
What do you want? What’s this going to solve.
GIRL
You fool! I’ve crossed two worlds for vengeance. But maybe you’re right.
SUDDENLY, DANNY IS RELEASED FROM THE CONTROL OF THE GHOST. HE FALLS TO THE GROUND. EVERYONE RUNS TOWARD HIM.
DANNY
He’s not waking up.
ROSIE SLOWLY STANDS UP, HYPNOTIZED.
DANNY
Rosie? ROSIE?!
GIRL
Too bad about you’re Sister Danny.
ROSIE WALKS TOWARD CEMETERY. CHASE WAKES UP.
CHASE
What’s happening?
DANNY
The ghost has taken control of Rosie. There’s no reasoning with the girl. What do we do?
CHASE STANDS UP AND WOBBLES A BIT.
CHASE
I feel strange. But I think I have an idea.
CHASE WALKS TO ROSIE.
CHASE
Ghost girl.
THE GIRL APPEARS IN FRONT OF HIM.
GIRL
I could still always use you as my victim.
CHASE THROWS A PUNCH AT HER, BUT IT GOES THROUGH HER.
GIRL
I’m a ghost, Chase. Don’t you learn?
CHASE
I have. ROSIE!
ROSIE TURNS TO CHASE. SHE MOVES HER HANDS UP AND USES THE SAME MAGIC TO DESTROY OTHERS. BECAUSE THE GHOST IS IN FRONT OF CHASE, IT HITS HER. THE GIRL SCREAMS AND DISAPPEARS. ROSIE FAINTS.
CHASE
It’s over guys. It’s over.
CAMERA PANS OUT, AND FADES OUT.
SCENE: THREE MONTHS LATER. CHASE IS WALKING THROUGH THE HALLS DURING PASSING PERIOD. HE WALKS BY THE AUDTORIUM, THE DOORS ARE OPEN. HE LOOKS UP AT THE CEILING AND SEES THE LIGHT SWAYING BACK AND FORTH. BLACKOUT.
END CREDITS.
THE END
