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Hallway[]
Arnold
- (heard inside) I'm telling you, Gerald, today, this kite will fly.
(Arnold and Gerald are seen in the hallway with Arnold taking the kite out from his room)
Gerald
- You keep saying that, Arnold, but it never does.
Arnold
- You gotta have faith. Things change.
Oskar
- (heard in his room) Look, buddy, I told you, I don't have the money. (glass breaking can be heard) I had to use it to pay for my mother's hip operation.
(Arnold and Gerald stop at their footsteps to hear the commotion)
Man
- (heard as well) You little weasel, I'm giving you one week to come up with the cash, or else.
Oskar
- Or else what? (a thud is heard) Okay, I get the picture. You're a big man, aren't you?
(The door opens with a big, tall man in a suit and fedora. The screen pans down to Oskar, who happens to be part of the commotion. The big man closes the door, tips his hat to the two boys and walks out of the boarding house)
Gerald
- (sighs after the big man leaves) That Oskar Kokoshka, he's always getting into trouble. Doesn't he have a job or anything?
Arnold
- O-Oskar? I don't think he's ever had a job.
(Suzie walks up to the bedroom door with bags of groceries in her hands, goes inside and drops her groceries on the counter)
Oskar and Suzie's Room[]
Suzie
- I gave you a hundred dollars two days ago.
Oskar
- Suzie, you know I had to use it to pay the phone bill.
Suzie
- Oskar, they cut off our phone service this morning.
Oskar
- I know. It's a terrible mistake; we should sue.
Suzie
- Oh, Oskar, that just doesn't make any sense. (takes the food and puts them in the fridge)
Oskar
- Tell me about it. (gets up on top of the fridge door) So, can I have the fifty dollars?
Suzie
- (angrily) I don't have fifty dollars. We've already spent my paycheck this week.
Oskar
- (grabs a pickle out of a jar) What about your overtime? (eats it)
Suzie
- I work 20 hours a week overtime already! How many more hours do you want me to work?
Oskar
- How about 25?
Suzie
- (furiously) Oskar! (angrily slams the fridge door and leaves)
Hallway[]
(Oskar walks up to Ernie's door and knocks on it. Ernie answers and looks annoyed)
Oskar
- (acts mature) Ernie, how's the demolitions business?
Ernie
- (unhappy) What do you want, Kokoshka?
Oskar
- What makes you think I want something? (turns around) It hurts me when you say things like that.
Ernie
- (sympathetically) Well, okay, then, what is it?
Oskar
- (turns back around) Well, I just came to tell you... To tell you that I love you, buddy. Come on, give Oskar a hug. (hugs Ernie)
Ernie
- (hugs him back) That's nice, Oskar. I like you, too... In a-in a brotherly sort of way.
Oskar
- Well, that's all I wanted to say.
Ernie
- Sorry, Oskar. I didn't mean to hurt your feelings.
Oskar
- Well, you should be more careful next time before you go around judging people. (leaves but comes back) Oh, by the way, could I borrow fifty bucks?
Ernie
- (now angrily) You're a bum, Kokoshka! A lousy bum! You'll never change!
Oskar
- Yeah, okay, so how about the 50?
(Ernie slams the door on him and Oskar looks down)