Chapter 4~ Are We The Perfect Match?
At Raven’s party, there’s music and loads of people Chelsea walks in with Danny Warren over to Raven.
Raven: “Hey”
Chelsea: “Hey”
Danny: “Hey Rae cool space, oh we brought you a little room warming gift.” (Hands the box to Raven)
Chelsea: “Don’t tell her what it is; don’t tell her what it is. Open it Rae it’s towels.”
Raven: (Hasn’t open the gift yet)
Danny: “Surprise”
Raven: (Opens the box) “Thanks you two” (There’s two towels one says 6021 and the other says 4267 Raven looks at Chels) “Oh wait a second, his and hers towels?”
Chelsea: “Yea for when you and Eddie get married you may wanna wash your hands.”
Raven: “Chels were not getting married okay were not even going out.”
Chelsea: “Why what happened?”
Raven: (Hands Danny the gift) “I need to talk to her please.”
Danny: (Takes the gift back) “Yea” (Walks away)
Raven: “I had a vision about me and Eddie our future not so bright. We were miserable well at least I was.”
Chelsea: “Oh man sorry Rae did you tell him?”
Raven: “No I didn’t tell him I didn’t wanna bum him out Chels all I wanted was a date and I think I might have lost my best friends over this.”
Chelsea: “I’m sorry” (leans over to Danny) “Did you keep the receipt on those towels?”
Danny: (Whispers) “Got it”
Chelsea and Danny: (Walk onto the dance floor)
Raven: (turns around and sees Eddie standing there) “Well I’m happy that you came to my party Eddie.”
Eddie: “And well somebody asked me and I really couldn’t say know.”
Loca: (Hits Eddie) “You can’t get away from me you rascal…MEOW!”
Eddie: (Looks at Raven) “Well at least when she punches me I can see it coming….”
Raven: (looks sad)
Eddie: (Turns to Loca and sticks out his hand) “Shall we?”
Loca: “I’d be delighted” (Takes Eddie’s hand)
Eddie: “Alright” (They walk onto the dance floor)
Raven: (Walks over to the food bar were her dad is standing)
Victor: “Hey baby”
Raven: “hey dad”
Victor: “Here’s the uh crab puffs.”
Raven: “Thank you dad”
Victor: “So uh how’s the party going?”
Raven: “Okay I guess”
Victor: “Hey I could you know living things up a little do a little conga line?”
Raven: “Oh really hey lets see how that looks going up the stairs?”
Victor: “Right” (Victor congas up the stairs)
Raven: (Takes the crab puffs and looks at everyone slow dancing.) “Just like my vision.” (Eats a crab puff)
Meanwhile, coming to the door is Stanley standing on Cory’s shoulders. There wearing a long coat and Stanley has on a mustache, sunglasses, and an afro.
Stanley: (Looks at Victor leaving) “What’s happening my brother?”
Victor: “It’s all good my brother.”
Stanley: “Alright” (They step inside Raven’s room.)
Cory: (Opens the coat) “Alight now were in when do we split up?”
Stanley: “Not so fast I like the view form up here.” (Looks at Loca and Loca looks at him) “I got my eye on a tall drink of water.”
Cory: “Man no forget it.”
Stanley: “Man just give at least two minutes to make my move?”
Cory: “Fine you got one so you better move fast.”
Stanley: “Alright then” (Tries to go but Cory doesn’t walk.) “Well you betta get to stepping bro.”
Cory: (Covers up his own face again and walks wobbly onto the dance floor.)
Stanley and Cory run into a bunch of people trying to get to Loca.
Stanley: (Looks at Loca and they lock eyes Stanley puts over to the right and Loca nods her head)
Loca: “Huh Eddie could you get us some drinks?”
Eddie: “Oh sure thing” (Eddie walks away)
Loca: (Looks at Stanley) “Finally some one I can look up too. Hey handsome.”
Stanley: “Hey tender woman”
Cory: “You better talk fast.”
Loca: “what’s that?”
Stanley: (Shakes) “Sorry my stomach’s a little upset.”
Loca: “You know what settles my stomach?”
Stanley: “What?”
Loca: “Slow dancing”
Stanley: “Don’t mind if I do.” (Him and Loca slow dance)
Meanwhile, Raven walks over to the food takes a bite.
Raven: (Vision Face)
Vision: Raven and Eddie walk into the house laughing.
Raven: “Where home!”
Eddie: “Hey dad thanks for babysitting Eddie Junior and Ravenet.”
Victor: (Stands up) “Know problem”
Eddie Junior: “We twisted Grandpas hair”
Raven: “I bet you did sweetheart.”\
Victor: “Yea isn’t it great that they came up with a cure for baldness? I love the future!”
Eddie: “Hey check it out son daddy won for best rap song in a major motion picture.” (Holds up a trophy)
Raven: “And mommy won for best costume design.” (Holds up a trophy too) “Oh I’m so ecstatic I have everything I have a family, I have a fabulous career, and a gorgeous husband.”
Eddie: (Laughs) “Oh stop it”
Raven: “It’s true you can have it all.”
Eddie: “Yea I mean isn’t this the life aren’t you glad that computer hooked us up?”
Raven: “Yes Darling!” (Raven and Eddie Laugh)
Raven: (Comes out of Vision) “Oh snap Eddie! (Raven runs over to Eddie who’s at the juice bar) “Eddie listen I need to talk to you about the future”
Eddie: “Forget it Rae If I don’t get these drinks back to Loca then I won’t have a future.” (Laughs)
Raven: “Listen, don’t worry about Loca I huh think she’s moved on.” (They look at Loca who’s dancing with Stanley)
Eddie: “Who’s that? He looks familiar.”
Raven: “I dunno I think he’s so guy form out Spanish class but listen….” (Looks back at Eddie) “Listen it doesn’t matter um I lied to you the reason that I broke up with you was because I had a vision.”
Eddie: “Rae why didn’t you tell me?”
Raven: “Cause it was awful Eddie we were married and miserable and you were a wrapper.”
Eddie: “Well at least my career worked out.” (Laughs)
Raven: “Know you were wrapping packages homie.”
Eddie: “Oh Know”
Raven: “Yea exactly listen then I just had another vision and we were married and successful and everything was perfect.”
Eddie: “So you had a bad vision and you dumped me. Then you had a good vision and what?”
Raven: “I wish I knew which vision was gonna come true.”
Eddie: “Look, man forget about the visions Rae. Nobody knows about the future for sure not even you.”
Raven: “Well yea I have been off once ore twice.”
Eddie: (Laughs) “The question is what do you wanna do right now?”
Raven: “Well I kinda wanna try us out but I don’t want it to be weird I do not wanna ruin our friendship.”
Eddie: “But, what if we are the perfect match like Loca and that dude from our Spanish class? I mean if we never try well never know.”
Raven: “You right. So what do we do?”
Eddie: “We can start with a dance?” (Eddie sticks out his hand)
Raven: (Takes Eddie’s hand and they go to the dance floor and slow dance real close)
Meanwhile, Loca and Stanley are still dancing when Cory leaves Stanley. Loca is holdin up Stanley as they dance.
Loca: “what’s wrong your dancing like you got two left feet.”
Stanley: “I’m dancing like my two feet left.”
Loca: (Looks at Stanley’s feet) “AhHHH where’s the rest of you?”
Stanley: “Just look in my eyes just look in my eyes.”
Loca: “I thought you were the one your not even half the one!”
Meanwhile, Raven and Eddie are slow dancing.
Raven: “This is nice”
Eddie: “Yea like natural”
Chelsea and Danny kiss as Eddie and Raven watch them kiss. Then Raven and Eddie look into each other’s eyes and they kiss. There eye’s widen and they slowly pull there lips back.
Raven: “Was that weird?”
Eddie: “Well it wasn’t what I thought it would be.”
Raven: “Yea, I was waiting for the magic.”
Eddie: “I didn’t feel it either.”
Raven: “Yea well at least we gave it a shot.”
Eddie: “Yea, and now we know that were not the perfect you know match.”
Raven: (Wipes her lip gloss of Eddie’s lips) “Yea just the perfect friends.”
Eddie: (Wipes his lips) “You got me all lip sticked up”
Raven: (Laughs) “Sorry”
Eddie: “Go on and give me hug.” (Him and Raven hug)
Loca: (Pulls Raven and Eddie apart and looks at Eddie) “May I have this dance?” (Looks at Raven) “And that’s not a question!”
Raven: “I wasn’t asking” (Raven walks away from Eddie and sees Stanley and Cory running out) “Hold it you two don’t think I ain’t seen you.”
Cory: “Were sorry”
Stanley: “Yea were leaving”
Raven: “No your not, no your not, your gonna get you party on lets go.”
Stanley and Cory: (Get really happy and go onto the dance floor)
Eddie: “ALRIGHT EVERYBODY LET’S DO THE SLIDE!”
Raven: “1, 2, 3, 4”
Eddie: “To the right, to the left, Now back to, now break.” (Everyone is doing the dance moves.)