INT. LAKESIDE MALL FOOD COURT, METAIRIE - DAY (2006)

Saturday crowd. DRE (17), white tee and a chain he can't afford, waits by the pretzel stand. His cousin TASHA (17) arrives with a shopping bag and a flip phone.

TASHA
Look at you, cousin. All that bling bling, high beamin' at the pretzel line.

DRE
Got to be a stunna. Marcus is coming through with the new twankies.

TASHA
Marcus got plutoed off the team. Coach caught him acting a donkey at practice.

DRE
Fail. Who told you?

TASHA
I googled him. Then I asked his girl. She's gorgeorific, by the way. Too good for him.

Dre checks his reflection in the Orange Julius sign.

DRE
I'm draped up for nothing, then.

TASHA
Don't jump the couch about it. It's a wrap. One.

She walks off. Dre unhooks the chain and puts it in his pocket.