First very rough draft

Charlie: Older sibling 

Marco: Younger sibling 

(Young Marco and Older Marco is made distinct for the actors as they will have different voices)

TITLE:

MUG LIFE

PIECING IT TOGETHER

GROWING PAINS (we are leaning more towards this one)

SCENE 1 :

Put tape over the box and carry it out of the room and downstairs and put on a stack of other boxes (FIRST COUPLE OF SHOTS) 

Charlie

There’s more boxes for you in front of the door!

Older Marco

Got it!

Walks around the house into the kitchen already filled with boxes 

Places box down with “Marcos college stuff” facing front 

Charlie opens up cabinet to an array of mugs and starts placing mugs into the “Marcos college stuff” box

Charlie then grabs a broken mug 

Graphic match of charlie's hand position to when the mug was originally given to Marco

Charlie 

A lil something for the birthday boy!

Yung Marco

Awkwardly 

Awe thanks...what is it?

Charlie

Mockingly 

Do you not have eyes? It's a mug dummie.

Yung Marco

Laughs along 

I mean I know it's a mug but… why?

Charlie

Cause spiderman is the best superhero? I thought you liked spiderman 

Yung Marco

I do, I guess, but not enough to drink out of him. I like Iron man better

Charlie

Well if you don't want it … I guess I can take it...

Yung Marco

Trying to be like Charlie

No, no, I want it, spidermans my favorite too.

Charlie

Ouch, poor Iron Man. Okay lemme take it off your hands for now.

Marco hands the mug back over to Charlie to put away into the cupboard 

Scene two

Night time-lighting change 

Graphic match of opening cupboard back up

Charlie fixes themselves a cup of liquor in the mug they gave Marco after a long shift at work

Shots of Charlie drinking then re-filling cup

Charlie’s head is down while they clumsily hold the bottle 

Over the shoulder shot of Charlie to see Marco sleepily walking into frame 

Yung Marco

Not fully awake 

What are you doing?

Charlie

Very drunk

What are YOU doing?

Yung Marco

I thought we were getting robbed, i kept hearing banging 

Charlie

Drunkenly laughing 

Never get a job in security then I guess

Yung Marco

Why are you like this?

Charlie

I'm a big boy, and this is my big boy juice. You see, when big kids get stressed we drink this and all our problems go away.

Yung Marco

But aren't I a big boy too?

Long pause

Charlie

Not enough. Go to bed, Marco.

THE NEXT DAY

Marco gets home from school and walks past the fridge to see a note left behind from Charlie

“Hey kid! I picked up an extra shift at work so i'll be home later today. There's mac and cheese in the cupboard for you to make. Love you, see you later

Ps: don't do anything I wouldn't do”

LATER THAT DAY 

Marco goes to look for the food his brother left him, and makes it. Later he looks for a juice box and cannot find it but he ends up finding Charlie's alcohol and takes it. Marco tries reaching for the cupboard to get a mug, but he can’t reach so he drags a chair over to get it. Marco tries to grab the spiderman mug and succeeds but charlie busts in as they've now come home from their shift  leaving Marco to drop the mug as they stare at each other.

Yung Marco

Pleading

I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry …

Charlie

What the HELL were you thinking?

Yung Marco

Tripping over his wordz

I just wanted to be a big kid like you

Charlie stands in shock and sil e n c e

Cut to Two shot of them but they are sitting far away from each other and not facing each other

Charlie

At first sounding angry

Why would you ever want to be a big kid… 

Tonal shift to more sincere and jokingly 

that means you’ll do taxes and..other stuff

Yung Marco

What are taxes? Is that like math?

Charlie

Worse. You never answered my question

Yung Marco

I just wanted to act like a big kid so I could be like you. I want to do everything you do.

Charlie

Well...

Scoots closer to him

You’re not me. And I’m not you. Being a grown-up isn’t always fun. Sometimes I wish I could be more like you. 

Yung Marco

Well, being a kid is hard too. The times' table quizzes at school are too hard because they only give us like 30 seconds to do it and there are like a million questions.

Charlie

Hm, yeah I bet. I couldn’t do those either. But, it does get easier. There's always going to be new things that are hard but that's just what you have to go through to become a big kid. So, you think you can do that?

Yung Marco

I think so

Charlie

Okay good, now let's clean up this mess like real big kids

They pick up the pieces to the mug and glue it back together

We still have to write the final scene but here's its path for now! I'm actually pretty okay with how it's turning out now that we have everything sorted, plus this time we were able to figure out character names and possible title names unlike before.