SIDE 8

TIA LUPE & ISABELLA

"The Family Secret"

Characters

• Tia Lupe Flores (50s)

• Isabella Flores

Location
Family Cookout

Character Notes

Tia Lupe

• Maria's younger sister

• Family gossip queen

• Brutally honest

• Funny

• Loves Isabella

• Notices everything

Think:
The aunt who knows everybody's business before they do.

EXT. FAMILY COOKOUT – DAY

Music.

Food.

Family everywhere.

Tia Lupe watches Isabella from across the yard.

Finally walks over.

TIA LUPE

Who is she?

ISABELLA

What?

TIA LUPE

The woman.

ISABELLA

What woman?

TIA LUPE

See?

That right there.

That's guilt.

Isabella nearly chokes on her drink.

ISABELLA

I don't know what you're talking about.

TIA LUPE

Baby.

I've been Latina for fifty-five years.

You think I don't recognize panic?

A beat.

ISABELLA

There isn't a woman.

TIA LUPE

Okay.

Silence.

TIA LUPE

Is it Jayda?

Isabella freezes.

Completely.

Tia Lupe smiles.

TIA LUPE

Ay Dios mío.

It is Jayda.

ISABELLA

Please stop talking.

TIA LUPE

Oh, this is better than television.

ISABELLA

Tia.

TIA LUPE

Fine.

I won't say another word.

Beat.

TIA LUPE

But for the record...

she's cute.

ISABELLA

I'm leaving.

TIA LUPE

Tell Jayda I said hello.

Isabella walks away.

Tia Lupe laughs to herself.

TIA LUPE

That girl is absolutely in love.