EXT. RESORT BEACH - AFTERNOON
It's a grey day in paradise. The beach is mostly bare, underscored by the faint NTSS NTSS of early 2000s French techno.
Five young women lie on their stomachs in a row of beach chairs. They are EMILIA, NEFF, FIA, MENA and PALOMA.
Emilia, 25, rolls over, adjusts her Inamorata bikini, and snaps a quick selfie. She glances around.
EMILIA
Where are the boys?
A discarded RXBar wrapper blows across the sand: a jet setter's tumbleweed.
Paloma, 31 but youthful as any of her younger girlies (thanks to Biologique RecherchΓ©), reaches for the SPF50, sighs.
PALOMA
They'll be around...I texted Dino.
Mena smirks as she applies her coconut Balm Dot Com.
MENA
We can always count on you to
keep an eye on them.
PALOMA
What's that supposed to mean?
MENA
Nothing.
Emilia snorts. Mena shoots her a glare.
MENA (CONT'D)
Why are you laughing? You've been
asking about them since we got here.
Her laughing stops.
EMILIA
I was just curious, okay? It's a
completely normal question.
Neff, 19, rushes up, soaked from the waves.
NEFF
You guys, I'm having the time of
my freaking life! You need to
get out there!!
She towels off and reaches for her Brandy Melville oversized crewneck.
NEFF (CONT'D)
Where are the boys?
EMILIA
Oh my god, see?!
NEFF
What?
PALOMA
Filamena seems to have gotten
it in her head that we're all
too obsessed with ~the boys~
MENA
See, it's like, even calling...
them "the boys"...you sound
like simps.
Fia, 24, silent and possibly napping until now, shoots up from her seat.
FIA
Okay, guys. C'mon. Paloma organized
this beautiful getaway, and my shrooms
are currently hitting. So let's all, like,
bring it down a whoooole lot of
levels.
She turns to Mena.
FIA (CON'TD)
Mena, let's cool it with the puritan energy,
alright? I get that you want every conversation to
Bechtel test, I do. But we're in paradise with a bunch
hotties. We're young, we're healthy, we're practically
the stars of our own Sofia Coppola film. We don't
need to be on our girlboss shit right now, we just
need to be. Here, I'm gonna get us a round
of drinks. What does everybody want?