SCENE 1
Teenage girl asleep in bed. Cell phone starts ringing and
she wakes up to check it. Shot of cell phone showing the
time, which is 9am, and a message from Anna asking to hang
out. Girl gets up and walks downstairs into the kitchen,
where her dad is sitting at the table drinking coffee and
reading the newspaper.
DAD
"Good morning Sam, its about time
you got up!"
SAM
"Morning dad. Its only 9, and its a
Sunday. Nobody wakes up that early
on a Sunday."
Sam takes a seat across the table from her dad, and grabs
the sports section of the paper.
DAD
"Well some people do, people with a
job for example. You should be one
of those people. Jobs look good on
college applications."
SAM
"Yeah yeah I know. Can I go hang
out with Anna today?"
DAD
"No."
SAM
"But why not?"
DAD
"Because the last time I let the
two of you hang out, you wouldn’t
answer any of my phone calls, and
then you didn’t show up until 3am."
SAM
"oh my gosh would u please calm
down. Yeah so what if i didn’t? You
don’t need to call me every five
minutes. I’m not 6 years old dad,
I’m 16. Mom will let me go."
DAD
"Don’t you dare bring your mother
into this it is our problem not
hers."
(CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 2.
SAM
"Oh yeah? we’ll see about that."
DAD
"Sam it is not your mothers
buisness, this is between you and
I"
SAM
"Well maybe it would be her
business if you hadn’t made her
leave!"
Sam walks back upstairs into her room. She picks up her
phone and answers the text.
SHOW MESSAGE ON PHONE, WHICH SAYS: OK, I’LL SEE YOU IN AN
HOUR.
SCENE 2
Sam and her friend Anna walking along a street in a small
town. They enter a shop which is called "Dundas Chocolates".
Sam and Anna begin looking around store.
ANNA
"So, you’re dad wouldn’t let you
come?"
SAM
"Nope."
ANNA
"So then you called your mom? What
did she say?"
SAM
"What she usually does, that I
could go and just to ignore how
over controlling dad is."
ANNA
"Ha that sounds fair enough, at
least you have a parent on your
side. Both of mine are like,
insanely protective."
SAM
"But they still let you come today!
My dad wouldn’t even let me do
that!"
(CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 3.
ANNA
"Don’t worry about it. Its a
typical parent thing."
Sam walks up to the counter to get a free sample of
chocolates, and Anna follows.
ANNA
"My point is, your dad only does
these things because he cares about
you."
SAM
"I don’t know if it a care issue. I
think he just wants to dictate my
life for the sake of it."
Sams phone rings, she answers it.
SAM
"Hello?"
Dads voice is heard on the other line.
DAD
"Sam? OH thank god you’re alright.
I need you to come home right now,
its your mom. There was a car
accident and something went
terribly wrong we need to get to
the hospital now."
SAM
"Alright I’m on my way."
Sam hangs up phone and begins to leave the store.
ANNA
"Sam? Is everything alright?"
SAM
"NO, its not. Not at all. Im sorry
i have to go."
Sam starts running home, leaving Anna at the chocolate
store.
4.
SCENE 3
Sam runs into house to find Dad unmoved, still in the chair
at the table in the kitchen, with his coffee still only half
drunk.
SAM
"Dad! Dad what’s going on!? Is mom
ok?"
Dad looks up at Sam with tears in his eyes, and takes a deep
breath before speaking.
DAD
"Sam... Your mothers gone... and
this time, shes not coming back."
SAM
"You do realize that this is your
fault. If you hadn’t made her leave
in the first place, this never
would have happened!"
Sam runs upstairs, leaving dad in the kitchen, where he puts
his head in his hands ans sobs.
SCENE 4
In a cemetery, a funeral is being held. Several men and
women dressed in black surround a coffin with flowers laid
across it. A pastor reads from a Bible, then motions towards
Sams Dad.
DAD
"Now, as im sure you all know, I..
uhh... well I’m not the greatest at
this sort of thing. But, if theres
one thing that needs to be said,
its this: I loved Sams mother more
then anything, and in the end, we
both decided that for Sams sake, we
should take a break, so she went
off on her own for a while. And for
those months that we spent apart, I
hated myself for just letting her
go. I wish I had run after her, and
begged her to stay, but I didn’t.
And now its too late to change what
happened, and I wish more then
anything that I had gotten the
chance to tell her that I loved
her. She was an amazing person, and
(MORE)
(CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 5.
DAD (cont’d)
I know I will always hold her in my
heart."
SAM LOOKS OVER AT HER FATHER WITH TEARS IN HER EYES. CUT TO
AFTER THE FUNERAL HEADING TOWARDS THE CAR.
Sam and her father walk together along a gravel road to the
parking lot.
SAM
"Did you really mean what you said?
About you an mom splitting up
because of me?"
DAD
"No sam, not because of you. But
because we wanted the best for you.
Your mom and I were going through a
rough patch, and she wanted to go
on her own for a little while.
Well, you know me, I didnt know
what else to do, so i let her go."
SAM
"All this time i thought u pushed
her out! Dad why didnt you tell me
the whole story!"
DAD
"I’m sorry kiddo, I’m not the
talk-about-your-feelings kinda
person."
SAM
"I know dad, and I’m sorry for
being so hard on you these past
months."
DAD
"Its ok."
SAM
"so I goess its just you and me
now..."
DAD
"and together we can take on
anything."
SAm and her father hug and get into the car and drive away.
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