Tables and Chairs

Screenplay by Abrahim Iqbal

1. INT. JESSE’S ROOM. NIGHT
A high school student Jesse Hoffman(Age: 17) is sitting
on his table writing under a yellow table lamp. We can
hear Jazz on a radio(All Blue by Miles Davis). The camera
moves around the room, we can notice a lot of books
mainly the genre of literature. We can also see a CD
collection. The collection must have at least a 100 CD’s.
The camera comes back to Jesse. He stops writing and
starts drinking juice. After a few seconds he starts
writing again. The music comes to an end and the radio
starts.

Radio:
Ladies and Gentlemen, that was All Blue by Miles Davis.
Great piece of art, I believe the whole album is probably
one of the greatest Jazz Albums of all time. Well enough
said, this is Peter Limber signing off. See you next week
on SunJazz

Jesse gets up, closes his notebook and turns off the
radio. He walks towards the bathroom, washes his hands
and dries them with the towel. Jesse wears his Jacket and
walks out of the room. The title of the movie is shown on
the door of the room.

“Tables and Chairs”

(We can hear a Jazz chord when the title of the movie is
shown)

The screen fades out.

2. EXT. OUTSIDE SCHOOL. DAY

A car is driven and parks outside a school. Car is driven
by a man, Nick(45). Right next to him is Jesse who we see
from the scene before this. Nick parks the car smoothly.

Jesse sighs and looks at his dad. He is speechless and

both of them just stare at each other for a few seconds.

Jesse:
Thank you for dropping me

Nick:
Your welcome

Jesse looks at Nick and gets out of the car. He walks

towards the school and the second he walks in he puts on
his headphones. We can again hear Jazz(Orchilius by
Milosc and Lester Brown).

3. INT. INSIDE SCHOOL. DAY

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We can see Jesse walking in school, we can still hear the
Jazz and everyone around him are talking and ignoring
him. We can’t hear what they are talking about; the only
thing we hear is Jazz. He walks towards his locker, opens
and takes out two notebooks and pens. We can see a few
literature books in his locker too.
While the music is being played we hear a knock on his
headphones and the music is being paused. It is Chase
(17), another high school student.

Chase:
Still listening to the old man music buddy

Jesse takes off his headphones and puts them back into
the locker.

Jesse:
What's up Chase?

Chase:
Sup Jesse, how was your weekend ?

Jesse:
Uh, I don’t know where to start, why don’t you go first?

Chase:
I went to Bonham’s

Jesse:
Nice, how was it

Chase:
It was great

Jesse:
Really yeah

Chase:
Yeah I mean it was alright, what about you, how was your
weekend

Jesse:
My math class starts in a minute and then I have a
meeting with the counselor

Jesse moves away from the locker and towards the class.
Chase walks with him.

Chase:
I didn’t ask you that question

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 Jesse:
Well I didn’t answer it

Chase:
What’s up with counselor though, why do you have to go?

Jesse:
You didn’t read the email did you. 10 minute meeting with
counselor in your free period. You have to visit her this
week. College application, future plans, job, wife, kids
all that

Chase:
Yeah well, would be a miracle if I’d get any of those
things especially kids

Jesse:
Kids you can adopt, it’s the wife that’s the issue

Chase:
What, you ignored the job

Jesse:
Ok I have math, see you later

Chase:
Ok

Jesse gets inside the math room and Chase leaves.

4. INT. MATH’S CLASS. DAY

Jesse is in Math class. He is making trigonometry notes
and has one earphone (Love for Sale by Miles Davis) is
his ear. He makes notes and lifts his notebook and has
another notebook under his math book. He is writing
another thing in the notebook and we don’t know what it
is. He continues writing and suddenly the teacher calls.

Teacher:
Mr. Hoffman, Mr. Hoffman

Another individual pushes Jesse to distract him from his

writing.

Teacher:
Mr. Hoffman, what are you listening to and what are you
writing?

Jesse:
Uh I was writing notes and I was listening to. Uh notes

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 Teacher:
Well can you help us with this question?

Jesse looks at his watch. Its 8:59. 45 seconds are left

to 9:00.

Jesse:
Yeah I can but from my experience shouldn’t you know the
answer I mean you’re the teacher, it’s a shame you don’t

Students start laughing and teacher is pissed off.

Teacher:
Very funny Mr. Hoffman

Jesse:
Oh thank you, how nice of you

Teacher:
Well “may” you help us with this problem?

Jesse:
Yeah sure

Jesse walks towards the board, takes the marker and the
second he presses it on the board the school bell starts
ringing. Jesse looks towards his teacher and smiles.

Jesse:
Goodbye ma’am

Jesse walks outside the class like the rest of the class.

5. INT. OFFICE. DAY

Jesse is sitting with the school counselor (Ma’am
Wilson), she is a nice woman in her mid forties. The room
is small like most interview rooms.

Wilson:
So what’s the plan that sounds like something I would say
to my husband when we are free on the weekend?

Jesse:
And what’s his usual answer?

Wilson:
I don’t know you tell me

Jesse laughs

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 Wilson:
But you better not give me the response, so what do you
plan to do?

Jesse:
From what I understand the best option would be to wait
until an idea pops in my head and I can just do whatever
that idea tells me to do

Wilson:
Really?

Jesse:
I don’t know, you tell me

Wilson stares at Jesse for a few seconds

Wilson:
Jesse, come on please take this seriously. We only have a
few minutes

Jesse:
Well its not like I have 2 minutes to decide, when ill
get there ill see

A long beat

Wilson:
Jesse, I see something great in you, I actually do and
it’s not something I say to all students. Trust me. I see
that you have a demand for something, a demand for a
profession in your mind, thing is that you have to clear
your mind and look clearly on where you want to go
because honey there are a lot of places you can go

Jesse:
Is that also something your husband says to you on the
weekend?

Wilson:
I’m serious

Jesse:
Oh yeah

Wilson:
Yeah, I’m serious that you take this seriously

Jesse:
Yeah

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 Wilson:
Jesse think about it like, what do you really want to do,
where do you see yourself, I don’t think you have that
much time because you’ll start applying in less than 7
months so you better start tick toking that big brain of
yours because its not about what you study, its about
what you do with the things you studied and that’s whats
important

Jesse:
Did you study motivational speeches in NYU?

Wilson:
Alright, good talking to you, I’m off to my break, oh my
god, 6 more interviews today and I have to do them rest
of the week

Wilson gets up and goes towards the door

Wilson:
Kill me

Jesse:
Is that also something your husband says?

Wilson leaves and Jesse smiles for a few seconds. He puts

on his headphones and leaves

6. EXT. OUTSIDE SCHOOL. DAY

Jesse is sitting and eating his sandwich while listening
to music. Chase walks towards him and sits besides

Chase:
What’s up?

Jesse:
We already did that this morning

Chase:
Ok well, how was the interview

Jesse:
Freaking future, everyone wants you to think about these
days. Future, future, future, what are you going to do,
what are you going to do after, what are you going to do
before, all that nonsense. I honestly don’t care,
something will happen somehow and I will be that that
someone who knows about it

Chase:
Cool, mines tomorrow, I don’t know what to say

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 Jesse:
I don’t know, why are you looking at me?

Chase:
Thought you had some bright ideas

Jesse:
Why though

Chase:
You’re always writing and reading those books of yours

Jesse:
How does that have to do anything?

Chase doesn’t know how to respond

Jesse:
Ill tell you this though; you can convince the school
that you want to get into porn producing

Chase laughs

Chase:
I’m sure, ill just tell me that it incorporates the
aspect of biology and psychology into this area of study

Jesse:
Funny thing is that you take neither of these subjects

Chase:
God

Jesse eats his sandwich

Chase:
Give me some of that (points towards the sandwich)

Jesse:
Go get it with your own money

Chase:
I don’t have any so yeah

Jesse:
What did big daddy didn’t give you piggy money

Chase:
Yeah, I spent it on producing a porn film

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 Jesse:
Well then, change your career or in this case your future

Chase:
Dude seriously I’m really hungry

Jesse:
Steal it from McCoy; seventh graders are always stealing
money from him

Camera shifts towards a boy sitting alone and a bunch of

kids hit him and take his wallet

Jesse:
I’m sure he has another wallet, rich bastard

Chase:
Lord, by the way Mrs. Carter is looking for you, she said
she needs you to be in her office immediately, wants to
talk to you about something

Jesse:
Seriously, when did she tell you?

Chase:
I don’t know, like 20 minutes ago. Point is that what
would I do right now while your gone to Mrs. Carter.
Seriously first you don’t give me money and now you leave
to hang out with Mrs. Carter

Jesse:
You idiot, while you’re here, do yourself a favor, go to
the library, pick up a dictionary and look at the
definition of the word “immediately”

Chase:
I will immediately do it right after you pay me for the
food

Jesse picks up his phone, headphones, and bags and runs

off. We can see him running the whole school and he
reaches an office.

7. INT. OFFICE. DAY

Jesse rushes in and Mrs. Carter is right in the process
of getting out the room. She slightly bumps into him.

Jesse:
Oh I’m so sorry that I’m late

Mrs. Carter:

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 You’re twenty minutes over the clock, didn’t I tell you
friend Chase

Jesse:
Yes

Mrs. Carter:
And he said he will immediately tell you and that I
shouldn’t worry, I have been sitting in my office for the
last 20 minutes, counting every second as a second that
you would knock but no reply, where have you been?

Jesse:
That’s the issue Mrs. Carter; you have your answer in
your statement?

Mrs. Carter:
Question

Jesse:
Yes question. I would suggest you don’t trust Chase in
the future, please he has hard time understanding the
meaning of immediately and he will listen to you from on
ear and take out through the other. Its what most
magicians do with ropes and sticks

Mrs. Carter:
Well ok do me a favor and meet me after school for a few
minutes

Jesse:
Our last class is English so yeah

Mrs. Carter:
Yeah, our last class is English. Perfect

Jesse:
But why though, I mean. Don’t tell me you want me to help
you mark the juniors tests again please, for Christ’s
sake, that was the most boring time of my life and I have
been to the church various times

Mrs. Carter:
No, no, no, I got something bigger that you need to do

Jesse:
Mark the seniors tests

Mrs. Carter:
No Ill tell you about it but its definitely bigger than
marking seniors tests

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 Jesse:
Checking university applications

Mrs. Carter now attempts to leave

Mrs. Carter:
Just be there church boy

8. INT. CLASSROM. DAY

Jesse is in class taking notes; it’s a class of a foreign
language because everyone is repeating the word that the
teacher is saying.
We don’t know what the language is but we guess its
German. Jesse is also repeating the words but not
correctly. Chase is talking to foreign girl and trying to
flirt with her. We can see that she is also trying to
flirt with her. Jesse can hear them and he looks back to
see them.

The teacher suddenly notices but doesn’t do anything. She

slowly walks amongst the students and towards Chase.
Chase doesn’t notice her coming but everyone else does
yet no one says anything. Chase and the girl are still
flirting and fooling around with each other. The girl
notices the teacher when she reaches the table and Chase
is still doesn’t.

Teacher (In German accent):

Mr. Chase

Chase gets scared and suddenly looks at her and sits up

straight. He knows he’s in trouble.

Teacher:
If you’d like to perform these kinds of acts please do it
in front of the whole class and don’t hide. Please we’d
like to see and some of us would really (emphasis) like
to see

Chase:
Oh no, it’s all right, it was nothing. I’m sorry, will
not happen again I promise

Teacher:
She would be disappointed if it was nothing, it should
have been something

The class cheers and laughs. Chase is extremely

disappointed; Jesse laughs too and looks straight at

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Chase. Chase looks back and then points a figure point at
his head and loads it.

(CUT TO)
This is the same class but now we see it around 15
minutes later from the scene before. We can see students
getting out of class, Jesse gets out and then Chase. He’s
about to say something to Jesse but then the teacher
comes behind him and stops him, Jesse stops too, to see
what happens.

Teacher:
Mr. Chase, why leave right now. You have a few things to
say to the principle or if you want I can orate it for
you

Chase:
Ma’am I am so sorry, I was just, I was just so. You know
its German that just goes into me and yeah German

Teacher:
Oh good to know, thank god someone is enjoying my lessons

Chase:
Yeah for sure

Teacher:
Then lets tell the principle and make sure you tell him
why you love it, he will be delighted

Jesse laughs and walks away.

9. INT. CLASS. ROOM

It’s almost the end of English class and the teacher is
Mrs. Carter. She is explaining something but we cannot
hear it. We hear light jazz in the background and then we
see Jesse who is writing in class but it’s definitely not
what the teacher is saying. He is writing fast and
suddenly the school bell rings and it disturbs his
concentration. Mrs. Carter goes straight to the office
and Jesse then follows her.

Jesse:
Yes ma’am

Mrs. Carter then sits down and takes in water with a

medicine.

Mrs. Carter:
Firstly don’t call me ma’am when we are alone. I’m not
that old or superior. I’m only 29 chill out

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 Jesse:
You’re 29

Mrs. Carter:
Yeah what did you think?

Jesse:
I don’t know

Mrs. Carter:
Then why were you so surprised when I said 29?

Jesse:
I was just you know, I was

Mrs. Carter:
Yeah you were, I’m actually 31

Jesse:
Yeah there you go, I was just confused

Mrs. Carter:
I’m 34

At this point Jesse is confused

Mrs. Carter:
Yeah I was telling you, don’t call me Mrs. Carter; call
me by my first name

Jesse:
Yeah ok umm what did you me to do…. Joy

Joy:
Now we’re talking. Ok so these days, or I must say for
the past few weeks. I have been really busy with a few
things at home and my mind is at two places at once.
There are a lot of distractions and I cant focus on one
thing. Do you understand?

Jesse:
Yes Mrs. Carter, I mean Joy, I do speak English and I do
understand but what I don’t understand is that why would
you hire me as a psychologist

Joy:
No I wasn’t hoping you to be a psychologist, you’re too
young and too fond of doing jokes and not listening

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 Jesse:
Got that right

Joy:
Ok listen, freshmen students, 9th graders. They started
doing literature and its very important that their basics
are right. Its probably one of the most important classes
as without their basic literature basics they wont be
able to do the rest of the years and its very important
that they have a teacher who has full potential and focus
in their class.

Jesse pauses and thinks for a few seconds.

Jesse:
Ok so are you asking my help to find a new teacher for
that time period or are you helping me sort out some
problems you are having and I promise I’m willing to do
so.

Joy:
Well

Jesse:
Well, am I too young and too fond of jokes?

Joy:
Well, that’s not exactly what I’m asking

Jesse:
Yeah I forgot, we didn’t come to the point in which we
discuss what am I supposed to do

Joy:
Well

Jesse:
Well

Joy:
Well

Jesse:
Well Mrs. Carter I meant Joy, sorry Joy yeah “well”

Joy:
I want you to teach the 9th graders. Look you are a great
student I mean you are literary genius. You read all the
books a summer before the school started. You know all
the books by heart, you have an affection towards
literature, its almost like you are attracted to it. You

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 know this stuff, you like it, you read it and I’m
guessing you also write it because I’m sure you weren’t
taking down notes today. And plus I’m sure you know that
I trust in this stuff. No wonder you’re just wandering or
sleeping or writing in class listening to your old man
slow music which sounds really sad and that’s why because
you know everything, literature is in your blood
sometimes I feel you know more than me. Look I know you
think that this 34 year old is crazy and wants a junior
year student to teach 9th graders, and that this junior
year student has no experience on teaching and
nonetheless, no experience with 9th graders. Listen its
not much, its just this term or I should say till the
school year ends. They are reading “The Great Gatsby”
.Its simple and I know you hate me now and probably stop
attending English class at all, although it wont effect
your grade, its all I need, please, just this term. I
will be there to supervise you but at the same time I
need to focus on my own things too which means that ill
be in my office working or sorting things out and you’ll
be in class teaching 9th Graders. Yeah, well

Long pause and Jesse is impressed

Jesse:
Well

Joy:
For Christ’s sake

Jesse:
Fine ill give it a shot only because you made an argument
that I didn’t want you to lose so yeah

Joy:
Ill email you the details, I have class with them three
times a week and thankfully you are free in two of those
lessons which is perfect because they can just revise in
the third lesson or give them an assignment

Jesse:
This is confusing already but its ok, its literature Joy.
It must be as fun teaching it as reading and
accommodating it with your own heart and soul

10. INT. JESSE’S ROOM. NIGHT

Jesse is on his laptop on the table in his room and he is
stressed. We understand that he is working on this some
sort of presentation and he has the Great Gatsby on his
table with him. Jesse is speaking/shouting to himself.

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 Jesse:
Oh my god, what have I gotten myself into. Can you even
imagine? I have to teach a bunch of silly and pricky 9th
graders how these stupid writers wrote these stupid books
to impress some stupid people without any stupid reason.
Honestly I don’t even remember The Great Gatsby. This
teacher is literally removing the soul outta me. I am in
pain and agony and I don’t know what to do. No literature
geniuses this is not an exaggeration. I don’t use
literary terms in my daily conversation and especially
the ones with God and myself. Even God would think that
this man screwed up big time.

Jesse rests for a second and breathes

Jesse:
What am I going do, what am I going do, what am I donna
do, what am I going do. And honestly, what problem is she
having anyway, what the hell is that 34 year old teacher
facing at home that it splits her brain in half and that
she cant concentrate on teaching. Heaven’s sake, freaking
literature.

Jesse gets up and walks towards his book shelf

Jesse:
You know, I actually started to like you guys and you
guys were actually nice but now guess what suckers, I am
not giving you much love

Suddenly the door opens and Jesse’s mom Jessica walks in.

Jessica:
Umm Jesse darling, dinner is ready. You can stop talking
or I would say shouting at your vivid imagination

Jesse:
Yes mum sure, no problem

Jesse walks outside the room and scene ends.

11. EXT. OUTSIDE SCHOOL. DAY

Jessse is eating his sandwich and deeply thinking. He
isn’t blinking at all and is in his own very own
thoughts. We can see that he was reading, as it is right
besides him. There is a bookmark in the middle, which
tells us that he has read half of it. Suddenly Chase
comes up

Chase:

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Hey Charles Dickens, what’s up? All right so listen to my
story right. Yesterday I’m going from home to school in
my car I decide to stop at McDonalds because I got really
hungry

The sound of Chase speaking gets lower and lower and at

one point we don’t hear him at all or any of the
background noise. We hear a Jazz riff in the background.
This tells us that Jesse Is not listening to Chase and is
in his own thoughts.

Suddenly Jesse gets up and runs away. Chase tries to grab

him but Jesse is too quick.

Chase:
Hey, I’m still not done with the chick I had sex with in
McDonalds yesterday. Were you even listening to the whole
time? Did I call you Dickens that upset you or something?

Jesse has left Chase’s sight.

12. EXT. SCHOOL. DAY

Jesse is running throughout the school, he bumps into a
few people and then he reaches an office. He barges in.

Jesse:
Look I cant do it, I don’t want to let your class down,
oh I’m sorry I apologize for entering at this pivotal
moment

Jesse see’s that there are five women in the area talking
to Joy.

Jesse:
I deeply apologize

Jesse attempts to leave

Joy:
Jesse, wait. Just one-second ladies

Joy gets out of the office with Jesse.

Joy:
What’s wrong?

Jesse
Look I can’t teach these students. I have never done it
before and I don’t know how to teach them, I mean
literature is freaking huge. Where do is start?

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 Joy:
The second part is not a problem at all. You start with a
question “what is literature”. You tell them what it is
and built the conversation from there. It’s a piece of
cake

Jesse:
Please don’t use metaphors like “piece of cake” with me.
I reach too much of them in the Great Gatsby yesterday

Joy:
There you go, you’re right on track. Look at the literary
terms and define those. Literary terms like metaphors,
similes, and exaggeration. This and that. Start with the
basics, there are at the back of your hand, you just have
you copy them and paste them on their witty little 9th
grader maggot sized brains

Jesse:
Ok ok, all right. Not that hard. But how do I resolve the
first part the teaching one, how do you teach. Where is
your answer to that?

Joy:
Look its very simple, just…

Random lady (from Joy’s office):

Joy, we are waiting

Joy:
Coming, just a second. Look listen the answer to your
first problem is simple. The way you teach anyone is very
simple, you need the students to like you because if they
don’t they wont listen to you. So this is want you do,
make it simple, interact with them, ask questions and one
more thing, which from what I notice you’re pretty good
at. Crack jokes, make it humorous, and make fun of your
music.

Jesse:
How is that related and not funny, Jazz is awesome

Joy:
All right fun, but come on make it interesting, make it
funny and make it cool. Try to make it a TED talk, add
your own philosophies. Imagine if you were in their shoes
what kind of first literature class would you have
wanted.

Jesse:

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 Well I understand but can I really do it

Joy:
As you start to walk out in the way, the way appears
itself; it’s just the matter of starting the journey and
putting your first step on the ground

Jesse:
Is that Rumi?

Joy:
Yep, but my version of Rumi

Random lady (from inside the office):

Joy, we don’t have all day

Joy:
Yes I’m coming (Towards the lady), all right then good
luck (Towards Jesse)

Joy gets into her office and Jesse walks back.

13. INT. JESSE’S ROOM. NIGHT

Jesse is on his table working on the presentation for the
students. He is fully concentrating on the presentation.
We see him returning to the first slide of the
presentation. The title suggests “Mysteries within a
litter box”. He saves the presentation and closes his
laptop.

14. INT. CLASSROOM. DAY

Jesse is sitting in the English classroom, he has
earphones in his ears and is looking towards chairs and
has the projector and white board behind him. He is
moving his fingers on his leg. Suddenly bunch of students
walk into the classroom talking and Jesse takes of his
headphones. The students are coming, sitting on the
chairs and talking. They all sit down (still talking) and
stare towards Jesse and don’t know why he is here. All
the students are settled and Joy comes out of her office.

Joy:
Hey guys, settle down and pay attention. There had been a
small change…

Jesse (whispering to Joy):

A very big change

Joy:
Ok fine, there has been a (pause) change. Out of three
lessons you have with me per week, two of them will be

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 take by this fellow here. He is a junior year student
Jesse and his area of expertise is literature. He reads
it, he comprehends, he loves and I’m guessing he also
writes it.

Joy looks at Jesse and Jesse looks annoyed.

Joy:
So he will be taking your classes and no that doesn’t
mean I’m not your teacher. I will always be here either
assisting or watching Game of Thrones on my laptop in my
office and no that isn’t the reason I’m not teaching. Its
some other reason and none of you are allowed to ask. I
will make your tests and exams; I am also the one who
will mark it. He (pointing towards Jesse) is here because
he is good or I’m must say great at it and I’m sure it
will help you guys. All right then Jesse, sorry for
taking your lesson. Please continue

Joy leaves the classroom and gets into her office.

Jesse:
Hey guys, as you all heard I’m Jesse

The whole class stares at him. It must be a class of

around 20 students

Jesse:
Ok, so lets get started

Jesse gets a board marker and goes towards the board. He

starts writing something and suddenly all the students
take out their board markers to copy what Jesse is
writing. Jess hears this and stops writing.

Jesse:
Oh ill tell you when to take notes, not right now.
Currently we will just discuss something.

The students close their notebooks and Jesse continues

writing on the board. He writes the word “literature” in
big handwriting on the board. He then turns towards the
students.

Jesse:
Can anyone tell me what this word means?

The class is silent and everyone is looking at each

other.

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 Jesse:
Anyone

A girl raises her hand.

Jesse:
Yes you, sorry first what’s your name?

Girl:
Helen

Jesse:
Yes Helen

Helen:
Literature is a form of writing that has an intellectual
or artistic value and is known to be better than other
books

Jesse:
Better than other books

Helen:
It’s writing is more superior compared to other pieces or
genres of writing

Jesse:
All right, anyone else or everyone agrees

Class is silent and then everyone attempts to shake their

head just to say that they agree with Helen.

Jesse:
So everyone agrees, ok. Helen yes, literature is very
artistic, intellectual and somehow to an extent superior
but these are some qualities of literature, what I asked
for was its meaning and the meaning is actually in the
story of how literature came to be.

Jesse goes up to the board and underlines “liter” from

literature.

Jesse:
It all started with some litter. Now all of you must be
thinking that I’m starting to talk about litter when here
its written liter which isn’t a word. Litter has two
“T”’s when here there is only one. Well be patient and
ill explain it later. The real story is one behind
literature and honestly its quite dumb. It all starts
with litter as a word. There was this man who was really
poor and didn’t have much to eat or actually nothing to

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eat at all. Every night we used to go through “litter” in
different garbage cans outside restaurants and homes to
find something to eat and everyday he used to get
something but not much and some days he wouldn’t get
anything at all so he didn’t really have a good luck but
no matter what he kept looking, that was his routine and
job. Now most people would say that he should get a job
or if this routine is not working he should try something
else. This is what “most people” would think that’s not
true. One day the poor man was going through liter and he
found a mysterious bag. He opened the bag and he found
gold. Yes he found gold, after a long time of bad luck he
found something useful from which he would buy food or
whatever he needed. Well most of you must be thinking how
come there is gold in literature. Well I told you that
this is a story and its stupid and fictional but at the
same time it is also an Allegory. The poor man symbolizes
literature writers and that’s what they do. They dig into
litter to find their gold. The old man uses this gold to
buy food but these writers they use it to write their
glorious stories and that’s we will see how F.Scott
Fitzgerald has used it in the Great Gatsby. What did he
do with the gold? Did he write his glorious stories or
use it to buy a fortune of condoms.

Class starts laughing.

Jesse:
Oh I hope she didn’t listen(point towards Joy’s office).
And another important thing about gold is that its value
never disappears. It always has its importance and its
significance. It’s just like literature. The value will
never decrease and its importance will never diminish. (A
long beat) Ok so lets get started with it but before that
we need to look at a few basics.

Jesse goes towards the computer and turns it on and then

turns on the projector. The presentation pops up which
titled “Mysteries within a litter box”

Jesse:
Lets start with literary terms

Jesse switches the slide and there is a list of literary

terms.

Jesse:
All right then, let’s start

15. INT. CLASSROOM. DAY

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The class has ended and the students are packing and
leaving the class. Jesse is turning off the presentation
when a student gets up and asks a question.

Student:
You didn’t tell us why liter is spelt wrong?

Jesse:
Good question

Class starts laughing

Jesse:
Basically literature is very stupid but at the same time
its very artistic. It allows everything to happen. There
are no set rules or regulations. That’s why you can have
liter written like that.

Class listens carefully.

Jesse:
All right guys thanks, see you in your next class

The whole class has left except for this girl who seems
really quite and sad. She is wearing a grey hoodie and
has glasses. She slowly gets up ad leaves the class.
Jesse takes a look at her. Joy comes out of her office.
Jesse looks at her and walks up to her.

Joy (serious):
Bullshit, condoms and drinking references

Jesse:
I’m sorry, you told me…

Joy:
Make it humorous and you were successful, the class
really liked it and I’m sure they learned something.
Thank you so much, well done

Jesse:
Thanks

Joy attempts to walk outside the class when she stops

Joy:
You know you can do it, you’re really good and I hope you
enjoyed

Jesse moves his head to make a gesture “yes” and Joy

leaves the classroom.

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16. EXT. OUTSIDE HOUSE. LATE EVENING
Jesse walks towards his house and enters it. He is
drinking coffee, has a bag on his back, he also has a
water bottle in his hand with a McDonalds bag.

17. INT. HOUSE. LATE EVENING

Jesse has entered the house. We can hear some voices in
the background; it’s probably his family. Jesse walks
past the dinning room where everyone is having food.
Jesse’s mom(Jessica), Jesse’s dad (Nick) and his younger
sister(Ava).

Nick and Jessica:

Jesse

Jesse walks into the dining room

Nick:
Where have you been?

Jesse:
I had you know (pause) I just wanted to drink coffee and
eat McDonalds. You know, I wanted to celebrate my good
day

Jessica:
Why what happened today?

Jesse:
Umm, nothing special

Jessica:
Then what were you celebrating

Jesse:
My good day

Jessica:
What happened that made it a good day

Jesse:
Nothing special

Beat

Nick:
Wash your hands, change your clothes and have food with
us

18. INT. DINING ROOM. NIGHT

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All four are having food. Jesse, Nick, Jessica and Ava.
Jesse isn’t eating that much as he ate McDonalds. He is
drinking a lot of water though but Ava is eating a lot,
she is 12 years old.

Ava:
I had my Global Studies test today

Jessica:
Right how did it go

Ava:
It was all right

Nick:
Meaning

Ava:
Meaning that there wasn’t something I didn’t know but at
the same time I don’t know if what I wrote was right or
not. I just wrote what I thought the answer was. Most of
the questions were very conceptual
Jessica:
Right, what about you Jesse?

Jesse:
What about me?

Jessica:
How was your thing?

Jesse:
What thing

Jessica:
How was school?

Jesse:
It was good

Jessica:
Good

There is a silence

Nick:
I want you to get a job

There is a silence and Jesse lifts his head

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 Jesse:
You talking to mum

Jessica:
No he’s talking to you and how dare you?

Jesse smiles

Jesse:
What kind of job?

Nick:
Well you know practically anything, I just feel you are
kind of quite with us and don’t tell us much, its not
that we are worried about you, its just that we really
want to know what going on?

Jesse:
All right, how will this job help me in telling you about
my exuberant life?

Nick:
Well a job will teach you about responsibilities, money,
and management. All these things that you should know
before you go off to college?

Jesse:
All right

Beat

Jessica:
And you know, with a job you will have something to share
with us because from what I see you are absolutely
nailing school and there are no as such challenges for
you. So this job will just bring something out.
Responsibilities and stories

Jesse:
I don’t think you have read many stories have you, or at
least the good ones

Nick:
No, this is just for…

Jesse:
Yeah sure lets gets a job, how bad can it be and plus it
actually might be interesting.

Nick:
Oh that’s good

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 Jesse:
Where exactly is this job?

Nick:
Jessica told me you liked Jazz so…

19. INT. ABE’S JAZZ CLUB. NIGHT

The scene is in a jazz club in which a Jazz band is
playing songs, people are drinking, smoking and some are
also dancing. It is a big club and a lot of posters are
around. Jesse is with the bar, making and serving drinks
and opening beer bottles. From the look we can see that
Jesse is somehow enjoying this job. In the background the
Jazz band is playing Unsquare dance by Dave Brubeck.

Jesse serves a drink to a couple sitting on a table. We

can see that he served two beers. He opens them and walks
away when he see’s a girl on the sofa looking at the band
and moving her fingers pretending to play the piano of
the song that the band is playing. Jesse notices that
it’s the girl who he saw in the English class. She was
the quite one with glasses and grey hoodie but this time
she wasn’t wearing a hoodie. She was wearing a shirt with
jeans.

Jesse attempts to walk to her; he passes through some

crowd but his manager called.

Manager:
Hey, Jonathan

Jesse looks back and walks towards the manager. He takes

a last look at the girl.

Jesse:
Its Jesse

Manager:
Yes Jesse, we need three martinis on table 9 and you’re a
fan of Jazz

Jesse:
Yeah somehow

Manager:
Oh that’s good, well these bands are saying that they
want to do Scat singing. I was embarrassed on asking what
that is, can you give me an idea

Jesse:

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Well, its basically umm, its, uhh. You know it’s hard to
explain but it’s amazing so they should definitely do it.
People will love it

Manager:
What if they don’t?

Jesse
If they don’t, you can fire me, but they will

Manager:
I can’t fire you. I need you. Now go serve those martinis

Jesse goes and we can see the Manager go up the singer of

the Jazz band and whisper something to his ear.

Jazz lead singer:

All right, ok listen up everybody (to everyone in the
club). My name is Jonathan (manager is surprised) and my
buddy Charles who plays saxophone and I will have a scat
duet, you guys ready

Cheering from everyone from the club

Jonathan:
All right great, Ready Charles

Charles:
Yeah

Jonathan:
Bass and drums, whenever you’re ready

Beat, soon drums start playing and a Baseline joins

Jonathan starts scat singing and the manager is surprised

on what it is. After Jonathan Charles starts, we can see
that the audiences are really enjoying it and the manager
is happy.

The camera moves back to Jesse where he is serving the

martinis and enjoying the scat singing.

20. INT. SCHOOL HALLWAYS. DAY

Jesse takes his books and walks. He notices that Chase
and that foreign girl are making out aggressively against
Chase’s locker. Besides Jesse everyone in the hallway is
noticing too. Jesse taps on Chase’s left shoulder and
walks. Chase looks away but doesn’t notice anything and
then looks at the other side and see’s Jesse walking.
Everyone around him starts laughing.

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 Chase:
I was in a middle of a book, Charles Dickens

Chase goes back to making out with the girl. Everyone

around him start laughing as a teacher approached and saw
Chase. Chase doesn’t seem to notice that a teacher is
watching him making out with a foreign girl. Everyone
around him is laughing but Chase is ignoring. The teacher
taps on Chase shoulders but he ignores. She taps again.

Chase:
No joking right now Jesse

The foreign girl suddenly notices and pushes Chase away.

Both Chase and the girl look at the teacher and they know
that they are in trouble.

21. INT. SCHOOL HALLWAYS. DAY

Jesse is walking up the stairs and is about to enter
Joy’s office when he pauses for a second. He hears
crying. He walks away from the office and out in the
corridor and then looks at a window of Joy’s office. He
see’s her crying and carrying a lot of tissue paper. We
can clearly see that she is in a very bad mood. Jesse
moves away and suddenly the bell rings and the school
have ended. He walks away from the office and is walking
across the hallway and towards the stairs. While he is
walking we see Joy coming out of her office.

He walks downstairs and goes towards his locker; he puts

back a few books and takes out a notebook. He puts on his
headphones. A Jazz song is being played but we don’t know
which one. He walks out of school when suddenly Chase and
the foreign girl are also out of school. We can see they
are fighting but we don’t hear them as we only hear the
Jazz that Jesse is listening. Jesse looks at them
fighting and Chase looks at him. Chase says something to
Jesse; we can only guess that he is saying, “What are you
looking at?” Chase and the foreign girl continue fighting
and Jesse looks away. That is when Chase slaps the girl
and she falls down. Jesse ignores that and continues
walking and listening to Jazz. He walks for 10 seconds
and then stops at a street coffee stand. He puts a few
cents on the table of the coffee stand and gets the
coffee.

22. INT. ROOM. DAY

We can still hear the same song continued as Jesse walks
into his room, throws the coffee cup in his dustbin.
Takes off his headphones (we cant hear the music now) and

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throws them to the sofa. He then picks out a CD and
inserts it in his speakers, he waits a second and a song
starts playing. It’s the same song that we were just
listening to. Jesse takes off his jacket and bag. He
takes out a notebook from his bag and a pencil and lies
down on his bed. He opens the notebook and it states
Chapter 1. He flips around and around and we can see that
he has written a lot. The flipping stops at half of the
notebook and that’s where Jesse starts writing again. The
camera moves throughout the room.

23. INT. CLASSROOM. DAY

Jesse is teaching the 9th graders. The presentation states
the words “Poetry between lines”; all the students are
taking notes.

Jesse:
“Poetry between lines”, now after this lesson we will
finally start reading The Great Gatsby and I’m going to
be honest with you, it is not easy. The language is
slightly complicated and for some of you it’s also
slightly unnecessary but when you will get the hang of
it, it’s amazing and you want to read it again and again.
This is where “poetry between lines” comes in. Can anyone
tell me what that means?

No one lifts his or her hand. Jesse is looking at the

quite girl he saw in the Jazz club. She still looks sad
and doesn’t make eye contact.

Jesse:
Still no one, all right then. What you guys have a party
to go to and don’t want to waste time and just get outta
here

Class starts laughing, quite girl doesn’t.

Jesse:
No seriously, what you guys didn’t invite me. I’m only
two years senior to you guys, its not like I’m a
university graduate teaching you

Class laughs slightly

Jesse:
Ok fine, I’m not invited, I’ll be the asshole that will
tell you what this shit means (laughs), basically poetry
between lines means that there is always a hidden meaning
or a rationale in literature sentences. You can’t take
them for granted; you have to look in between them.
That’s what she said. (Loud laughter, quite girl still

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 the same) Every sentence needs to be read and
comprehended carefully as there is always something in
it. An ordinary sentence in literature always has a
special story in it. So here in where our lesson ends but
before you go I must tell you. Tomorrow you have to write
something because I only take two classes a week and your
third one is dedicated to an assignment. This one is very
much linked to the concept behind “poetry between lines”.
You have to write a literary text of around 300 hundred
words, it’s not much and you can write on anything.
That’s the hard part because you can write anything you
want and plus there is a word limit.

A student raises his hands

Jesse:
Yes

Student:
Isn’t that a good thing, you can write anything and plus
the words aren’t that much

Jesse:
Give it a shot tomorrow and we’ll see

Long beat

Jesse:
Alright then good

Class gets up and leaves, the quite girl is the first one
to leave. Jesse gets his bag and goes to Joy’s office. He
enters and Joy has her head on the table and is sleeping.

Jesse:
Joy

Joy gets up by surprise. She looks terrible, her eyes are

all red and her hair is messy. It seems like she hasn’t
slept in a while. With Joy there is also a dustbin filled
with tissue papers. We know that she has been crying a
lot.

Jesse:
Wow you look

Joy:
Terrible

Jesse:

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 Yeah, why do you have so much tissue paper (Jesse knows
the answer)

Joy:
Oh I was just, I was just really tired and sick, that’s
why this beautiful face. I have a fever and my nose
starting bleeding. Whenever that happens I take tons and
tons of tissue paper even though that much is not needed.

Jesse:
Oh well, I’ve given them an assignment and you can check
it

Joy:
Yes I can hear you from here. It’s a challenging
assignment

Jesse nods

Jesse:
One more thing, who is the girl in the grey sweater with
glasses, she seems very quite

Joy:
Um, not sure who you’re talking about

Jesse:
The one who sits in the middle and her expressions never
change. She has glasses and straight hair. She is very
pretty or I would say that she has exceptional features
that exceed the expectations of a pleasing looking person

Joy:
Her name is Patricia. Everyone calls her Patty, why

Jesse:
Oh, I just. She seems very bright and she is very quite
so I just wanted to know her name.

Joy:
Ok well, Patty is her name

Jesse:
Thanks (Long pause), listen can I check her essay
tomorrow. You can check the rest but can I check hers

Joy:
Yeah sure, why not. It makes my life easier

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 Jesse:
Great, great. Ill come to you tomorrow after school and
take the notebook.

Joy:
Yeah sure

24. EXT. COFFEE STALL. DAY

Jesse is sitting with a coffee stall drinking coffee with
his headphones (the song played is Spectrum by Billy
Cobham) He is in deep thought. He picks up a pencil and
opens his writing notebook and starts writing. Jesse is
drinking coffee while writing. The Coffee stall owner is
in the background cleaning a table and he walks up to
Jesse.

Coffee stall owner:

Jesse

Jesse stops writing, takes off his headphones and looks

up

Jesse:
Yes Mr. Cal

Mr. Cal:
Can I ask you a question?

Jesse:
Can you?

Mr. Cal:
Can I?

Jesse:
You may

Mr. Cal:
You have been coming here for a year now, everyday you
come. You drink a medium cappuccino with 2 and half
teaspoons of sugar and everyday you are writing something
on your notebook. Everyday I’m wondering what is this
child writing and I just couldn’t do it. Today I got the
balls to ask you

Jesse:
Mr. Cal, before I answer this impractical question of
yours, can I ask you something

Mr. Cal nods

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 Jesse:
Why would a guy like you, in his 50’s I’m guessing, need
some balls to ask a 17 year old a question like this?

Mr. Cal:
Look, I think I’m just a little scared of you. You are so
straightforward and serious unlike other teenagers who
have my hand crafted beautiful coffee. I’m sorry for
saying this but you kind of seemed like a serial killer
and you were writing the names of the people you want to
kill or have killed.

Jesse takes his notebook and starts flipping it. He keeps

flipping and it is filled with writing till the half of
the notebook.

Jesse:
You think. All these are names. If they are, then I’m
some successful and efficient murderer

Mr. Cal doesn’t say anything

Jesse:
I’m writing a book. It’s a literature book

Mr. Cal:
What’s it about

Jesse:
Well, its about life, about people, about what people
want (pause) Well it’s a love story actually. Yes I know
it’s hard for you to believe because I have been coming
to this coffee shop for a year now and I never brought a
girl or anything

Mr. Cal:
Wow

Jesse:
Yeah but this love is different. It’s all through writing

Mr. Cal:
Though writing

Jesse:
Yeah, it’s through writing. It’s about conversation
through writing but it signifies the importance of your
voice. Literally

Mr. Cal:
Can you explain?

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 Jesse:
Well I can give you an idea, do you have time?

Mr. Cal sits with Jesse

Jesse:
The guy and girl are talking through writing not texting.
They don’t tell each other’s names, they don’t tell their
email, number, social media or any other type of shit.
They have a conversation by writing something on the
wall. For example the guy writes and then leaves and then
the girl writes and leaves. It highlights the falling in
love through that conversation. It also talks about the
other things going on their lives and what they think
their lover looks like, or feels like or “sounds” like.

Mr. Cal:
Wow

Jesse:
Yeah, when ill complete it. I’ll give it to you. Don’t
mind me asking but you can read right

Mr. Cal:
Yeah, yeah, yeah sure

Jesse:
Great, ill give it to you and you can then see the whole
story and the details. I can’t just tell you. I think
you’ll have more fun just reading it

Mr. Cal:
Ok then

Jesse:
Ok

Mr. Cal gets up and attempts to walks away

Jesse:
Mr. Cal

Mr. Cal looked back

Mr. Cal:
Yeah

Jesse:
You’re the first person I have told this about you know

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 Mr. Cal:
Its good to know I’m someone’s first in someone’s life

Jesse:
You’re the first person who I know that can make some
decent coffee

25. INT. OFFICE. DAY

Jesse runs into Joy’s office, goes through different
notebook. Picks up one, which was right in the middle of
the section (it’s patty’s notebook). He puts it in his
back and runs off.

26. INT. ROOM. EVENING

Jesse gets into his room, takes off his backpack, and
puts on a CD (Blue train by John Coltrane). He takes out
the notebook and starts reading it.

27. INT. HOUSE ENTRANCE. NIGHT

Nick is standing with the door. In the background there
is Ava and Jessica. They are watching TV, eating popcorn
and slightly crying as they are watching the end scene of
Forrest Gump.

Nick (shouting):
Jesse, you should start getting ready for work

Jesse runs downstairs, ready for another say of his job.

Nick:
All ready so quickly

Jesse:
Lets go

Nick:
Really liking this job

Jesse gets out of the house.

28. INT. ABE’S JAZZ CLUB. NIGHT

Jesse gets into the club, takes off his jacket and hangs
it on the coat hanger; he walks through the nightclub. He
see’s the band (they are playing So long by Zoot Sims)
and see’s his manger who is telling some thing to
someone. He goes up to his manager.

Manager (to the person):

I want two beers there, on table 6. Great customers, we
can’t lose them, they fulfill half our financial
requirements. Thank god people get drunk. Now go

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 Manager (to Jesse):
Oh yes here you are. Go to the bar, its your bar duty

Jesse:
Ok, just give me a second

Manager:
We don’t have a second

Jesse:
Do you have anything less than that

Manager:
Go to the bar

Jesse:
Just a second

Manager:
No

Jesse:
Did you know that 7 seconds have already passed?

Manager:
I don’t care

Jesse:
8, 9, 10

Manager:
All right go

Jesse:
Good

Jesse goes towards the Jazz band room and doesn’t see
Patty sitting. Jesse is confused and he looks around the
club to find her yet she’s not there. He takes out her
notebook and looks at it, then looks around yet she’s not
there.

Manager:
Hey Jesse, 10, 11, 12, 13

Jesse:
Yeah, all right I’m coming

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 Manger:
14, 15, 16

Jesse leaves the area and goes to the bar.

29. INT. CLASS. DAY

Joy slams the notebooks on the desk in the class. Jesse
is right in front of the desk and see’s her slamming
them. The whole class is looking at her and Jesse. They
are confused, Patty is sitting there too and she still
has the same expressions. Jesse stares at her for a
second.

Joy:
Essays weren’t bad. They were quite decent. I would say
that it was a challenging task as you could write
anything and some of you were jumping over ideas like
rabbits. You didn’t have one thing in mind and that
allowed your story to drift apart but some of you did
have that idea and went with it. The thing I’m happy is
that you guys used literary devices and explored them so
good. Jesse

Jesse:
Yeah

Joy:
You can start

Jesse:
All right

Joy goes into her office.

Jesse:
Before we start with our lesson. I’d like to read you
something.

Jesse takes out a notebook from the bag and sits on the
chair. The class is quite and patient. He opens the
notebook and flips around a few pages.

Jesse:
I looked, I saw, I observed.

Patty looks straight into Jesse’s eyes and Jesse looks

straight back and then raised his eyebrow at her.

Jesse:
The depths of hell were beneath me as I sat on a bridge.
The bridge connecting two dots, two points, two events.

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 One including a stumbling block of gold coins and one
including fallen troops of a pivotal war. Both sides
gazed their star shiny eyes at me reaching for help.
Extending their arms in desire. Sitting on the bridge I
looked, I saw, I observed the pains of these two. The
pains that replicated how a blind person feels when he is
told the world is colorful. The pain that creates a
transparent wall around them. It limits them, it
restricts them. It limits them to do anything further,
anything to fix their situation. It limits them to break
the stumbling block and it limits them to win the war. It
limits them to an extent that they feel like a narrating
poet shifted to a quite library. I stumbled my feet on
the bridge, surrounded by two sides. My eyes moved left
and right like an 80’s metronome. They couldn’t stop,
they were confused. My feet stayed still, afraid to jump
into hell and afraid to move an inch on either side.
That’s when I saw, I looked, observed and I witnessed. I
witnessed the suffering of two sides and how they were
dependent on what I feel and what I feel is sorrowful and
gloomy. I’m in a situation where I want to join both
sides but I can’t. I felt like a witness and a witness
melancholy is a chess game against the so-called
Euphemism. Meaning that the heart of a weeping witness
can never be softened.

The class is silent and quite.

Jesse:
I read this quite a lot of times to truly understand it.
It took me a while to appreciate what a witness feels and
how he or she thinks. Witnessing two sides suffering and
desiring for help. That is the pivotal point of a weeping
witness

Jesse looks at Patty and Patty shows a slight smile. This

is the first time there is a change in emotion.

Helen:
I didn’t get it

Rest of the class agrees

Jesse:
Yeah well it will definitely take a while

Student:
Who wrote it?

Jesse:
Well it was one of you guys for sure and whoever wrote

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 it. It was absolutely beautiful. They should participate
more in class

Jesse takes a small look at Patty. A long beat

Jesse:
All right back to class. Guys we start the Great Gatsby
today. So who can tell me about the author? F. Scott.
Fitzgerald.

A few people raise their hands.

Jesse:
Yes, you (while pointing at a student)

The student begins to speak as the camera moves away from

the classroom and into Joy’s office. We can see Joy
slightly sobbing and looking tense.

30. EXT. OUTSIDE SCHOOL. DAY

Jesse gets out of school and walks towards the road when
he see’s Patty sitting on a bench. He walks up to her and
she see’s him.

Jesse:
Hi

Patty:
Hi

Jesse:
Can I sit with you?

Patty:
Sure

Jesse sits with Patty

Jesse:
Brilliant essay

Patty:
Yeah thanks

Jesse:
Well I still don’t understand something

Patty:
What

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 Jesse:
Stumbling block of gold coins

Patty:
Yeah what about it

Jesse:
What does it mean?

Patty:
Financial situations

Jesse is surprised.

Jesse:
How come?

Patty:
Well it’s a stumbling block meaning that it’s a difficult
situation and it’s of gold coins that represent money.
So, it’s a difficult situation regarding money also known
as a financial situation.

Jesse:
Wow

Patty:
Yeah

Jesse:
And is “fallen troops in a pivotal war” literal

Patty:
Of course not

Jesse:
Then, what does it mean?

Patty:
It means a death of a very important person who is needed
for a very important situation

Jesse:
Holy shit, that’s amazing

Patty:
Thanks

Jesse:
That was really deep I mean, I feel like you write poetry

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rather than you write essays. I mean it’s an essay but it
sounds like a poem

Patty:
Poetry between lines

Jesse looks at her

Jesse:
You took it literally

Patty:
Yes I did

A long beat.

Patty:
I have actually witnessed these two things

Jesse:
Sorry what

Patty:
I have actually witnessed these two things. A death and a
debt

Jesse:
Right

Patty:
And I’m confused on what to solve. My parents split up
when I was 6

Jesse listens carefully

Patty:
One of them is debt due to the fact that he is an
alcoholic and the other’s father just died who was the
only source of life for her. I don’t know who to help

Jesse:
Sorry to hear that

Patty (quietly):
Yeah

A long beat

Jesse:
Do you want to go for coffee?

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 Patty:
That would be great

31. EXT. WALKING PATH NEXT TO THE RAOD. DAY

Jesse and Patty are walking and drinking coffee. Both are
laughing and talking.

Jesse:
I actually saw you at Abe’s

Patty:
The Jazz Club

Jesse:
Yes

Patty:
Yeah I love that place, only place where I am actually
myself. I feel connected to anything

Jesse:
I work there

Patty:
You do

Jesse:
Yes I serve drinks and sometimes advice Jazz stuff

Patty:
Oh nice

Jesse:
It is

Patty:
I actually can expect that from you. You know, working at
Abe’s

Jesse:
Wait how

Patty:
You’re a huge fan of Jazz

Jesse:
Yeah…. Wait how do you know?

Patty:
You always leave your phone on a table when you’re
teaching

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 Jesse:
Ok and

Patty:
Well I sat on that table and start listening to the huge
collection of Jazz you had. It was pretty amazing. You
had such a diverse kind of Jazz

Jesse:
Wait, you were listening to jazz while I was teaching

Patty:
Well yeah, I knew all the literature terminologies

Jesse:
Ok well

Patty interrupts

Patty:
I was listening to Miles Davis while you were explaining
the difference between a metaphor and a simile

A beat. Patty and Jesse start laughing. Jesse and Patty

continue walking till they reach a house. Both of them
stop and take a look at it. It’s a small house

Patty:
This is it

Jesse:
What

Patty:
It’s my house, thanks for walking me to it

Jesse:
Oh great, wait who do you live with now?

Patty:
I stay 3 days at my dad’s house, 3 days at my mom’s house
and 1 day I stay at a friend’s

Jesse:
Wow

Patty:
Yeah its not easy but thanks though

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 Jesse:
For what

Patty:
Today was a fun day; a witness can feel good and be
softened sometimes

Jesse smiles

Patty:
Yeah ok bye

Jesse:
Bye

Patty walks away and gets into her house. We can now see
Jesse’s expressions. He is smiling and blushing. He walks
away.

32. INT. ROOM. NIGHT

Jesse is in his room on a stool writing something on the
wall. He is listening to music and dancing around it. The
song is Fly me to the moon by Frank Sinatra. He is
dancing and writing, “heart of a weeping witness can
never be softened” with a marker on the wall. He finishes
writing and then stares at it for a second. He pauses and
then cuts “never” from the quote and writes “always”. He
smiles while writing. Suddenly Jesse’s sister Ava comes
in.

Ava:
Jesse, food is ready

Jesse takes Ava by the hand and starts dancing with her.

Ava:
Whoa

They are swinging around, laughing and dancing. At one

point Ava gets tired. She looks at the quote and starts
reading it.

Ava:
What does that mean

Jesse:
Nothing, come on lets go have food

Jesse turns off the speaker and goes downstairs to have

food.

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33. INT. CAFETERIA. DAY
Jesse is sitting alone in the cafeteria having food and
writing his book on his notebook while listening to
music. Chase comes and sits with him.

Chase:
Hey

Jesse takes of his headphones and stops writing.

Jesse:
Hey

A beat

Chase:
That foreign girl left school

Jesse:
How come?

Chase:
Well her parents found out about the shit and took her
somewhere else. Her parents were damn rich and they
didn’t want any bad influences so they shifted to this
cocky ass school. It’s filled with rich kids

Jesse:
Rich kids huh

Chase:
Yep. Freaking rich kids

Jesse:
Well, it can’t be bad

Chase:
Of course its not. It’s an expensive school, who wouldn’t
want to go there

A long beat

Jesse:
You miss her right

Chase:
Oh yeah

Jesse:
No wonder you walk up to me today

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 Chase:
Jesse I’m sorry, didn’t hang out with you for a week now

Jesse:
Three weeks

Chase:
Crap

Jesse:
Yes

Chase:
When you have sex every other day, you forget the number
of weeks

Jesse:
Really

Chase:
Yes

Jesse:
You had sex with the foreign girl every other night

Chase:
No

Jesse:
Then

Chase:
I had sex with her every other night and day

Jesse:
Ok then
A long beat

Jesse:
When did she leave?

Chase:
Yesterday

Jesse:
Didn’t you hit her the other day?

Chase:
Yes I did, we had sex for the first time that night

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 Jesse:
Wow

A long beat

Chase:
We had a complicated relationship

Jesse:
I can imagine

Chase:
How come

Jesse:
I was being ironic

Chase:
Right

Jesse:
Have sex every other night and day with a foreign girl
whose language you don’t understand (a long beat) And
have a mortal combat slap contest before you bang each
other into your beds

Chase:
That’s right

Jesse:
Where was she from?

Chase:
No idea

Jesse:
What language did she speak?

Chase:
No idea

Jesse:
That’s means she didn’t speak English

Chase:
No she didn’t

Jesse:
You couldn’t understand a word she was saying?

Chase:

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A long beat; Jesse continues eating his food and then

suddenly stops

Jesse:
What was her name?

A long beat

Chase:
I don’t know

Jesse’s mouth is open

Jesse:
Congratulations

Chase looks around

Chase:
What were you listening to?

Jesse:
Herbie Hancock

Chase dies of laughter

Chase:
Hand cock

Jesse:
No its, Hancock. Oh my lord

Chase is laughing really hard and Jesse is pretending to

ignore. Some people are looking at him laughing and are
confused.

Chase:
Hand cock. What, does he jerk off while playing the
piano?

Chase is still laughing hard.

Jesse:
Oh man, why didn’t I just say Dave Brubeck

Chase:
Hand Cock

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Its Hancock

Chase still laughs and then stops. A beat

Chase:
Do you want to go to a party tonight?

A long beat

Jesse:
Yeah sure

34. INT. PARTY HOUSE. NIGHT

We can hear loud music (It’s Tainted love by Soft Cell).
It’s a big party as they’re a lot of people, both outside
the house and inside. There is a lot of alcohol and girls
who are just wearing bikinis. Most of them are in the
pool throwing around a big bouncing ball. People inside
the house are playing poker, getting drunk. We can also
see some of them making out quite aggressively. Some
people are also asleep due to the fact that they are
drunk and tired. It’s a big ravishing party filled with
people.

We see Chase and Jesse entering the party and they start
shaking their heads slightly to get into the music. Chase
grabs a drink and starts drinking it and then takes
another, gives it to Jesse and he takes it.

Jesse:
Are you sure we’re invited?

Chase:
Anyone who is not a freshman or a sophomore is invited

Jesse:
Right

Chase takes a big sip of the drink.

Chase:
All right then boys, lets party

Jesse:
Wait, wait, whose party is it?

Chase:
No clue

Jesse looks confused and slightly irritated at Chase.

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 Chase:
Jesse, LEAVE YOUR SHIT AND COME PARTY. GET DRUNK BRO, ITS
ALL COOL

Jesse:
Isn’t it school tomorrow?

Chase:
YOU SAY THAT WORD ONE MORE TIME, I WILL RIP OUT YOUR
TOUNGE AND FEED IT TO THE MUTE. They might just make
better use of it

Jesse:
But…

Chase interrupts by pouring a shot into Jesse’s mouth.

Jesse drinks it and resists.

Chase:
Was that good?

Jesse:
Yeah

Chase:
Do you want more of it?

Jesse:
Definitely

Chase:
Well its waiting sister

Jesse:
Let’s go

Jesse goes towards the table of shots and drinks,

practically a bar. He picks 5 shots and drinks them in a
go. We can see he is reaching the drunk sage where he
just wants to party. Jesse starts getting really happy
and excited. He goes and picks up a large beer and starts
drinking it.

Jesse:
Not a harm to do this once a lifetime. NOT A HARM AT ALL

The music changes (it’s Loca Loca by Shakira). Throughout

the song we see scenes of Jesse getting even more drunk,
we see him dancing and messing around a lot. We see
scenes of Jesse and Chase having fun with ladies that

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them. We also see Chase making out with them and at some
points there is more a than one girl he is making out
with. At some points we also see them playing beer pong.

35. EXT. PARTY HOUSE. NIGHT

Chase and Jesse get out of the house laughing and really
messed up. Their hair is messy with their clothes
disordered and wrinkled. Both of them are drunk and tired
at the same time. They are laughing really hard without
any sense.

Jesse:
Hey Chase

Chase:
Yeah buddy

Jesse:
What was the name of the girl who went into the room
with?

Chase starts laughing hard.

Chase:
There were so many, I didn’t know who to ask

Jesse:
Holy shit

Both Jesse and Chase laughing sit down on the ground.

Chase:
Jesse

Jesse:
yeah

Chase:
Thanks man

Jesse:
For what

Chase:
For coming

Jesse and Chase stare at each other for a second.

Jesse:
You wish

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Chase starts laughing hard and so does Jesse.

Chase:
Hey Jesse

Jesse:
What

Chase:
Hand cock

Chase starts laughing hard and move his legs while lying
down on the ground. He can’t control his laughter.

Jesse:
You stupid ass, at least its better than the other shit
they are playing

Chase is still laughing. Jesse ignores him and see’s the

house in front. It is right opposite to the party house.
He see’s though the window of the house and we can see
Joy with another man (we understand that he’s her
husband). The man is wearing a suit and has a suitcase
with him. He kisses Joy and waves her goodbye. He gets
out of the house and takes a look at the house party and
then gets into his car.

There is also a lady in the car; she is sitting on the

back seat. She gets into the front seat and kisses the
man (Joy’s husband). The man kisses her back and drives
the car of the area and goes away. From this incident we
understand that Joy’s husband is cheating on Joy. Jesse
see’s this and is really surprised.

Chase:
What the hell are you looking at Jesse? Want to bang some
girls in other houses?

Jesse:
Chase

Chase:
Yeah

Jesse:
Whose house you said we were in?

Chase:
I didn’t

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 Jesse:
Then whose house are we in?

Chase:
I don’t know and why the hell do you care?

Jesse:
All right I’m going home

Chase:
Wait, Charles Dickens

Chase starts laughing.

Jesse:
I need to go, I need to get to school early in the
morning

Chase:
You’re drunk and you don’t have a car

Jesse:
I have legs and my house is not that far

36. INT. ROOM. MORNING

We see Jesse sleeping on his bed while the alarm clock is
making sounds. He gets up suddenly and looks at the time.
From his expressions we understand that he’s late. He
gets up and goes to change.

(CUT TO). LIVING ROOM

Jesse comes down the stairs of his house ready expect
for the fact that his hair is not neat. He runs towards
the kitchen where Ava is eating breakfast and Jessica and
making it. Jesse picks up a sandwich and runs out of the
house.

Jessica:
Wait, Jesse. Where were you last night?

Jesse (getting out of the house):

Ill tell you when I’ll come back, I’m really late right
now

37. EXT. OUTSIDE SCHOOL. DAY

Jesse drives his car right outside school. He gets out of
the car and runs into the school. We see him getting into
the school, going towards his locker, and then looking at
his timetable. He just realizes that he’s free in the
first few lessons in the morning.

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 Jesse:
What, I didn’t even have breakfast

38. INT. JOY’S OFFICE. DAY

Jesse gets into Joy’s office. Joy is working on her
laptop. She looks up and see’s Jesse. Her eyes are red;
we see a lot of tissue boxes.

Joy:
Hey Jesse

Jesse:
Hey Joy

A beat

Jesse:
Can I sit down?

Joy:
Sure, sure

Jesse sits down on a chair opposite to Joy.

Joy:
So how is it going?

Jesse:
Um, it’s going fine. Its good

Joy:
Really

Jesse:
Yeah, I mean there isn’t anything bad happening

Joy:
Right, well I can see the classes are going gr….

Jesse interrupts

Jesse:
How are you?

Joy:
I’m fine; I’m in the usual state of life

Jesse:
Right, you’re eyes are red

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 Joy:
Oh yeah, well having trouble sleeping these days. There
is nothing wrong, its just that I cant sleep or I don’t
know how to sleep

Jesse:
Yeah. Is this a part of adult’s usual state

Joy:
Oh yeah, big time

Jesse smiles a bit

Jesse:
Adults

Joy:
Yes adults

Jesse smiles and slightly laughs

Joy:
Adulthood. It’s like looking both ways before you cross a
road and then an airplane hits you

Jesse chuckles

Joy:
You know the classes are going really great, I’m really
proud of you

Jesse:
Yeah

Joy:
Yeah really

Jesse:
Right

Joy:
I mean you should definitely consider it for your career.
I mean you’re applying to universities soon and I’ve
heard that you don’t really know where you’re going. Why
not teaching? From what I see, you’re really great, its
like you’re showing your true self and expression. Ones
teaching and the other I would is writing. By the way,
how’s your…

Jesse interrupts again

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 Jesse:
I need to tell you something important

Joy:
Oh ok, sure

Jesse:
Well it’s about you know that thing

Joy:
What thing

Jesse:
That thing the other day that you know we saw

Joy:
What did we see?

Jesse is hesitating. He takes a look at Joy and then

remembers when he saw her husband cheating on her.

Jesse:
That thing

Joy:
Jesse what is it, what do you want to tell me, what is
this thing?

Jesse:
I actually don’t want to tell you anything; I want to ask
you something

Joy:
Right, go ahead, but no thing

Jesse:
Yeah, no thing

Joy:
Ok then go ahead

Jesse:
Where would you take a girl out for a small date?

Joy:
hmm, now that’s a no thing question, what kind of a
date?

Jesse:
Like a date, that doesn’t look like a date but it’s a
hangout but primarily a date

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 Joy:
What the hell?

Jesse:
Like something casual but romantic but kind of a date,
but not really but yes. And its romantic but its not

Joy:
Are you describing European cinema?

Jesse:
No, but cinema, not bad

Joy:
Yes

Jesse:
You’re a genius

Joy nods.

Jesse:
You’re an absolute genius, thanks

Joy:
I know

Jesse attempts.

Joy:
Jesse

Jesse:
Yeah

Joy:
You might be a literature genius but girls is another
subject? The moment someone passes that subject is the
day he truly witnesses himself and what he’s really worth

Jesse smiles and leaves the office. We can see Joy making
a large smile and slightly laughing.

39. INT. CLOTHING STORE. DAY

Jesse and his mum Jessica are shopping. We see a sign
that says “Winter Sale” and others like “winter is
coming”. Jesse is looking at sweaters with Jessica.

Jesse:
You know, I don’t even need clothes

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 Jessica:
What are you doing an internship at porn place. Are you
writing porn scripts for them?

Jesse:
No, it’s just that I don’t need clothes for winter?

Jessica:
What do you mean you don’t need them, it’s going to be
cold and you need warm clothes to keep yourself warm
because you need to get warm in the cold?

Jesse:
Oh really I didn’t know that, wow mum, you’re a genius

Jessica:
That’s why we are here, to buy warm clothes for you. Ava
has done her shopping, your dad has his shopping, and I
always do my shopping

Jesse:
Oh yes, even when it’s not necessary

Jessica:
Well at least, I do it you lazy toad

Jesse:
Its ok, ill you know, ill wear four to 5 t-shirts to keep
myself warm or something and I’ll wear two pajamas at the
same time and if it makes you really happy. I’ll wear
three pairs of sock. I hope it fulfills your “warm”
requirements

Jessica:
Jesse seriously, what’s with you and shopping?

Jesse:
Its dreadful waste of time and gold coins

Jessica:
And what

Jesse:
And gold coins, I meant money

Jessica:
Right, take these clothes and try them on?

Jessica gives Jesse a set of clothes.

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 Jesse:
But it takes too much effort?

Jessica:
You think putting on five T-shirts isn’t enough effort?

40. EXT. CAFÉ. DAY

Jessica and Jesse sitting in an outdoor café drinking
tea. Jesse is also writing on his notebook at the same
time and also listening to his music. Jessica is reading
the newspaper.

Jesse:
Thanks for buying me clothes, now that I think about.
They actually aren’t that bad

Jessica:
I’m glad…. I told you so

Jesse continues to write

Jessica (reading from the newspaper):

University adds. Central Medical College, Central
Engineering College and wow check this out, Brilliant
Central Law and Science School. B CLASS. The names these
universities come up with are just incredible. I don’t
think this school must be neither brilliant nor central.
And speaking of universities, have you given a thought
about it. (Towards Jesse)

Jesse:
About what, being brilliant and central

Jessica:
How does someone become central?

Jesse:
I don’t know, you asked the question?

Jessica:
I meant have you given a thought about university

Jesse:
Uh well, does listening to the Jazz collection of
Berkley’s Jazz graduates count

Jessica:
No it doesn’t

Jesse:
Well does “no” satisfy your answer

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 Jessica:
Surprisingly yes, it does satisfy. Anyway you have loads
of time

Jesse:
Ill be applying in 9 months

Jessica:
Nine months

Jesse:
Yes next year is my last year, not this year

Jessica:
Well have you given a thought on what you want to study
ignoring where you want to go?

Jesse:
Well, I don’t think so. I didn’t really take it into
account

Jessica:
Don’t you think it’s time?

Jesse:
Well it might be

Jessica:
Right it might be

Jesse:
Yeah

Jessica:
Well sorry to say honey, but I’m slightly worried about
you

Jesse:
How?

Jessica:
Well you’re doing great. Perfect grades, a novelist, has
nothing wrong in his student record, has finally gone to
a party

Jesse:
How did you know?

Jessica:

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You came in our house drunk and you looked like shit. You
woke up me, Nick and Ava and you kept telling us
different stories about two people who communicated
through writing on walls. It was weird night. You also
kept saying Hancock in your sleep

Jesse:
Oh my lord

Jessica:
Yes

Jesse:
Oh shit

Jessica:
Coming back to the point, I’ll just lay it out there, at
least think about what you want to be? Honey, trust me.
There is a lot you can do, it’s just that you’re not
telling yourself to do it, you’re asking yourself to do
it and every time you ask the reply is always “no”, try
to be bossy around yourself

Jesse:
All right

Jessica:
Good

Jessica’s phone starts ringing, she suddenly picks up.

Jessica (in the phone):

Hello… Yeah… oh you did…oh that’s great…. Yes, Yes I
liked that one a lot…no (surprised)…seriously…ok… well
that’s some news…ok…ill see

Jesse:
Who was that?

Jessica:
Well my colleague (laughing)

Jesse:
Why are you laughing what is he your new boyfriend or
something?

Jessica:
No

Jesse:
Then

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 Jessica:
He also works as a publisher; he read all your previous
short stories. He says as soon as your new book comes
out, he wants to publish. Isn’t that great and guess
what. No money, no thing. Just your book, edited and then
placed in the store. It’s a great opportunity and maybe a
window towards fame. So what do you think?

Jesse:
No

Jessica:
Why

Jesse:
Because I don’t write for other people. I write for
myself

Jessica:
Well that’s not very nice

Jesse:
Well sometime you have to tell yourself no, not ask
yourself

41. INT. CLASSROOM. DAY

It is Jesse’s class. He is talking and the class is
making notes. The interactive board on the wall shows a
presentation. The heading of the presentation is Daisy
from The Great Gatsby.

Jesse:
Daisy’s character as you all described was varied in many
words. Delicate, considerate, lavishing, such huge words
you guys were listing. But if we take all these words,
put it into grinder, add some milk and chocolate into and
then pour it into a cup. What will happen?

Student:
The cup will turn gold

Class starts laughing slightly

Jesse:
Excellent Josh, absolutely. The cup will turn into gold
because of the effect of these huge words but to describe
the beauty of this cup, there is only quote that we can
refer to. The quote describing Daisy’s voice

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Jesse clicks key on the keyboard of the computer and the
next slide shows up. The quote is written on the board.

Jesse:
“Her voice was like a set of musical notes that will
never be played again”

The class is silent

Jesse:
I think this quote was not just describing her voice but
it was describing her as an individual. It covered the
huge words you guys were using to describe her.

A long beat

Jesse:
Thank you

The class leaves, Jesse takes a look at Patty. Patty

shows a slight smile and then leaves. Jesse keeps
standing there and then puts on his headphones.

42. INT. SCHOOL. DAY

We see Jesse walking with his headphones. Suddenly we
hear piano riffs in the background. Jesse pauses and then
takes off his headphones. He listens to them. They sound
very Jazzy and are quite beautiful. He starts following
the sound and he reaches the music room. He walks into
the music room and see’s Patty playing the piano. Patty
pauses in surprise.

Patty:
Hey

Jesse:
Hey, Shit

Patty:
What

Jesse:
What do you mean “what”, we walk half an hour the other
day and you don’t tell me that you play Jazz piano

Patty:
Well you never asked

Jesse:
I never asked you about your sad story about your parents
but you told me anyways

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 Patty:
You read the passage in front of the class and that
passage included their story

Jesse:
In an extra metaphorical yet genius way which I sadly
couldn’t deeply comprehend

A beat

Patty:
Well I play piano

Jesse:
Well can you play a piece?

Patty:
Yeah I’ll do it, what do you want to hear?

Jesse:
Anything

Patty:
Anything you know, or anything

Jesse:
Anything

Patty:
Alright

Jesse:
Wait

Patty:
What

Jesse:
Something that you made up yourself, not a cover

Patty:
Ok

Patty thinks for a second and then shows a slight smile.

She warms up her hand and starts playing a song. The song
is beautiful and we can see that Jesse’s expressions are
speechless.

Patty:
Yeah that was it

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Jesse’s mouth is open and he can’t say anything.

Patty:
So what do you think?

Jesse:
Um, what is it called?

Patty:
Well I call it Tables and Chairs

Jesse:
Right why

Patty:
Well…

Jesse:
Do you want to go for a walk?

Patty:
Yeah

Jesse:
Let’s go

43. EXT. WALKING PATH NEXT TO ROAD. DAY

Jesse and Patty are walking, we can see them laughing and
smiling while talking. They are definitely having a good
time and we see Patty and Jesse holding their arms around
themselves because it’s cold.

Jesse:
I honestly don’t get it, you waste
class while you should be recording,
peoples arms and hands. There should
to you. Seriously the power of Jazz
time sitting in my
performing, swinging
be people looking up
is in your hands now

Patty:
Stop exaggerating; you just heard one song that I made

Jesse:
That’s exactly my point, I heard one song and done that’s
it. I’m shocked

Patty:
Well it was Jazz and you like it, that doesn’t mean
everyone is going to

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 Jesse:
Jazz is incredible. I have been listening to it for 5
years now. 5 years, I have 100’s of CD’s in my
collection. I work at a Jazz club and shit you not, I
have written Jazz article that yes, have been published
and I’m telling you it is dying. It is dying in the hands
of helpless people who are brilliant with their hands and
their minds but they aren’t telling the whole world. They
are not showing it

Patty:
Are you referring to me?

Jesse:
For heaven’s sake, Of course I’m referring to you and
people like you. You guys are the true reason it is
dying. The true reason Jazz is dying

Patty:
Whoa, pump the brakes there. You are blaming the entire
100-year history of Jazz on me

Jesse:
You are damn right. Jazz is not dying because people
aren’t patient enough to listen and appreciate it.
It is because of people like you who don’t have the
guts to show it to the world what a beauty it is

Patty:
Wait what about you. You’re writing novels, short
stories. What have you done with them?

Jesse:
Wait, how do you know this?

Patty:
I told you I already know the stuff that you are teaching
in class so I just go over the notebooks you have in
your bag. For some reason you always put your bag
right next to my table. I look in the bag and there
are tons of short stories and a novel that you are
writing. I didn’t read it because that would be
ethically wrong.

Jesse:
And looking into somebody’s bag is not

Patty:
Well… that’s not the point, what are doing with your
talent in terms of writing?

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 Jesse:
Nothing

Patty:
Then why do you blame the 100-year history of Jazz on me
when I should blame the 1000-year history of
literature and writing on you? And to be accurate,
writing is much older than 1000 years.

Jesse has paused and speechless.

Patty:
By the way, what’s your novel about?

Jesse:
Uh. Lot things. It’s about Love, hope, communication,
problems; it’s a practical play with human emotions

Patty:
Interesting, what’s the story?

Jesse:
It’s actually a story about two people. It’s told from
two perspectives. The girl and the guy. Both of them
have different personalities and different
backgrounds and they fall in love yet they don’t
know each other contact, and the way they look

Patty:
So how do they?

Jesse interrupts.

Jesse:
Through writing

Patty:
Writing

Jesse:
Well both of them are actually of this online class and
they were asked to do a group project on that online
class. They both find a location, its kind of like a
studio to meet, the guy goes there and the girl
isn’t there. The guy, he writes a note to the girl
telling him that he came and she wasn’t there. The
girl came around half an hour late and the guy was
gone. She read the note and she replied on that
note. This kept on happening and happening. They
kept on talking through writing. At the same they
were going through issues at home and to seek for

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 advice they use to write it down on the note in the
studio. They used to talk, share issue or problems
and it’s a love story

Patty:
Wow

Jesse:
It’s all right

Patty:
Where did you get this idea?

Jesse:
Come with me

44. EXT. PARK. DAY

Jesse and Patty walk in the park and they reach a big
wall that has writing all over it. Jesse and Patty go
close to the wall.

Jesse:
This is where people write their thoughts. I got the idea
when I saw this wall

Patty:
Wow

Jesse:
I know, people have an interesting way of expressing
themselves. The walls sink their emotions inside them and
feel what they are feeling. They know exactly what it
feels

Patty:
Those two characters in your story. Do they know what the
other person is feeling?

Jesse:
Oh yes, they do. They are like the wall. They absorb what
you’ve given them, they understand and that’s all you
need

Patty:
Its like, “tables and chairs”. They are perfect. They
complement each other and nothing can break their bond

Jesse:
So that’s what your song is about?

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 Patty:
The perfect match

Jesse:
Yeah

Patty:
Yeah

Jesse moves closer to Patty.

Jesse:
Do you want to go out?

Patty:
Where

Patty smiles.

Jesse:
A movie

Patty:
Yes a movie and then we could

Jesse:
Go to Abe’s

Patty:
Yeah we could go to Abe’s
Jesse and Patty are smiling.

Patty:
I got to go home, homework; I need to do it at home, my
work. My homework at home

Jesse laughs

Jesse:
Bye

45. EXT. ROAD. EVEVING

Jesse is walking on the road smiling. He is blushing and
smiling at the same time. We can see that he is happy
about the fact that Patty agreed to go out with him. He
takes of his headphones and looks up and smiles even
brighter.

46. INT. ROOM. NIGHT

Jesse is inside his room writing on the wall. He is
writing “Tables and Chairs” right next to a “witness

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melancholy is a chess game against Euphemism”. We can
hear Jazz in the background. We don’t know what the song
is called but its familiar as we have heard it before in
the film.

47. INT. ROOM. NIGHT

Jesse walks downstairs the house inside a room. Jessica
is reading a book with a table lamp and Nick is deep
asleep right next to her. Jesse goes towards her and
takes out a charger from the socket.

Jesse:
Can I steal my charger?

Jessica:
If it’s your charger then you can steal it?

Jesse:
Yes it is my charger

Jessica:
Ok

Jesse attempts to leave the room and then stops.

Jesse:
Mom

Jessica:
Yeah honey

Jesse:
You know that publisher?

Jessica:
Yeah

Jesse:
Don’t say that “no” to him just. Tell him I’ll give a
thought when I’m finished with the book, which I almost
am

Jessica:
Thank the lord, who knocked some sense into you

Jesse:
Well, I don’t know, someone just did

Jessica:
All right, all right. Tell her she can visit anytime

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 Jesse:
Tell who

Jessica:
Whoever she is, I don’t now her name

Jesse:
Oh lord

A beat

Jessica:
Jesse, honey. One more thing

Jesse:
What

Jessica:
You have to take Ava to the mall tomorrow. She needs to
buy something for her friend’s birthday

Jesse:
Seriously

Jessica:
Yes darling

Jesse:
Ok darling

Jessica:
Thank you darling

48. INT. MALL. DAY

Jesse is in the mall with Ava. She is at the clothing
section looking at different dresses. Jesse is tired of
waiting and starts listening to music on his phone. Ava
walks up to Jesse.

Ava:
Jesse

Jesse takes off his headphones.

Jesse:
Yeah did you find anything?

Ava:
Lets just go to the bookstore; she’s not that close of a
friend anyway

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 Jesse:
Damn, children’s respect for books is just outstanding

Ava:
Yeah well, who reads these days?

Jesse:
A lot of people for your information

Ava:
Well, she should be happy I’m at least getting her a
present; at least I’m spending some cash on her useless
yet usual happiness

Jesse:
You’re spending some cash

Ava:
I meant you are

Jesse:
All right let’s go

49. INT. BOOKSTORE. DAY

Jesse is looking at different literature books. Ava comes
up to him with a book and passes it to him.

Ava:
Here let’s buy this

Jesse takes the book

Jesse:
It’s been 6 seconds since we got here, did you even read
the title of the book

Ava snatches the book.

Ava (while looking at the book):

Of course I did, a brief guide to the menstrual cycle …
for children

Jesse:
Well, I’m not saying it’s a bad book

Ava:
Oh no, yes it must be an amazing book and I may need it
as some point

Jesse:
That point is not that far

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 Ava:
Oh lord

Jesse:
Oh yes

Ava:
I’ll find another book

Ava and Jesse smiles at her and then continues looking at

the literature section. He can hear similar voices next
to the bookshelf behind the one he was looking at. He
takes out some books from the bookshelf to see through,
and to see whose talking. It is Joy talking on the
telephone. He is surprised and puts back the books the
way they were.

Joy (O.S) (On the telephone):

Oh yes… yeah…. I mean he said she would be there but
didn’t see her…. Yeah, it was great… oh he didn’t come….
he said he had to go to this business meeting out of
city…yeah, I think he left…hmm, let me think…. I think he
left around 2 weeks ago, I remember there was a big party
going on opposite our house… yeah, yeah…. oh yes…yeah,
I’m at the bookstore

Jesse listens to all of this and he suddenly goes away.

He goes towards Ava.

Jesse:
So have you found it?

Ava:
Um, I’m confused between The Island adventures and the
mystery of Carlo Catherine

Jesse:
The island adventures sounds kind of gay, get the other
one and lets go

Ava gets it and goes up to the counter.

Ava:
Well at least its better than a brief guide to the
menstrual cycle

Jesse gives the money and they.

50. INT. ROOM. NIGT

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Jesse is writing in his notebook while listening to music
(it’s Take Five by Dave Brubeck). He stops writing, turns
off the music and then turns off the lamp. He gets a
blanket and wraps himself into it. We can see that he is
thinking. Suddenly we see Joy’s husband getting into the
car and kissing another girl. It’s the exact same scene
that we saw during the party. The scene happens and Jesse
wakes up, it’s morning.

51. INT. ROOM. MORNING

Jesse wakes up and rubs his forehead. He gets out of bed
and wears a hoodie.

Jesse:
Shit

52. INT. JOY’S OFFICE. MORNING

Jesse enters Joy’s office and Joy is sleeping on the
desk. He goes up to her and wakes her up. He tries
another time yet she doesn’t wake up. He goes up to the
door and shuts it loudly. Suddenly Joy wakes up.

Joy:
Oh Jesse, yeah come in. Sorry, I couldn’t sleep last
night. I was, forget it

Jesse:
Yeah ok

Joy:
Ok, yeah I was just trying to get some sleep to function
throughout the day

Jesse:
Ok, was the sleep enough or should I come back another
time

Joy:
Oh no, it was perfect. It was brilliant. Couldn’t be
better, thank god you woke me up because if the principal
found out I was sleeping besides giving lessons I would
have lost my job and my sleep for the next few years

Jesse:
Ok, I actually came to talk to you about something

Joy:
Oh yes, how did it go with the girl. Did she say yes?

Jesse:

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 Well we can put a pause of that for a second because
there is something else I need to tell you

Joy:
Yeah sure

A long beat; Jesse is thinking how he should put it in a

right way

Jesse:
Well, its hard to explain and I would say its hard to
listen to

Joy:
What do you mean?

Jesse:
What I’m about to tell you is?

Joy:
Is what?

Jesse:
Well as much it is hard for me to tell, it would be much
harder to listen and absorb

Joy:
Well what is it?

Jesse:
Um

Joy:
Come on then, I don’t have all day. Please tell me

Jesse:
You’re husband is having an affair with someone else

Joy:
Oh

Joy looks at Jesse straight in the eye. Joy is not sad or

shocked. She is confused and her mouth is slightly open.

Joy:
How, exactly how did you know?

Jesse:
Well, I, um, remember that big party opposite your house

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Why wouldn’t I, I couldn’t sleep that night

Jesse:
Well I saw your husband leave the house and… walking up
to the car and… there was a. …there was a woman… in the
backseat of the car…she came in front and that’s
how…that’s how I got to know

Joy:
And you decide to tell me after a good 2 weeks

Jesse:
Well

Joy:
I totally understand, its not that easy to tell a person
that

Jesse:
Well yeah, I’m sorry. I troubled you with this sudden
news and even that late

Joy:
I knew a few months ago

Jesse:
What?

Joy:
Yes

Jesse:
How, why, what?

Joy:
What, when, where… who. I know all

Jesse:
Well, does he know that you know

Joy:
No, I know all the 5W’s of what’s happening between them
except one…. Why

Jesse:
Oh I’m sorry

Joy:
What do you have to be sorry about, are you the one whose
having an affair with him

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Jesse is silent.

Joy:
Her name is Annie Dolly Pollock. She is a model. 24. She
goes with him, drives with him, eats with him, sleeps
with him, does what not. Currently my husband say’s that
he’s working in Missouri on this new project while I know
they are writing bedtime stories in a 5 star hotel right
across her home

Jesse is still silent

Joy:
I have known it for a few months now, talked to
psychologists about it. But I’m not doing anything. I
can’t move an inch or I must say I don’t want to move an
inch. I don’t want to tell him or do anything about
because I’m either too tired and I’m pretending to be
tired. Either way, I’m doing nothing about this

Joy starts crying slightly, Jesse is patiently listening.

Joy:
Oh my god. You know we had some story. The story, that
can’t be written in books nor converted into some
paintings. It can’t be imagined but it can be felt. I
felt it, I use to feel it everyday I woke up besides him.
I stared at his eyes and felt the warmth in my heart and
body. But not anymore. I don’t think he exactly felt what
I was feeling. Now I understand that for him out story
was an uncertain child play but he didn’t know what it
was to me. For me, it was, it was (Joy cries a little
more). It was, it was the world for me. It was the world.
Either I was foolish to feel it or I was too foolish to
make it my world or he was too smart to not think that
way. It allowed him to live a little further in life.
Leaving his cute little teacher slash English teacher to
a 24 year old hot sexy model who will filter out the
money from his pocket and give him the joy on bed
everyday of his life. What it’s good for him. Makes him
feel more like a man, more like himself, while I’m here
teaching. You know Jesse, while you’ve been teaching I
have been thinking inside this office of mine. Thinking
about “why”, why would this happen and I have two
answers. One is that life plays dice with you. Sometimes
you get a higher number, which allows you to succeed, and
sometimes you get a lower one and you fail. Currently I
might be getting the lowest of numbers continuously. And
the next answer is that I think I just made a fool out of
myself

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Jesse’s mouth is open and Joy seriously starts crying.
Jesse goes up to her and hugs her.

Joy:
I am a fool Jesse, I’m a fool. I don’t know what I’m
doing, why did this have to happen to me. Why to me

Jesse keeps hugging her.

Jesse:
Quite, quite, its alright, its alright, its alright, its
alright, nothing to worry, everything will be ok,
everything will be ok

Joy is crying and hugs Jesse tightly.

Jesse:
Its ok, Joy, its ok. Everything will be all right, it
will be all right. It will be fine, it will be, and it
will be. I promise. It’s alright, its alright, its
alright

Camera zooms, we see Jesse and Joy hugging tightly.

53. EXT. COFFEE SHOP. DAY

Jesse is drinking coffee and writing. He is wearing a
jacket and a sweater which show that the weather is
getting colder and colder. A person working in the coffee
shop comes and takes the empty cup.

Jesse:
Thanks

54. EXT. OUTSIDE HOUSE. EVENING

Christmas decorations are being done. Jesse is also
helping his family put decorations outside the house.
They include putting red ribbons on the house and putting
mistletoe.

55. EXT. CHRISTMAS TREE SHOP. DAY

Jesse is going with his dad to get a tree for Christmas.
They are roaming around different tree’s to see the
perfect one.

56. INT. ROOM. DAY

Jesse is peacefully writing in his room on his notebook.

57. EXT. OUTSIDE SCHOOL. DAY

We can see Jesse and Patty walking after school and
talking. We can’t hear them talk. We see them reaching

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house.

58. INT. CLASSROOM. DAY

Jesse is teaching the class, he sitting on a chair and
just talking to the class. Patty is looking right at
Jesse and listening carefully.

Jesse:
Ok, its winter and it’s all out last class before the
winter break. I don’t want you to read any further guys
we are almost done with half of Gatsby and our speed is
perfect. I don’t want any reading this winter but I do
want some thinking. Think about the story, the rhythm of
the story. Where is it going, where will it go? And,
write down what you think, I want some writing when
school is back on. Alright guys, Merry Christmas and a
Happy New Year

The class leaves, everyone left saying goodbye to Jesse

separately and shaking his hand. This tells us that they
have respect for Jesse and enjoying his teaching.

Patty, walks out of the class giving a last look and

smile at Jesse. Jesse smiles back. The whole class has
left and Jesse starts packing his bag with the intention
to leave. Suddenly Joy gets out of her office and comes
inside the classroom. She walks up to Jesse and hugs her
tightly. She rests her head on Jesse’s chest.

Joy:
It will be all right

Jesse hugs Joy tightly and we can see him smiling.

59. EXT. OUTSIDE CINEMA. NIGHT

Jesse is waiting outside the cinema. He is waiting for
Patty. He is wearing very nice clothes that his mum
bought for him the other day. He is looking very good and
definitely wants to impress Patty. Patty comes walking
and walks towards Jesse. Jesse and Patty both smile.
Patty is also looking very pretty and is also wearing
nice warm clothes.

Jesse:
You look beautiful

Patty:
Forget me. Look at you. I mean thank god you’re not
wearing the shitty clothes you wear at school. I
walk everyday with you after school and I have never

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pants

Jesse:
Well

Patty:
Well here you are

A beat.

Jesse:
Thanks

Patty smiles.

Patty:
So what movie are we watching?

Jesse:
Ok well, there were multiple options, it wasn’t easy to
choose but here you go

Jesse gives a ticket to Patty and Patty holds it and

reads the movie name.

Patty:
Ladybird

Jesse:
Yes, Ladybird

Patty:
Have you seen it?

Jesse:
Will, if you would move your legs and enter the cinema

Patty:
Ok

Patty and Jesse both go into the cinema.

60. INT. CINEMA. NIGHT

Jesse and Patty are right in the middle of the cinema
watching the film. Their eyes are glued to the screen. We
can see a scene of ladybird playing. We can now see Jesse
and Patty’s hand move closer to each other. We can also
see their feet move closer to each other. At one point,
their hands touch each other and then they hold each
other. The camera zooms into their faces. They look at

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each other, they stare and smile. Their heads move closer
and closer to each other and at one point they kiss. The
camera see’s them kissing and we can also see a scene
from LadyBird in which Ladybird and Danny kissing.

61. EXT. OUTSIDE CINEMA. NIGHT

Jesse and Patty get out of the cinema and are shocked.
They look speechless and they are very happy.

Jesse:
Great movie

Patty:
Oh yeah, it was worth it. I mean definitely worth our
time

Jesse:
Yes, yes

Patty:
Great choice

Jesse:
Thanks

Patty:
Oh no problem

Jesse and Patty both are standing and are very silent.

Jesse:
You kiss great

Patty:
Oh yeah, thanks, you too. I mean you kiss great. You do

Jesse:
Thanks, thanks

A long beat.

Patty:
Do you want to go to Abe’s?

Jesse:
Um, depends on if you want to go?

Patty:
Well if you want to go, then I’ll go

Jesse:

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Patty:
I mean, you work there and are probably bored of it so
I’m not sure if you want to go, but if you do we can

Jesse:
Yeah, yeah you’re right, we shouldn’t go, but if you want
to…

Patty jumps up to Jesse and kisses him again. Jesse is

surprised but then gets into the kiss. They both stop
after a few seconds and then they smile.

Patty:
A junior with a freshman

Jesse slightly laughs.

Jesse:
Now, that’s called a movie

Patty slightly laughs.

62. INT. HOUSE. NIGHT

Jesse gets into the house, he is smiling and blushing and
cant get over with. His smile is wide and he can’t stop.
We see him getting into his room and lying down on the
bed and then spreading his arms wide and up feeling
victory and utter happiness.

63. INT. ROOM. NIGHT

We see Jesse sleeping very peacefully and without any
worries. His smile is still very much present there.

64. INT. LIVING ROOM. MORNING

It is Christmas; Jesse is downstairs with his whole
family. They are opening gifts right next to the
Christmas tree. Ava is currently opening hers. She rips
it apart and a scarf comes out it. She really likes it
and is very happy.

Ava:
Oh my god, this is nice. I really like it, thanks mom and
dad

Jesse:
Wait. Ava there is a gift from me too

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Jesse hands her a gift. It’s small. Ava takes it and rips
the packaging. Ava see’ s it’s a book. She looks at its.
The book is “A brief guide to the menstrual cycle”.

Ava:
Oh lord

Nick:
Ava darling, what is it?

Ava:
Oh, it’s a book

Jessica:
Which one

Ava takes a look at Jesse and Jesse raises his eyebrows.

Ava:
A brief guide to middle school

Jessica:
Awe, that’s nice

Ava takes a look at Jesse and is slightly angry with him.

Jesse is smiling.

Nick:
All right Jesse. Here is your present? We gave it a
little thought this one and it’s very special to us

Nick gives Jesse big package and Jesse takes it.

Jesse:
Damn

Jesse opens it and there are two CD collections in it.

One includes a Peggy Lee collection and the other
includes a Billy Holiday collection.

Jesse:
Wow, this is. This is really something, thanks you guys

Jessica:
Your welcome

Jesse:
Yeah, this is awesome. Wait, I still don’t get it, how is
this any useful to you guys

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 Nick:
Well your mum was huge Peggy Lee fan and I was a huge
Billy Holiday fan. When we were dating we used to spend
hours debating on whose better. Both of us had these CD’s

Jessica:
We thought of combining them and giving both of them to
you

Nick:
You listen to them and tell us whose better because
obviously you have a more experience with Jazz and also
have a much better taste

Jesse:
Wait, you guys used to listen to Jazz?

Nick:
Well sometimes, these were the only two people we heard,
we didn’t really give a thought to the rest of Jazz

Jesse:
Right

Jessica:
Well listen to them and tell us whose better

Jesse (laughing):
Ok

Jesse’s phone starts ringing.

Jesse:
Wait just got to pick this up for a second

Jesse gets up and goes.

65. INT. ROOM. MORNING

Jesse gets into the room and then answers the phone.

Jesse (on the phone):

Yeah

Chase:
Hey man, Marry Christmas

Jesse:
Merry Christmas to you too

Chase:
Listen up, party, same place, 8 o clock

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 Jesse:
No

Chase:
Why

Jesse:
I don’t want to get drunk on the holiest day of the year

Chase:
Is that the reason or something else?

Jesse ends call. He puts his phone in his pocket and

walks away. Suddenly his phone rings again.

Jesse:
This son of a …

Jesse picks up the phone.

Jesse:
Yes

Patty:
Hey, it’s Patty

Jesse:
Hey hi, wait where did you get my number

Patty:
Your name, address and phone number are on the first page
of your notebook

Jesse (smiling):
And you took note of that?

Patty:
Well… not the point

Jesse smiles.

Patty:
Listen, I need to meet you today no matter what

Jesse:
No matter what, is that right?

Patty:
Yes

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 Jesse:
Then, when do you want to meet?

Patty:
Well anytime is good

Jesse:
What about now?

Patty:
Time couldn’t be better

Jesse:
Alright great

Patty:
What’s the closest point where we could meet?

Jesse:
Abe’s

Patty:
That’s right, Abe’s

Jesse ends call, wears his coat and runs downstairs. He

passes the living room.

Jesse:
Bye mom, dad, Ava. See you in a little while

Nick:
What, where are you going?

Jesse leaves the house and Jessica looks at Nick and

raises her eyebrow.

Nick:
Oh right

Jessica:
Yep

Nick:
JUST DON’T TAKE THE CAR

66. EXT. OUTSIDE THE HOUSE. MORNING

Jesse gets into the car. Suddenly Nick comes up.

Nick:
Just don’t take the car

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 Jesse:
Ok

Jesse gets out of the car.

Nick:
By the way Jesse

Jesse:
What

Nick:
I’m glad you have some sort of relationship now

Jesse:
What do you mean? What, what, I mean who told you?

Nick:
Can’t hide from me, little fellow

Jesse:
How did mum know because she’s clearly the one who told
you?

A beat

Nick:
No idea

Jesse takes a last look at Nick and then runs off.

67. EXT. WALKING PATH NEXT TO ROAD. MORNING

We see Jesse jogging and he seems very tired. He has
almost reached Abe’s. He looks up at the sky and then he
looks left while jogging straight. Suddenly, he bumps
into someone. It is Patty.

Jesse:
Hey, what’s up?

Patty:
Hey, yeah

Both of them bend down trying to catch breath. They are

breathing very heavily and are really tired.

Jesse:
You also jogged

Patty:
Oh yeah, I still haven’t learned how to drive

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 Jesse:
Yeah

Patty:
Why didn’t you drive?

Jesse:
Well dad needed the car for some reason

Patty:
Oh right

Both of them get up and trying to catch their last

breathes and relax themselves.

Jesse:
So, what did you want to tell me or show me or anything?

Patty:
Well, Merry Christmas

Jesse:
Oh Merry Christmas. Wait what. You made me run 3 long
miles just to tell me this

Patty takes out a wrapped present from an inside pocket

of her jacket and gives it to Jesse.

Patty:
What’s Christmas without any presents isn’t it?

Jesse:
What is it this?

Jesse takes the present and unwraps it neatly. He takes

out a CD and looks at it.

Jesse (in shock):

WHAT

Patty:
What

Jesse:
NO

Patty:
Stay quite everyone is looking at us

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 Jesse:
WELL THEY SHOULD I MEAN, WHAT, WHEN, HOW

Patty:
Well, you know it just came into my mind and I had
already done half the work so yeah

Jesse:
I MEAN WHAT

Patty:
What do you mean, what?

Jesse:
I MEAN WHAT. THIS IS THE THING. THIS A BIG DEAL

Patty:
Well, it’s not that big. I could always do it but I just
did this time. It’s not that big, it’s just something
there. I mean look; a lot of people have done it all
right. You should know

Jesse:
WHY WOULD YOU SAY SUCH A THING, YOU DID THIS STUFF. YOU
ACTUALLY DID IT. YOU ARE THE PROTECTOR

Patty:
The Protector, do you think I got promoted to the
position of God or something

Jesse:
WOW, wow. Just amazing. I’m so proud of you

Jesse goes up to Patty and hugs her tightly.

Patty:
Awe thank you

Jesse:
Well it’s not me you should be thanking for

Patty:
Then, who else? You gave me the idea, you motivated me
and you helped me tell myself rather than ask myself

Jesse:
I mean just wow

Patty:
Well yeah

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Jesse lifts up the CD and the camera see’s it. It is an
album. The cover includes the backside of Patty sitting
on a bench. The album cover is “Irony” and below it says.
“Jazz piano album by Patricia Smalls”

Jesse:
Irony, Jazz piano album by Patricia Smalls, shouldn’t you
have Patty Smalls

Patty:
Well it’s the first album

Jesse:
Yeah that’s true. But it’s amazing. It’s grand

Jesse see’s the back of the CD. The back is the same
picture but it only includes the bench, not her and it
has all the name of the songs written.

Jesse:
8 tracks. Hollow, Craft, Take some shapes, The Following,
Tropical, Allegory, ABC and Tables and Chairs

Patty:
Yeah, I had written all these songs before expect for
maybe ABC and Craft but rest were written before I
decided to make this album. The day you took me to see
the Wall that absorbs, I went back home. I went on amazon
and I ordered 170-dollar recording equipment and here it
is. My very first album

Jesse:
Unbelievable

Jesse hugs Patty once more and then lets go.

Jesse:
I will listen to this. This is the best Christmas gift I
have ever gotten in my life

Patty:
Well it could be the worst present after you actually
listen to the album

Jesse:
Oh no, oh no

Patty:
Oh maybe, oh maybe

Jesse takes the CD and puts it in his pocket.

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 Patty:
Alright I have to go now, its Christmas and yeah

Jesse:
Yeah ok, yeah

Patty and Jesse both walk away from each other. After a
few seconds Jesse turns his background to take a last
look at Patty.

68. INT. ROOM. NIGHT

Jesse is in his bedroom listening to Patty’s CD. He has a
smile on his mouth and it looks like he has heard the
best music ever. Jessica walks in quietly and see’s Jesse
really happy. She smiles also. She walks in and looks the
Patty’s CD which is right on the CD player.

Jessica:
Patricia Smalls, hmm who is she? You have been listening
to this CD since you got here

Jesse:
Oh oh, you don’t know. She’s a very famous Jazz pianist
from, from a city in Canada somewhere. This was her first
album that’s why she looks really young, yeah. That’s why
she looks young. She’s a very famous pianist in the jazz
world

Jessica:
Right, right

Jessica sits right besides Jesse.

Jessica:
Yeah, do you like her?

Jesse:
oh yeah. I mean she’s an excellent pianist. She has
amazing melodies, chords etc. She is amazing, she is
unique, she’s from Canada and I would love to meet her
because she is so famous and awesome

Jessica:
Yeah right

Jesse:
Yeah

Jessica:
Yeah, so besides her piano, what do you like about her?

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Oh um, what do you mean? I have never met her before of
course; I just listen to her music. That’s why the smile
on my face you see

Jessica:
Right, what’s her age now

Jesse:
I don’t know

Jessica:
Hmm, so what other albums did she produces rather than
Irony?

Jesse:
Oh loads, loads

Jessica:
Do you know their names?

Jesse:
Well yeah, there is… there is

Jessica interrupts.

Jessica:
You know Jesse. For the last few weeks we have been
looking at some sides of you, which we haven’t seen, in a
long time. The joy and happiness, I’m glad we saw it
again and we saw something different rather than your
monotonous emotions. (Long beat) You know most parents
get concerned when their son or daughter has reached an
age where they experience these relationships and times
but I’m not. I’m not one of those parents who see this as
harm. It changed you in a much better way and I hope it
will really help. She’s some excellent lady who is
creating that smile on your face and I must say an
excellent and brilliant pianist. Don’t let that spark go
honey. She’s special and she better stay for some time
and even she doesn’t. It’s ok. It’s life. You have to
experience everything to really define experience.

Jessica gets up and leaves. We see Jesse looking at her

go and Jesse then gets into the music. A few seconds
later the door opens again and Jessica enters again.

Jessica:
By the way, I came to tell you that you have work today
and I think you’re a little late

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Jesse gets out of the bed in hurry and goes to change
clothes but then pauses.

Jesse:
Wait, its Christmas

Jessica:
Well you get double the money on Christmas

Jesse continues dressing up.

69. INT. ABE’S JAZZ CLUB. NIGHT

Jesse is putting a few beers on a big tray to pass it
around to people. He holds the tray and starts walking
when suddenly the manager comes up to him and holds his
tray.

Manger (shouting):
Scott

Scott, another employee comes towards the manager and

Jesse.

Manager:
Take these beers and serve it to the big table right
there, serve it properly. If you spill it, we lose profit
and we lose jobs

Scott takes the tray and goes to the big table. Manager
turns towards Jesse.

Manager:
There is a crisis

Jesse:
Right, there always is but it turns out to be a an
everyday problem which can be solved with a few seconds

Manager:
No, but this time there is an actual crises. Like you see
all these people in the club right now. Buddy, they are
all going to go if this is not going to be resolved

Jesse:
Ok, well what’s the issue?

Manager:
Well, the band is not coming. They cancelled at the last
minute

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Well, isn’t there any other band here or there? Any
contacts you have or even solo musicians

Manager:
No

Jesse:
How come?

Manager:
We just don’t

Jesse:
Did you look at different contacts or at least ask if
anyone knows anyone

Manager:
Well I’m asking you?

Jesse:
What are you asking for?

Manager:
What bloody hell have I been asking for the last few
minutes?

Jesse:
Yeah well what the hell is it?

Manager:
Jesus Christ (A beat) I NEED SOMEONE TO PUSH THEIR ASS ON
A FREAKING INSTRUMENT AND IT NEEDS TO BE PURE, CLASSIC
BORING WHOOPING BALLS JAZZ. DO YOU FREAKING KNOW SOMEONE?
You know forget it, forget that I even asked?

Manager turns backwards and walks away.

Jesse:
Wait I actually might just know someone and she might
just do it for free

70. INT. ABE’S JAZZ CLUB. NIGHT

Jesse is on the phone with Patty asking her to come and
perform at Abe’s.

Jesse:
Ok so what would be your thoughts on doing a performance
at Abe’s and with a huge crowd? Just you and the piano

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Um just wait a few minutes

Jesse:
Ok

Jesse ends call and puts his phone back in his pocket.
The manager then comes up to Jesse.

Manager:
So what did she say?

Jesse:
Oh she said she’ll call me in a few minutes and that’s it

Manager:
You know if she doesn’t come we are doomed and she better
be good

Jesse:
The second part wont be an issue

Manager:
What about the first part? Without the first part there
is no second part

Jesse:
Well yeah

Manager:
Well, when is she coming?

Jesse:
She said she would call me in a few minutes

Manager:
Well it’s been a few minutes

Jesse:
No, it’s been a few seconds and Jesus Christ. Just wait
for a few minutes. People are just not leaving as yet

Manager:
Well I cant

Scott comes up to the manager.

Scott:
Sir, people are asking about the music

Manager:

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Scott:
About the music

Manager:
What about the music?

Scott:
They are asking when will someone perform

Manager:
Oh lord

Manager taps his finger on Jesse’s shoulder.

Jesse:
Yeah

Manager:
People are asking about the music

Jesse:
What are they asking?

Manager:
About the music

Jesse:
What about the music?

Manager:
They are asking when will someone perform

Jesse:
Oh lord

Jesse gets his phone out of his pocket.

Jesse:
She said she would call in a few minutes

Manager:
Well it has been few minutes and your phone isn’t doing
shit

Jesse:
Why don’t I just call her!

Manager:
Yeah

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Jesse calls Patty and the phone is ringing. It rings for
a few seconds and then Patty suddenly enters the club
with her phone ringing. She ends call.

Patty:
Hey

Jesse:
Hi

Patty:
So I’m here

Jesse:
But I thought you were going to call me in a few minutes

Patty:
No I told you to wait a few minutes

Jesse:
Oh right

Patty:
Yeah

Manager walks up to Jesse.

Manager:
Jesse

Jesse:
Yeah

Manager:
Besides talking to this girl, call that stupid ass
pianist and tell her to bang on the freaking instrument

Patty listens and makes a weird face.

Jesse:
Sir, this is the pianist

Manager looks at Patty.

Manager:
Oh right, well the piano is right there, play it, make
people dance, sing if you can and don’t do anything which
you know you cant

71. INT. ABE’S JAZZ BAND. NIGHT

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Manager is on the stage with instruments in the
background. There is a big piano and a drum set. With
that there is also a violin. Manager walks towards the
mic, he taps it to see if it works. Jesse and Patty are
standing right next to the stage. Everyone is patiently
waiting.

Manager:
Sorry for the wait, ladies and Gentlemen. Tonight we have
a very young fellow with us who’s an expert in Jazz
piano. She will play for us and I hope you enjoy. Please
welcome Patricia Smalls.

Clapping from the audience.

Jesse (towards Patty);

Go get them girl

Patty smiles and then walks up on stage and sits on the

piano chair. She warms up her hand by stretching it.
Manager gets off the stage and goes towards Jesse.

Manager:
Don’t you think she is young?

Jesse looks at him and looks a little stern.

Jesse:
Is there an age limit on playing piano?

Manager:
Well no

Jesse:
Then she’s not young

Manager:
But still I mean, don’t you think…

The manager is interrupted when Patty plays a fast piano

riff.

Manager:
Never mind

There is a smile on the manager’s face. Patty starts

performing by playing various things on the piano. The
audience is surprised and so is the manger, they are
really like the piano.

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Patty doesn’t seem to notice anything, as she is fully
concentrated on the piano. People start getting up on
their seats and dancing. The manager and Jesse are also
dancing.

Jesse stops after a few seconds and looks at Patty

continuously. He really likes her. Suddenly the manager
calls Jesse.

Manager:
Hey, Jesse. Jesse

Jesse walks towards the manager.

Jesse:
Hey, do you like it?

Manager:
Like it. This is the greatest pianist I have ever heard

Jesse:
Yep

A beat.

Manager:
Listen, I need to tell you something important

Jesse:
Yeah what, please you need a drummer and a violin player

Manager:
Oh no, oh no. The girl’s got all of the instruments in
her

Jesse:
Alright good

Manager:
What I need to tell you is that you have been promoted as
assistant manager

Jesse:
WHAT

Manager:
Yes, I feel like serving drinks is not your specialty,
it’s handling a crises and that’s something you can do
and have been doing

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 Jesse:
That’s great news, that’s really. My dad would be proud

Manager:
I’m sure he will

Jesse:
Yeah

Manager:
And one more thing

Jesse:
Yeah

Manager:
You have to come every night

Jesse:
Oh lord

Manager:
And you get triple times the money

Jesse:
Oh yes

Manager:
All right then, enjoy the dance

Scene ends with Patty doing a slide on the piano and then
hitting a huge chord.

72. INT. ROOM. MORNING

Jesse is deep asleep on his bed. His notebook is open and
placed on his head. He doesn’t have his pants on, only
his underwear and his laptop is open with a charger and
placed right with him. There is a song being played on
the laptop (Autumn leaves by Miles Davis). Incidentally,
a bell sound comes out of his laptop and Jesse suddenly
gets up. He looks around and then hits his head on the
pillow. He then closes the music on his laptop and clicks
notifications. We see that he got an email. He clicks it
and there is an email by Joy.

Jesse:
Joy Carter, JOY CARTER

Jesse hits his head on the pillow again and then yawns
loudly.

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73. EXT. OUTSIDE JOY’S HOUSE. DAY
Jesse is standing outside a house. He takes out his phone
to check if it’s the right address. This is the house
right opposite to the party house. Jesse is slightly
nervous as he presses the bell. We hear a ting in the
background as he pressed the bell. A few seconds later
Joy opens the door and comes outside.

Joy:
Hi, Jesse. Please come in

Jesse:
Thanks

Jesse goes inside the house.

74. INT. JOY’S HOUSE. DAY

Jesse is inside the house. He looks around. It’s a very
decent and cozy house. There are a couple of sofa’s and a
TV in the living room, which is the first thing you see
when you enter the house. On the right of the house,
there is a kitchen. Jesse walks a bit further and see’s
two big bookshelves filled with books. There are both old
and new books inside those bookshelves.

Jesse:
Nice house

Joy:
Oh thank you

Jesse:
Yeah. Your library is unbelievable

Joy:
Oh thanks, I’m sure you have a bigger one

Jesse:
Actually no

Joy:
What

Jesse:
Yeah, I rent books. Its financially much more efficient.
(A beat), the only one I really had bought is The Great
Gatsby

There is a smile on Joy’s face.

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I needed it throughout the year so yeah

A long beat.

74. INT. JOY’S DRAWING ROOM. DAY

Jesse is sitting in the drawing room waiting for Joy. He
is looking around and then takes out his phone for a few
seconds and then puts it back when Joy comes with a
trolley. The trolley has tea and cakes on it.

Jesse:
You didn’t really have to

Joy:
Oh please, of course I do

Jesse:
Ok

Joy puts the trolley and then starts making tea.

Jesse:
I can help you know

Joy:
Oh no, please don’t

Joy continues making tea.

Jesse:
Ok

Joy adds milk into the tea.

Joy:
How much sugar?

Jesse:
Oh um, 1 and a half is good

Joy:
All right

Joy adds sugar and then gives the tea to Jesse.

Jesse:
Thank you

Joy makes her tea and then sits down right next to Jesse.
Both of them start drinking their tea and relaxing.

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How is your book going?

Jesse:
Oh it’s going exceptionally well

Joy:
That’s good, that’s good. When are you printing it?

Jesse:
Well the idea is to finish it by the mid of January and
then it will hopefully be in market by mid of March

Joy:
Oh why so late?

Jesse:
Um, I have to edit the book, type the book, create the
layout and the front and back cover and then it takes
time for printing

Joy:
What about publishing?

Jesse:
Oh that’s not an issue

Joy:
How come?

Jesse:
I already have a publisher who will publish it the second
it gets printed

Joy:
Very nice publisher

Jesse:
Yeah, I also have to decide the title

Joy:
What you still hasn’t done that?

Jesse:
No, I always add the title in the end expect for maybe
one thing I wrote

Joy:
The Short story “Untitled”

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Wait, how did…

Jessica interrupts.

Joy:
I’ve read some of your short stories. Some of them are in
magazines and in newspapers aren’t they

Jesse:
Yeah, but who told you about it?

Joy:
Well, I found it out from somewhere

Joy:
Yeah

Jesse:
Yeah

A long beat, they both take sips from their tea. Jesse
looks at Joy, Joy see’s him back and Jesse smiles.

Joy:
May I cut the cake for you?

Jesse:
Yes that would be very nice of you

Joy carefully and slowly cuts the cut and gives the piece
to Jesse.

Jesse:
Thank you

Jesse takes a bite of the cake.

Jesse:
Wow, this is really good. Did you make it?

Joy:
No but I mean I paid for it which requires as much as
effort as making it

Jesse:
That’s true but great selection of cake. I’ll give you
that for sure

Joy slightly smiles.

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Well… my husband came back

Jesse puts down the cake immediately.

Jesse:
When

Joy:
Yesterday… he has gone out with his golf buddies right.
He goes every Saturday. I don’t know what he does
there…He came back yesterday hugged me tightly liked he
hadn’t seen me in two months and 8 which he hasn’t. He
told me all about his thing and why it took longer and
yeah. He said there were some issues with the company
that he was trying to resolve. I don’t know exactly but
yeah it was something

Jesse:
Ok

Joy:
He…. He has been really happy. I think that lady right
there has fulfilled his requirement. The happiness that
is present in him. He thinks of himself as a man now. A
girlfriend, a wife, a house, a car, a great job, and a
collection of gold golf trophies. He is living the
utopian life explained in books and I’m sitting here
waiting. Patience isn’t a virtue, Jesse. Its not, I’ve
been practicing for God knows how long and I haven’t
gotten what I think I have been waiting for. Either I’ve
been waiting for the wrong thing or something is out
there waiting for me to realize that patience is not the
answer and it never is. (Long pause) The relationship I
have made with this man was really worth my time. I could
actually die for him but now I realize that I can’t live
for him.

Jesse is patiently waiting and listening. He takes a few

sips of his tea and we can see Joy slightly crying. Jesse
see’s but doesn’t do anything.

Joy (while crying):

I don’t know Jesse, I don’t know. I don’t know what to
do, I feel like my life has ended in a spilt of a second.
It just vanished

Beat and then Joy cries even more. She is letting it all
out.

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 Joy (while crying a lot):
I don’t even know why I got you here. You have things to
live up to, things to dream, things to do in life and I’m
here telling you stories. I’m sorry Jesse, I’m sorry. I’m
sorry. Giving you all the classes, crying myself out to
you, inviting you to my house and serving you horrible
tea. I’m so sorry

Jesse is still not doing anything just patiently

listening.

Joy:
Why aren’t you saying anything, please I’m tired of
waiting for answers

Jesse puts his tea down and then takes Joy’s tea and puts
it down. He moves closer to Joy, takes a tissue and then
starts wiping Joy’s tears. He does this a few times and
then takes some water and puts it in his hand and rubs it
against a tissue. He then takes that tissue and cleans
the dark marks under Joy’s eyes.

Jesse:
I think you have to stop talking to really start
listening

Joy slightly laughs.

Jesse:
Joy, no matter what’s going on in your life. Murders,
death, unemployment, a stupid idiotic husband, whatever,
I just want you to remember something. I’m not a big
expert in adult issues and marriage stuff but this thing
is for certain (pause). It’s not the end; your story is
not finished unless you want it to be. Your story, your
life is just on the verge of its beginning and it always
will be till you die. Every moment in your life is worth
it if you know what you can do with it. It’s your life,
do whatever you want with it because if you wont it will
shrink itself. And I know you can do a lot. You have
implanted the love of literature in so many students and
they took that love and did something with their life.
This means that you practically changed their lives. You
are one of the smartest people in literature. You
understand its depths, its patterns and figures. Only
some people have that power, you have the power to
comprehend that stupid gibberish Shakespeare is writing.
You know, if you could that God knows what you can do
with the rest of your beautiful life. Yes, it’s very
beautiful, I can see it. If you have it use it, don’t
waste it waiting, but use it doing. To actually make

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and that can only be by spending time with yourself and I
know you can do it.

Joy looks at Jesse and then lies down on his lap.

Joy:
I hope you don’t mind me, lying down like this

Jesse:
Oh no

Joy:
Ok thank you

Jesse:
And Joy one more thing, never say “I’m sorry” to me, I
think you changed my life … thank you

Joy looks at Jesse and then smiles.

Joy:
Your welcome

The camera zooms out and see’s Joy lying down on Jesse’s
lap. Jesse takes his tea and starts drinking it.

75. INT. CLASS. DAY

Jesse is in his class sitting and writing on his
notebook. He is ignoring what the teacher is saying as he
is wearing headphones. We see what he’s writing. He turns
the page and writes on the top of the page. “Last
Chapter”. The teacher is looking at Jesse not paying
attention but she ignores.

(CUT TO)
The class is getting out the class and taking test
papers. The teacher is giving them out. She has different
expressions while giving out the papers. Jesse takes his
paper and there is an A* there.

Teacher:
I don’t know how you do it? Not once I see you looking at
the board in my class

Jesse:
Well you don’t have a class; honestly no class is
actually difficult. In addition to that you don’t want me
to look at the board in your class. You want me listening
and that can be done without looking

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I still think you’re a genius, you have a perfect record
kiddo

Jesse leaves.

76. INT. SCHOOL. DAY

Jesse is walking in the school, he passes Joy’s office
and see’s her working and getting her paper work done. He
see’s her and smiles. Jesse then keeps walking and then
reaches the music room. We see Patty getting out of it
with some of her music sheets.

Jesse:
Hey

Patty:
Hey

Jesse:
What are these, you have been recording or writing some
new stuff

Patty:
Yeah, there is another performance at some other club
that I have a chance to do. So I was just writing
something new

Jesse:
Another gig that’s great, where is it?

Patty:
Has Jazz

Jesse:
Never heard of it

Patty:
Oh they haven’t opened it; I’m basically playing at the
opening

Jesse:
Oh wow, so basically. Your playing will conclude the make
or break situation of the restaurant

Patty:
Yeah, in cruel words. That’s exactly how you would put it

Jesse:
Right, by the way. Nice sweater

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 Patty:
Oh thanks, it was my grandmothers, nice jacket

Jesse:
Thanks, this was and is still mine

Patty:
You know I always wanted to be a boy in terms of
clothing, boys are more in advantage because they don’t
have that much variety it terms of what they want to buy.
With limited options you put in less time shopping

Jesse:
Yeah agreed but when you’re a girl, it takes you less
time to figure out who to date because all the guys have
the same mental level

Patty start laughing and so does Jesse. They then get out
of school and continue walking.

76. EXT. OUTSIDE PATTY’S HOUSE. DAY

Jesse and Patty come right outside Patty’s house and then
stand there.

Jesse:
This one is your mum’s

Patty:
Dad’s, you always confused the two

Jesse:
Yeah, you know I would like to come inside one day

Patty:
I don’t think that’s a good idea. I enter and the depths
of hell are bestowed upon me. You know what I’ve been
trying to feel these days

Jesse:
I don’t know, what?

Patty:
Exactly that, nothing. I’m trying to feel nothing because
now I don’t care about my two shitty parents in this
shitty environment. I don’t have a single feeling left
for them. Just a plain white face displayed towards them.
Who would you give to a psychopath and an alcoholic?
Nothing, you wouldn’t give a shit about them. You know
what’s my plan?

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 Jesse:
What

Patty:
To run away

Jesse:
Like Forrest Gump

Patty:
Similar, he ran after Jenny right. We’ll I’m running away
from these two shitholes and I will run towards my dream.
Haven’t really got the logistics ready but ill just go. I
wont wave a single goodbye towards them but I will
definitely thank both of them separately for giving birth
to me but that’s about it. After, it’s just my heart and
I

Jesse listens carefully.

Jesse:
Sounds really nice

Patty:
Yeah it does, let’s see when that happens

Jesse:
Yeah, well then I have to go

Patty:
Ok goodbye

Both of them hug each other goodbye.

76. INT. JESSE’S HOUSE. EVENING

Jesse enters Jessica’s room suddenly while she is working
on her laptop.

Jesse:
Ok here is the thing. Ask the guy. Give him a date

Jessica:
What are you talking about?

Jesse:
The publisher

Jessica:
Right yeah

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 Jesse:
Yeah, tell him that he will have the book in a printed
format by the mid of February. Please don’t get over
excited, I’m on the verge of saying no too

Jessica:
I didn’t move a muscle

Jesse:
Right yeah you didn’t, well, tell your publisher, he will
have the book in a printed format with back cover and a
cover page which I will design myself. He can fix the
grammar and what not. He can’t change the legit words
though even if they don’t make sense. I want the thing
done; he needs to print it in a proper paperback format
and it needs to be in stores. He cant talk to me between
me giving him the book and me seeing the book in the
store. Is that clear?

Jessica:
Yes

Jesse:
Deal

Jessica raises her hand.

Jessica:
Deal

Jesse pauses, looks at the hand and then shakes it.

Jesse:
Deal

Jessica:
Great

77. INT. ROOM. NIGHT

Jesse is writing his book in his room and listening to
the radio. The radio is playing “Dancing in the dark” by
Miles Davis. Jesse is writing peacefully without any
interruption. Suddenly the phone start ringing and Jesse
ignores it. The phone keeps ringing and ringing and Jesse
keeps writing and writing. The more the phone rang the
faster Jesse writes. Suddenly he stops and answers the
phone.

Jesse:
Yes, Hello

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Jesse starts moving his hand freely in the air to relax
it and removes the sweat from his hand. He then turns
down the radio.

Patty:
Hey, hey Jesse

Jesse:
Yeah

Patty:
What took you so long in answering?

Jesse:
Oh nothing, I was just not in my room. I was downstairs
making myself an egg sandwich

Patty:
You were making yourself an egg sandwich

Jesse pauses

Jesse:
Yeah practically

Patty:
Right listen; I need to tell you something

Jesse:
What’s up?

Patty:
I played today at the club

Jesse:
Oh yeah, how did it go?

Patty:
Well it wasn’t bad, I mean the audience clapped a lot but
I knew I did some mistakes regarding the chord
arrangement in my scale. It was messing up with the
augmented 7th in the pentatonic scale on the 5th

Jesse:
Ok, ok. It’s a mistake that no one normal notices so that
means it’s really good

Patty:
Ok, that’s good but there is something else

Jesse:

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Patty:
Well there was a Jazz critic there

Jesse:
Oh okay

Patty:
Yeah, well he said he really liked me

Jesse:
Ok

Patty:
And he said he wants to work with me

Jesse:
Wow

Patty:
Yeah

Jesse:
WOW

Patty:
Yeah

Jesse:
WOW

Patty:
Yeah, when do we stop?

Jesse:
WOW

Patty:
Ok please move on

Jesse:
What does he want you to work on?

Patty:
Ok, I gave him my album. He said listen to it

Jesse:
And…

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 Patty:
And he wants me to go for auditions

Jesse:
Now, these are good facts

Patty:
Yeah

Jesse:
What kind of bands are these auditions for?

Patty:
Jazz bands, Jazz bands who don’t have pianists

Jesse:
And…

Patty:
It’s classical Jazz

Jesse:
That’s awesome

Patty:
Yeah, I’m really excited

Jesse:
That’s really good, I’m so proud of you

Patty:
Awe, thanks

Jesse:
Yeah, so what is he going to do with the CD?

Patty:
I don’t know yet, I actually don’t know
78. INT. CD STORE. DAY
Jesse and Patty are standing in the CD store looking at
something that we don’t know as they are facing towards
the camera. Both of their mouths are open and are
extremely surprised.

Jesse:
Holy shit

Patty:
The holiest

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We now see that Jesse and Patty are looking at a shelf in
the CD store which is filled with Patty’s CD’s. The shelf
is titled “Recent classical Jazz”. A lady passes by the
shelf and picks up the CD.

Patty:
Look; she actually picked up my bloody CD

We see Jesse carrying five of her CD’s in his hands.

Jesse:
Yeah

Patty looks at Jesse and is surprised.

Jesse:
Ok, I have to pay for these

Patty:
Yeah I’m sure

Both Jesse and Patty leave the area.

Patty:
You know, you do have the money to buy five more

Jesse:
I have to buy eggs for my mum

Patty slightly laughs.

79. EXT. OUTSIDE CD STORE. DAY

We see Patty and Jesse getting out of the CD store. Jesse
is carrying a bag of CD’s. Patty is walking and then
takes out her phone. She starts dialing and then calls
someone and start talking to him or her. She looks very
excited and is talking with a lot of joy. Jesse is
standing there and watching her. Patty keeps talking to
the individual on the phone. We can only guess that it is
the person who puts the CD’s inside the CD store.

80. INT. CLASSROOM. DAY

Jesse is sitting in the classroom writing on his notebook
while all the students are leaving. This tells us that it
is the end of the lesson, that’s why everyone is leaving.
A student comes towards Jesse. Jesse stops, looks at him
and then stop writing.

Jesse (towards the person):

What’s up Andre?

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Jesse, can I tell you something?

Jesse:
If you want to, sure. But if you don’t, I wouldn’t
suggest you say it

Andre:
I want to

Jesse:
Then proceed

Andre:
Thank you

Jesse slightly laughs.

Jesse:
What

Andre:
Thank you

Jesse:
What for, Andre, I mean

Andre bends and hugs Jesse. Jesse is surprised but then

hugs him back.

Andre:
Thank you man, thank you

Jesse:
Ok, ok, but what for?

Andre:
Thank you

Jesse:
Ok

Andre let’s go.

Andre:
I just wanted to let you know that; it is your class that
makes me feel alive. Rest of the school is bullshit. I’m
nobody outside but in here with you I’m something. I am
not ignored by the extraordinary dialogues and by the
poetry between lines. I’m not ignored, I’m called for.
Thank you Jesse

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Jesse:
Your welcome, my man. These books are given to you and
these characters are given to you as a gift. Do what you
want with them but it would be mean to return them?

81. INT. SCHOOL. DAY

Jesse is walking in school and heading outside. He is
wearing headphones. We hear a song from Patty’s album
being played in his headphones. He walks out of school
and Chase is standing there waiting for him. Chase
attempts to talk to Jesse but Jess ignores. We can’t hear
what Chase is saying as we can only hear what Jesse is
listening to. We see him ignoring Chase, walking towards
the coffee shop he always drinks coffee from. He takes a
coffee cup and puts money on a table and then walks away.

82. INT. ROOM. DAY

Jesse walks into his room. The same song is being played.
He takes of his Jacket and then takes of his headphones.
The music stops. He goes towards his CD player and plays
the same song there. He then takes a notebook out of his
bag, lies down on the bed and starts writing.

83. INT. ROOM. EVENING

Jesse is still writing in his room in the same position
but there is a different song played on. Ava enters the
room with a notebook.

Ava:
Hey, could you help me? My weird English thing is on
Oliver Twist and I believe that’s literature. Is it not?

Jesse ignores as he is writing.

Ava:
Hello, Jesse

Ava waves at him and Jesse stills ignores.

Ava:
Jesse, hello. I have an issue which you would enjoy
solving

Jesse ignores.

Ava:
Come on, it’s written by Charles Dickens. Don’t you love
him or something?

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Ava:
Ok, fine I’m going. By the way, this is a really good
pianist. Who is it?

Ava walks towards the CD player and see’s the CD.

Ava:
Patricia Smalls, never heard of her

Ava leaves.

Jesse:
Not bloody Charles Dickens

Jesse continues to write. We see what he is writing. “It

was right there, right there in the crowd of millions,
hearts of a thousands, souls of a hundred, the love of a
few people but he couldn’t his one. He couldn’t see in
the depths of people. He didn’t know her face or her
voice but he knew her thoughts and her feelings but he
couldn’t see her. He couldn’t, he couldn’t, and he
couldn’t…he couldn’t”

Jesse stops writing right there, thinks for a few seconds

and then completes the sentence. “He couldn’t witness”.
He writes this and then closes the notebook. He picks up
a pen and then writes on the cover of the notebook.
“Complete”.

84. INT. ABE’S JAZZ CLUB. NIGHT

Jesse is in the club writing different things on a paper
and then telling different people to do different things.
He is in authority as he is assistant manager. We see him
go towards the band and then give them a list that
includes song they need to play next.

85. INT. HOUSE. DAY

Jesse walks downstairs and sees his mum making breakfast
and Nick is on the table reading his paper. Jesse goes up
to his mum and hugs her.

Jessica:
You woke up late?

Jesse:
I actually woke up around 6:30

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What have you been doing since 6:30?

Jesse:
Sleeping

Jessica ignored Jesse and goes back to making breakfast.

Jesse goes towards his dad and sits down with him.

Jesse:
I’m thinking of leaving my job

Nick folds his newspaper and puts it away. He pauses and

thinks for a second.

Nick:
Why

Jesse:
Dad, everyday is practically the same. There is nothing
more to this job; I can’t get any better than this.
Everyday is a plagiarized version of what happens in the
day before that. I have learnt my responsibilities, I
think I have spent a useful time with you guys and talked
to you about my life and I just want to drop it now
because honestly, it’s a total waste of my time

Jessica stops cooking and walks towards Jesse.

Jessica:
But aren’t you like assistant manager now and are
recommending songs to band and stuff like that

Jesse:
The idea wasn’t to become the assistant manager, it was
to talk to you and learn responsibilities. I really think
I have done that successfully

Nick:
Well that’s true

Jesse:
Yeah

A beat

Nick:
Well it wouldn’t be a harm if you quit the job

Jesse:
Yeah it wouldn’t

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If you really think its waste of time then sure, quit it

Jesse:
Yeah

Jessica:
Aren’t you making tons of money now?

Jesse:
Yeah

Nick:
How much have you made?

Jesse:
Quite a lot

Jessica:
How much?

A long beat

Jesse:
Well I have been working for around 4 and half months and
I have been assistant manager for around 2 months then…

Nick:
Jesse, how much did you make

Jesse:
Around 500 dollars

Jessica and Nick:

Holy shit

Nick:
What do you plan to do with that money?

Jesse:
Mum, I want my book to be published by own money

Jessica:
Ok but it takes much more than 500 dollars

(CUT TO) INT. ROOM. DAY

Jesse and Jessica are in Jesse’s room and Jesse is taking
out something from one of his closets. He takes out a lot
of money and gives it to Jessica.

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What is it this?

Jesse:
Money, you’ve never seen it

Jessica:
Yes, I have but how much is this and where did you get it

Jesse:
It’s around 1500 dollars

Jessica:
Where the hell did you get it, have you been selling
drugs or something?

Jesse:
No, but far worse than that

Jessica:
Guns

Jesse:
Far worse

Jessica:
Have you taken a male prostitute as a career now?

Jesse:
Oh, no, no. Not that bad

Jessica:
Then, what is it?

Jesse:
I have been selling my birthday presents and Christmas
for the last three years just so I can get money to print
and publish my book

Jessica:
You have been writing it for three years

Jesse:
Yeah

Jessica:
And you sold all the presents

Jesse:
Not all of them

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 Jessica:
Not all of them

Jesse:
Not all of them, I didn’t sell the CD’s you gave this
Christmas because that is the best thing you have ever
gotten

Jessica:
And the cheapest

Jesse:
Yeah

Jessica:
Well then

Jesse:
Yeah, I’m sorry

A long beat. Jessica is slightly disappointed.

Jessica:
Well you are publishing your book, the one who have been
writing for three years now and I always want my son’s
book to be in the shop so yeah

Jesse:
Yeah, you’re not sad

Jessica:
Would sadness bring the presents back?

Jesse:
No bloody way

Jessica:
Do whatever you want honey, I’m not sad at all, your
dream is my happiness

Jesse and Jessica hug.

86. EXT. COFFEE SHOP. DAY

Jesse has his notebook with him and also a laptop. He is
drinking coffee while typing his novel on his laptop. He
is listening to music on his headphones with it. Mr. Cal
comes around him and taps him on his shoulder.

Mr. Cal:
It’s really coming along is it?

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Ha-ha, yeah I hope it is

Mr. Cal:
All right then son, don’t forget to send me a copy

Jesse:
Yeah ok

Mr. Cal goes away and Jesse continues typing his novel on
his laptop. A few seconds later, a figure approaches
Jesse. We can’t see her; we can only see her shadowed
back. Jesse pauses and looks up and is surprised. We now
see Joy with a cigarette in her hand and smoking.

Joy:
Do you smoke?

Jesse:
No

Joy:
Have you tried it?

Jesse:
Like a puff and even that a few years back

Joy:
Did you like it?

Jesse:
It freaking sucked

A long beat; there is a lot of tension between both of

them.

Jesse:
Are you a regular smoker?

Joy:
No

Jesse:
When was the first time you tried it?

Joy:
Like around 7 to 8 minutes ago

Jesse:
Do you like it?

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No

Jesse:
Then why are you smoking?

Joy:
I don’t know, I was tired of the air that’s all

Jesse:
Right

Joy:
Are you down with your coffee shop?

Jesse:
I’ve got like a sip left

Joy:
Drink it

Jesse drinks the last sip of the coffee.

Joy:
Do you want to sit here and talk or do you want to go
somewhere?

Jesse:
I would prefer we go somewhere

Joy:
Right, get up then

Both Jesse and Joy get up and walk away.

86. EXT. ROAD. DAY

Jesse and Joy are walking on the road. Joy is smoking her
cigarette. It is slightly awkward between both of them.

Joy:
Jesse

Jesse:
Joy

Joy:
I want to thank you for the classes, there is just one
month left and you will be done with them and I want to
thank you for your dedication and your brilliant
teaching. I really think you can figure that out as a
career

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Oh thanks, yeah I’m considering it

Joy:
Yeah that’s good

Jesse:
Yeah

Joy:
How’s that girl you like?

Jesse:
What girl?

Joy:
Come on there must be one

Jesse:
Oh yeah

Joy:
Oh yeah, a handsome man like you must have someone

Jesse:
Oh yeah

Joy:
Now that’s an answer, so tell me. Is there someone?

Jesse:
Oh yeah, well there is someone

Joy:
Now we’re talking, and you like her

Jesse:
Yeah, she makes me happy. I haven’t been really close
with anyone that much you know

Joy:
That’s brilliant

Jesse:
Yeah

Joy:
What do you guys do together?

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Well we go for movies, we walk together, we sometimes go
to the Jazz club and listen to Jazz

Joy:
Yeah ok

Jesse:
Yeah

Joy:
I always knew you had someone, I knew it from the look in
your eye

Jesse:
Yeah

Joy:
Is she a big fan of your old music too?

Jesse:
Yeah she is, she also plays that retired music

Joy:
Oh yeah, I figured

Jesse:
Ha-ha

Jesse and Joy keep walking and talking. They laugh and
they seem really happy.

87. EXT. ROAD. DAY

This is many moments later. Jesse and Joy are still
walking and talking. Joy seems really happy after a long
time.

Jesse:
Ok, yes, I have been drunk a few nights in my life. Like
heavy, heavy. Once I think I was fifteen I got so drunk
that I forgot my own name and where I live. Some of my
friends recorded the whole thing but I don’t know where
that went

Joy starts laughing a lot.

Joy:
You forgot your own name

Both Joy and Jesse and laughing.

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Yeah, one of my friends told me that my name was
“Dickhead” so I started going up to everyone and saying
“Hello, my name is Dickhead, how are you?”

Joy starts laughing a lot and Jesse joins in with her.

Joy:
Jesse, Jesse, I have to tell you something

Jesse:
Yeah

Joy:
Yeah

Jesse:
Well what is it?

Joy:
Jesse, I got a job in New York. I am leaving right after
the final exams, I wont be here next year

Jesse:
You got a job in New York?

Joy:
Yes

Jesse:
That’s awesome

Joy:
Thanks, but aren’t you like mad that I’m leaving

Jesse:
Oh mad, why would I be mad. I’m sad, that’s for a fact
but this is great, this is wonderful. What’s the job?

Joy:
Well it’s teaching but they pay double the money

Jesse:
Oh that’s great

Joy:
Yeah, I’m glad you’re not mad

Jesse:
Yeah, of course, I’m not. Why would I be?

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Yeah

A beat and Joy looks slightly confused and nervous.

Jesse:
Joy, is there something wrong?

Joy:
Jesse

Jesse:
Yeah

Joy:
I need your help in one last thing and that’s all I’m
asking

Jesse:
Yeah sure anything?

Joy:
Jesse

Jesse:
Yeah

Joy:
I don’t know what to do with my husband. I don’t know

Joy starts crying slightly.

Jesse:
You dirty bitch. You idiotic dirty bitch. What the hell
is wrong with you?

Joy:
What

Jesse:
WHAT DO YOU MEAN WHAT?

Joy:
Quite, quite. My house is literally right there

Jesse:
I DON’T GIVE A SHIT. JOY, YOU LITTLE BITCH. WHAT DO YOU
MEAN, WHAT ARE YOU DOING

Joy:
I don’t know, please speak quietly

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JOY, YOU DO WHAT YOU WANT WITH THAT SICK BASTARD. OK DO
YOU WHAT YOU WANT. YOU ARE HUMAN AND YOU DESERVE TO DO
WHAT YOU WANT, WHAT YOU DEMAND. SO I WANT YOU TO LOOK
INTO YOURSELF AND TELL YOURSELF WHAT YOU WANT TO DO. NOT
ASK YOURSELF, TELL YOURSLEF. DON’T YOU DARE ASK

Joy:
Ok ask not tell, no I mean tell not ask

Jesse:
YES

Joy:
YES

Jesse:
YES, WHAT DO YOU WANT TO DO?

Joy:
I WANT TO SLAP THAT SON OF A BITCH SO HARD THAT HE FALLS
AND THEN I WANT TO THROW MY BLOODY DIVORCE PAPERS AT HIS
FACE AND THEN IF I REALLY WANT TO DO THIS. I WANT TO
PIERCE A KNIFE ON HIS BLOODY CAR

Jesse:
NOW THAT’S WHAT IM TALKING ABOUT JOY

Joy cries out of happiness and then hugs Jesse tightly.

Joy:
Thank you Jesse, thank you so much

Joy kisses Jesse on the cheek and then walks towards her
house.

88. INT. PRINTING SHOP. EVENING

We see Jesse’s book getting printed. We hear numerous
pages coming out of the printing machine. Jesse is
patiently waiting. After a few seconds the printing stops
and that shopkeeper takes the pages, staples them and
gives them to Jesse. Jesse grabs them.

Jesse:
How much?

Shopkeeper:
Well one page is 2 cents and you printed around…

Looks at the computer for a few seconds.

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40,000 pages so that will be…

Shopkeeper takes out his calculator.

Jesse:
Woah, woah. 50,000 pages

Shopkeeper:
Give me a second

Shopkeeper looks at the computer and then wears his

glasses. He is very slow in his actions. He looks at it
for a few seconds.

Shopkeeper:
Yeah, you’re right. 52,981

Jesse:
What the hell?

Shopkeeper:
Yeah

Jesse moves towards the computer.

Jesse:
Umm, that’s the word count

Shopkeeper looks at Jesse and then looks at the computer.

Shopkeeper:
Oh yeah, man I need to get new glasses

Jesse (whispering):
And possibly a new brain

Shopkeeper:
Huh

Jesse looks at the shopkeeper and then slightly panics.

Jesse:
Oh, I just said that it’s about to rain possibly, in a
few days

Shopkeeper:
Yeah that’s true

Shopkeeper looks at the computer.

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So 256 pages, double side printing

Jesse:
Yeah

Shopkeeper:
Ok

Shopkeeper goes towards his table and reaches the

calculator.

Shopkeeper:
So, 200… no no, 256 multiplied by 2, by 3 sorry. Because
its double side printing is… 259. Yeah 259 cents which is
2 dollar 59

Jesse:
Umm, can you give this to me

Shopkeeper:
Yeah

Jesse:
You confused the addition sign with the multiplication
sign

Shopkeeper:
What was the difference again

Jesse:
Uh forget that

Jesse clicks a few buttons on the calculator.

Jesse:
Its 7.68 but here you go ten dollars, I have hard time
trusting you with counting of the money and also keep the
change. I have trouble you counting the change too

89. INT. HOUSE. EVENING

Jesse goes towards Jessica who is watching TV in the TV
room and gives her the printed book and a USB.

Jesse:
Here is just the printed version of the book and the USB
contains the front cover and the back cover

Jessica:
Right

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 Jesse:
Yeah

Jessica:
Wait the book doesn’t have a title

Jesse:
Yeah right. So basically tell the guy to edit it first
and then send it to me and then ill give him the
title. Then he can print it and publish it

Jessica:
Right, highly inefficient but fine

Jesse:
Yeah

Jesse leaves and then suddenly comes back and hugs

Jessica.

Jesse:
Thanks mum

Jessica kisses Jesse on the cheek.

90. INT. ABE’S JAZZ CLUB. NIGHT

Patty and Jesse are in Abe’s Jazz club drinking coke and
listening peacefully. Patty seems kind of sad but Jesse
doesn’t notice as yet as he is patiently listening to
Jazz.

Patty:
Hey Jesse

Jesse:
Yeah

Patty:
I went for the auditions

Jesse:
Oh yeah

Patty:
Yeah

Jesse:
And…

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I didn’t get it

Jesse:
You didn’t

Patty:
I didn’t

Jesse:
Well that’s surprising

Patty:
Yeah

Jesse:
What did they say?

Patty:
Well, they said I was a little too much for their band.
They were mainly looking for rhythm players and they
thought that I had too much shine to play rhythm

Jesse:
Oh wow, so more of a compliment than a rejection right

Patty:
(slightly laughs) Yeah

Jesse:
But I know you would get something, I just know it. I
don’t know the bloody rationale behind it and there is no
logic behind my thoughts but I know that you will get it

Patty:
Yeah I hope so

A long beat; Jesse looks at Patty a few times and notices

her being really sad.

Jesse:
Hey, hey. What’s up?

Patty:
What

Jesse:
What’s up, what’s wrong and I’m a hundred percent that
it’s not the auditions. Music is one thing that no one
can take it away from you. I promise

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Yeah I know that

Jesse:
Then, what’s up?

Patty:
Well… sometimes people react against each other as if
they are reacting against you. It’s like the war between
two people but you’re the one that is getting attacked.
You as a witness are suffering the fight caused by
someone else

Jesse is patiently listening.

Patty:
My parents got into a fight. It’s not a big deal. I have
seen so many of these that I feel nothing while they are
fighting. Literally nothing, I taught myself how to shut
down, listening from one year and taking out from the
other but this one was different. I took my mum shopping
because she was taking too many medicines and I thought,
she needs to get out of the house once in a while so yeah
shopping. I hate it but she likes it. The one time I go
shopping with her, my mum and me see our dad shopping
with a hot ass woman. She kissed him every time he handed
her a few hundred bucks to buy something. The sight was
horrible. It was awful. My mum starts crying, goes up to
him, and slaps him. They make a scene. They shout, argue
even when they are divorced 7 years they still have a
peculiar demand of making a scene in a public place.
Security comes in and kicks them out. Normal right, it is
totally normal because I have seen it multiple times but
in different locations and time periods. So totally
normal but that wasn’t the thing. It was what happened to
me. I got home and I get these weird flashbacks of their
divorce and everything. I get these memories and it was
just different. You know what I mean I just felt quite
different, I felt abandoned and I felt like I don’t
belong. It was like I don’t have a home. I don’t know the
roots causes but that was it. I felt homeless. You know,
what do you think?

A long beat, Jesse looks around and then gets up.

Jesse:
Get up

Patty:
Just get up

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Patty:
Ok done

Jesse:
All right, let’s go. We are going somewhere

Patty:
Where

Jesse:
Somewhere

Patty:
And where is that somewhere?

Jesse:
Its somewhere

Patty:
But…

Jesse:
Patty, let’s go. Trust me, we are going somewhere that is
worth going to ok. No argument, lets just go

Patty:
Ok

91. EXT. RAMP. NIGHT

Patty and Jesse are standing on top of the beginning of a
huge ramp. This ramp is huge and steep and it leads to a
big lake. Patty looks confused and scared while Jesse
seems entirely normal. We can see the ramp is huge by
width and length and it looks around 100 feet above
height. The ramp is made out of wood.

Patty:
What are we doing here?

Jesse:
This is a ramp; the ramp is polished wood that makes it
very smooth and slippery. At the end of the ramp as you
can clearly see is a lake with freezing water. I’ve heard
a man died in the water once. They investigated, it
wasn’t that something attacked him; it was just that the
water was too cold

Patty:
What does this have anything to do with us?

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 Jesse:
Well, honey we are going to slide it?

Patty:
What

Jesse:
Yes

Patty:
No

Jesse:
Yes

Patty:
No

Jesse:
Yes, listen; it’s not that bad

Patty turns around and starts walking down the stairs to

get off the ramp and get to the ground. Jesse stops her.

Jesse:
Patty, Patty no. We are going to do this. No matter what,
we are going to do this

Patty:
No

Jesse:
Yes

Patty:
Why

Jesse:
To help

Patty:
How the hells with this help me?

Jesse:
It will Patty, it will, trust me, it will

Patty:
How, how do you know it will help me?

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Because I have been there, I know how it feels. I know
how you’re feeling

Patty stays quite and listens carefully.

Jesse:
Patty, three years ago, I felt homeless. I didn’t know
what to do, where to go, didn’t have any goals. I was
confused, I was troubled. I thought the world was
fighting me and I didn’t know what caused it. I was in
that conflicted mindset in which I didn’t know what to
do. It was like I was lonely. I had a few friends; a nice
family but I didn’t have myself. I had people but myself
was missing. That’s why I felt homeless. One day my mum
brings me here and she asks me what do you want. And I
said what do you mean? She said what do you want? And I
said “I don’t know” and then was like, don’t ask
yourself, tell yourself what do you want… but to actually
tell yourself, you have slide down this ramp to actually
reveal what you want. To actually find out.

Patty listens carefully and then takes off her jacket and
then takes off her jeans. Jesse does the same.

Patty:
Why are you sliding?

Jesse:
Oh, its fun. I did it ten times after that. You really
start to like it after the first time you do it

Patty:
Right

Jesse:
Alright ready

Patty:
Yeah

Jesse:
Set

Patty:
Yeah

Jesse:
On your marks

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Just say “go” you bloody…

Patty slips, screams and start sliding the ramp. Jesse

starts sliding too. We see Patty screaming a lot while
sliding. The ramp slide continues for a good 5 to 6
seconds and then reach the lake.

Patty stops screaming, Jesse swings towards Patty and

meets her. Patty is heavily breathing.

Patty:
Jesse, Jesse

Jesse:
Yeah

Patty:
I want to run

Jesse:
You want to run?

Patty:
Yeah, I want to run away from here. I don’t know what the
hell I’m doing here. I want to run away to New York and
start a life there. I haven’t figured out the logistics
but…

Jesse kisses Patty. They continue kissing for a few

seconds and then stop. They then get out of the lake and
reach the land area, they take deep breaths.

Jesse:
Patty

Patty:
Yeah

Jesse:
You know when you run away. Don’t worry about me. Maybe
ill get there for university. So, don’t think we are
separating. No we are not, no we are not. We will not be
separated… ill send the book by mail. It’s getting
edited; it’ll be in stores soon

A beat, Patty rests her head on Jesse’s shoulder.

92. INT. CLASSROOM. DAY

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Jesse is with his class. It is his last class with these
students. We can see that he has no presentation; he is
just talking with them and isn’t really teaching.

Jesse:
Ok, so we conclude the Great Gatsby. We looked at its
aspects; we dwelled into its importance and most
importantly, we took the characters as ourselves, we
stepped into their shoes that I believe is the biggest
achievement. Now, tomorrow you have your last class and I
don’t take that class so just watch the movie to get some
visual idea and the girls can enjoy Dicaprio’s face.
Thank you so much for allowing me to teach you guys, it
has been my pleasure and I hope you enjoyed learning from
me than I enjoyed learning from you guys. Thank You

The students got up and started leaving class; some

students went up to Jess, shook his hand and thanked him.
Jesse was really happy, Patty also goes up to Jesse and
hugged him and then gets out of the class.

Jesse also packs his bag and gets out of the class.
Suddenly Joy comes behind him and taps him on his
shoulder.

Jesse:
Oh hey

Joy:
Listen

Jesse:
What

Joy:
This is the last you’re seeing me, so please mail me your
book at this address

Joy gives Jesse a paper with an address and Jesse puts

into pocket.

Jesse:
Wait, what do you mean?

Joy:
Jesse, this is time I’m actually telling myself
something, please don’t ask any questions. I’m just
saying that its goodbye for now

Jesse:
Ok

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Joy and Jesse hug each other and then Joy runs off, Jesse
follows her. We hear a song in the background (A giant-
dog I’ll come crashing).

Joy gets out of the school and then reaches outside. We

see a fancy car (it is Joy’s husband’s car). Joy’s
husband gets out of it to hug Joy. Joy walks towards him.

Joy’s husband:
Oh hey darling, sorry I’m late. I was at this meeting and
I was you know, you know what I was doing. So, listen bad
and quick news. I have to go for a few days on business,
is that okay?

Joy slaps her husband across the face and Joy’s husband
falls. Jesse see’s this and is surprised.

Joy:
Yeah it is, you bastard

Joy takes out a few papers from her purse and throws it
at him and then takes out a knife and makes a deep
scratch on the car.

Joy (towards her husband):

You bloody bitch, go spend time with your whore

We see Joy walking away, she takes a last look at Jesse,

waves at him and smiles, and she gets into her car and
drives away. We can see that she is really happy and
feels the sense of freedom.

Patty comes outside too and see’s Jesse surprised.

Patty:
What’s up, what has happened?

Jesse:
Oh nothing, nothing

Patty:
What do you mean? You look surprised. Did something big
happen around him

Jesse:
Joy punches her husband in the face, called him a bitch,
threw divorce papers at him, scratched that expensive car
and then drove off saying that this is goodbye

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 Patty:
Holy shit and you say its nothing much

Jesse still looks quite surprised.

Patty:
By the way Jesse

Jesse:
Yeah

Patty:
You’re the best teacher I have ever had

Jesse kisses on Patty forehead.

Patty:
And one more thing Jesse

Jesse:
What

Patty:
This is a great day

Jesse:
How

Patty:
Well a person called, he wants me to do many solo shows
and performances in New York

Jesse is surprised and speechless.

Jesse:
Patty, that is… that is just… that is

Patty puts her finger on Jesse’s mouth.

Patty:
Don’t complete the darn sentence, let the feeling flow.
You don’t always have to put it in words

Jesse and Patty kiss.

Jesse:
Patty, I really think today is the day you should run
away. I don’t why but it just seems perfect

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Patty folds her sleeve and with a marker it’s written 2nd
April, 2019: Let’s run away. Both Jesse and Patty smile
looking at this.

93. EXT. OUTSIDE PATTY’S HOUSE. DAY

Patty and Jesse reach Patty’s house. Patty goes towards
the door and sticks a letter on the door and then goes
away. This is Patty’s mom’s house

94. EXT. OUTSIDE PATTY’S HOUSE. DAY

Patty and Jesse reach Patty’s dad’s house. Patty goes
towards the door and sticks a letter on the door and then
goes away.

Jesse (towards Patty):

What written in the letters

Patty:
Not much and I think I forgot what I wrote, it’s really
time to move on

95. EXT. THE WALL. DAY

Jesse and Patty reach the area where there is a wall and
a lot of writing on it. Patty has a suitcase with her.
This is the place where Jesse got his idea on writing the
book. There is a taxi waiting for Patty that will take
her to the airport.

Patty:
Jesse, I think this time I’m really telling myself to do
something, not asking myself. I’m getting the feeling of
control and I’m glad you…

Jesse puts a finger on Patty’s mouth.

Jesse:
Let the feelings flow

Both Jesse and Patty kiss and they kiss for a good 7
seconds and then Patty hugs Jesse tightly and whispers
“thank you” into his ear. Jesse moves closer to Patty and
whispers into her year.

Jesse (whispering):
You and me are the perfect complement. There is no
greater bond than two witnesses witnessing the change in
people’s lives.

Patty kisses Jesse again takes a last look at the wall

and then gets into her taxi.

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 Patty (to taxi driver):
Airport please

Patty’s taxi drives away. Patty takes a last look at

Jesse from the window and waves him goodbye.

96. INT. HOUSE. DAY

Jessica is holding a package in her hand that is to
Jesse. Jessica goes upstairs in Jesse’s room. Jesse is
doing his homework. Jessica hands him the package.

Jessica:
This came for you

Jesse:
Ok

Jesse takes the package and sits on his bed, Jessica

leaves the room. Jesse opens the package and it’s the
edited version of the book. The front page of the book
says “book title:_____”.

Jesse takes a pen and thinks for a few seconds. He then

see’s his table and his chair. He looks at it for a few
seconds, smiles and slightly laughs and then writes
“tables and chairs” as the book title. He then writes
below the title “the perfect complement”.

97. INT. LIVING ROOM. MORNING

A few weeks later

Jesse goes into the living room of his house and there is
a big package, it’s a big cardboard box. Jesse opens it;
he smiles and then takes out a book. We can only see the
back cover of the book but we know its Jesses. He smiles
and carries the whole box away.

98. EXT. COFFEE SHOP. MORNING

Mr. Cal is cleaning the tables early in the morning when
he see’s a book on one of his tables. He is surprised to
see it there. He picks up the book and there is a sticky
note on it saying “For Mr. Cal (the best coffee maker in
the world)”. Mr. Cal laughs and takes the book.

Mr. Cal:
Genius kids

99. INT. JOY’S APPARTEMENT. MORNING

It’s Joy’s home in New York; she is making breakfast
early in the morning when she see’s a package at her

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She see’s Jesse’s book with a sticky note on it. It says
“To Joy (the best teacher, person, believer in the
world). Joy laughs while looking at the book.

100. INT. PATTY’S APPARTEMENT. MORNING

Patty is drinking coffee in her apartment early in the
morning when she also see’s a package at her doorstep.
She opens the package and there is a letter and a book.
It is Jesse’s book and we see the front cover of the
book. It is the backside of Patty and she is looking
towards the Wall where Jesse got the idea for his book.
Patty reads the title of the book and is surprised and
happy. She slightly cries. Patty then lifts the letter,
opens it and reads it.

Jesse(V.O):
Dear Patty. A witness melancholy is a chess game against
Euphemism. The words said by one of the greatest people
on earth and also said by one the greatest pianist’s on
earth yet I still disagree. I think that you should
change the word melancholy. It shouldn’t be sadness that
you are witnessing anymore. It should be the light of Joy
and happiness. Patty, you have taken a role as witness in
the best way possible and now it’s time that people
witness you as one of the greats in the world, which you
truly are. This book is dedicated to you and two other
very important women in my life. You three show me the
light in the darkest of times and allow me tell myself
things rather than ask myself. This is the lesson that I
have learned and continue to learn. This book is the gold
in my litter.

Patty reads it and we see her smiling and crying.

(CUT TO)

Jesse is sitting on a chair in front of a table. He is

resting his arms on the table and has his book with him.
He opens the book and the first page states. “This book
is dedicated to three of the greatest women of the my
life. Patty, Joy and Jessica”

The End
Credits are rolled.

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