I Killed My Best Friend

Setting:

Classroom with a podium.Speaker is standing at podium about to give a speech to the class.He is wearing a black suit, white button up shirt with a tie.

Camera:

Focus on speaker throughout speech.Choose angles that causes the impression that there are a lot of people in the audience.Video is in black and white.

Speaker:

Hi everyone, my name is ___________ and I killed my best friend. I can still hear her screaming followed by the sound of crumpling metal.

Speaker pauses…

Sound: Cue in the sound of a car skidding, a female’s voice yelling “watch out”! and sound of a car rolling.

It was New Year’s Eve. I was standing at her door step with flowers wearing the suit she picked out for me days before. She comes out of her house wearing a beautiful white dress. She looked so beautiful. She was so happy to receive the flowers and eagerly excited for the surprise restaurant I was taking us to. I open the passenger door for her to get in. I did not know it was going to be the last time for me to be a gentleman to her.

When I got in the car, I noticed that she was holding a hand written note in her hand folded in the shape of a heart. We usually write sweet notes to one another. I asked her if I can read it before driving. She said no because it was a surprise. Little that she knew, I had a surprise for her too…I was going to propose to her.

Fifteen minutes away from the restaurant, I started to get text messages. I reached in my coat pocket for my phone. She asked me to wait until we get to the restaurant. I could not wait, I needed to know if everything was set up for the surprise proposal as planned.

The freeway lane was clear for a distance, so I told her that it was going to be real quick, I really needed to check my texts…I looked down at my phone, then looked up and looked down at my phone again. It was Frank, my camera guy…I started replying, making sure to look up at the road after every second or third typed word.

The lane was clear when I last checked…Then she screamed, “Watch Out!!!!”I looked up and there was a big rig that had to quickly merge into our lane. I panicked, swerved to the right and off of the side of the freeway we went.

The car tumbled and rolled.It was so loud!Through all the noise outside, inside was quiet, her screams stopped. The car finally stopped upside down. I reached for her hand and called out her name. No answer. I shook her from her shoulder, no answer.

People saw us go off the side and came down to help us. Within 10 minutes the emergency vehicles showed up at the scene. The whole time I tried to get her to respond…dead silence…

They proceeded to pull her out of the car first.I heard, “She has no pulse!”The got her out, lied her on the hard ground and gave her CPR. Finally, I was pulled out and there she was lifeless on the ground.

I screamed I screamed I screamed her name. The impact was so strong that it killed her. She was gone! I screamed her name.

I stood there with barely a scratch as she was carried away on a gurney to the top. I saw the heart shaped note on the ground, picked it up and read it. Tears came down my eyes even more.They kept coming down and down…

PAUSE for 5 seconds…

Speaker looks at audience….

I not only killed my best friend, I killed our unborn child as well. The note read, “We are pregnant”.

Please, I plead with you… “Don’t Text and Drive”.

FLASH STATISTICS

The END

PSA: No Texting and DrivingScreenplay Written By: Alexander Michael LeSept. 2, 2016