STORY STARTER
Submitted by by Laura Melvin
"I think I just met the happiest person in the world!"
Write a scene or story which begins with this piece of speech.
Grandpa
(The scene takes place in Kim’s house. The house is located in the countryside of France)
(Jack is revealed on stage)
(enter Kim)
Jack: I think I just met the happiest person in the world!
Kim: Really? Was it the neighbor, John? I think he’s the one that has a lot of cats. Anyway, he always smiles at me when I walk by his house.
Jack: Im not sure. He was wearing yellow jeans with a white shirt and and a floral jest.
Kim: Doesn’t sound like John.
Jack: He was so fascinating! We had this whole conversation about cars and planes. According to him he used to be an engineer and got to make a lot of cool stuff. He never stopped smiling while we were talking and he waved his arms all over the place as if he was very excited to be talking to me.
Kim: Weird, French people are never that nice.
Jack: He wasn’t French,He was American like us.
Kim: Was he?
Jack: Yup! And before he left, he hugged me. He told me that he was very happy to have seen me .
Kim: This man seems very odd. Had you ever seen him before?
Jack: Nope, but he seemed familiar in a very odd way.
Kim: Well, if you ever see him again, don’t talk to him.
Jack: Why?
Kim: Because, he seems like a very weird man. No normal person randomly hugs a stranger!
Jack: He wasn’t not being creepy though! He was just being a kind person!
Kim: No one is ever that kind for no reason!
Jack: How could you say that?
Kim: I have seen that man before, Jack.
Jack: What?
Kim: I have seen him before.
Jack: Well, who is he?
Kim: That does not matter! He is just not a good man.
Jack: I want to know who he is.
Kim: He is just a man I used to know very well. He used to be very kind to me too until he decided to find another person to be kind to and leave me forever.
Jack: We’re you in love with him?
Kim: No! He wasn’t just…he was just very dear to me. But now he is nothing to me.
Jack: You must tell me who he is.
Kim: I can not do that, i’m sorry.
Jack: Tell me or the next time I see him I will ask him myself.
Kim: You must never talk to him again! You have to promise that.
Jack: I will do as you say if you tell me who he is.
Kim: Jack, you will not believe me when I tell you. You will think that I have gone mad. That we have both gone mad.
Jack: Who could that man possibly be that would make me go made if you told me who he was?
Kim: He is my father!
Jack: Grandpa Jim? Didn’t he die when you were 5?
Kim: Yes, he um…he became an alcoholic and chose to love alcohol more than he loved me. He died a year after he abandoned me and your grandma Lily.
Jack: But..but I saw him..I..I saw him today.
Kim: I see him sometimes too.
Jack: But he is dead. I don’t understand.
Kim: At his funeral I stood over his casket and made him promise to watch over me and show me the love that he had stopped showing me.
Jack: I’m still very confused. I saw him today and he seemed very alive. He spoke to me!
Kim: Jack, you must listen to me.
Jack: I am.
Kim: I also made him promise to show kindness to those who are about to lose everything. Just like how I lost everything when he left me.
Jack: He was kind to me.
(black out)