Inscape 2012

HALEY: (laughing) Yeah, when you said you weren’t ready for this.

You couldn’t have been more spot on. (yanks a silver chain from around her neck, causing a large class ring to fall to the floor) Go to Hillside, Shawn. Don’t worry about me at all.

SAMANTHA: (tears coming back, this time tears of sorrow) Why doesn’t it matter now?

CHRIS: You’re leaving. Going to Hillside, I’m sure you’ll find someone a lot more important than me. A college reject.

SAMANTHA: What the hell took you so long? Why didn’t you ask me before? How could you be so stupid!?

CHRIS: (shakes his head, takes a step back from Samantha) Yeah, I am stupid. I’m not like you. I can’t do trig or cite shit in MLA format or whatever, but there are a lot of things I can do. I can be a good guy. I can love, I can make people happy. I could have made you so happy, Sam. SHAWN: (bends down to pick the class ring up) Haley, you don’t mean that. I don’t want to leave you.

HALEY: Obviously you do, Shawn. Or this wouldn’t even be an issue.

And I actually thought you cared about me. And the baby.

SHAWN: I do, Haley!

(Haley pushes him away and goes back to sit down on the bleacher. She begins sobbing uncontrollably. Shawn walks back to Chris and Samantha.)

SAMANTHA: You could have made me happy by following through on our plans, Chris. Now I’m just disappointed. (walks back to the bleachers) CHRIS: (Watches Samantha wrap her arm around Haley) So, you’re really going to leave her?

SHAWN: Shut up, Chris.

CHRIS: Why? You love her, I know you do. I see that dumb look you get on your face when she’s ‘round. What’s a baby going to change?

SHAWN: (yelling) It changes EVERYTHING! Don’t you realize what I’m going to have to give up if I don’t go?!

CHRIS: Don’t you realize what you’re going to have to give up if you do go? (shakes his head and walks away) (Shawn walks to the door of the gym, looking back at all of them.)

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