IN DAVIS PLACE
HALL
Grandfather slams the table.
Grandfather: "CALL AMBER RIGHT NOW, STEVE." 😐
Grandmother: "Jonathan! Tell your father to STOP before he crosses my limit!" 😠
Stephen: "What do I do now?!" 😱
Joseph: "Just call her." 😒( Anyway it's Stephen who is going to call her)
Stephen, panicking, accidentally hits the call button.
Joseph: "WHAT THE,CUT THE CALL!" 😱( Panicked)
But it's too late.
The call connects.
And a cold, soft, dangerous voice answers
Amber: "Hello. Amber Davis." 😈
Everyone: 😱😱😱😱😱
IN JUSTIN'S ROOM
Justin: "Aunt Lauren…" 😊( let's try to ask about her )
Lauren: "Hm?" 😐
Justin: "…Why did Mom leave me?" 😕
Lauren: "HUH?!" 🥲
Lauren freezes.
Because Justin was never used to ask this question.
Because in the past, no one spoke about Amber in front of him.
But this Justin is 25 inside. And Justin deserves the truth.
Lauren opens her mouth, but
Justin: "It's okay… Aunt, I just want to know, may after someday."
He gently pats her hand.
Lauren looks like she might cry.
BACK TO THE HALL
Stephen: "YOU talk!" 😱
Joseph: "NO, YOU TALK!" 😱
Through their arguing, Amber speaks again.
Amber: "May I know who this is?"
Stephen panics and shoves the phone to Jonathan.
Stephen: "Brother! You speak!" Shove to Jonathan
Amber's voice fills the hall again.
Amber: "Hello?"
Jonathan's breath catches.
He freezes.
His heart stops, then beats violently.
He whispers
Jonathan: "…Amber." 😶
Silence.
A long, heavy, emotional silence.
Amber whispers back
Amber: "…Oh my god. Jonathan." 😶
Whispered too ,with little sad and loveful voice
Everything stops.
The shouting stops.
The world stops.
Emotion crashes over both of them.
Everyone around is thinking Jonathan is quiet because he hates her.
But no.
He is quiet because…
He feels her presence again.
After 10 years.
After all the pain.
After all the nights he cried alone.
Jonathan and Amber:
Silent.
Feeling everything.
IN AMBER'S SIDE
IN AMBER'S HOUSE
Before Stephen calls Amber
Lucy( Natalies daughter ) : "Aunt, I don't want to study there anymore."
Natalie( younger sister for Amber ): "Then where do you want to study ,little ma'am?"
( She is in her little space ,like she is 10 year old )
Suddenly Amber's phone rings.
Amber: "Hello, Amber Davis." 😈
After some silence and whispered
"Who is this?" 😈
"Hello?"
Then she hears a whisper
Phone: "…Amber." 😶
Amber freezes.
Her hand trembles.
She whispers back
Amber: "…Oh my god. Jonathan." 😶
Silence again.
Pain and love collide inside her chest.
Then Stephen interrupts the emotional moment.
Stephen: "Sis Amber" 🥲
Amber: ( wait is this ) "Say it, Joseph." 🤨
Joseph: "huh , WHY ME?! THAT WAS STEPHEN!" 😤
Amber: "Fine. What happened?" 😑
Joseph and Stephen look like they are standing in front of a lion. Sorry infront of phone.
Joseph: "It's… uh…" 😓
Stephen: "Actually, Justin—" 😂
Amber explodes.
Amber: "WHAT HAPPENED TO JUSTIN?!" 😈
Joseph & Stephen: 🥲 we are dead
Grandfather takes the phone.
Grandfather: "Can you come and see him? He is behaving very… weirdly." 🥲
Amber: "Okay, Uncle."
Then softly
Amber: "Jonathan…" 😔
Jonathan: 😶
Amber: "Bye." 😔
She ends the call.
And in the hall
Jonathan breaks.
He starts crying.
Not quietly.
Not secretly.
Openly.
Everyone is shockednot because he is crying, but because…
It is the first time he cried in front of them.
Amber leaving broke him.
He lived like a ghost.
And hearing her voice after 10 years…
His buried love came rushing back, unstoppable.
IN JUSTIN'S ROOM
But after 10 mins again
Justin: "Again after 10 mins aunt lauran , about mother tell me nahh…" 😊
(I need to know. Why she really left. Dad is handsome, rich, kind… everything a woman would want. Something doesn't match.)
Lauren: "Huh—Megan, you say!" 😅
Megan: "Me?! Why don't you ask your father?" 😅
Justin nods.
Justin: "Okay!" 😊
And he runs out of the room.
Lauren turns to Megan.
Lauren: "WHY did you say that?!" 😱
Megan: "What else?! Jonathan won't let us speak about Amber! Better he says it himself!" 😌
-- continue