Episode 3 scene 1

[Episode three opens up in the hospital where Mary is on life support and Gabriel is on bed rest in the ICU Jordan walks in to see him as does a bunch of other friends]

Jordan: how are you feeling?

Gabriel: like hell

Jordan: I’m sorry you guys got into an accident

Gabriel: it wasn’t an accident

Jordan: what do you mean?

Gabriel: I mean we were ran off the road and the car flipped, we didn’t dodge to miss a deer or whatever bullshit that people are saying

Jordan: people say a lot of things that don’t make much sense I guess

Gabriel: like what else?

Jordan: I don’t want to talk about it right now you need rest not stress, anyway I gotta leave to go to work I just wanted to see you and make sure your okay

Gabriel: wait come back here

[Jordan exits]

Gabriel: well that sucked

[montage moment of people coming in and out of the room visiting nurses and doctors friends and relatives etc, montage ends with Gabriel sleeping he wakes up and turns to the chair beside him where his mom was sitting and she’s not there then the door opens he looks up expecting a parent and Andrew walks in]

Andrew: did I wake you?

Gabriel: no I was up, what are you doing here?

Andrew: I came to see you

Gabriel: I didn’t think you would ever come

Andrew: I didn’t want to come with everyone else I wanted to see you one on one, everyone else would just spoil it

Gabriel: even after I ran away you come to see me?

Andrew: you were right, you do mean more to me than just a physical attraction …..I think I might love you, when you left I was humiliated and destroyed and it hurt so bad and I was going to write you off and move on, but when I heard you had gotten into an accident and I didn’t know if you were alright I didn’t know if you were even alive and my world fell apart and it hurt me more than anything ever I don’t even think I cried that hard when my grandmother died

Gabriel: Andrew I ..

Andrew: let me finish, the time I spend with you may seem fleeting to everyone else but to me it’s a reason to live, I wasn’t happy with being what everyone else wanted, and you saw the real me and you accepted me even though I pushed you away and did everything I could to deny what I felt and who I was and I hurt you so much, and I don’t ever want to do that again, I would have never came out if it wasn’t for you, and although im not all the way there and its going to be a challenge and a process and journey im going to get there, and last night was a big step, and I know I cant do it alone, and I just, I want to be your everything because your everything to me.

[three beat silence]

Gabriel: that was beautiful

[Andrew get up]

Andrew: ill be back later I just wanted to get that off my chest, no matter what happens even if we can only be friends because of the things ive done I don’t ever want to lose you

Gabriel: where are you going

Andrew: home I suppose

Gabriel: stay with me

Andrew: I don’t want you to do this because you feel obligated and I don’t want you to regret tonight later

Gabriel: I want you to, I really do …. I still love you, I think I always have I’m just so confused because of everything but I want you to stay here with me, I don’t want to be alone

[his mom enters and Andrew is passed out in the bed with Gabriel whos head is rested on his chest asleep, she smiles and closes the door blackout/ storyline change]

[opening back up on Mary’s hospital room she is on life support the doctors are looking over her chart, Gabriels mother comes in the doctor stops her and has a talk with her]

Audrey: hows she doing doctor?

Doctor: no change

Audrey: any luck getting in touch with her parents

Doctor: no, and since you’re the only adult around who has a child that was involved with the accident and she has no spouse, for the time being you have power of attourney

Audrey: that’s a lot of weight

Doctor: were not seeing any change in her condition I think its time to go ahead and

Audrey: you cant be serious, if you mean what I think you mean

Doctor: we need to go ahead and make a decision soon because the hospital isn’t equipped to maintain someone for more than thirty days

Audrey: I think its best that we wait for as long as we can, her parents may show up and I wont be responsible for killing someone elses child.but in the mean time you do everything you can to give her the best possible chance of surviving this

[blackout/storyline change]

Episode 3 Scenes 2 - 4

[lights up on the classroom Jillian Lollie and Selena sitting in their little group gossiping meanwhile Jordan is sitting behind them eavesdropping inconspicuously]

Jillian: I heard from Rachel McCain that Mary had taken eighteen shots before she left that night, doesn’t surprise me you know they say battered women usually end up becoming lushes

Lollie: your full of shit Jillian Rachel McCain wouldn’t know she was too busy pressed up against Cody that night to notice anything else

Selena: besides Gabriel wouldn’t get in the car with someone drunk you know that

Jillian: yeah well we also thought Gabriel wouldn’t move in on a straight guy either but he’s become quite the recruiter

Selena: your just pissed because your news feed comes from someone whos swiping up your sloppy seconds

Lollie: its not sloppy seconds if they dumped you

Jillian: screw all of you, besides never really liked Mary to begin with

Selena: that’s because Cynthia Brown called you her clone when you wore the same dress to prom sophomore year

Jillian: Cynthia Brown is an underhanded slut and a fashion victim herself if you noticed my dress was completely unique it’s a john bernet original cost me six hundred dollars just to get it

Selena: please we all know it was a knock off and a bad one, you don’t like Mary because unlike you shes naturally pretty and you take two hours just to get out of the house in the morning

Jillian: I work out

Lollie: since when is lifting a makeup brush considered physical exercise

Jillian: whatever, anyway before I was rudely interrupted, Gabriels in intensive care and shes on life support

Selena: what room is he in I need to go see him

Jillian: trust me your not wanted seems hes got himself a constant visitor

Jordan: im sorry could you repeat that

Jillian: oh hi im Jillian you must be the other guy

Jordan: what other guy

Jillian: you know as in second string quarter back in the game of love

Jordan: you don’t know what your talking about

Jillian: honey I know Gabriel hes not the opportunist you think he is , he used you to make Andrew jealous and now that he has he guilted him into converting and so alls well that ends well

Lollie: don’t listen to Jillian shes still pissed at the world because someone dropped a house on her sister

Selena: and god knows shes jealous of Gabriel because he’s able to get a man without having to eliminate another woman first

Jillian: you take that back

Selena: oh please you totally stole shane Samson out from under Julie Larson, when you started that rumor that she was pregnant and had the clap

Jillian: as I recall that was half true

Selena: tell me Jillian are you still searching for those ruby slippers

Jillian: Selena you’re a bitch why are you even sitting with us

Selena: Jillian you’re the wicked bitch of Francis Academy

Jordan: So whats the deal with this Andrew guy

Jillian: they’ve been caught in a metaphorical love tango ever since I can recall, and I guess Gabriel finally learned how to lead

Lollie: well if that’s so he learned from the best

Jordan: what are you saying

Jillian: all im saying is you might want to either confront him or go ahead and move on

[blackout/storyline change]

[open up on the hospital room of Mary the doctor and Audrey are standing there looking back over her some time has passed]

Audrey: I still don’t feel right about this maybe we should wait till her parents get word

Doctor: we need to go ahead and get this handled besides the only way to wake her from the coma shes in is to turn off the machine and hopes it shocks her back into consciousness

Audrey: just give me the damn paper

[she signs the paper when Marys Mother walks in Blackout]

[fade in on Gabriels Hospital room]

Andrew: wake up sleeping beauty todays the day we go home

Gabriel: we?

Andrew: ive already talked it over with your mom she thinks it’s a great idea, until your done with physical therapy im yours morning noon and night ill take you to school take you home and anything you want im at your service

Gabriel: you really don’t have to do that

Andrew: yes I do, I haven’t been an honest to god man but I know I can be, let me take care of you and be your man

[Andrew leans in and their lips touch when the doors opens and Jordan Walks in black out end of Episode 3]