Everwood
Laynie scene from Everwood, practice script
- Women
- Playing age Teens
- 4 pages
- 3-person scene
- Drama
A drama scene from Everwood for an actress, playing age teens (13–19), with Ephram & Kayla.
Everwood: Laynie scene
INT. HOT TUB ROOM. SKI CHALET. NIGHT
THREE BATH-SUITED CLASSMATES THUMP past noisily. They pass Ephram, who’s got his jeans rolled up, dangling his feet in the hot tub - careful not to get his comic wet. A toe dips in the water beside him. He’s surprised to see it’s:
LAYNIE
Mind if I join?
EPHRAM
She speaks.
LAYNIE
She sits.
EPHRAM
She makes jokes. Who knew? (Beat) Probably best not to ask. How come you’re not out partying.
LAYNIE
Happy people depress me. Drunk happy people make me want to register an assualt rifle.
EPHRAM
I thought you were friends with the who’s-who. Heir-apparent to cool and all.
LAYNIE
You go away to boarding school for a few months, it’s pretty much out of sight, out of clique...
EPHRAM
So it’s not just me you don’t talk to.
LAYNIE
(shrugs)
People are disappointing enough without giving them an opportunity.
Just then, Kayla and SOME GUY barge in, designs on the tub. Kayla takes quick stock, assumes she interrupted something.
KAYLA
Oops. Didn’t realize you guys had dibs. Rock the vote.
She gives Ephram an uncouth thumbs up, leaves.
LAYNIE
Case in point. That girl should be neutered. People like her make me think boarding school wasn’t such a bad idea.
Ephrams laughs, he didn’t expect this kind of energy from her.
EPHRAM
You didn’t want to go?
LAYNIE
Actually Saint Anne’s was my parents’ doing. They couldn’t really deal with me after Colin’s accident-- (catching herself) It’s hard to explain.
EPHRAM
You don’t have to. You had to parent them right?
He’s right. She didn’t expect that. Ephram explains:
EPHRAM
Anyway, I had to parent my sister for a while. Kind of left my dad to fend for himself.
LAYNIE
How’d he do?
EPHRAM
Not great. Better.
Maybe it’s what Ephram just said that makes Laynie open up, or maybe it’s just Ephram. She speaks resigned, without resentment or bile.
LAYNIE
In a way I lost my parents in that wreck too. Not the way you did but - they shattered when Colin crashed. All they could focus on was getting him better. (shrugs) Sending me away was the best thing
LAYNIE (cont’d)
they could do. They said it was so I’d be surrounded by friends and have a normal life, but I get it: They didn’t have anything left for me. And I get that the only reason they sent back for me was because I kept showing up in Colin’s memories.
EPHRAM
That’s harsh.
LAYNIE
It’s what it is. Don’t get me wrong, I love my brother to death, and I cried like a bunny to know I was still in his head somewhere... but ever since that truck flipped ... my entire life has been about him.
Ephram sees the armor crack. He tries to cheer her up.
EPHRAM
I wasn’t aware that bunnies did much crying.
LAYNIE
(smiles)
Don’t nitpick.
EPHRAM
Right.
LAYNIE
What can I say? We suffer from out devotion.
Ephram sits up. This is something he knows about.
EPHRAM
Yeah, but how much? I mean, how far do you have to go just to prove you care?
LAYNIE
As far as you can? I don’t know... But I’m pretty sure neither of us is done yet.
Ephram considers this new girl. Not what he thought she was.
EPHRAM
And I thought you were just quiet.
LAYNIE
Nope. I just wait to make sure someone’s worth talking to first. Then I don’t shut up.
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