A Walk To Remember
Based on the Novel By Nicholas Sparks
Cast:
Narrator- Ashley Tanner
Jamie Sullivan- Arianna Diamond
Landon Carter- Christopher Smith



Narrator: I was born in Beaufort, North Carolina. A place where the air always smells of pine and salt and sea. For many, days and nights are spent fishing Pamlico Sound or crabbing the Neuse River. While the ocean may be the focus of daily labor, churches have always tried to be the focus of life. When I lived here, there were eighteen churches within town limits alone. They sponsored pancake breakfasts, rummage sales, car washes, and softball games. You'd think that all the people here were friendly, welcoming, open-hearted... and that money or family background or education or luck didn't matter. But they did matter. They mattered to everyone. Except Jamie Sullivan... Astronomer. Actress. Believer in God... Believer in me. Maybe that's why I fell in love with her, because she was the only one who loved me... for me. I might never know why, but this is the story of her, and me. Love and tragedy, story of my life.

Scene One-

***Jamie is standing at her locker, grabbing her books. Landon walks up to her.

LANDON: You weren't in school yesterday.

JAMIE: I went to the doctor with my father.

LANDON: He okay?

JAMIE: Healthy as can be.

***Pause. She doesn't help him. She opens her locker, gets what she needs, and keeps on walking. Landon follows her.

LANDON: You were great the other night.

JAMIE: Thank you. So were you.

LANDON: I haven't been nice to you.

JAMIE: You're hardly nice to anyone.

LANDON: (sincere) I'm sorry.

JAMIE: (walking away) I wish I could believe you.

Scene Two-

Narrator: Jamie sits alone, reading, wearing her old brown sweater. Landon puts his tray down on Jamie's table and sits. Making a public statement. Landon's best friends are staring and so is half of the cafeteria.

JAMIE: People can see.

LANDON: And that would ruin your reputation how?

***She goes back to her book. Ignoring him.

LANDON: (re: her book) What's that?

***She doesn't look up. Shows him the spine.

Jamie: The Scarlet Letter. I'm reading all the novels on Mr. Rothberg's best American authors list.

LANDON: How many books are there?

JAMIE: (annoyed) A hundred. Then there's his classics list. And his European list.

LANDON: That on your 'Life List.' To read all those books?


LANDON: Jamie. Maybe I want to try being positive.

***She looks up. Examines his face for the truth.

LANDON: Maybe I miss doing that dumb play with you.

***Students seated near them have overheard. Whisper.

LANDON: Maybe you inspire me.

JAMIE: That sounds like a lie.

LANDON: Which part?

JAMIE: All of it.

LANDON: It's not.

JAMIE: Prove it.

***She picks up her books and leaves. Everyone is watching.

LANDON: I just did!

Scene Three-

*** Landon follows her, and grabs her by the arm to stop her.

LANDON: Jamie --

JAMIE: You lack honor. You lack compassion. You lack honesty. You lack humanity.

LANDON: Okay. Maybe some of that is true!--

JAMIE: You don't know the first thing about being someone's friend --

LANDON: I don't want to be just your friend --

JAMIE: You don't know what you want --

LANDON: You don't either. Take a look at yourself. Maybe you're scared that someone might actually like you --

JAMIE: And why would that scare me?

LANDON: Because then you couldn't hide behind your books and your telescope and your sweater and your God.

***Pause... Jamie just stares at him.

Landon: But the real reason you're scared? You like me!

***Jamie walks away quickly, and glances back at him, and keeps on walking away.

END OF SCENE


Narrator: We soon became madly in love with eachother, but as i said before. Love and tragedy. Jamie tells me just months before she dies that she has been diagnosed with Leukemia. She waited so long to tell me, because she didn't want our time together to be poisoned with the thoughts of her dying. Jamie once said when you're feeling love, you're also feeling God. She made me a believer. In love. In life. In the journey that never ends... And in the mystery of all things you can't see but feel everywhere around you... She's there.

---THE END.