Drowning In Still Waters

If you would like to read this screenplay, please contact me at keylight2@hotmail.com and I will gladly provide you with a script. Matt Grimes is 16, scrawny, a loner, perpetually depressed and quietly malevolent. One afternoon as he’s walking from the school bus stop to his house, a car pulls up in front of the house next door. In the passenger seat is Peyton Dearing, the most beautiful and popular girl in school. As Matt looks on, Peyton kisses the driver, her jock boyfriend Conner, and gets out. Matt continues to stares at her as she walks to her house. He’s known her since they were infants and he’s loved her and hated her since he can remember. Peyton isn’t so conflicted. She despises Matt and never misses an opportunity to tell him so. She sees him watching her and shouts at him to stop staring at her. Connor threatens him. This is Matt’s miserable life. Peyton devises a plan to humiliate Matt. She will get him alone, tell him that she secretly loves him and get him to pour out his heart to her. At some point, she’ll laugh in his face and tell him what a gullible fool he is to ever think that she’d feel anything but hatred for him. This will be recorded by Connor and put on Youtube for everyone in school to see. But Matt figures out what’s happening and turns the tables on Peyton, telling her that he’s always known that she was secretly crazy about him. That he’s seen her pleasuring herself while watching him mow the lawn with his shirt off. Peyton explodes and has Connor beat Matt up. When Peyton and her family go on a vacation, Matt breaks into the Dearing house and plants a photographic “shrine” to Peyton and Matt behind a picture on Peyton’s wall to be discovered by one of Peyton’s friends who is coming over to feed the family cats. As planned, she discovers the shrine, photographs it and posts the picture on Instagram. Peyton sees the picture on her phone as she’s sunning herself on a tropical beach and comes unglued. When she returns, she files a complaint with the police who are unable to prove that it was Matt who put up the shrine. Peyton calls him every vile name she can think of, informing him once again that she despises him and that she will make his life a living hell from now on. That afternoon, Peyton’s parents discover Matt and Peyton’s bodies lying together on Peyton’s bed. Matt, believing that his crappy life will never get any better, sneaked into Payton’s bedroom and shot and killed her before taking his own life.