Pictures for Elizabeth Written by: Josh Comer, Melissa Tague, Kevin Cody, Suela Cekrezi, and Maddison Ashby

Act I

Scene I

The door slams open, a woman comes running in. Tears flying everywhere, she’s in a sense of panic and dismay.

Elizabeth: Searching for something. God, where the hell is it?!

Jake: Walking in. What are you looking for Mommy?

Elizabeth: Yelling. It’s nothing, go back to playing your games sweetheart.

Jake: Whimpering, almost crying. Retreats back outside to play. Okay Mommy…

Elizabeth: Sweating with a worried and almost concerned face. Where the hell is the photo album?!

The phone rings.

Elizabeth: Just ignore it! Goddamn, a woman can’t find anything in this house.

Finally, she look sat the last drawer in Will’s bedside table. She pulls the drawer clear off of its track.

Elizabeth: Sighs of relief. Finally.

She opens the book and takes a huge breath. She begins flipping through it sporadically. She stops to look at a particular picture.

Elizabeth: Oh Lord…look at us. Will, oh Will.

She’s still flipping through pages.

Elizabeth: Finally, here it is.

1 | P a g e She removes the picture from the book at stares at it, taking it all in.

Scene II

Elizabeth is still crying as she stares at the picture of her high school days and the night of her Prom. Elizabeth is thrown into a flashback, she’s only 18.

Elizabeth: Oh my God! Prom is knocking on the door, girl. I don’t know if I want to go.

Gina: Are you out of your mind? Prom is the dream of every girl, of every senior. Prom is the night everybody should go and have fun. You have to go. Come on, it’s going to be all us girls. It’s going to be a blast.

Elizabeth: I know. I’m sure it will be fun. I don’t know though I don’t have a date. All my friends have a date but me.

Gina: So! It doesn’t matter. Don’t let that stop you from coming, Prom is the best dance you can ever go to. You get to buy a gorgeous dress, do your hair, and look flawless.

Elizabeth: I don’t know. I’ll think about it.

Gina gives Elizabeth a hug and goes to class.

Elizabeth is walking down the stairs with her books in her hands. Will is looking right at her. They make eye contact.

Will: Hey…Elizabeth? What’s up?

Elizabeth: She is very nervous. Oh hey Will. I didn’t see you coming. How are you?

Will: I’m good, thanks. Hey…I wanted to ask you something. Well…Prom is coming up pretty quick. Isn’t that exciting? Are you going?

Elizabeth: I don’t know yet. Are you going?

Will: Do you want to go to Prom with me? I mean…damn… Will started itching the back of his head nervously. Then he looks up at her. What I meant to ask is…would you like to be my date?

2 | P a g e Elizabeth: Haha! What? You’re asking me to Prom? I mean…yeah sure. I’d love to go to Prom with you, why not?

Will: Really? Great, well I’ll pick you up around 6:00.

Elizabeth had the biggest smile that day, her crush, her lover boy just asked her to go to prom. Elizabeth catches up with Gina.

Elizabeth: Gina!

Gina: Hey E, what’s going on? Are you okay?

Elizabeth: Oh my Goddddd! You are not going to believe what just happened! Willy asked me to Prom!

Gina: That’s perfect! We’re going to have a blast. I can’t wait.

Flashing back to reality, Elizabeth is crying, she misses Will. Jake is yelling her name from the front door.

Jake: Mom. Mommy!

Elizabeth wiping her tears, she runs down the stairs to Jake.

Elizabeth: Jake baby, what’s wrong?

Jake: Nothing Mom, Andrea took my hat and she won’t give it back to me.

Elizabeth: Oh you little monkey, you scared me. Here, it’s going to be okay. Give your mommy a kiss.

Jake goes back outside to play and Elizabeth goes back into Will’s old room to continue looking through the photo album.

Scene III

Elizabeth continues to flip through the scrap book, past her and Will’s teenage years when she discovers the doctor letter.

3 | P a g e It reads: Doctor Meal: Dear Will Maier, I regret to inform you that you have a malignant tumor. It’s rather large and about the size of a softball that engulfs about a third of your brain. There’s not much we can do for it but take the necessary precautions and procedures to allow you to live a little longer than you would if it went untreated. Sincerely, Dr. James Meal

Elizabeth is in tears thinking why he didn’t tell her sooner about all of this. Flashback into the day Will is at the hospital talking to his doctor about the brain tumor.

Will: It’s been a hard day Doc.

Doctor Meal: Will, I understand, but it’s about to get worse.

Will: What do you mean?

Doctor Meal: Your brain tumor is incurable.

Will: Seriously?

Will begins to tear up.

Doctor Meal: He says in a sad voice. Yes.

Will: Wiping away tears and bucks up. Will you hand me a piece of paper and a pen, please?

Doctor Meal: Yes sir. He grabs a pen and paper.

Will: Thanks, can I ask you something?

Doctor Meal: Yes, how can I help you?

Will: What did I do to deserve this?

Doctor Meal: Honestly Will, no one should ever have to go through something like this.

Will: I know, but if I don’t have anything to look forward to I’m going to die a bastard. I think I’m going to start a Bucket List.

4 | P a g e Doctor Meal: That’s completely understandable.

Will: I was just saying. Alright, thanks Doc.

Trying to be alone now.

Doctor Meal: Okay, if you need anything just holler, I’ll be down the hall.

Will: Thinking to himself. What three things would I love to go before I kick the bucket? Will accidently hits the call light and the nurse comes running in.

Nurse: Running through the door. Is everything okay?

Will: Yes. He sits for a second, thinking to himself. I’ve got to go.

Two days later Will is discharged from the hospital.

Scene IV

Will sits at home in his executive chair and writes his Bucket List. He grabs the pen and starts crying mid way through. He writes: 1) See Elizabeth just one more time. The phone rings. Will answers it and it’s his brother.

Mike: Hey Willo, what’s up?

Will: Nothing too exciting.

Mike: What are your plans for today?

Will: Writing a Bucket List…

Mike: What do you mean a Bucket List?!

Will: Mike, I can’t make it any clearer.

Mike: I’m coming over right now!

Will: No, please, just leave me alone for now!

5 | P a g e Mike: Okay, buddy if you need anything, call me.

Will: Well, there is one thing. Will you go sky diving with me?

Mike: Hell yeah I’ll go sky diving with you. If you want I won’t even use the parachute.

Will: Haha no that can hold off.

Will writes on his Bucket List: 2) Sky diving.

Mike: Alright bro my kids are screaming and yelling I’ll call you later.

Will: Okay, I love you.

Mike: I love you too brotha man.

Will hangs up the phone and cries about the whole situation. He wonders why everything is coming to and end so fast. He looks at his Bucket List and writes at the bottom: 3) Find a cure for cancer! The scene flashes back to Elizabeth sitting on Will’s bed, present day.

Elizabeth: She notices number 1 on his list. I can’t believe this happened. I loved him so much and now he’s gone.

She breaks down in tears.

Scene V

Then Elizabeth flips the page and sees the picture of Will, her, and Jake building a snowman.

Jake: Talking about the snowman. He needs a scarf, Mom. And we need a carrot for his nose.

Elizabeth: Okay, okay let me see if I can find something inside.

Elizabeth goes inside.

Jake: Don’t you think he looks good, Will? I think so; I think all the kids are going to be jealous because this snowman is awesome! Not even Tony Hoffman’s snowman looks this good!

6 | P a g e Will: Who’s Tony Hoffman?

Elizabeth: Just the kid down the street.

Will: What’s so special about Tony Hoffman?

Jake: Well his dad helps him with everything. They built a really cool wooden airplane one time and Tony brought it to school. He told everybody he made it with his dad.

Will: Yea dad’s do that sort of thing.

Jake: And then he told me that’s why nothing I ever made was good, because I don’t have a dad.

Will: Oh yea? Well what do you say we built a wooden house, and kick Tony Hoffman’s airplane out of the water! I’ll help you with it.

Jake: Are you serious?! Thanks Will!

Jake gives Will a big hug. Then Elizabeth comes back outside with a scarf, carrot nose, and a camera.

Elizabeth: What’s all the commotion about out here?

Jake: Will’s going to help me build a wooden house like Tony Hoffman’s dad only ours will be better! Isn’t that awesome?!

Elizabeth: That is awesome honey. Come here you guys we need a picture, this is a snowman we’ll want to remember.

Elizabeth sits back in the chair and flips through more pages when she sees the tall Christmas tree behind the three of them and that big goofy smile on Jake’s face.

Will: Jake come on! Someone has to put on the last final touches. Will hands Jake the angel for the top of the tree and then Will picks him up and lets him put the angel up. Will, Elizabeth, and Jake all stand back to look at the tree.

Elizabeth: It looks really good Will thanks for getting such an amazing tree.

Jake: I bet I’ll get ten presents!

7 | P a g e Elizabeth: Were you good this year?

Jake: Oh yea definitely, in fact I might get twenty presents!

Will: Woah, woah, you can’t take all the presents. Where are mine?

Jake: Well you’re not a kid.

Will: But I’ve been good all year.

Jake: E’s son is serious. Well how about this, if Santa brings me enough we can share, but you can’t have anything you can just borrow it.

Will: Sounds like a plan.

Will somewhat laughs to himself.

Elizabeth: I think you’ll have enough honey. You’ve been very good this year. Boys get around the tree.

Jake: Pictures?

Jake sounds annoyed.

Elizabeth: Well yea, of course, when have we not taken a picture?

Will: Your mother’s right, smile big and cheesy for the camera.

Picture is taken.

Scene VI

She sees the picture of just the two of them sitting on the couch, a picture Jake sniped. Elizabeth remembers the fight they’d had moments later and the scene comes back to her.

Elizabeth can tell Will has been sleeping more, losing a lot of weight, and doesn’t seem like his normal self. Elizabeth asks Will and he becomes very defensive. Elizabeth has finally had enough and her and Will start arguing in the kitchen.

8 | P a g e Elizabeth: I don’t get why you won’t tell me what’s going on!

Will: It’s nothing, just a bad cold. Now can we please move on already?

Elizabeth: It’s not a cold Will, you don’t have a cold for more than a month, nor do you lose weight like you have. If it is a cold, where’s the fever? Where’s the runny nose, the coughing? You have none of these, something else is going on and I want to know what.

Will: Look it’s nothing I promise you, so please stop worrying and let’s talk about something else.

Elizabeth: No, you have ignored this long enough; every time I ask you something about it you get defensive and shut me out. Tell me what’s wrong with you.

Will: Look, I’ve told you before and I’ll tell you again, nothing is wrong I’m a perfectly healthy forty year old male. Please just drop the subject and let’s move on with our lives already!

Elizabeth: Alright fine, if that’s the way you’re going to be.

Elizabeth storms out of the kitchen angrily. Will sighs and goes to the cabinet. He gets a glass and pours himself some Scotch. Then, he sets his glass on the counter and falls to the ground. Elizabeth hears a thud and comes running in to see what the matter is.

Elizabeth: What happened?!

Will: I don’t know, I felt weak and couldn’t stand any more.

Elizabeth: Does this have anything to do with what you’re not telling me?

Will: I don’t know, maybe.

Elizabeth: Well can you stand now?

Will: I can try, but you’re going to have to help me.

Will starts to rise with the help of Elizabeth.

Elizabeth: Come on, let’s walk to the car. I’m taking you to the hospital.

Will: Sighs. Alright.

9 | P a g e Scene VII

Will is in a hospital bed, hooked up to a bunch of monitors. Elizabeth is sitting in a chair beside the bed reading a newspaper when the doctor enters.

Doctor Meal: Hello Mr. Maier, how are you feeling?

Will: Good.

Doctor Meal: That’s what we like to hear. Anyway, I’ve got your test results back and it seems though that the radiation isn’t working. Your tumor is fighting back hard than we thought. It looks like it is starting to press your cerebrum, or the part of your brain that controls movement. That’s what seems to have caused the fainting spell you had.

Will: How does this affect my life expectancy?

Doctor Meal: I’m sorry to say that it does cut it down. I’ll give you a week at most the way the tumor is growing.

Will: Sighs. Thank you, doctor.

Doctor Meal: If there is anything we can do to make it more comfortable, please, let us know.

Will: I will.

Doctor Meal leaves the room, Will turns toward Elizabeth to see how she has taken the news. Elizabeth is crying silently.

Will: I didn’t want to tell you. I didn’t want you to have to worry.

Elizabeth: Not worry? Will, you’re dying, and according to the doctor you’ll be dead at the end on the week. How can you expect me not to worry?

Will: Elizabeth, if I had told you about this before then you would have worried your heart out. I didn’t want that, I just wanted to spend the last few months I had with the person who meant the most to me in this world. Doing all the amazing things we have done the past few months, they wouldn’t have been that amazing without you there. I forgot all about being sick and was the happiest I’ve ever been, all because of you. So please, don’t get all upset that I didn’t tell you, I’m not sorry that I didn’t.

10 | P a g e Elizabeth: It’s okay Will; I understand now why you didn’t tell me. You’re right I would’ve babied you to death. The time we spent together was amazing and I’m sorry that it’s been cut short. I love you Will.

Will: I love you too Elizabeth.

A week later Will passes, with Elizabeth by his side.

Elizabeth flashes back to reality where she still sits on Will’s bed. She finds a note at the back of the album.

It reads: Elizabeth: Reading the note. Elizabeth, If you ever feel lost and miss me, just look through this album and our memories will come back to you. I love you Elizabeth, forever and always. Love, Will

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