A Girl Like Her Page #3
as maybe
you've told me about.
Uh... I... like I told you,
we were friends and...
it's just that now
we're not, in high school.
I don't know;
we've both gotten older
and made different friends.
It's not anything personal,
it's just...
we both... just went
different ways.
Yeah, that's
understandable.
Mm-hmm.
There is some testimony
about when you
get around Jessica,
things kind of change.
I don't... think
that anything ever changes
when I'm around Jessica.
I behave the same
with her as I would
anybody in the halls.
Maybe if you knew what it's
like now in high school,
like, girl world now,
with being popular
and everything, it just
is a lot different.
People don't really know
what it's like to be me
and I don't mean that,
like... rudely or,
like, thinking a lot
of myself, but it's just
people don't understand
what it's like to be popular.
I'm just like any other
girl in high school.
I think that perspective
is kind of important.
Would you be willing
to be a part
of this story
that we're telling
about the American
high school?
And would you be
willing to be the face
of that stereotype of
the popular girl
that not a lot
of people understand
what it feels like, the
pressures of feeling...
- Yeah.
- that popularity and
living up
to that popularity?
But I want
to caution you that
what you put out there,
The real you.
Like, the...
I don't know, like,
- the popular-girl perspective?
- Absolutely.
OK.
...work this thing?
Holy crap.
- How do you...
- Is it by the red button?
Yeah. OK.
OK, so today is Day One
of Avery's life.
Her documentary?
I don't know.
- This is my girls!
- Hi!
Is everybody... wait.
How do you...
I don't know.
It's backwards, so...
- OK. Hello, ladies!
- Hi!
These are my main b*tches
right over here.
Ha ha! Hey!
What did you guys do this
weekend? What did we do?
- Partied, of course.
- Partied.
And made out...
hooked up with this guy.
Emily.
- Oh, my gosh.
- Ex...
- Seriously?
- What the...
Oh, look! Wait!
Hold on! It's Brian!
Brian! Brian!
Wait, wait, wait! Hold on!
- Hold on! Brian, wait, wait.
- Hey, Brian!
Hello! Hi. How are you?
- Hey, Bri!
- Hey, Brian!
- Hi Brian!
- Freak.
- Oh, God.
- Bye!
Brian, just say hi.
Just wave, really quick.
- Freak!
- Wave really quick! Hi!
- Bye!
- OK.
That didn't really work out.
As you can tell,
I have losers for friends.
- Hey!
- So... ha!
- That is not fair.
- Love you, too!
So, Day... ha! Day One
kinda... kinda sucked.
So we'll try again tomorrow
if we feel like it.
I don't know. OK!
OK.
Think it's on.
OK, so...
my name is Avery Keller,
and this is my first...
video... journal thing, so...
yeah, I don't really know
what to talk about.
I...am a normal
teenage girl.
I have my 4 best friends...
Maddy, Tessa, Kayla, and Emily...
and they're...
super fun.
All right,
so my girls and I
want to show you what it's like
to be the sophomores...
the popular sophomores...
of South Brookdale,
so let's take a look.
South Brookdale
pride! Ha ha!
- Hey, Trevor!
- Hey, Avery.
- Hey.
- Hi.
- Who was that?
- I don't know.
I pretty much just
hang out with them at school.
It's not like a clique
or anything.
It's just... I don't know,
it's just who I hang out with.
- Hi.
- Hi.
Have you ever talked
to any of them?
- No.
- Hey.
- Is that her locker?
- Oh.
Jessica's locker.
So, anyways...
- Hey, girls!
- Hi.
- Like your shirt.
- Thank you.
- Don't like yours. No!
- Ha ha!
You know, I think
that people, like, take it
that I'm being a b*tch because
I only hang out with my friends,
but... I don't know; I just
don't have any interest
in making
any more friends, so...
it's not, like,
anything personal.
I hate my hair today.
It looks cute.
I don't have enough time.
Here, you do it.
Yeah, I don't... I want to do
So, yeah, this is our girl time
because we never have
enough time because we're
always running late.
So we use this bathroom
as our "getting ready" bathroom,
And that b*tch blocks
the door.
Yeah, Maddy!
Hi, dolls.
because they kind of know...
- Right. What the...
- that this is our place...
Excuse me.
Get the... out.
That is why
she blocks the door.
This is high school.
Nothing...
nothing different from any other
high school you'd go to.
People joke around, and people
mess around and have fun.
It's just how
high school is now.
I don't really do
any school activities.
I used to, uh, I used to dance.
I have my trophy for dance,
and my mom would love it
if I did dance still
because she's annoying
and she loves to control my life
and she would've liked
if I did Pom this year,
but I didn't... didn't
want to do that.
Nose in the books, guys.
Nose in the books.
I got you
for another 20 minutes.
Twenty minutes.
Oh, my God.
This class is so boring.
I literally hate public
school, and this is why.
Because we don't
learn anything.
Do you see this?
And she is texting me.
I actually like school.
I do. I get good grades
because I cannot wait
to get out of this place.
I just want to go away
to college.
I cannot wait
to be out of my house.
But... I don't know.
Other than that, I'm just
living out
the high school dream.
OK.
It's getting late, honey.
Listen, why don't you
go home and stay with Gabby
and I'll stay here
tonight, OK?
Hmm?
I'm OK. I'm staying.
Are you sure?
Yeah.
OK.
Good night,
Jessie-bell.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
- It's OK, honey.
- I...
- It's OK.
- No.
It's not OK.
It's not OK if I...
- If I would've known that the...
- What?
I didn't know
those pills were there.
I didn't even know
that they were there.
- Honey...
- How did she find them?
It's not your fault,
all right?
You listen to me.
Listen to me.
- I saw those pills...
- The pills were there.
I saw them
in the cabinet.
I didn't throw them
away, either, OK?
Do you think
it's my fault?
Are you sure?
- No.
- OK.
Then it couldn't be
your fault, OK?
We'll find out
what happened, OK?
But this is not
something you did.
You're a good mom, OK?
It's not gonna stop,
you know?
It's... it's not like
it's just at school.
It's on my phone,
it's online.
It just consumes
my life, and I just...
I can't concentrate
on anything else,
no matter how hard I try.
no matter what I do,
she always... she just...
She just always...
finds a way to get at me.
There are some allegations
that Jessica was being harassed.
"Bullied," actually,
are the words
a lot of your students
were using.
I don't have any...
knowledge of that
right now.
That's just...
um, at this point,
I'd put that in a rumor.
Kids tease each other
and call each other names
and are mean to each other
all of the time.
Do you guys have
a zero bullying policy
in place here?
Translation
Translate and read this script in other languages:
Select another language:
- - Select -
- 简体中文 (Chinese - Simplified)
- 繁體中文 (Chinese - Traditional)
- Español (Spanish)
- Esperanto (Esperanto)
- 日本語 (Japanese)
- Português (Portuguese)
- Deutsch (German)
- العربية (Arabic)
- Français (French)
- Русский (Russian)
- ಕನ್ನಡ (Kannada)
- 한국어 (Korean)
- עברית (Hebrew)
- Gaeilge (Irish)
- Українська (Ukrainian)
- اردو (Urdu)
- Magyar (Hungarian)
- मानक हिन्दी (Hindi)
- Indonesia (Indonesian)
- Italiano (Italian)
- தமிழ் (Tamil)
- Türkçe (Turkish)
- తెలుగు (Telugu)
- ภาษาไทย (Thai)
- Tiếng Việt (Vietnamese)
- Čeština (Czech)
- Polski (Polish)
- Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian)
- Românește (Romanian)
- Nederlands (Dutch)
- Ελληνικά (Greek)
- Latinum (Latin)
- Svenska (Swedish)
- Dansk (Danish)
- Suomi (Finnish)
- فارسی (Persian)
- ייִדיש (Yiddish)
- հայերեն (Armenian)
- Norsk (Norwegian)
- English (English)
Citation
Use the citation below to add this screenplay to your bibliography:
Style:MLAChicagoAPA
"A Girl Like Her" Scripts.com. STANDS4 LLC, 2024. Web. 21 Nov. 2024. <https://www.scripts.com/script/a_girl_like_her_1907>.
Discuss this script with the community:
Report Comment
We're doing our best to make sure our content is useful, accurate and safe.
If by any chance you spot an inappropriate comment while navigating through our website please use this form to let us know, and we'll take care of it shortly.
Attachment
You need to be logged in to favorite.
Log In