Story: Where We Left Off
Story: Where We Left Off - A quiet park bench during sunset. Loren sits alone, staring at the sky. JohnKyle walks up slowly.
JohnKyle:
Hey… Loren.
Loren:
(small smile)
Hey, John.
It’s been a while, hasn’t it?
JohnKyle:
Yeah… Almost a year since that night.
Do you still think about it?
Loren:
How could I not?
Your words that night… they never left me.
“I think our story ends here.”
I still hear it like it was yesterday.
JohnKyle:
I… I didn’t know what else to say.
Maybe… maybe God was saving one of us.
Loren:
Saving us? From what?
We fit, John. We balanced each other.
You were my sun, I was your rain. We made sense.
JohnKyle:
We did.
But maybe I wasn’t good enough to keep walking beside you.
Loren:
(teary eyes)
Do you even know how far I walked to be with you?
How much of myself I gave… just for you to walk away?
JohnKyle:
I’m sorry, Loren. I really am.
I just thought… staying would hurt you more.
Loren:
And leaving didn’t?
Silence. A breeze passes between them.
JohnKyle:
How have you been?
Loren:
I told myself once, “I can’t live without you.”
Turns out… I can.
I’m still breathing. Still moving.
Just not whole.
JohnKyle:
Loren…
Loren:
You know what heartbreak taught me?
That the only person who can save you… is yourself.
JohnKyle:
I hate that I was the one who taught you that.
Loren:
But you did.
With your sweetness… and your bitterness.
You showed me that to love… is also to let go.
JohnKyle:
I never truly wanted to leave.
Loren:
But you did. And that was enough of an answer.
Maybe you were never the one meant to hold my hand to the end.
JohnKyle:
You sound… stronger now.
Loren:
I’m not strong. I’m just… healing.
Because memories, no matter how painful, aren’t meant to be erased.
They’re meant to be remembered—without pain.
They share a long look. Loren’s eyes are glassy, but she smiles softly.
Loren:
Thank you, John.
For once being my home… even if it was only temporary.
JohnKyle:
And you’ll always be the chapter I’ll never rewrite… but never forget.
Let me know if you’d like this adapted into a short film script or formatted for stage performance.
