The Chris Chamber Monologues

Director's Notes

The Chris Chamber Monologues is not a story, it's a script. It's an old one I had for my drama class but I changed all the dialogue so it fits for Stand By Me. Imagine this as being performed on a stage.

Where [da] appears, the character is talking directly to the audience.

Some scenes have been marked for overlapping speech with forward slashes/. This indicates that two or more actors deliver part of their dialogue simultaneously.

The script only involves Chris, Gordie, Teddy and Vern and are not told in sequence. They're all separated between different times.

Scene 1 The Session

[This scene takes place in November, 1959]

Gordie Well, well, well. Look who it is.

Chris Hey Gordie. I'm sorry I didn't answer your call last night.

Gordie Nah, man, don't be sorry, it's all cool.

Chris I was, uh… sick.

Gordie Really? Actually?

Chris Yeah I was really sick. I had this headache. It was so bad …

Gordie Wow! That sounds awful! Was it awful?

Chris Yeah! Awful!

Gordie There's a lot of that going around at the moment. This bad headache … and um, this stomach flu [/] kind of thing.

Chris That's what I had!

Gordie Hmm, yeah that's what Cindy had too. Isn't that funny?

Chris Yeah, must be a coincidence.

Gordie Hmm … It's too bad, 'cause I really wanted to go to the tree house last night.

Chris Yeah. Sorry. Oh well, we'll go another time, okay?

Gordie Yeah! So, what did you do? Stay at home and do nothing?

Chris Yeah.

Gordie Well, I sat around outside the tree house waiting for you but I just got bored and let myself in.

Chris (getting nervous) Oh! Really?

Gordie Yep! And I saw someone there I knew.

Chris Really?

Gordie HELL YEAH! Guess who it was?

Chris Um, Vern?

Gordie NO! IT WAS YOU! With Cindy!

Chris What? No, I was … sick at …[/] home

Gordie No YOU WEREN'T! I saw you! You were at the tree house and you were making out with her!

Chris No I wasn't! I can't believe you would say that, man! I'm your best friend.

Gordie Not anymore! I already spoke to Cindy and she confessed everything. She told me how you were the reason she broke up with me and that she had been seeing you behind my back for ages!

Chris Oh.

Gordie So our friendship is over! You both deserve each other! Anyway, she always told me how much she hated you for being a thief!

[He storms off. Chris follows after him]

Chris Wait, just, uh … hang on, man.