Song: Live It Well By Switchfoot
I want to live It well, I want to live It well
Time Period: A Flashback
Date: 1-28-2011
Place: Barnes and Noble
Scenario: Sawyer (one ongoing two), Peyton (eight months pregnant) and Lucas run into Brooke and True 2 ongoing 3) in the parent section
Lucas (scanning over books): I can't find any books about Down Syndrome
Peyton (holding Sawyer): Look more closely and long at the shelves
Lucas (a little agitated): I am trying, honey
Brooke (with True in hand, she approaches Lucas, Peyton, and Sawyer): Whats up with all this talk about Down Syndrome?
Lucas (lying): Its nothing
Peyton (pleading with Lucas): We must tell Brooke
Brooke (suspicious): Tell me what?
Lucas: Our baby has Down Syndrome
Brooke (embracing Peyton): Your child will be special
Peyton (choked up): Thanks
Take the burden from my arms, take the anchors off my lungs, take me broken and make me one, break the silence and make it a song
Time Period: A Flashback
Date: 2-14-2011
Scenario: After Lucky Haley Scott's traumatic birth, Peyton's near death experience
Place: Peyton's Hospital recovery room
Peyton (presenting Lucky before Brooke): This is Lucky Haley Scott
Brooke (swooning over Lucky): Hello, sweetheart
Peyton: So you accept her Down Syndrome?
Brooke: Absolutely
Lucas: OH, what a relief!
Brooke: Born with special needs or not, my friends' kids are my own
Life is short,I want to live It well, one life, one story to tell, life is short, I want to live It well, and you're the one I'm living for, awaken, oh my soul! every breath that you take is a miracle, life is short, I want to live It well
Time Period: The Present Reality
Date: 7-24-2024
City: Raleigh, North Carolina
Event: The Special Olympics-A Basketball Game
Action: Ethusiastic, Sawyer, Peyton, Larry (Peyton's adoptive dad), Derek (Peyton's half brother), and Brooke cheer for Lucas and Lucky from the sidelines. Lucas is an assistant coach on Lucky's basketball team. Their support means a lot to Lucky and him. Lucky makes the winning shot for her team. They celebrate with cake,bingo, and dancing afterwards.
I want to sing with all my heart a lifelong song, even if some notes come out right and some come out wrong cause I can't take none of that through the door I'm living for more than just a funeral I want to burn brighter than the dawn Life is short I want to live It well one life one story to tell life is short I want to live It well and you're the one I'm living for, awaken, oh my soul! Every breath that you take is a miracle life is short I want to live It well