Small Town Girl

Chapter 15

Josh appears on the screen sitting at a chair in front of bookcases.

"Hello, my name's Josh Turner. The short film you are getting ready to watch is about a good friend of mine. I honestly thought I knew a lot about her before I started this project, but I was mistaken. As will most of you."

It fades to a clip of the outside of my house then to a clip of me saying who I was, as the audio of me singing Somewhere Over the Rainbow/ What a Wonderful World starts to play in the background.

"Hi my name's Sarah, I'm 16 years old and I'm nothing special. I'm kinda smart I guess I play a few instruments but other than that nothing out of the ordinary."

Then it went a shot of my dad and Amy talking about me and them and our lives. It cut to a clip of me showing him around my room and the house then around the art gallery.

"She's a hard worker and she cares. She's not someone who just says "Here buy this it's the most expensive thing here." She actually walks around the store with the customer while talking and getting to know them, then she suggests something that they might like, even if it's just a frame." My manager, Karen says, "Most people running a business wouldn't like that but she's actually my top seller. I once asked her why she wants to talk to them then recommend something and she told me and I quote "I would rather them leave with a smile on their face and nothing, than them walk out with something they bought and them not be 100% happy with it."

It then cut to a clip of the school, and my teachers began introducing themselves and talking about me, saying kind thing.

"But the people who are teaching her, don't know who she really is. But it is the people she eats lunch with who truly know her." Josh says "Explain how and when you met Sarah."

"I met her in kindergarden. We were on the playground, and she was sitting by herself because she was shy, and I came up and asked her why she was sitting all by herself. She said it was because she was weird and people didn't like her. And because she hated people who were mean and since most people were mean they didn't like her either." Walt says smiling

"I met her in the second grade, because we were in the same class and had a mutual friend. We didn't become best friends until the forth grade though." Cara says

"I met her in the sixth grade. We were in the same class and always got put into a group together because we were the two smartest people in the class." Lilly says

"I met Sarah when she was 13. She had come with her dad to my uncles house while I was there, because her dad and my uncle were old time friends." Nathan says

"I knew who she was in the sixth grade but we didn't start talking until this year because my best friend is her boyfriend." Elijah says

It then goes to clips of me with them all sitting at a table in the mall laughing and talking.

"Very few people have seen what Sarah is underneath it all." Josh says his voice overpowering the laughter of the clip

It went to a clip of a girl in my class who I never talked to all that much.

"So tell me what Sarah's like." Josh says

"Oh she's really nice, and smart. I don't talk to her that much but one time we sat next to each other in math and I couldn't understand any of it. Sarah helped me and offered to tutor me for free." The girl says as I recall that time Freshman year.

"She's nice and smart. But she's really funny, like funnier than most smart girls. She's awfully sarcastic as well, making it even funnier when someone does something stupid and she whispers to herself something that only the people right next to her can hear." Said a boy that played football who I had been in class with in the seventh grade