Story proposal: I am always way beyond perfect

I am always way beyond perfect
by Jasmine Cruz

Elements of sub-genre (romantic comedy)
Details in story
CHARACTERS
Crazy friends
• Exa is their resident blasphemer
• Charisma is the middle class girl who feels like she’s an upper class socialite. She calls everyone honey
• Puerile always has something negative to say.
• Drea is the mind drifting gullible girl.

Crazy relatives
• Cousins Erika, Erin, Eroll, Era, Erijah, Erikson and Erlize:
o Children of Filipino (Eduardo) and Ria
o They are all one or two years apart
o They are all vertically challenged
o They are dark skinned
o They all look as though they’re septuplets
o Ada calls them Santas Elven Rejects or Eduardo and the Seven Dwarfs
o They answer back in unison
o Their voices blend harmonically
o They are sickeningly sweet
• Grandma and grandpa
o Lovesick couple
o They habitually stare into each other’s eyes
o Grandpa always has a romantic surprise for grandma

Relatives who always ask about the girl’s nonexistent love life
• Uncle-really appealing Filipino who always like to sing love songs, always asks Ada if she has a boyfriend already

Perverted relatives
• Grelk
o Cousin of Ada
o Addicted to porn
o Asks Ada awkward questions about sex

Random eccentric person
• Heylie
o Evil geek
o Neck brace that has tiny red and black stripped devil horns sticking out from certain areas of the neck brace
o Burns the bible in her spar time

Crazy lead character
• Ada
o says she is a perfect girl who lives in the imperfect world
o she is obsessed with knowledge
o she narrates simple events in a very eccentric way
PLOT
The girl is in love with bad boy and hates good boy
• Ada used to like Myrhz because although Myrhz was a popular boy, he did not act like one. Myrhz is the silent type which is very much unlike the popular boys who are usually loud, rude and sexually overcharged. He is also handsome and intelligent. However, in recent years, he has acquired this bad attitude wherein he either ignores you or snaps at you as a form of acknowledgemet. This is the reason why Ada started to dislike Myrhz.
• Now Ada has a crush on Siyen even though he is less perfect than Myrhz. Siyen is the irresponsible type who likes to party hard during exam week. He knows all the prettiest girls and does a lot of “partying” with them. He can talk to anyone and when he talks to you he makes you feel special. So there’s a danger that you might think that he likes you romantically but if that’s true then he must like everyone in a romantic way. Furthermore, due to the demise in the prince of charms quality in Myrhz, Ada began to notice Siyen and eventually she began to like Siyen despite his flaws.

Good boy acts weirdly around girl
• Myrhz acts robotically when he is around Ada
• Whenever Ada is around Myrhz friends ask him “Are you all right Myrhz?” or “Is there something wrong?”
• Ada is clueless that she is the cause of Myrhz’ peculiar behavior

The girl knows she shouldn’t fall for bad boy and thinks he cannot possibly like her for they come from different social circles
• Ada has heard a lot of rumors about Siyen like the rumor that he had sex with a seductive thirty something teacher named Ynize Puttha
• Siyen flirts with Ada but Ada doesn’t know that he is flirting with her

There is an event where the girl dresses up and the bad boy notices how beautiful she is • Ada tells Siyen that she cannot go to his party because her mother obligated her to attend the party of her mother’s new boss. The party turns out to be Siyen’s party too. Her mother’s new boss is Siyen’s mother. Siyen and his mother have a joint celebration.
• Ada looks extremely beautiful and there’s a glimmer in Siyen’s eyes that Ada couldn’t decipher but the audience knows that he is starting to desire her.

The bad boy subtly expresses interest and the girl has a comical response to his expression of interest
• Charisma happens to be at the party too. She tells Ada that Siyen has been looking for Ada. Charisma tells Ada to be careful as she may be the victim of Siyen’s birthday prank (which he does every year).
• Ada tries to avoid Siyen but she unexpectedly bumps into Siyen.
• Siyen doesn’t let her out of his sight.
• Ada becomes more and more worried but then accepts her fate and braces herself for the inevitable humiliation.
• Siyen leads her to a room and shows her a room full of roses. It is his father’s gift to his mother. Siyen just wanted to “show” Ada this beautiful place.

The girl asks her friends for some advice
• Ada asks her friends for some advice.
• Exa’s advice-“make sure he isn’t strictly catholic, make sure he isn’t involved in a cult”
“Don’t let anybody know”
• Puerile-“don’t expect anything, convince yourself that he doesn’t like you so that you don’t get disappointed”
- “subtle clues are bullshit”
- “be extremely aloof like you don’t care about him. Guys like to conquer.”
- “ignore him habitually”
• Drea-
“Love is instinct. Don’t think too much.”
• Charisma-
“Make sure you are always surrounded by many people. Act as though you are important.”

The girl tries to follow the advice of her friends but in the process she makes a fool out of herself
• Her conversations with Siyen become more awkward

She becomes even more endearing to the bad boy
• Siyen just laughs and thinks that Ada is so charming.
• Ada decides to just be herself.

Girl and bad boy become an item
• Siyen asks Ada to the prom.
• They become an item

Friends of bad boy and girl meet and a conflict erupts
• Siyen decides to throw a pre-prom party and he asks Ada to invite her friends so that they can meet Siyen’s friends.
• Siyen’s friends:
- Myrhz: introversive hot guy
- Charlize: beautiful girl who is always around Myrhz, gets high grades, party girl, slut, head of the “Red Laces” (band of kinky-Myrhz-loving followers)
- Tarrah: party girl, bimbo blond type
- Chiel: bulimic
- Greg: cool jock, large man
- Ash: hits on every girl he sees
• The two groups clash:
- Puerile tells Greg to “stop devouring the universe” when he was eating a humungous sandwich, Ada tried to explain that Puerile was really like that and that she did not mean any offense but they did not understand that.
- Exa tries to talk to Tarrah about her blasphemous insights but Tarrah is too dumb to understand.
- Charisma becomes friendly with the Red Laces. They start off well but when the Red Laces offer alcohol to Charisma and she refuses. They do not understand why she does not want to drink so they make fun of her. It is then revealed that her mother used to be a drunkard and that her mother’s drinking habit is the reason why the family lost most of their wealth.
- Drea is so gullible and trusting that she lets Ash take her to a room. He tries to have sex with her. She screams and screams. Ada and Siyen come to her rescue.
• Ada’s friends are too weird for the cool friends of Siyen while Siyen’s friends seem too cold for Ada’s friends.

EXTERNAL OBSTACLES TO RELATIONSHIP: The friends of both the bad boy and the girl say they don’t support the relationship and they try to break them up • Red Laces and Ada’s friend create a temporary alliance because they both want to break Siyen and Ada apart.

INTERNAL OBSTACLES IN RELATIONSHIP: the girl tries to change the bad boy and their relationship suffers • The bad boy characteristics of Siyen:
o Drinking
o Smoking
o Looking at other girls
• How she tries to change him:
o Subtle hints
o Then trying to hide his cigarettes and erase text messages from girls
o Refuses to go to a bar with him
o Then blatantly tells him to quit his vices.
• He promises to change.

Girl begins to have doubts about the relationship
• Ada discovers cigarettes in Siyen’s bag.
• Ada realizes that she and Siyen are totally different.

Girl and good boy unexpectedly meet and their meeting becomes subtly romantic • Ada gets in trouble for writing a subversive paper.
• She is made to do community service (garbage collector).
• Myrhz sees her and rescues her.
• It is revealed that Myrhz’ family owns the school. The school is named after and owned by his mother.
• Ada asks what else do they own and Myrhz tells her that they also own the Mashla Airlines, Morweiz Hotels, Malcheirie Restaurants (all named after and owned by his older siblings) and Madge Yachts (named after and owned by his father).
• Myrhz takes Ada back to his house
• Ada remembers Myrhz’ room because they used to play there together when they were kids.
• Ada points to different toy airplanes and says “Hey I remember this. This was the time when…”
• Ada sees an airplane that had a keyhole in it. Ada asks why there is a keyhole to that airplane and asks if they can open it.
• Myrhz seems pissed off by her question and he asks her to just shower and gives her new clothes.

There’s a magical moment where they realize they like each other but they do not verbally admit it
• They are eating and the maid comes in. The maid recognizes Ada and is surprised to see her there.
• Maid: It’s been so long since I last saw you here, Ada.
• The maid reminds them of their childhood romance.
• They blush.

A confrontation occurs between the good boy and the bad boy
• Siyen visits Myrhz and is shocked to discover that Ada is there.
• There is some sort of tension between Siyen and Myrhz.
• Siyen and Myrhz fight about the new color combination of their basketball jackets but clearly they are fighting about another thing.

The girl finds out that the bad boy is really such an ass
• During the prom, Siyen suspiciously excuses himself.
• Siyen disappears for a long time.
• Myrhz asks Ada to dance.
• Ada rejects him and says she’s waiting for Siyen.
• Siyen still is no where to be found.
• Ada gets irritated and decides to dance with Myrhz.
• After a few minutes on the dance floor, the song changes to a slow song.
• Ada hesitates.
• Myrhz assures her that they aren’t doing anything wrong.
• In the middle of the dance, Ada tells him she can’t do this because it’s not fair to Siyen.
• Myrhz reveals where Siyen went.
• He brings Ada to the garden where Siyen is.
• She sees Siyen making out with Ynize Puttha.
• Ada gets more angry at Myrhz and says a lot of hurtful words to Myrhz.

The girl breaks up with the bad boy
• Siyen and Ada break up.

The girl decides to leave
• Ada feels so heartbroken. She doesn’t want to stay in Naza anymore. Her father reminds her that he wanted her to continue her studies in France (Her father resides in France. Her father and mother are divorced).
• Ada decides to go to France.

Once they are apart, they realize that they are perfect for each other
• In the airplane, Ada’s mind seems to be drifting away. She is brought back to reality when she hears the baby boy beside her crying. “You broke it! You broke it!” the boy says. Mother says “No honey, you really open it using this key.” Ada looks at the toy and sees the exact replica of the plane with the keyhole that she saw in Myrhz’ room. She asks the mother where she got it. The mother says the flight attendant was selling some awhile ago. Ada buys the souvenir. The toy is called “Message in an airplane.” There’s a warning: do not put valuable objects inside as all airplanes can be opened by the same key. She buys one and opens it. As she holds the key, it triggers the memory that was connected to the object.
• She remembers that she was the one who gave that plane to Myrhz. She inserted a message in it and told Myrhz that she will keep the key. She had told Myrhz that she will only open it when he is mature enough to understand the message.
• Ada realizes she loves Myrhz and that Myrhz loves her too.
• She asks the flight attendant when the next flight to America will be. The flight attendant tells her most flights are full because it was holiday season. More likely it might take a week before she can get a flight back to America.

GRAND GESTURE/ CHASING SCENE? Unique expression of love
• When the plane lands, they are not in France. Ada enters a pavilion of a thousand roses. Myrhz emerges. “I decided to redirect your flight”
They express their love for each other and live happily ever after • Myrhz has the airplane and they open it. It contains a piece of paper that says “I love you.”
• They confess their love for each other and live happily ever after.

OTHERS
Accidents Everytime Ada and Myrhz meet, an accident occurs
1.) Ada and Myrhz crashed into Siyen’s large birthday cake because Charlize was trying to flirt with Myrhz while Myrhz was avoiding Charlize because he wanted to talk to Ada.
2.) Ada and Myrhz fall into the big pumpkin during the Halloween party. Ada was standing with Siyen near the edge of the plank that was stationed on top of the pumpkin. Siyen was playfully threatening to let her walk the plank. Suddenly Siyen got distracted because the seductive teacher Ynize walked into the room. He let go of Ada and she lost her balance. Myrhz tried to save her but he fell in as well.


Research method:
• Read romantic comedies