Here is Mr Vaughn’s entry into the Romantic Comedy Challenge. For those of you who have asked me why I call him that…well he looks a little like Vince Vaughn and, as I promised in an earlier blog, I only use code names!
Mr Vaughn also stretches the cheesiness factor. If you want him to win, ‘like’ or ‘comment’ on this post or on the post on our Facebook page.
I feel the need to note that Mr Vaughn has written this as more of a movie script than I did and I give him a gold star for naming the celebrities he’d cast – especially Channing Tatum. As another aside he gets an extra gold star for coming up with this idea and being an awesome sport about the blog.
To read more about the challenge and all of its rules and the all important prize, click here!
Mr Vaughn’s Romantic Comedy Storyline
Jerry was always quite, shy a little bit of an introvert but always nice. A straight A student but no nerd. He had his group of friends, he was not the most popular boy at his school in Ohio but people knew he existed all the same.
You see Jerry moved here (San Francisco) a few years ago from Ohio with his mom after she remarried a wealthy business man.
Jerry’s dad left when he was 5 has had no contact since which has left him in a sort of limbo state and has become introverted.
But his new family has welcomed him with open arms, one older brother who is away in California at college and an older sister who is married with two kids.
Their mother died about 8 years ago and have welcomed his mother in as a friend and as a welcome new wife for their father.
The lived in a large house in the leafy suburbs of San Fran. They moved in at the start of the summer much to Jerry’s disappointment leaving all his friends before the summer started. He wanted to have one last summer with them. But he wanted his mum to be happy so did not kick up too much of a fuss.
Leslie his new older sister welcomed him and introduced him into their family he spent the first few weeks there during the day Leslie’s husband Paul (both characters from “This is 40”, the married couple) was a bit of a nerd and they got on well being into photography and video games etc.
His new older brother he had not met yet, Todd (Channing Tatum for the girls!) was still away at college and was not due home for a few weeks. Eventually he did.
To Jerry he was the coolest guy in the world and drove an old mustang and had that all American bad boy image that you knew all the girls loved and no guy messed with.. But according to Leslie he was a sweetheart.
Todd was nice to Jerry, took him in close and helped him a bit showed him around, every where he went everyone knew him, he was of course the most popular kid at school when he was there an edgy jock if you will but a nice one.
He had a creative side too, was into movies and of course sang in a little in a r&b group. He even sang at the prom!
Todd had no serious girlfriend while in school, a few here and there, but there was talk of a new girl in his life now he was in college, she was coming back in a few days to meet all the family.
In the meantime, he and Todd hung out and he was introduced to a few new friends and made a new friend in the next door neighbour’s kid. Mike. (He has to be ginger).
The eagerly awaited day came when the family was going to be introduced to the new girl in Channing’s life. Enter Summer, (Megan Fox for the boys)
So beautiful, so fashionable and edgy and really intimidating, Jerry had only seen women like this on TV before…
He did not immediately take to her as she was so intimidating, but as she worked the room and worked her charm on all the family she finally came and sat next to Jerry after she kept acknowledging him throughout the evening and, with his heart in his mouth he stumbled and stuttered a hello she smiled and sat next to him and they talked for the next few hours.
She was so intelligent and so nice with such a passion for dance and the arts and also a passion for photography like Jerry and so down to earth they got along like a house on fire all summer and, as it turned out Summer lives in San Fran and never met Todd before college.
Summer was always around and always practicing her dancing in the studio out the back of the house which had not being really used since Todd’s mum passed. She was a dance teacher, Todd’s mum.
Jerry used to catch glimpses of Summer’s dancing, she was so beautiful, how could Jerry ever get a girl like this he wondered.
As the holidays rolled on Jerry and Summer became close and he showed her his photography and gave her tips and an old camera he had, she in turn thought him how to dance. As you need to be able to dance in the high school jerry was going to…
So Jerry and Mike had spent their times on the weekend going to some popular clubs in the city Jerry strutting his stuff in the early days trying to get better and working on his confidence.
One night while dancing, he lost his footing and slipped back and knocked over this guy’s drink, which he was not happy about and pushed Jerry and made light of his dancing calling him a cracker, white boys can’t dance….
Jerry squared up to him and he got a punch in the face knocking him out cold.
He came to, with Mike and a beautiful outline of a woman helping him. She was so nice and smelled amazing with such kind words and gentle touch, who was she as Jerry could not see as his glasses were smashed.
The summer was coming to a close and everything was about to change for Jerry as he was about to enter high school with 5000 more students than he was used to and, by all accounts, a new nemesis as the guy that punched him out was the new popular kid at school .
This was going to be a far cry from Ohio where he was little or no one anyway how was he going to fit in here?
Before the summer ended, there was a big tradition of a party by the lake with all the local kids and having a massive blow out at Todd’s dad’s boat house, but this year it was to be in Todd’s dad’s new club, a roof top popular dance club with a pool.
So the night came with all the preparation going on at the club with the guys and Channing’s friends which were all such intimidating characters if you did not know them but they were all so nice such a great group of friends and a welcoming group too, this was truly too good to be true.
As the night kicked off it was awesome, a real club party just like you see on TV and have heard about happened at school but you were never there Jerry thought.
The jocks, the skinny popular hot girls, the quiet goth-like kids, the rockers, the bitchy hot girls.
The night was going so well everything Jerry was living the all American dream. All he wanted now was a girl like Summer…
He was fantasising about her as he was talking to her looking at her lips as she was talking to him imagining what it would be like to kiss such a beautiful woman.
Just then everything went silent and dark around him he could not hear Summer at all he had just caught a glimpse of the most beautiful girl he had ever seen everything moved in slow motion, fireworks went off and flew around his stomach did not even notice Summer walking away which was a first…
With a newfound confidence, he walked after her trying to catch up to her flowing through the crowd.
She went out of site he caught up to her again and just as he was about to reach out and say something she ran into the asshole that had punched him two weeks earlier.
He had caught her and they were having a heated discussion. She was pulling away from him but he was not letting go. Just then Summer stepped in and caught his arm and twisted it up and around at the back of his head…
He was visibly intimidated and immediately backed off. Summer and this goddess hugged like long lost friends. Both girls turned around and headed towards Jerry with smiles on their faces getting more and more excited as they got closer to him, Jerry was in a daze. Were they looking at him or someone behind him, he checked, no!
They both reached Jerry and this goddess hugged him and kissed him on the cheek, this was the girl that had helped him that night and she was also Summers cousin Carla…
Summer left them to get to know each other. It was like they were long lost friends that have not seen each other in years Jerry’s head was spinning.
Summer had told her everything about him, his photography, his dancing lessons she had spent the summer in Europe taking pictures and bumming around.
They laughed for hours, could this be she was more beautiful than Summer, they had more in common she was so nice…
Just then as Jerry was showing off some of his dance moves to her he swung around with a drink in his hand and bumped into that asshole again, and spilled a drink over his shirt. A deafening silence fell around jerry what was going to happen this time?
Carla stepped in between the two of them as the shoving continued, Summer showed up in the middle of all the pushing and shoving which Jerry was not standing back from.
An outside brawl was suggested, but Carla piped up and said no fighting here and just as she said it, Summer announced you should settle this on the dance floor…
Oh shit, Jerry thought, I would nearly prefer go outside!
Carla whispered in his ear, I’ve heard you are an awesome dancer show him up he thinks he is all that!!
Jerry’s nemesis called out to Carla what are you doing with this preppy fool you belong to me… I don’t belong to anyone especially you.
Summer caught Jerry by the hand and said you can do this, just think we are in the studio doing our thing and always look Carla in the eye she likes you, I can tell.
So the crowd parted, with Todd on the decks Jerry got the thumbs up and his favourite dance track started “Flo Rida ft Kesha, Right Round” came over the decks… His head spun as his nemesis took off, oh no he thought he is good.
Just then he caught Carla’s eye and remembered what Summer had said and he was back in the studios in his head and this time Carla was the girl he was trying to impress. He lost sight of his competition as it was his turn to dance and he took off with Carla locking in his gaze he moved like he never moved before remembering all those new dance moves Summer tried to teach him but everything clicked this time and there was no stopping him even putting his own twist on his moves.
The crowd went insane everyone cheering as this once preppy boy in chinos had transformed into the awesome cool kid he never thought he could be, with his new brother on the decks playing to his strengths there was no stopping him and the flow kept coming and the new awesome dance moves kept flowing out of him from nowhere.
His nemesis tried to get back in on it but even he had to admit defeat and moved away into the crowd, no one noticed as everyone was cheering Jerry on in awe of how he was moving..
The music went quiet as it was drowned out by the crowd cheering , Todd slowed it down as everyone joined Jerry on the floor dancing with him and congratulating him … All this time he never too his eyes off Carla.
From across the room she had constantly keep his gaze and her smile got bigger and eventually turned into a coyness and shyness when the music of Jerry’s performance stopped.
It was almost like she was magnetically drawn to him, she felt nervous pushing slowly through the crowd trying to get to Jerry through all the well wishers, she made it to him.
Jerry, full of confidence could not hear anyone just the music and all he could see was the girl of his dreams standing in front of him smiling he pushed two of the earlier bitchy hot girls out of his way walked up to Carla brushed her hair back off her face ran his hand around to the back of her neck cupped her face with his other hand and kissed her in front of everyone without saying a word.
She kissed him back and jumped up wrapping her arms around him and her legs around his waist..
Cut to Jerry walking into his new high school hand in hand with the most beautiful girl he has ever seen…
The Path To Mr Right 