A Tale of True Love

End scene: Rose is sitting at the kitchen table with Jasmine, Lily and Blathnaid. She is depressed over Peter and they have come over to try and help her feel better. At first they were trying to distract her but they can tell it's not working. Blathnaid, Jasmine and Lily start animatedly talking about what should have happened, that Peter should have done such and such an amazing thing for Rose because that's what Rose is worth and Rose sits back at the dinner table looking at her friends, hearing them say that she is worth way more than how Peter treated her. She feels buoyed up by their belief in her worth and their love for her and feels a great rush of appreciation and affection for them. She realizes that she is very lucky to have such amazing friends and that they are her source of 'true love' in life.

Rose: Red head. Normally dons jeans, a tank top, a boyfriend cardigan and sneakers or ballet pumps depending on how she's feeling. Jasmine: Normally dons pair of square glasses, has freckles and long, straight brown hair. Lily: Normally wears a denim skirt, black boots, and leather jacket. Blathnaid: Wavey blonde hair, normally wearing dresses and skirts in pale pastels colours.

Why did it not work out with Rose and Peter -> how did they even get together in the first place? Idea: Peter could just be a bit immature and not want the kind of serious romance that Rose wants, or not be capable of being the man Rose deserves ie. he's not mature enough in himself yet. -> I'm picturing Peter and Rose walking together down a street in Dublin and Peter being very charming to Rose. This could be on their first date. They could kiss somewhere romantic in Dublin. Maybe on the Ha'penny bridge at night? Is that romantic?

Rose, Jasmine, Lily and Blathnaid are friends - but how is this established?

-> Perhaps a scene of rose sitting on her own doodling /doing some studying and seeing Peter from a distance, then Jasmine, Lily and Blathnaid all coming along saying hello to Rose and not noticing that Rose had been looking at Peter, except maybe Blathnaid. Who could be more observant. This should probably take place in college. -> The girls' characters could be introduced now. Lily is the slightly wild child of the group of girls, she likes her men quite a lot. Jasmine is like an older sister figure to Lily and gets exasperated with her frequently. Blathnaid is very quiet and normally sits observing her friends. As stated above she is the one who observes Lily watching Peter from a distance. To establish that Lily is the slightly wild, man-loving one of the group she could talk about one of the college professors as being very attractive and Jasmine would react 'Lily!!!'. Perhaps the college professor that Rose is doing the homework for. Or she could make a dirty joke about him. Now I'm thinking that Lily should probably have full-on slept with the college professor, just talking about him being attractive would be much more normal. A lot of college girls do this, it doesn't mean they are man-crazy/wild. So I think Jasmine is going to ask Rose is that for O'Carroll's class. Rose will respond that she needs to get it in on time for him and Lily might say something like that she might get away with it because O'Carroll knows very little about timing. That would be where Jasmine exclaims 'Lily!!' and Rose could have been taking a drink and started coughing and spluttering at that. Blathnaid can smile and shake her head. Lily probably laughs or grins at their reactions.

So there's going to be a party, this is where Rose will actually meet Peter for the first time. Blathnaid will have been noticing Rose watching him in the first scene and maybe say 'he's cute, you should go talk to him' quietly to Rose. This could be while Jasmine is has started asking Lily did she really sleep with Professor O'Carroll. Then Rose had started back on her homework but looked up at Peter too, and Blathnaid notices and makes the remark to Rose. The shot would be of Rose and Blathnaid talking with Jasmine and Lily talking in the background. Rose will be like 'What should I say?' because she is young and shy of the guy she likes.

I think that maybe the movie could start of with a scene of Rose writing in her diary. She's writing about the idea of true love maybe and how she has just started one her journey towards it today. It's an overhead shot of her writing panning down from the left. I'd picture gentle, romantic music over it. So there's an over-voice of what she is writing in her diary about true love and how she thinks/hopes that she's on her journey to true love because of what happened. She can start saying 'I was sitting in college doing my homework and my best friends Lily, Blathnaid and Jasmine came over...' her voice can fade out and the scene can fade into the scene I've been writing above.

In the end scene there can be an over-voice explaining how she realizes that she has always had her true love in her four best friends.

I think a key point in this movie is that Rose is a girl who doesn't really know her own worth. In the end scene she realizes what amazing friends she has because they basically keep showing her her worth, in the end she comes to realize her own worth as well as just how amazing her friends are for helping her come to it.