MY GRANDKIDS

Story by,

Robert U. Manning

Screenplay to be written

NOW CASTING

Mr. Hill a middle age married man is happily in love with his wife and the two of them lives a nice quiet lifestyle. They are trying desperately to conceive a child. Mr. Hill lives a secrete relationship with his two young grandkids who do not exist, but he expects they will someday and feels he may never get to meet them. Mr. Hill named his grandkids Telisha and Cory and he talks to them in his mind. Mr. Hill has hidden family pictures, money, and a journal about his life, and other family sentimental gifts for them to discover after his death. Mr. Hill loves the imaginary relationship he has with his grandkids, and he believes they will exist someday and all of the family treasures he has set aside will be theirs. Mr. Hill begins to become obsessed with this relationship as he tries to teach the grandkids right from wrong. Mr. Hill imagines that he drives the kids to school in the mornings and picks them up in the afternoon. He watches TV with them and is attempting to enjoy all of the pleasures a grandfather enjoys with his grandkids.  

Until one day… Mrs. Hill discovers the relationship by observing Mr. Hill in the middle of the night serving them chocolate cake and talking and laughing with them. The next morning Mrs. Hill confronts him about what she saw him doing. Mr. Hill attempts to introduce the grandkids to Mrs. Hill and she realizes that he is in deep and has lost touch with reality. Mrs. Hill has Mr. Hill committed for psychiatric evaluation, but he is unable to reach reality because he loves the grandkids he has created in his mind and to him they are real. Mr. Hill has a series of emotional breakdowns because he misses them so much by being in the hospital.  Mrs. Hill is killed in a car accident while Mr. Hill is still in the hospital. Mr. Hill has the ultimate mental breakdown when he is informed about Mrs. Hill’s death and he has a heart attack and dies during an emotional outbreak for his wife and grandkids. The news media broadcast the story and the courts later published notices to search for any other living relatives to inherit their home and belongings. A young man named Cecil came forward. This young man was the son Mr. Hill did not know he had. The young man’s mother never informed him of his natural father until after his death.  Cecil’s DNA confirmed he was indeed Mr. Hill’s son. Cecil inherited the home and moved in with his wife and two kids Telisha and Cory.  

(Transition to a little girl lying in her mother’s lap as her mother is reading this story in a cozy quiet room) And yes you guessed it, says the mother.  Telisha and Cory found the journal, the gifts, money and pictures that Mr. Hill had hidden. Telisha and Cory wrote this book I am reading to you. This book explains all that happened and was later passed down to their kids. I am the daughter of Telisha’s, you are my daughter, and now this book is being held for you to share with your kids someday. The little girl lying in her mother’s lap with sleepy eyes looks up at her teary eyed mother and ask “Why didn’t Mr. Cecil’s mom tell him about his daddy? And the girl’s mother is slow to reply as the little girl can’t keep her eyes open any longer falls asleep “Because she was Mr. Hill’s sister” the mother sadly says with tears falling from her face.