Flipped

BRYCE:
All I ever wanted

was for Juli Baker to leave me alone.

It all began in the summer of 1957,

before the start of second grade.

STEVEN:
Here we are.

PATSY:
Ha, ha.

- What do you guys think?

LYNETTA:
I like this place.

BRYCE:
It's cool.

LYNETTA:
Uh, what color is my room?

Just you wait.

BRYCE:
Let's see what's inside.

STEVEN:
Hey, come on, buddy Bryce.

Why don't, uh, you and I

go help unload the van...

...and the womenfolk here

can get in the kitchen and start setting up.

Okay, Dad.

BRYCE:
For me, it was the beginning

of what would be...

...more than half a decade of

strategic avoidance and social discomfort.

- Hi, I'm Juli Baker.

- Hey, hey, what are you doing?

Don't you want some help?

No. There's some

valuable things in there.

- How about this one?

- No, no, no.

Run home. Your mother's

probably wondering where you are.

Oh, no, my mom knows where I am.

She said it's fine.

BRYCE:
It didn't take long to realize

this girl could not take a hint.

- It's crowded in here with three people.

- I don't mind.

BRYCE:
Of any kind.

- You wanna push this one together?

Bryce, isn't it time for you

to go help your mother?

Huh?

Oh, yeah.

BRYCE:

I mean, nothing would stop her.

I was about to tell her to get lost

when the weirdest thing happened.

I couldn't believe it.

There I was holding hands

with this strange girl.

- How did I get into this mess?

PATSY:
Well, hello.

- I see you've met my son.

- Uh-huh.

BRYCE:
Finally, I did the only manly

thing available when you're 7 years old.

[BELL RINGING]

However, my troubles were far from over.

The minute I walked

into Miss Yelson's classroom...

Bryce? You're here.

BRYCE:

...it was clear:

School would not be a sanctuary.

[CHILDREN LAUGHING]

Hey, Bryce, where's your girlfriend?

BRYCE:

I was branded for life.

Hey, Bryce,

why don't you ask her to marry you?

GIRLS [SINGING]:

Bryce and Juli sitting in a tree

K-l-S-S-l-N-G

BRYCE:

My first year in town was a disaster.

GIRL:

Look at them.

BRYCE:

And the next three weren't much better.

But finally, in the sixth grade,

I took action.

I hatched the plan.

Sherry.

Sherry, wait up.

Hi, Bryce. Heh.

BRYCE:

I asked out Sherry Stalls.

I was wondering if you wanted to go...

BRYCE:
To full appreciate

the brilliance of this plan...

...you have to understand

that Juli hated Sherry Stalls...

...though I never understood why.

Sherry was nice, friendly

and she had a lot of hair.

At first, my mother wouldn't let me

get my ears pierced, but I begged...

BRYCE:
The idea was that Sherry

would eat with me...

...maybe we'd walk around together,

and hopefully Juli would lose interest.

But I still can't get the hoops till I'm 16.

Oh, that's a shame.

So Melanie wanted to get her ears pierced,

but of course her mother said no.

So she threw a fit and smashed

her Johnny Mathis Greatest Hits album...

[LAUGHS]

...and she got grounded, so now she can't

come to my pajama sleepover party.

BRYCE:

Things were unfolding quite nicely.

What are you doing

for your science project?

BRYCE:
That is, until my supposed

best friend, Garrett Einbinder...

...took an interest in Sherry himself.

I was thinking of showing how split ends

react with different hair conditioners.

That's fascinating.

BRYCE:
Loyalty gave way to desire

and Garrett, the turncoat...

...told Sherry what I was up to.

SHERRY:

Jerk.

BRYCE:

She didn't take it well.

Word got back to Juli, and pretty soon

she started up with the goo-goo eyes again.

Only this time it was worse.

She started sniffing me.

That's right, sniffing me.

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