Accidentally Yours
A spilled coffee, a lost book, and two mistaken identities send Michael and Emma into a whirlwind of near misses and viral mishaps as they try to find the stranger who already feels like “the one.”
Michael and Emma’s story begins with an awkward subway encounter. The two share a look of attraction and interest across the subway car. When Michael approaches Emma, the subway car stops, and he falls on Emma and spills coffee on her. In the chaos, Emma can only catch his last name on his NYU ID lanyard as she steps over Michael and gets out at her stop. Emma accidentally leaves her book behind, which has a note to Ming Wei, the publisher. Michael picks up the book and mistakenly believes Emma is the publisher, while Emma thinks Michael is an NYU professor instead of a grad student. This mix-up leads to a series of comical mishaps as they try to find each other in the city.
Following their initial meeting, there are several near misses, where only one person sees the other, or they sit only feet apart in a restaurant, all leading to the serendipity of meeting someone. Their best friends assist them in their quest to find the other. Ginny, a young corporate goth female, is Michael’s partner in the struggling bookstore. Emma’s roommate, Cindy, is a freelance photographer for Lesbian websites and online magazines. When Ginny and Cindy get Michael and Emma together at the bookstore, it is Ginny and Cindy who are also attracted to each other.
At the bookstore, Michael is on the brink of winning Emma over with a romantic gift, but his clumsiness around Emma continues, and he spills scorching hot tea on her lap in the bookstore. To help Emma, Michael pulls her skirt off to prevent serious burns. Insult was added to injury when customers videoed the mortified Emma, and it went viral, which puts their budding relationship on life support.
Besides the issues of gaffes, fate, and misconceptions acting as antagonists, there are two middle-aged people who help to confuse their budding romance. Ming Wei, the publisher, who Michael thought was Emma at first, tries to coerce him sexually by offering to publish his book if he has sex with her. Emma finds out about it and thinks it’s Michael who wants this. David Costa, who Emma thought was Michael, is a professor of screenwriting at NYU and hinted that he would help Emma’s screenplay if she were an intimate type of friend. Michael saw them chatting intimately and thought Emma wanted this sugar daddy.
It builds to a climax when Cindy and Ginny arrange a dinner with the couple, along with Ming Wei and David, to settle their differences calmly. Instead, it was a hilarious blow-up. Emma attacks Ming Wei, and Michael goes after David. Emma and Michael attempt to run into each other’s arms romantically, but Michael’s clumsiness is still there. Together, they wipe out a server, and a tray of food falls on them as they lie on the floor for their first kiss.
The story ties all the loose ends into a bow with Emma and Michael in Emma’s bedroom later that night. They talk about Ginny and Cindy hitting it off, and Ming Wei will make the bookstore the showcase for her publishing house’s books and hire Cindy to photograph their book covers. They laugh that David went home with Ming Wei, but David will produce Emma’s script, and Ming Wei will publish Michael’s book. They roll off the bed to the floor in a romantic kiss, which is the only ending this story can have.
Leah Lewis
Just Friends
Serendipity
After a fulfilling career in teaching, counseling, and football coaching, I now devote my time to screenwriting. The discipline and patience I honed as an educator serve me well in this new creative chapter.
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