- 6 minutes ago
No One Is Irreplaceable FULL
Category
🎥
Short filmTranscript
00:00The first year of Ethan and my best friend Lily's business arrangement.
00:04Ethan threw himself off a third floor balcony, broke his leg, and still managed to swear to his parents.
00:10Claire is the only person I'll ever love.
00:14Lily held me while I cried all night, never leaving my side.
00:18Don't worry. Once we're in charge, I'll give Ethan back to you.
00:24I'll keep an eye on him. I won't let him hurt you.
00:28Everyone said I was lucky. A boyfriend who loved me to the bone, and a best friend who felt like
00:33family.
00:33But five years later, I slid Lily's pregnancy report across the table to Ethan.
00:37Lily is my fiancé. Her being pregnant is perfectly normal.
00:44Don't play these games to get my attention again, understand?
00:47Five years of fighting. Five years of screaming.
00:53Ethan, you always told me to wait! I waited five years!
00:57And this is what I got!
00:59I'm done wasting my time on you. We're over!
01:03Saw the suitcase I'd already packed.
01:05Dropped onto the couch like he had all the time in the world.
01:09You packed pretty fast.
01:11But I bought everything in there.
01:13You sure it's yours to take?
01:16Claire, can you even survive without me?
01:18Just like every time before, over five years, I'd always back down.
01:23Lily spent the best years of my life on me.
01:25I can't betray her.
01:27Ethan gave Lily his warmth, his kisses, his body.
01:30The glaring photos of them in bed were like countless sharp knives, stabbing me raw and bloody.
01:35But before I could even say a word, he'd always come rushing back.
01:43Baby, Lily said she'd never experienced intimacy.
01:46I just wanted to give her something.
01:48Just once, I swear!
01:50That means nothing!
01:51I believed him.
01:52But what I received were increasingly explicit videos of their intimate moments.
01:56I couldn't take his betrayal.
01:58I screamed at him, hit him, fell apart.
02:00That even got him hospitalized.
02:01I'd said break up countless times.
02:04His attitude changed from initial panic and helplessness to increasing indifference.
02:14I don't want any of your things.
02:17No one in this world can't live without someone else.
02:20I don't want any of your things.
02:28Lily, why are you here?
02:34This place is a mess.
02:37She stumbled.
02:38Ethan grabbed her hand right in front of me, matching wedding bands.
02:45I'm so sorry.
02:46Today's my prenatal appointment.
02:48I'm sorry to interrupt.
02:50After today, I'll have him come see you, okay?
02:53She's rabid right now, biting everyone she can reach.
02:56Why are you explaining anything to her?
02:58I have no interest in seeing her.
02:59Let her stand there and wait.
03:05I picked up my things and went to the hospital.
03:08The moment I walked into the lobby,
03:10Ethan, who couldn't stand dirt or mess,
03:12was crouched on the floor, gently massaging Lily's calves.
03:16Focused, like he was holding something priceless.
03:18I wasn't trying to watch.
03:20I turned and headed toward my department.
03:22I didn't expect Lily to be waiting for me in the hallway.
03:24When she saw me...
03:25Claire, while I'm pregnant, can you please stop seeing Ethan?
03:28The baby still needs its father around.
03:30You love Ethan so much.
03:31You wouldn't want something to happen to his child, would you?
03:34She pulled out a thick envelope of cash,
03:36right there in the hallway.
03:37In front of everyone, she pushed it into my arms.
03:43Consider this your compensation.
03:46I heard someone call me a whore.
03:47Claire!
03:48Lily heard it too.
03:49I'm sorry, Claire.
03:50I didn't mean for it to come out like that.
03:54Just keep your distance from Ethan for now.
03:57The baby needs its father.
04:03Lily, you've been playing this for years.
04:06You got what you wanted.
04:08Are you happy now?
04:12Claire, I said the wrong thing.
04:14Please don't be angry.
04:19You hit a pregnant woman!
04:21What is wrong with you?
04:24Get on your knees and apologize to Lily.
04:27Or I promise you, I won't let this go.
04:31For the thousandth time, Ethan took her side without asking a single question.
04:36Before, I would have fought back.
04:38Demanded the truth.
04:39Stayed until I'd proven I did nothing wrong.
04:42But now I just felt tired.
04:44Lily knew me well enough.
04:45Before I said a word, she tugged at Ethan's sleeve.
04:49Please don't talk to Claire like that.
04:52I tripped.
04:53It was my fault.
04:56You don't need to protect her.
04:58You both know what she's like.
05:00Claire, if you want to walk out of here, you better apologize to Lily.
05:04Right now!
05:06Check the footage.
05:08You'll see what happened.
05:17You think you can just walk away after hurting Lily?
05:21Ethan, stop it!
05:23I told you I fell!
05:25Let go of her, please!
05:27My scalp felt like it was tearing.
05:29I kept my expression tight.
05:32The man who used to panic over a paper cut on my hand
05:35was looking at me now like I was nothing.
05:38Stop being dramatic.
05:39You're not some delicate thing like Lily.
05:42You can handle a little pain.
05:44Please!
05:45No!
05:52Apologize.
05:52That face, familiar and unrecognizable at the same time,
05:56made my vision blur.
05:5818 years old.
05:59He was reckless back then.
06:01Made enemies.
06:02Got himself in trouble.
06:03I took a knife meant for him.
06:06He held me.
06:08His eyes red.
06:09Sobbing so hard he couldn't breathe.
06:11He promised he'd never let anything hurt me again.
06:14Now every wound I had came from him.
06:17I closed my eyes.
06:18Breathed.
06:19I won't apologize for something I didn't do.
06:22Ethan, that's enough!
06:23Lily choked out the words and reached for me.
06:25Ethan moved her behind him.
06:26Then his palm came across my face.
06:28Lily went still.
06:29The crying stopped.
06:30She threw herself over me.
06:32Ethan didn't care.
06:33He pulled her into his arms.
06:35Gently.
06:36Like she was the one who'd been hit.
06:37His eyes passed over the red mark blooming on my face.
06:40I'm warning you for the last time.
06:42What happened between us?
06:43It's on both of us for what we did to Lily.
06:45You want to be angry?
06:46Take it out on me.
06:47But if you ever touch Lily again, you will pay for it a thousand times over!
06:51I dragged myself off the floor.
06:53You gave yourself to her.
06:55I needed him back.
06:56What exactly do I owe her?
06:58I didn't wait for the rest.
07:00Lay down on the bed.
07:02Couldn't sleep.
07:05A text from Lily.
07:06I didn't reply.
07:11Hey.
07:12I'm at the airport.
07:14I'll be in the city soon.
07:14My old colleague from grad school had reached out.
07:18A strong research opportunity, he said.
07:20Did I want in?
07:22Once, I was the person people talked about.
07:25Sharp.
07:26Ambitious.
07:26Going places.
07:28I gave all of that up for Ethan.
07:30Waited for the future he promised.
07:32But just as I was about to board...
07:42Miss Claire, I thought you had some sense.
07:45I didn't expect you was on Lily.
07:49You did something wrong.
07:51There are consequences.
07:52Lily stood just behind her.
07:54She didn't look surprised.
07:56She looked away.
07:58Her lips moved.
07:59Barely.
08:00She was saying,
08:01I'm sorry, Claire.
08:01You wouldn't let Ethan go.
08:03I had no other choice.
08:05Please don't hate me.
08:06The security men shoved me to the floor.
08:09Something went out of me all at once.
08:11I actually thought Lily was my best friend.
08:13I had no idea she'd do this.
08:15Again and again.
08:17Ethan's mother had a butler bring in a long leather whip.
08:19This is how this family handles problems.
08:23That it's being used on you is almost an honor.
08:27I wrestled out from under the hands, pinning me down.
08:30Ethan and I are already broken up.
08:31Can't take responsibility for what you did,
08:34so you're making things up.
08:35You've gotten used to doing whatever you want.
08:38A little discipline, it's good for everyone.
08:43They dragged me into this twisted situation.
08:46Both of them.
08:46Ethan, I said we're done.
08:49Are you deaf?
08:50No matter what I said, they looked straight through me.
08:53Women like you, the second you get a taste of money,
08:56you never let go.
08:58Break up?
08:59Who do you think you're fooling?
09:02She gave the order.
09:03The first blow landed across my back.
09:06The pain turned my vision white.
09:08My whole body was cold sweat.
09:10My face twisted.
09:12Lily had gone pale.
09:14Something tore loose inside me.
09:16Iron filled my mouth.
09:18A mouthful of blood hit the floor.
09:20Lily threw herself in front of me, crying.
09:23Lily!
09:24What are you doing?
09:25Don't you dare take a hit for her.
09:27She's not worth it.
09:28When Ethan looked at me, there was something in his face I hadn't expected.
09:32Resentment.
09:33Ethan picked up the whip.
09:34He brought it down across my already ruined back.
09:37Why can't you just be still for once?
09:39Lily is pregnant.
09:40She can't take the stress.
09:42I thought once the pain was bad enough, it would go numb.
09:44But when Ethan's hand came down on wounds that were already bleeding,
09:48I felt something deeper than my body break.
09:51His eyes were red.
09:52He raised the whip again.
09:54Claire, I swear I'm just...
09:55Lily clamped her hand over his mouth before he finished.
09:57He was going to say he regretted ever loving me.
10:00I let out a quiet, following laugh.
10:02Ethan shoved me into a car.
10:04He was going to keep me locked up.
10:22I held the pain back, stumbled to the floor-to-ceiling window.
10:29What, you gonna pull the suicide card now?
10:32You're not a kid, Claire.
10:36Ethan, I regret ever loving you.
10:38If this is what it takes to cut you out of my life,
10:41then fine.
10:43You don't get to say that.
10:45Lily and I sacrifice so much for you.
10:47You don't get to give up.
10:48It's my life.
10:50I get to decide.
10:54I jumped.
10:55The last thing I saw was the panic on Ethan's face.
10:58Claire, don't!
11:22Ethan, are you out of your mind?
11:25Get back from there!
11:34What happened?
11:37You said you were going to keep her here.
11:40Where's Claire?
11:41Ethan turned his head.
11:43Claire's gone.
11:53You're joking, right?
11:55Claire is tough.
11:56She wouldn't actually do it.
11:59Ethan, you're trying to scare me, aren't you?
12:03You're trying to scare me, aren't you?
12:05We both did this.
12:08We drove her to it.
12:14No.
12:16No, that's not true.
12:18Claire was her best friend.
12:21How could she have driven Claire to this?
12:31We've both been played.
12:33Ethan, think about it.
12:35Claire can swim.
12:37Don't you remember?
12:39She's doing this to force us apart.
12:46Call people.
12:48We have to find her.
12:49We can't let her win.
12:57You're right.
12:58Claire's petty.
12:59We just have to find her.
13:01Ethan put out the word and sent people into the water.
13:05But both of them were forcing themselves not to think about what my body had already been through.
13:10They didn't want to be the ones who killed me.
13:13They couldn't live with it hanging over them.
13:15So they told themselves I was alive and kept searching.
13:19Every day for a month.
13:21The longer it went, the less hope there was.
13:27My face floated up in his mind.
13:30Maybe she was never coming back.
13:32That thought spread through him like something infectious.
13:36All those years he'd kept himself between two women.
13:47I'm still carrying your child.
13:50Can you please control yourself?
13:53Ethan's gaze dropped to her stomach.
13:56The small, visible curve.
14:00Lily, after the baby comes, I don't want to see you again.
14:03I'll give you whatever you need, but don't come back.
14:08Because if Claire comes home and sees you, she won't like it.
14:13Lily's face drained white.
14:15She'd spent the past weeks accepting that Claire wasn't coming back.
14:19She'd already started making arrangements.
14:21Why? We worked so hard to get here.
14:24The baby needs both of us.
14:26Do you remember what you are?
14:28You were her best friend.
14:29I was her boyfriend.
14:31What exactly do you think I'm going to build with you?
14:38Don't say another word.
14:40After the baby, I'm dissolving the engagement.
14:42Both families will be told.
14:45My wife's name was always going to be Claire's.
14:47I failed her.
14:53When she comes back, I'll spend whatever time I have making it up to her.
14:57Lily pressed her lips together and said nothing.
15:00But she made calls in the dark.
15:03Quietly worked to pull back the people Ethan had sent to find me.
15:07Claire, I'm sorry.
15:08But you're gone.
15:09I still have to think about my own future.
15:11I hope you can forgive me.
15:13Would you stop eating my food?
15:24Okay, okay.
15:26I'm done.
15:26Happy?
15:29You can't eat heavy food right now.
15:31It's bad for your recovery.
15:33Do you want to end up back in the hospital?
15:36I met his glare and looked down, appropriately chastened.
15:39Fine.
15:40I get it.
15:41You don't have to lecture me.
15:43He finally let it go and left the room.
15:46I stretched out on the bed and stared out the window.
15:49Three years ago, when I jumped from that beach house, I'd already pressed the emergency
15:54locator on my watch.
15:56Something he and I had built together back in grad school.
16:00It let him know where I was at any time.
16:04After I hit the water, he tracked the signal and pulled me out.
16:14But my body had taken a serious amount of damage.
16:17I spent a year in the hospital before they let me go.
16:21To cheer me up, he made a habit of finding out what Ethan and Lily were up to and reporting
16:25back.
16:28Ethan kept searching for me.
16:30Lily's people kept quietly blocking the search.
16:33Ethan found out.
16:35They had a bad fight.
16:36During the struggle, Lily's stomach hit the corner of a table.
16:39Seven months along, the baby didn't make it.
16:43Lily lost any chance of having children.
16:58After that, Ethan cut the engagement completely.
17:01Made it official with both families.
17:07His mother nearly had a breakdown.
17:09Two people who'd been hiding their love from me for years, sneaking around behind my back.
17:15After I was gone, they fell apart on their own.
17:20Two people who betrayed everything they were given.
17:32Keep it down.
17:33The professor is still asleep.
17:34Honestly, when I heard all of it, I felt nothing.
17:38What they liked was the thrill of it.
17:40The secrecy.
17:41The fact that I was right there and didn't know.
17:44Once I was gone, there was nothing left to burn.
17:49Eventually, my body healed enough.
17:51Once I had something to focus on, the past started to feel like it happened to someone
17:56else.
17:56The university had a large formal event.
17:59Our professor didn't want to go and shoved us out of the lab to attend in his place.
18:04He sends us out because he doesn't want to be here and doesn't even make sure we get fed
18:08properly.
18:09Unbelievable.
18:16There's a full spread right in front of you and you're still complaining?
18:19I'm looking out for you.
18:21You can't survive on this kind of food.
18:22I was actually holding one out toward my mouth when Ethan appeared out of nowhere.
18:29Let go!
18:34Is he your new boyfriend?
18:36Is that why you left me?
18:39Was it always him?
18:41I frowned.
18:44Don't put words in my mouth.
18:45Let go of me.
18:46Now!
18:47He still didn't hear it.
18:48Or he didn't care.
18:49He pulled me in closer.
18:50I've been looking at you for so long.
18:52Claire, I'm not letting you go anywhere.
18:54Not again.
18:55Before I could say anything, Ethan made a sharp sound and went down.
18:59Don't touch her with your filthy hands.
19:00You don't deserve to.
19:03Who do you think you are?
19:05Claire is my girlfriend.
19:06This has nothing to do with you.
19:08People around us had started to look.
19:10I wasn't interested in making a scene.
19:12I picked up a glass of wine and threw it in Ethan's face.
19:15If you haven't lost your mind completely, you'll remember we broke up a long time ago.
19:19Ethan stared at our hands.
19:21Because of him, what is he to you?
19:25I said it clearly, one word at a time.
19:28None of your business.
19:30You don't have the right to ask me anything.
19:32Ethan?
19:33Something collapsed behind his eyes.
19:36I walked out of the event with my colleague and found a pharmacy nearby.
19:41I carefully cleaned the red mark on his hand.
19:44He grinned like an idiot.
19:46What are you smiling at?
19:48We're going to hear about this from the professor.
19:50He shrugged it off.
19:51Ran his thumb lightly across the back of my hand.
19:54I never liked that guy.
19:55But you were set on him, so there was nothing I could do.
19:59Now I finally got to do something about it.
20:02I'm glad, Claire.
20:03His eyes were bright.
20:04Only one thing in them.
20:06Me.
20:07My throat went tight.
20:08Idiot.
20:09I let all of that go a long time ago.
20:11He tightened his hand around mine.
20:13He held my gaze.
20:14But I didn't.
20:14His ears went red.
20:16He didn't look away.
20:17Quiet, but certain.
20:18I didn't let it go.
20:19Something in me that had been still for a long time started to move.
20:23Just as he was slowly leaning in, a voice came from behind us.
20:26Claire, can we talk?
20:28She was standing under a streetlight.
20:30I didn't want to say yes, but something in her eyes stopped me.
20:34I nodded.
20:35Inside the coffee shop, she wrapped both hands around her cup and didn't speak for a long time.
20:41I thought the three of us would be in each other's lives forever.
20:44When I first found out what they'd done, I was hurt.
20:47But a bigger part of me wanted to step aside for them.
20:50It was Lily who couldn't stand being seen as the one who betrayed her.
20:53So she kept promising me it meant nothing.
20:55That she just wanted to know what a normal relationship felt like.
20:59And she kept sending me those videos anyway.
21:02Over and over.
21:04Pushing at me.
21:05Testing me.
21:06She wore away every good thing I'd kept for her.
21:09If you don't have anything to say, I'm leaving.
21:12Lily grabbed my hand in a panic.
21:13Under my flat stare, her grip loosened.
21:16She let go.
21:18Claire.
21:19I'm sorry.
21:20I just needed to say it once.
21:22I'm sorry.
21:22Her eyes moved to my face.
21:24Are you feeling better?
21:25Are you okay?
21:26I nodded once and turned to go.
21:29Her voice followed me.
21:31Is that man your boyfriend now?
21:33Does he love you?
21:34Not yet.
21:35But he loves me.
21:37I'm glad, Claire.
21:38I really am.
21:40You deserve to be happy.
21:42She said it like we were still close.
21:44Like nothing had happened.
21:45We both knew better.
21:47The day we were heading back to the city, Ethan showed up somehow.
21:50Claire, are you leaving again?
21:53Ethan, I gave everything I had to that relationship.
21:56I never did anything to deserve what you did to me.
21:59So why did you keep hurting me?
22:01He opened his mouth.
22:02Lily and I are done.
22:03We have been for a long time.
22:05Claire, I just want to make it right.
22:07Let me make it right.
22:08Come back.
22:09He dug through his bag, the one he'd thrown in the trash.
22:12I kept it.
22:14Claire, can we start over?
22:16I picked it up and dropped it into the drain at my feet.
22:19Every time I look at you, all I see is everything that hurt me.
22:22If you have even a little bit of conscience left, stay out of my life.
22:26I walked away and walked forward.
Comments