INTRODUCTION:
NARRATION HERE. The camera cuts to Caroline and Birdie sitting next to each other with a pink background and someone helping them with microphones. As the person moves out of the frame and the camera focuses on the two girls.
“Wait…it’s time? Birdie! It’s time.” could be heard from Caroline’s excited voice. “Hi, I’m Caroline Tesfaye.” She says waving at the camera as the view is switched to a montage of photos and a voiceover done by Mrs. Tesfaye herself.
“I’m a twenty six year old designer with my clothing and beauty brand, “XOLINE”, that launched in 2018 after my dad competed in a little show called “Ru Paul’s Drag Race.” Did I mention my dad’s a drag queen? But you probably know me from being a tik tok princess with millions of followers. Or maybe, because I just married the love of my life, The Weeknd.”
"Is it my turn?" The camera focuses in on a confused Birdie, looking to Caroline for confirmation before turning her attention towards the producer off camera. "Oh! Okay!!! I'm Birdie Shepard!" An excited smile spreads wide across her face as she turns to the camera just before her own little montage of photos flashes across the screen.
"I'm a twenty-four year old actress. Most people probably associate the name 'Shepard' with my family's business, but I think I've done a pretty good job making a name for myself; I've started my own production company 'Fifty-Fifty Films' and I've taken on several projects in film and TV, though most people probably know me as Cassie in 'Euphoria' and most recently made headlines when my engagement to Harry Styles' was announced."
maybe like a montage of pictures of the two of them here as you speak or the headlines??“Birdie has been my best friend for almost ten years, and we’re basically attached at the hip, she’s my platonic soulmate and my soul sister, so it’s only fitting that the party girls do this together.”
ALSO YOU??? if you want
AND NOW THEY’RE HERE TO PROVE YOU WRONG… “But to do that….first? I need to learn to drive.” Caroline says as she laughs a little, making a little face that’s a bit apprehensive.
"There's no one else I'd rather do this with than Caroline. We've been through so much together, so why not this? I think there has always been this, like, stigma surrounding us that we're just these spoiled brats who have everything handed to them on a silver platter..."
Producer: Why have you never learned to drive, Caroline?
Caroline wrinkled her nose and a little sigh escaped her lips as she titled her head to the side as if she was trying to explain perfectly. "So, I was adapted by my dad at barely sixteen and we moved and lived in New York, which is where I met Birdiebeeeee, but we just
didn't drive places. Then things sort of blew up quickly, and I had a driver. Then it just got easier to
not, it was safer and I just sort of put it aside, but now I'm ready to get my prdnl on."
With a laugh, Birdie pulls Caroline into a little side hug. "You've got me as your teacher, what could go wrong?"
narration here. you know the boys wanna make fun of us here.
There's a transition on the screen from the women in confessionals to outside of (someone's house tesfaye/almoststyles) and Birdie's (car information here. bronco. bulit by birdie.fantastic. we love her and her tools.) Caroline skips over to the drivers side door, "Did y'all know that Birdie built this bad boy from scratch?" she said, tapping the door
very gently because she was determined not to break anything. She opened the door, and slid into the very unfamiliar drivers seat. She puts her seat belt on, Caroline to the camera, "someone send me being a safe queen to my husband." she said as she laughs, and gets settled.
"Ah..I mean not completely from scratch." Birdie quickly clarifies, knowing
someone would have something to say if she didn't. a slow grin grows across her lips as she slides into the passenger side, eyeing her best friend in the driver's seat- it's obviously an unusual sight. "Still shocked he agreed to to letting
me be the one to teach you." She chuckles, clicking her seatbelt into place.
Producer "So tell us a little about what made you want to completely rebuild the bronco?" (maybe a couple of pictures of birdie fixing up the bronco here? while birdie gives a little background on the truck?) "I've always been super interested in cars, especially vintage models, but rebuilding one was really to prove to myself and others that I was capable of I guess doing it. I just ended up liking it more than I think anyone- me included, thought I would."
Producer "Do you trust Caroline behind the wheel?"
The camera returns to the two girls sitting in the confessional, Birdie hesitates as she turns to look at her best friend before exhaling a laugh. "Of course! Plus I can fix it if something..yanno..happens." The camera transitions back to the two girls seated in the Bronco. Birdie holds out the keys to the truck, giving them a little jiggle to encourage Caroline to take them. "Today is the last day you'll get to say you don't know how to drive...are you ready?"
MAYBE SOME NARRATIONCaroline couldn't help but let out a squeal as she took the keys, it wasn't everyday someone handed her the keys to their prized possession of cars. "It's the last day of the not knowing how to drive era, and into the whole i'm on my dmv diva era." she said putting the keys in the ignition and feeling more than nervous to start the car, but some how did it. "Let's do this." She said her hands on the wheel in some stereotypical 10 and 2 that she'd read about when she passed her permit test last month in prep for this moment. "I feel like such a bad ass behind the wheel, I can't lie to you, Birdie. Like, you can just go anywhere, anytime. " she said, as if she didn't have a driver to take her places.
Producer: do you think you'll be building cars with Birdie after learning to drive?
The camera zooms in on a half amused, half giggling Caroline. "uh, I don't think so. I'm much more of the let me hand you things or I'll just literally lay on the wheelie under car things and wheel around offering emotional support. I make a joke that Birdie and I make one hell of a woman if you put us together and all our different talents that some how compliment each other, but no, I will not be getting in oil and machine type things. The view is back on the two girls in the car, the car is running and Caroline is working on adjusting her mirrors so that her short self can see.
"Okay, what's next? Mirrors are mirroring, I think. And I'm ready to touch the prndl." she said as even a camera man could be heard holding back a little laugh. "I heard that."
"So, like, put your foot on the-" Birdie stops mid-sentence, you can see from the way her face scrunches that she is just now processing what Caroline has said. "Did you just call it a
prndl? Who are you? London Tipton?" It's just good-natured teasing, Birdie even exhales a giggle as the words leave her mouth. "Anyway, put your foot on the brake and then put the gear shift into drive." Birdie's eyes are on her best friend, ensuring she's doing exactly as instructed before continuing on with instruction. "Great! Check your surroundings and ease onto the gas pedal..." A view of the bronco comes onto the screen, truck tires squealing as the vehicle lurches forward. "Whoa!!" The camera focuses back on the girls, Birde's hand is outstretched to the dash to brace herself, the other grabbing handle above the passenger door. "I said
ease onto the gas "
(maybe a little narrator input here like wonder if Birdie is rethinking using her truck for this now or something before your response)Caroline stops midtracks to look over at Birdie, an amused little smirk turning up the corners of her lips as she tries to say her next statement without laughing, “What do you expect me to call it? The
gear shift? That’s no fun.” she said before returning her hands to the wheel. She was only the slightest bit nervous, mostly because she actually had no idea how to drive. She’d never even really sat behind the wheel. “Okay, okay, surroundings checked…” she said as she looked all around, and then… The camera focuses on Caroline and Birdie, Caroline’s face is very focused and she’s got her hands on the wheel. “Okay, hitting the gas.” she said as she repeated the instructions, she glanced up at her mirror and then she hit the gas entirely too hard and the Bronco launched forward. When the view switches from the Broncos sudden departure to Caroline’s face, she squeals, a nervous panicking sound as she pauses only for half a second before doing the same to the brakes, the Bronco coming to an abrupt but complete stop that causes both women to launch forward slightly. “I’m sorry! What the hell? This thing is so fast, Birdie, ahhh! I didn’t connect that, like, the harder you press the faster you go???” she said talking fast, that southern accent that happened when she was nervous. “I’m sorry! It’s fine, everyone it’s fine, I got this under control.
easeeee on the gas, and we won’t die, right?” she said.
narration hereThe camera zoomed in on Caroline, “I’m going to try again. Keep your seatbelt on, bestie.” she said, and slowly, very slowly, she took her foot off the brake and started to
ease on the gas and the Bronco started inching along. “See? This is good, right? Nice and slow.” The camera zooms in on the speedometer and it’s barely inching 20 miles an hour. “Wow, we’re really picking it up, huh? Speed demons.” Caroline joked. It took her a while but eventually, she made it to the end of the driveway.
Panic is evident on her face as Birdie looks over at Caroline from the passenger seat. "What do you mean? The harder you press the faster it goes that's like driving 101, Caroline!" Realization that this was quite literally Caroline's first time behind the wheel of a vehicle dawns on her the very moment the words leave her mouth. Birdie exhales a slow breath, shaking it off before easing back into the picture of patience. "Yes..you have to take it easy...otherwise we'll be in your living room and I'm not going to be the one calling your husband to explain that." The vehicle begins to move once again, slowly inching forward, Birdie's face lights up with excitement, it's clear she is proud of this progress regardless how minor it may be. "Yes! Look at you, you're driving bestie!!" Her eyes dart towards the speedometer as Caroline maintains her slow and steady speed. "Slowly, but still...you're driving!!" The scene switches to show the Bronco cruising at a low speed down the street of a neighborhood, obviously, the two girls aren't going to chance a new driver in busy Los Angeles traffic. A stop sign comes into view, however the truck doesn't slow, in fact it speeds right through it. "Uhm..hey bestie...did you not see that stop sign?"
Birdie looks over at Caroline, brows furrowing as she realizes sje isn't wearing her glasses. She grimaces, her vision is about as bad as her own- which is horribly bad. "Are you wearing, like, your contacts or something?"
After the little mishap, Caroline took it very seriously. The camera switches back and forth between up close shots of Caroline’s very focused face, Birdie's half amused, all proud face and exterior shots of the bronco inching along.
narration here maybe about like the spongebob ten years l a t e r Just as Birdie is congratulating Caroline for her new found skill of driving 20 miles per hour on a neighborhood street, a car pulled up behind her. Caroline didn’t speed up, instead she flipped her blinkers at least seven times, “Move around me, sir, I’m a student driver and I cannot be trusted.” she said, as the view switched to outside of the window and a car passing with a man blurred in the driver's seat.
Caroline was getting more confident, and starting to drive a tiny bit faster, almost even getting close to the actual 35 mph speed limit. Just as she was about to say how good she thinks she’s gonna be, Birdie asked if she saw the stop sign. “Stop sign?” she asked, looking towards her window and behind them, “Sh*t.” she said using her blinker and pulling over on the side of the street. The camera is now pointed at Caroline from outside of the car with her window down.
Producer: What's happening?
Caroline laughs burying her face in her hands, before dropping them and answering the question. “We’re waiting for my body guard to bring me my contacts so I can see stop signs.” A transition to confessionals is now on the screen, Caroline is covering her face in embarrassment, “Listen, I forgot to put them in, and I didn’t think about bringing my glasses. And I’m kinda used to just walking around in the world blind, so we had to take a teeny tiny driving lesson break for Jordan to bring me my contacts.”
The Bronco is back to being the star of the show, a black suv has pulled up behind it and Jordan (the hot bodyguard is written at the bottom of the screen) has walked up to the drivers side window. “Thank youuuu!” says Caroline as she takes the contact case from him. “Abel says to be careful for the love of god, Caroline Marie.” Jordan tells her and it causes her to groan, rolling up the window to signal she was done talking. After putting in her contacts, “Okay this time, for real, we’re all good. I can see. Hallelu.” she said, “I’m just gonna use the prndl to get in un-park.”
As the camera points to Caroline, Birdie can be seen in the background, knees pulled to her chest giggling to herself. One would think Caroline just told the best joke ever heard, not potentially put their lives in danger by running a stop sign. This was to be expected though, when Birdoline is involved there is bound to be some kind of mishap. With a friendly smile to Jordan, Birdie leans with her elbows crossed on the center console, watching the exchange between the two. Did he just middle name her? Just before the window rolls shut, Birdie is sure to shout her assurances. "She's with me! She's fine!"
If there was one thing that wouldn't be lacking, it was as little bit of Birdoline sass. "I know that man didn't just middle name me." she said as a response to Birdie's reminder that in fact, they had never died....well, at least not today by Bronco.
The Bronco is back on the road, it seems to have amped up from 20 miles -
camera cuts to zoom in to the speedometer - to a whopping 25 mph. Clearly having contacts has given a whole new sense of confidence. The camera view switches to a montage of clips of the two and their experience in learning...or teaching, in Birdie's case to drive.l; a three point turn that looks to be about five points, the truck jerking to a stop as Caroline slams on the breaks to allow a little chipmunk to scamper across, an attempt to parallel park which results in lightly dinking another car (the camera view switches to Birdie slipping her insurance information under the windshield wiper of the other car.)
Producer: "Birdie, how do you think Caroline did today?" The camera pans in on the girls seated in the confessional, Birdie looks over to her best friend with a chuckle. "I mean it started off rocky, but I think she did pretty well for someone whose never been behind the wheel before."
Narrtation here? Maybe something about Birdie being biased and seeing what the driving instructor thinksCaroline looks over at Birdie as she answers the question, she wraps her arms around her and hugs her back. She's smiling, a little bit proud of herself, and it's almost evident on the brunettes face.
Producer:caroline, are you ready for the test?
The camera starts to zoom in on Caroline who's tight lipped and shrugging her shoulders, but not answering as to not spoil the next segment of the show. The camera shifts from production to Caroline and Birdie in her living room walking towards the door. The producer asks from behind the camera, "Catch us up, what's going on today?" Caroline pauses as she's putting things in her purse, "it's been a few days, I've had more lessons and we're on our way to the DMV for my driving test! It's a very exciting day." A quick clip of the girls, with Caroline driving, singing to a little Jesse McCartney all the way to the DMV.
narration about caroline and birdie having special permission for Birdie to be able to ride along for the test.We're next met with the driving instructor who's ready for Caroline's test. He's a shorter, middle aged man, who's half grumpy/half amused with the antics of the girls and the show. "I'm Stan. Let's go." he says as the camera zooms in on Caroline and her pouty face that he's a little grumpy. "Stan doesn't like us." she whispers to Birdie before getting into the drivers side. She checks all her mirrors, and starts the vehicle. The tests begin with Caroline pulling out of the driveway of the DMV. "So, Stan, tell us about
You." Caroline says as she's starting to drive with the directions given by the man in the passenger seat who totally smells like vicks vapor rub. "I know this is the first test I've given that required an emotional support person...." he deadpans
It's obvious that Stan was likely voluntold that he would be the one conducting this test today. It's written all over his grumpy face that he just wants to get this whole thing over with, but there is one thing for certain about the two girls and that is that they aren't going walk out of this situation without trying to get Stan to lighten up..just a bit. The camera focuses in on Stan's face; stonecold emotion, his bushy eyebrows are drawn together causing a deepset wrinkle to etch itself between, his thick, handle bar mustache somehow makes the frown on his face that much...frownier. Birdie leans forward between the two seats, as of on cue, as Stan mentions Caroline needing an emotional support person. "Trust me, you're going to be glad they agreed to let me come along, Caroline's anxiety when taking tests is wild, I'm probably one of the only people besides her husband that chills her out." Cheeks tinged slightly red, Stan turns to look at Birdie. "From my understanding you bribed your way into being a part of this test, now sit back and buckle up or I'll fail your friend before we even leave the DMV." The camera zooms in on Birdie, jaw slacked..did he just talk to her like that? "That was rude." She mutters, but she does as she is told, sitting back into the seat and clicking her belt into place.
Caroline glances up at Birdie from the rearview mirror, the "yikes" of the situation is read all over her face as she starts the test. "She's right, you know. I have terrible anxiety. And honestly, you're kinda lucky it's Birdie and not my husband, he doesn't tolerate as much disrespect." she says as she hears the seatbelt click from the backseat. "And friend, you said friend, Birdie is my best friend." she corrects, though it's clear it doesn't matter to the grumpy seal of a man. The test starts out silent, it's only when a Fleetwood Mac song comes on the radio that was playing quietly, that results in a little sing a long with Birdie and Caroline. "Normally, I wouldn't allow this, but I love Fleetwood Mac. I didn't think your generation paid that much attention
good music." he says, sliding the clipboard down and humming along. The rest of the test is basically a montage of Caroline actually doing a decent job, and Birdie
not helping her by claiming that Harry has a new song called "use your blinker, baby." And Stan actually having a good time. Upon arriving back to the DMV, the camera shows Caroline and Birdie standing outside of the vehicle. Stan's title under his name has changed from "driving instructor" to "Birdoline's new bff." He says, "The verdict is in, and you, Caroline, pass!!!!!!" Caroline squeals, she jumps in the air and of course over to hug her best friend who made it all worth while.
Producer: How do you feel? Caroline smiles at the camera, "Excited! It's been so long putting it off, and it's the best that Birdie got to teach me. Now we're ready to tackle all these other jobs in the rest of the show, and continue proving everyone wrong.