21st Century Literature

Vincent Charles S. Martinez

11-Cabrera
The film starts off with Eya, who is writing
in her diary and talks about what had happened
to her that day. She then walks off.
The next scene began by Eya
and her aunt having a tiny
argument in their restaurant
and her aunt tells her to go do
her job, instead of standing
around behind the counter.
While Eya waits for the two
customers' orders, she is called
by a guy around her age. Eya
then developed a crush for this
guy and felt that she is pretty
and walks over to him. The
mystery guy asks for the time
and Eya, while still
daydreaming, said that it's
time for him to love her. Eya's
aunt came and told her to kick
out the guy because he's been
sitting there for ages. Eya asks
the guy on what his ordering
and he asks if he can order her.
She plays along and asks if
take out. The guy then
apologized and told her he's
waiting for someone but didn't
come.
Eya is walking down the
street, when she sees
the mystery guy from
the restaurant before,
and walks to him to ask
if he's okay. The guy
then cheerfully asks her
if she wants to have ice-
cream with him. She
refuses as she doesn't
even know the guy, but
eventually accepts.
Chad (the mystery guy) and
Eya is in an ice-cream place
when Chad asks her to tell him
more about herself. Eya smiles
and tells him that she is from
India and she is the true
descendant of Queen
Elizabeth. Chad's eyes
widened and she tells him it's a
joke. It is then discovered that
her parents died when she was
fourteen years old and that
she lived with her aunt after
that, but kicked her out right
after she blew the candle on
her 18th birthday because she
wasn't a child anymore. Chad
felt sorry for her. Eya asks him
about the girl he's waiting on
and he admits that he's been
courting this girl for ages now.
Chad teases that they should
be together and Eya
immediately took out her
pepper spray and threatened
to spray him. Chad then gave
her the nickname "Peppy".
On her first day of Wilford
Academy, the mean girls
whispered about her
because she is
unattractive. Eya is then
hit with a soccer ball and
turns out that it was Chad
who did. Later on, she is
seen rushing for her class
when she trips in front of 
Cross Sandford. Cross
laughs at her and tells her
that she's already ugly, but
she's also clumsy. Eya
plays along and tells him
that that's how she climb
the stairs. Later at her
house, she is writing in her
diary about how she
stumbled upon Cross
Sandford, who is a Bench
model.
Desperate for a job, Eya
ends up finding one in
the Sandford family: a
personal maid for Mr.
Sandford's son, Cross.
The two did not get
along at all, but Eya
never gave up, even if
Cross' attitude is
getting on her nerves.
That's when she
nicknamed him as the
"Monster".
Eya later meets a friend
at the Academy named
Lory, a half-British
transferee who has a
huge crush on Cross
Sandford. Eya and Lory
immediately became
best friends. Later on, it
is shown that the mean
girls don't stop bullying
Eya because of how
close her and Cross are,
not knowing that Eya
works for him.
The mean girls are seen
annoying Eya again after a
couple of scenes later when
Cross gets in the middle
stops them. Cross shocks
Eya when he said to the girls
that she is his girlfriend. The
mean girls fainted and Eya
asks Cross what that was for.
It is revealed that Cross only
said that so the girls will
annoy her more. At the
lunchroom/cafeteria, Lory
goes up to Eya and asks her
if the rumour is true. The
rumour is about Cross and
Eya being in a relationship.
Eya admits the truth to Lory
that she is just his personal
maid, that's why they're
always together and that
Cross is simply just a
monster.
At Lory's party, Chad gets angry
at Eya because of their plan not
working and blaming Eya for
"ruining everything" because
Eya is supposed to give the ring
to Lory, asked so by Chad. But
when Eya was about to hand it
to her, someone walks in the
middle of them, making Eya
drop the box (which the ring is
inside in) and drop somewhere
else. The room is then lit dark
and Lory and Eya try to find it,
but someone catches it instead.
When Chad takes the mystery
person's hand and admits his
true feelings, the place is then
lit up and the mysterious
person is revealed to be Cross,
not Lory. Thus making Chad get
mad at Eya.
It is revealed later on that Cross is
believes and scared of ghosts, and
believes to have seen one at the
Student Council Room when Eya
joked about it before. While Cross
is doing work in the room, the
light switched off (secretly by Eya)
and he runs to the side of the
lockers and hid there silently,
while Eya comes in with the
flashlight to her face, trying to
scare Cross. He then comes out
and bumps Eya on the head.
Outside, the guard locks the door
believing that no one is in the
room because the light isn't
switched on. When these two
realised that and can't call the
guard because of their phones
being useless, they stayed there
instead and learnt more about
each other, revealing that Cross'
mother died.
Chad and Eya repaired
their friendship again
after Eya finally
stopped ignoring him
because she is
frightened that he'll get
mad at her again.
Getting sick of Cross'
attitude, Eya runs up to
him and tries to choke
him in his room when
she later discovers that
he's got a fever due to
his high body
temperature. Eya then
takes care of him the
entire time, but
eventually gets him to
go to the hospital
because he's not
getting better.
In the hospital room, Cross
sees a shadow outside the
room, thus making him
scared again and tells Eya
to sleep beside him. When
the door opened, Cross
immediately sits up,
making Eya fall off the
bed. The nurse then
reminds them that they're
in the hospital room, not
hotel. Later on, when
they're both sleeping, Eya
hears Cross having a
dream about his mother.
Eya sits up and rubs Cross'
forehead, signalling him
that everything will be
okay.
Lory takes Eya with her when
she next goes to the beauty
parlor. Eya's pimples
decreased and her hair is
beautifully washed and
curled. When paying, Eya asks
why she needed to go to the
parlor too, Lory said they
have a masquerade ball. Eya
is confused since the
masquerade ball involves
wearing a mask so there's no
need for the beauty
treatment. Lory tells her that
she believes that whoever is
the person that she's going to
be dancing with at midnight,
is the person who she'll spend
her life with, and that Lori is
excited that her midnight
dance partner will be Cross.
Eya then disovers that Lory
likes Cross since kindergarten
because when she was a
transferee, she got bullied a
lot and Cross was her "knight
and shining armor".
Chad bakes special cupcakes
for Lory and asked Eya to
give it to her. Eya takes the
cupcakes home (which is at
Sandford's) and puts the
cupcakes in the fridge when
one of the maids got scared
that she's a thief and the
other maids then comes and
gets shock of Eya because
she is now prettier. One of
them tells Eya to quickly go
to Cross' room because he's
looking for her. When she's
up there, she starts flipping
her hair and showing off her
new look, and when she
realised that Cross don't
notice it, she gives up. Cross
tells her to pick up every
crumbled paper she finds and
throw it away. He then gives
up and admits the truth: that
Eya is beautiful. Eya is
surprised and accidentally
puts a paper in her mouth.
At the Sandford kitchen, Cross
looks for Eya because he is
hungry, but when no sign comes
in, he eats the cupcakes that
Chad bakes for Lory. When Eya
comes in, she tries to stop Cross
from eating the cupcakes but it's
too late. Cross just tells her to
buy new cupcakes and Eya tells
him that it isn't bought, it's
special to give for a special
person. Eya tries to grab the
remaining cupcakes, but Cross
grabs it too, but the box is then
dropped, thus making the
cupcakes ruined. Eya then grabs
a broom and starts hitting Cross,
when Cross asks her if she's really
killing him for cupcakes. He also
grabs a broom and they both
started fighting. One of the
maids came out and tries to stop
them, but couldn't. They only
stopped when Mr. Sandford
comes in, clapping. He tells Eya
that she looks good with her new
looks. Eya thanked him but also
apologised for trying to pick a
fight with his son. She tells him
that she'll try not do it again but
there is no promise.
Mr. Sandford and Cross
talks in his office about
what happened and
Cross said it's just about
the stupid cupcakes.
Mr. Sandford puts him
in place when he asks
him what he'll do when
someone finds his
picture with his mother
and rips or throw it out.
Cross is then outside,
thinking about his
relationship with Eya
from the day they met.
At Eya's aunt's restaurant, Cross
is there and wants to speak to
Eya, and when she refused, she is
stopped by her aunt and told her
to agree because he paid her
P5000. Eya then sits down next to
him when Cross feeds her. Not
knowing it was chili pepper, Eya
stands up immediately and asks
for water. Cross then puts vinegar
in an empty glass and gives it to
her, Eya mistakingly drinks it. She
spits it out and yells at Cross. He
says he doesn't know and tells
her to resign. Eya tells him she
already resigned and gets him to
get out. When Cross immediately
apologised. Eya is shocked and
asked again to make sure. When
Cross apologised again, she rolls
her eyes and asked if he can do it
sincerely. Cross said sorry once
again, and this time, sincerely.
She's silent until they both get
out of the restaurant because
she's late. Her aunt, furious
because Eya left the restaurant
again.
When Eya is visiting her
parents' tomb, she sees a
shadow and it turns out to
be Cross. It immediately
rains and they both seek
shelter under the shade. It
is revealed that Cross'
mother is buried at the
same place. Eya sees
Cross crying and he
admits that he misses his
mum, and that's probably
why he's self-destructing,
because he is angry at the
world. Cross takes off his
jacket when Eya starts
sneezing/coughing and
puts it on her. Cross then
takes off his shirt to give
Eya body heat, and hugs
her.
At the school fair, Lory and
Cross talks, and Lory admits
her feelings for Cross. But he
said he's in a relationship with
Eya. Lory tells him that she
knows the truth about the fake
relationship but Cross insisted
and tells her it's true. Eya and
Ian, Cross' friend, comes in and
Lory asked Eya if it's true.
Silent and not saying
anything, Lory starts tearing
up and gets out of the
basement. Ian follows her. Eya
asked Cross why he said that.
Cross said he couldn't think of
something to say and that he
wants her to stop. Eya asked if
he really doesn't like her, and
Cross gets confused because
he thought she wanted Lory
and Chad to be together. Eya
then smiles and is happy, and
she thought Cross was against
Team LorHad (Lory and Chad).
At the second day of the
school fair, Cross calls Eya
while she's in the haunted
house (as she works there as
the White Lady) and asked if
she wants to get the Team
LorHad together, that they
should get "married" at the
Wilford Weddings Stall to
convince them. At the stall,
when they're both getting
"married", with Ian being the
priest, Lory sees them both
and runs off to cry. When
Chad sees her, he comforts
her and Lory allowed him,
after all those times that she
ignored him after her party,
thinking he was gay. Eya
sees them both hugging and
cries, and Cross comes up to
her and tells her that she's
overreacting.
The third day of the
school fair, Lory comes
in the haunted house to
speak with Eya. When
she sees that Eya is
scaring people off, she
walks off to them and
tells them that they're
overreacting, since it's
just a normal person
playing a white lady. The
people then ran off to
get scared somewhere
else. Lory asked Eya if
she is inlove with Cross.
When Eya said yes, Lory
admitted that she got
hurt, but she's giving
Chad a chance, and tells
Eya to take care of Cross.
At the masquerade ball,
the dance starts and Chad
and Eya partnered up,
while Lory with Cross.
Later on at midnight,
Chad and Lory are the
ones dancing together,
and Eya with a mysterious
guy. The guy tells her that
he's going crazy and that
he's never felt something
like "this" before. He also
asked if she could love
someone she used to
hate. He said he wants to
do the right thing and
tells Eya that he likes her.
When she's about to take
off his mask, he runs off.
While searching for the mystery guy, Eya
gets a call from Adrian, her classmate. He
admits that he is the mystery guy from the
masquerade ball. Eya then gets excited.
Later on, she gets another call again from
Adrian asking to meet up. Before she
answers, she gets a call from Cross, telling
her to meet him at the Student Council
room. Eya refused and speaks to Adrian
again, agreeing to meet up with him. Later
on, she finally meets him and tells herself
that someone will finally like/love her. When
they come face-to-face, introducing each
other, Cross comes in and interfere,
introducing himself. Eya gets annoyed
because this moment is a once in a lifetime
for her. Cross asked Adrian if he really is the
guy that Eya danced with at the ball, he
answered yes and asked if Cross have his
doubts. Cross agrees and that's when
Adrian gave up. He admits that Ian just
made him tell Eya that because they both
know it was Cross who confessed his
feelings at the ball, and they wanted Cross
to tell the truth. Adrian then left. At first,
Eya didn't want to believe it because the
voice didn't match. But Cross reminded her
about the rain when they were both at the
cemetary, and he got a cold. Cross hands
Eya her diary and she asked why he's got
her diary. He said he didn't want it laying
around the house. He asked her to read the
back page of the book. That's where he
truly admitted his feelings for her. Eya is
speechless. Right after that, Cross asked
Eya to be his girlfriend, which she agrees
and they hug after that. It is then followed
by a kiss.