Title: “How I Met Your Mother”
A warm, candlelit Parisian apartment. Three little girls—Élodie (9), Margaux (7), and Fleur (5)—sit on a big bed, snuggled under the covers. Lehan (Papa) is tucking them in. "Pauline 3" (Maman) sits nearby, smiling softly.
SCENE 1: THE QUESTION
MARGAUX
Maman, Papa… how did it all happen?
ÉLODIE
How did you fall in love?
(Lehan and Pauline exchange a look. A shared history in a single glance.)
SCENE 2: THE ANSWER
LEHAN
We disagreed. Often.
PAULINE
But we couldn’t stay away from each other.
LEHAN
She teased me.
PAULINE
I couldn’t stay angry with him.
LEHAN
I thought she was hard to figure out.
PAULINE
I thought he was everything.
(A pause. The girls wait.)
FLEUR
And then?
(Pauline smiles, reaching for Lehan’s hand.)
PAULINE
And then… we never let go.
(The girls giggle. Lehan smiles. Pauline squeezes his hand. Outside, the Paris streets hum softly in the night.)
FADE OUT.