All About E Page #2

I'm sure that car

is following us.

Ohh.

A mother and two kidsyeah.

We just need to find someone

who'll put us up

for a couple of days

while we work out what to do,

ok?

What about Leonora,

my old landlady?

We are not that desperate.

Oh!

Who is this girl?

She was a beachside romance.

She really loves me.

Well! That went well.

Mum!

Dad!

She said

she was a bit confused.

Not anymore.

Hey, Lou.

It's been over a year.

Wait - I've got your money.

Plus 100 to say thanks.

Took you long enough. What

happened, you rob a bank?

Look, the thing is, Lou,

we need a place to stay,

just for a few days.

- I don't think that's a g...

- Habibti.

You know I wouldn't ask

unless it was urgent.

Nah, nah. My mum was right

about you. You're trouble, E.

If we're finished with those

people you've dumped, ignored

or fought with, we might have

no other alternative.

You said she was

a total fruit loop.

Well, that doesn't mean

she can't be trusted.

I had a feeling

you'd be coming.

Many happy returns.

Don't ask.

Leonora. Leonora Laventallini.

E. Just E.

Well, that's short

and to the point. Come in.

This is you, the page of cups -

beautiful, artistic,

emotional...

Deep.

But reversed,

this is the immature card.

I could have told you that.

More swords behind you.

Great loss or heartbreak.

- Her younger brother.

- Matt, don't.

Michael. He was only 17.

Killed - drunk driver.

- Terrible!

- Matt, shut up!

This doesn't feel like a man.

- This feels like a woman.

- Ok.

We don't have time

for this psychic babble.

E! How can you be so rude?

Can we borrow your car?

Shite, shite!

What are we going to do, E?

Why don't we ask Johnny?

He knows all the heavies.

Stop running to feckin Johnny

all the time.

I'm just saying

he'd know what to do.

What a grand idea... let's go

live with uncle Johnny.

You got any better ideas?

What about Bali, or Shanghai?

My one and only chance

to travel first-class...

How was I supposed to know

you need ID

for domestic travel?

You went to college!

I rely on you.

Well, you shouldn't!

I dropped out.

Hey, this is E.

- Elmira?

- Hi, mumma. It's me.

Matt and I were thinking

of visiting you and dad.

We... we could come now,

really.

Clarinet concerto in a minor

penny for them?

It'll cost you.

Oh, really how much?

You can't afford it.

Says who, Princess?

- Princess?!

- Yeah!

- Says me, skippy!

- We'll see about that!

Move in with me.

What?

Move in with me.

Really?

Really.

Ok.

Jaysus! Can we not

play something else?

Your man Kenny g sounds like

he's being strangled.

Ow! What was that for?

Kenny g plays the sax,

not the clarinet.

Sax, clarinet -

what's the diff?

Equal love, equal life

whether you're man

and husband or woman and wife

equal love, equal life

we're spelling it out - lgbt

better than Mozart

better than Mozart

better than Mozart...

Wollongong!

Equal love

equal life, equal life

we're spelling it out - lgbti

equal love equal love

equal life equal li...

who keeps ringing?

No-one.

'No-one!'

you find them?

I dinnae believe this.

The biggest deal of my life.

And that's the good life.

Every time we passed

the stacks, dad would say,

'see this? this biggest

in Southern hemisphere.

I work here for you.

This what get you good school,

good house, good life.'

I've tried so hard

to get away...

And I'm here again.

- Sh*t!

- Ignore it.

I can't.

- Ok, ok. I'll answer it.

- No!

- No!

- Hello?

- Elmira?

- Hello, mrs Malouf.

- Elmira?

- No, this is Trish.

- Hello, mumma.

- Who?

- No, it's me.

- You still in bed?

No, mumma.

I've been up for hours.

Who answered your phone.

You have visitor?

No, that's Trish.

You know, my flatmate.

I have some

very important news.

Your cousin Darina,

she christen the baby Michael

on the 30th.

I didn't think

she talked to you.

This time we invited. We come

to Sydney for three days.

The church, a big party

afterwards - everybody coming.

The 30th for three days.

Who you talking to?

You no want us to come?

I'm not staying with Darina.

No, mumma,

of course you can stay.

Trish will be away that

weekend, won't you, Trish?

Mumma, I'm going to have

to call you back.

- Hey.

- Don't.

What could I do?

I don't know.

You could say no.

You could say,

'let me just ask Trish.

She really hates it

when I take all of her stuff

out of our room

and puts it in the lounge

like she's the bloody lodger.

- It's not like that.

- You could even say,

'my beautiful lover and I have

our anniversary that weekend,

and it's really important.'

I'm really sorry.

You know how crazy

she makes me.

Yeah, I do,

but I thought just this once

you could think of me, of us.

- I do!

- So tell them.

You're ashamed, aren't you?

You're a coward, E.

You're a f***ing coward.

Is my tattoo covered?

Uh-huh.

Do I look straight?

Now?

Now?

Now?

Alright, wifey,

let's go face the music.

You never come to see us.

You ring us three hours ago.

Where you beenyour father

and I been worried sick.

Mumma, relax. We're here now.

Mrs Malouf...

The food is almost ruined.

Come, we eat now.

Red hair!

How can you do this to us?

Habibti, we miss you.

Me too, dad.

You, you come with me.

Mr Malouf.

Joseph.

Sorry - Joseph.

How's it going, mate?

Good, thanks.

You come, no warning.

We have no food in the house.

Why we have to have

this emergency meeting,

like you have

emergency wedding, huh?

I still can't believe you

thought I was pregnant.

Don't eat! Cut some onion.

We need more onion.

Oh, that's...

- I... I take this.

- Oh no!

No, it's alright.

Sit, sit.

Why you marry this fat man

with red hair?

Mum! He's not fat,

and he's not deaf.

And why you wear your hair

like this?

And why you choose him

when you could have that boy,

Khabbaz?

'Cause he's a pig, that's why.

Cut the bread,

we need more bread.

What about your music?

You fail your exam.

Everybody know.

They say,

'why she leave university?'

your brother never do this

to us!

Yeah. He just stole cars

and didn't finish high school

but he's still Saint Michael.

You shame us.

We already live with

so much shame.

Elmira.

You proper musician.

You can work in the orchestra,

teach music, get proper job.

Your teacher say so.

I tried, and it's not me,

mumma.

No?

Who you, Elmira?

Who you are?

All my life I work hard

for you to go to university,

but you! It gets too hard,

you just throw it all away.

Poof! Like that! Like it's

nothing, like we nothing.

How can you say that?

Ever since you a little girl,

you like this, stubborn!

No respect.

Your father and I,

we give you everything.

We have you, we get married.

I don't sing anymore.

I never asked you to have me.

Umi...

You and me, we're not

too different, you know.

You reckon?

You make my stomach very bad

from what you do to us.

- Dr Nassar...

- What does he say?

He say my ulcer is back.

Is very bad.

I go back to hospital

if I not careful,

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