Alla alskar Alice Page #6

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we let Henry collect Lotta.

Dad, I want to talk to you.

Alone! Come!

Well, perhaps we should also

have a glass of brandy.

-Only a little, thank you.

-Woops. Sorry, a little too much perhaps.

Cheers, then. For Alice!

I don't want you to be sad.

You are my dad. You must not cry.

I'm not crying.

Don't worry.

Everything is my fault.

No.

Alice, nothing that happened is your fault.

Yes, because I said what I said in the phone

and now mom has come here for me.

But... dad, look what I'm wearing.

They are waiting for you now.

What to say?

Yes...

No, let's go.

You may go home this time.

Yes, nothing more to it.

but I want you to go too.

-Shall really me and Patrik...?

-I'm not going to stand on the quay for myself.

They are coming now.

Goodbye.

Don't you want me to go there?

No, you know...mom... Well, you get it.

We'll not meet this weekend

but the weeken after that, honey.

-I call you tomorrow.

-Yes.

-Bye bye, Anna and Patrik.

-Bye bye.

Oh, my dear child!

How I have longed for you.

-How I have longed!

-I have longed for you too!

-Anything particular you are angry with?

-That they are not listening.

I love both mom and dad

and want to be with both of them.

But they always argue over the phone

about where I should be and not be.

What are you trying to say

which they don't listen to?

I don't want to feel myself as a letter

which is thrown between two places.

I want to feel secure wherever I am.

LOTTA:
Look! Do you remember we were

fishing there last year? How nice!

Hello!

Welcome! Welcome!

Oh, my God, so great to see you!

-Have you been driving in a cab? Are you crazy?

-The folding top broke down by the wind.

Aren't you freezing?

LOTTA:
It's bigger.

TlNA:
Yes, I have added to it.

LOTTA:
And the stable, it smells so good.

I can smell the horses.

TlNA:
No, Alice, here!

LOTTA:
Have you enlarged?

TlNA:
No...

TlNA:
There you see. I told you it was

a long time ago you were here. Come in!

Livingroom, bedroom and a small kitchen.

Not fancy but clean and warm.

LOTTA:
Very nice! We will like it here.

- Won't we, Alice?

-I long for dad.

-What? Isn't it beautiful? Come!

Yes, very nice!

All these horses came by sea from

Iceland when they were 5-6 years old.

-When can they return back home then?

-This is their home.

But to their parents.

No, those who have travelled from Iceland

can not go back.

-Sometimes maybe.

-No, those are the regulations.

This is a mom. Her name is Fina.

And her name is Stierna.

-But the dads then?

-No, they cannot see their dads again.

No, Alice!

No... damn.

I didn't think about that. -Alice!

The news.

How can I help you?

-Hi, I'm Alice Lindberg.

-Hi there, Alice.

Hi, I want to talk to dad.

He is reporting in USA.

-But I can't reach him.

-He came back today. One moment..

Foreign editorial department, Johan Lindberg.

Hello? Who is this?

-Dad...

-Is it Alice?

My dear little girl, I have called

and called both to the house and-

-left lots of messages on

mom's mobile phone. Where have you been?

-Where are you?

-In Norway.

ln Norway?!

What the hell are you doing in Norway?

-Perhaps we will live here.

-Tina wants to show you something. Come.

Live in Norway? What are you saing?

Mom and Tina will perhaps

open a business together.

And we will check if the school is good here.

The children are hungry and tired.

Alice can call you tonight.

If you want something you can write a letter.

-Why haven't you told me?

-Dad has been away.

-He has called lots of times.

-I haven't talked to him.

Let me see your mobile phone!

-Why?

-The incoming messages.

Okay, he has called.

He has called lots of times.

But I can't take all the calls.

I don't have the strength to talk to him.

He has left us, Alice.

He has a new family.

We must build something new without him.

How are we supposed to do it if he is interrupting us all the time?

-Don't you want me to meet dad?

-Of course, and Pontus too.

But... he has hurt us so much,

that we need to be alone for a while.

When he calls like that he is only thinking of

his own good, thinking of himself.

If he was thinking about you,

then he would leave you alone.

He has bad conscience

just because he left us.

If he would think about your own good

then he wouldn't force you-

-to meet that woman and her son.

Lotta...

Perhaps the children should rest a little.

You and me can cook something.

-I'll just finish...

-I want us to talk now.

Let's go then.

-Alice, help Pontus finding Dino.

He is lying in there, Alice will help you.

Tina and I will cook something first.

We'll fetch you when the food is ready.

- Will you help Pontus?

Good. Bye then.

I forgot my sweater in the car.

I'll come back soon.

LOTTA:
You don't know how I have been.

TlNA:
I'm just saying 'take it easy'.

LOTTA:
'Take it easy?'

TlNA:
Don't use the children as weapons.

-I'm not.

-Yes, you are, dear Lotta.

I know that he has hurt you,

but your behaviour is not hurting Johan-

-but Alice...

I hve to tell you how it is.

She is old enough for the truth.

Yes, she is old enough but still a child.

Which truth by the way?

-She is your daughter, not your friend.

-Not you either in that case.

Lotta, this is what I'm trying to be.

It's not that damn easy for me!

You called and told me that

you and Johan had agreed.

-Have you talked to Johan?

-No.

But if I had?

You are my friends, both of you.

Besides, I can't stand watching

how you force me to choose side.

-You already have.

-Perhaps.

But not your side and not Johan's,

but the children's.

I can't stand watching how you tare apart

the relation that Alice have to her father.

You really take care of him.

Have you been together or something?

Damn it all!

Haven't you always looked at him?

Perhaps you were f***ing already back then.

Did you?

Is this the way you talk to everyone

who has a different opinion regarding the children?

Don't you talk to me about children.

You stick to your damn horses!

Listen to me!

I'm sick and tired driving.

I want to know where we are heading.

If you don't answer I will scream!

Shut up now! Understand?

Do as I say!

-Period, nothing more to it.

-But that's no answer.

Yes, a very good answer!

If I say we are going, then we are.

-But you don't know where to go.

-Yes, I do.

Okay, then. I don't know. But how am I

supposed to know everything all the time?

(SCREAMING)

If it's okay that children may have an

opinion, then Pontus wants to say something.

I don't want to live in Norway.

I want to go home.

Oh, come...

-I'm sorry for all the mess.

-No problem! We continue...

-Aren't we, Alice?

-Mmm...

Bye.

-Hi!

-Hi!

Welcome.

-Hi there!

-Hi.

-Hi, Alice!

-Hi.

-How did it feel coming back?

-It went well.

And... Patrik and I have come closer.

And Anton...?

And Anton and I have looked at eachother,

but I don't know if he likes me.

-Of course he does.

-I hope so.

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