Bastard Out of Carolina Page #2

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now you've got the look.

You're as old

as you're ever going get, girl.

This is the way you'll look

till the day you die.

I tell you what, it wouldn't be

nothing for me to go over there

and teach those people a little

something about manners and respect.

Earle, you can't solve everything

with a shotgun. My Lord.

I was thinking more along the lines

of a two-by-four.

Settle yourself, Earle. Nobody's going

over there and that's that.

Since when did you start telling me

what I can and can't do, Raylene?

Anney will stay here with Mama

as long as she needs to.

We take care of our own,

like we always have.

This here's our Daddy, practically

every day we'd go on a picnic

and he'd throw me all over the field.

That's not your Daddy, Bone.

Your Daddy got run out of town.

Uncle Earle nearly killed him.

...like ??? the n*gger.

You listen up, Garvey.

I'm going to tell you something

I've been keeping from you...

because the grown-ups

don't want you to know about it.

Because it might scare you.

When you and Grey were just as big

as Reese, sleeping in your cribs...

a man came riding into Greenville

County on a horse.

Only, he didn't have a head,

and he wasn't alive.

The living dead, they called him.

He went peering in through

all the windows at night...

looking for a boy ugly enough

to steal.

He couldn't tell which of you

were uglier, so he took you both.

You don't remember

because you were too little...

but he liked them plump and ugly

and you two fit the bill.

He took you to a shack in the woods

to make stew out of you.

When Uncle Earle showed up,

he had a knife to your ear...

he likes little boy's ears in stew.

Tastes good on a biscuit.

Granny!

Have a nice night.

A regular Rockefeller.

I'll marry you Anney,

then Bone would be alright.

Anney and her girls have been alone

for four years...

one more day without you

won't kill them.

And you're already married, Billy.

Aren't we all?

I've worked harder in a day

than you have your entire life, Wade.

Strong as an ox, I'll give her that.

Hey girls.

Hi!

There she is.

Her? That's your sister?

That pretty little

white-headed thing?

Hey, you gotta watch yourself

around Anney,

you say the wrong thing and she'll

take the shine off your teeth.

She ain't any bigger than a girl.

She's a girl alright.

Our sweet Mama's baby-girl.

But our Mama is a rattlesnake...

and our Daddy was a son-of-a-b*tch.

What are you going to do with that

certificate, after you've paid for it?

Put it under the sink with all

the other trash, where it belongs.

Stop thinking about it, Anney,

then everyone else will too.

As long as it keeps getting a rise

out of you, people will keep using it.

Your shame is between you and God,

Sister Anne.

No need to let it mark your child.

I've got no shame, Brother Calvin.

And I don't need a man to tell me

anything about my child.

I'll be right back to get your order.

OK.

What did I tell you?

Say something boy,

you're making me nervous.

That's some girl.

I'd say somebody's smitten with you.

Shut up, Earle would kill him

before we even catch his name.

Earle won't kill him.

He brought him down here, didn't he?

He's pretty cute, I wonder if he

can smile. You do need a husband.

Yeah, and a house, a car

and a hundred-thousand dollars.

He's still looking.

Looking pretty good.

Mama, I've got somebody

I want you to meet.

What in God's name is that?

It's a side of beef, Ruth.

Looks like you could use some.

Evening ma'am.

Mama, this is Glen.

He works with me at the mill.

Where would you like me

to put this meat, ma'am?

Did you steal it? Cause if you did,

don't bring it into my house...

I don't need no trouble.

No, Mama, Glen's bringing you

a present.

Won't you just take it,

it's a present from him to you.

Where are we going to put it?

It won't fit in the icebox.

I'll help him.

They think they can ask you

personal questions

just cause you served them

with a cup of coffee.

Yankees.

This one man, he took out

a whole stack of napkins.

I was sure he was going

to steal them.

I've seen people open napkins up

like diapers,

fill them with sugar and walk out

with them.

But you know what he did?

He wrote on them.

For thirty minutes,

one napkin after another.

Then he just balled them all up

and threw them away.

And right by the register,

we sell notepads for ten cents.

What is wrong with these people?

I think you're the most beautiful

woman I've ever seen.

Is it OK that I said that?

It's OK.

Let him go now.

Honest fight, Officer.

You're a Boatwright,

you don't need any more trouble.

You! You'd better

keep your nose clean.

Fair fight, it was fair.

Your Daddy would be ashamed of you,

beating on a man and crossing the law.

I'm not crossing any law.

Damn! You're crazy.

Come on old boy ??? and you smile at him...

another one laughs

and you nearly kill him.

Go and get the truck.

Clean yourself up.

Hey Bone, I've got somebody

that wants to meet you.

Bone, this is Glen Waddell. Say hey.

Hey.

Hey Bone, how're you doing?

Fine.

Do you sit out here every night?

After school.

Is that your little sister there?

She's a little sleeping beauty.

Well, sure was nice to meet you.

See you again sometime.

Yes, Sir.

Those sure are some pretty girls.

He's kind of nice, isn't he?

Sure he is.

OK sit tight, I'll be a minute.

Hey you.

Hey.

Bone, shut me in.

Granny, something's burning!

Something big.

I can't believe it.

Come on! Gimme!

- I want to do it!

- Come on!

One, two, three.

So he bought you a shirt,

that don't mean anything.

Glen loves me, Mama.

He loves my girls.

You just don't like the Waddells.

That whole family's stuck up,

full of themselves.

Glen's not like that.

You don't know

what that boy's like, Anney.

I know he loves me.

"Love", can't even hold a job

for more than a month.

That's not true.

Glen's been working with Earle at the

mill for eight months now. Ask Earle!

There's something wrong

with that boy, Anney.

He's always looking at me oiy of the sides

of his eyes, like some old junkyard dog...

trying to steal a bone.

And you're the bone he wants.

So? What's wrong with that?

You want me to spend

the rest of my life

working my ass off until I dry up and

can't even imagine marrying again?

Earle says he's got a temper on him.

Earle's one to talk.

Besides, do you know a man

who doesn't have a temper?

Bone! Glen's here.

Oh you both look so pretty.

Bone, one for you one for Reese.

Alright.

- Anney?

- What?

Anney.

Anney.

You know.

You know I love you.

I can't wait no more.

I can't.

I love you with all my heart, girl.

And your girls,

God, I love them.

Our girls.

Our girls, Anney.

Call me Daddy.

Call me Daddy cause I love your Mama.

Cause I love you.

I'm going to treat you right,

you'll see.

Don't say no Anney,

don't do that to me.

I don't know, Glen, it's...

Alright, I'm going to think about it.

Anney?

OK, alright.

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