Best Day Ever Page #5

morning, playing videogames.

Plus, it's pouring out.

You know what?

I'd love another beer.

Hey, uh... Um...

I'm going to a film festival next weekend.

They are showing one of my movies.

They're giving me a

free place to stay... and

I don't know if you

wanted to go with me, I mean...

Yes! I would love to go.

That would be... cool.

Really?

Great!

"Looks like about eight

or ten out there now".

"There are a lot out back too!"

You know, this movie really scared

the crap out of me when I was a kid.

They're coming to get you, Barbra!

You do that really good.

Ha! Thank you.

There you go again, making me

think you are this awesome guy

who has the same interests as me.

You really notice details.

You're smart.

Oh, you! Go on.

Plus, I don't think most

people would say I'm smart.

Sometimes people confuse

social anxiety or shyness for being...

you know, dumb or stuck up, but...

You know what?

That's their issue.

I think you're a great guy.

I've only known you a couple of weeks.

Believe me, by the time you turn 50

you really shouldn't care about

what people think of you.

I really liked the movie.

Uh... Your movie.

I liked being a part of it.

The film festival, I've never been to one.

It always makes me a bit anxious,

having to talk to a room

full of two hundred people.

You pulled it off well.

The story really moved me.

You're a good writer... sincere.

Small town, down home.

I've tried other styles,

but I keep hitting blocks.

I keep coming back to small town life.

Places where most of us come from.

People must like your movies.

I don't know... I guess.

I keep getting ripped apart

in reviews, for being sappy.

So what?

Life IS sappy at times.

Plus, that's just some person's opinion.

You'd love it in Indiana.

Perfect place to write, small town.

Four seasons means four books.

Indiana, huh?

I always liked the midwest.

Small towns.

Older buildings and front porch houses.

Well, it's just something to think about.

"Doctor Grimes, your entire staff

has been working very hard

to find some solution to these

things that are happening".

You know, this is one of the first

horror movies I saw, when

I was a kid back in the 70's.

Back in the olden' days.

When movies were good,

there was no cable.

Just 3 networks and a

local TV stations.

David, that was a really

really really long time ago.

I know. Ha!

I'm an old man shane.

Older than you by a lot.

What?

David, 50 is not that old.

Are you bugged that we can't be friends

because you are 15 years older than me?

Age is just a number, it doesn't matter.

15 years is a pretty huge gap.

Different tastes, different

ways of thinking.

David, age really doesn't matter.

To me, at least. When I look at you,

I don't see your age, all right?

I... just have to ask you something.

I'm sorry for being so forward.

James is really concerned

about me, and he is a

good friend to me and

a great cousin to you.

But...

I don't know if you're straight...

or... gay...

He thought that we might get along great,

that we might be perfect as friends.

I don't know, I never got

around to asking him.

He seems to think

that, maybe you are.

I guess. I don't know.

I'm sorry, you know we're

just going to be... friends, then.

And that's good with me.. that's good...

AH! Oh, I'm sorry!

Oh, I'm sorry, I'm so sorry!

No, no, It's alright!

Are you OK? It's OK, It's OK!

It's OK! Kiss me, quick!

I'm having so much fun with you.

You know what, mister, I'm

having fun with you too.

I don't think I've had this

much fun in a long, long time.

You're funny. You're sweet.

You're kind, and you're damn hot.

Hot?

Haha... that's rich!

Look, David, you are a very hot man!

I'm a man that's getting old.

Oh, David, not the age thing again.

I thought we talked about this.

I don't know how to get past that.

We've known each other

for such a short time.

I am completely and

absolutely crazy about you.

But you are 15 years younger than me.

I have no expectations, I mean...

Look, wait.

I know, I remember what it was like.

You are just having fun, and that's OK.

David, David...

We talked about this.

Age doesn't matter to me.

Alright? It really, really doesn't.

Age really is just a number.

I think James is right.

I think we are just perfect for each other.

And I'm crazy about you.

I'm not going to go

second guessing it

because you are too old, or

because I'm too young. Alright?

I don't know what's been going on

here since I met you, but um...

I've never been this

happy before in my life.

I want you to be happy.

David, the universe

wants you to be happy.

Alright?

Do what you want in life.

Make a lot of money. Make no money.

Make some money. Make all the money.

What matters is that you have done good.

And that you do good for others.

And that can only come from

having a good heart, which you have.

I just never believed I'd meet

anybody that would like me for me.

- That I deserved to be happy.

- Why?

Oh, I don't know.

My dad...

I guess I never felt

that he approved of me.

I mean, maybe he loved me in his own way.

If he ever told me...

just once...

if I ever meant anything to him.

I never knew if I was...

important.

Well you are very important to me.

OK?

Uh, listen.

I know you are going through

some stuff right now.

But, um... I'm pretty sure I want to

spend the rest of my life with you.

Sorry.

How's it hanging there, guy?

You're looking pretty serious

today, whats going on with you?

It's Shane.

The young man, huh?

It's getting really serious.

Serious is good.

Ace, he's 15 years younger than me.

Well, as the young people say, BFD.

You know?

You cannot look at age in the

way that society does.

Because you're smarter than that.

Patrick was 23 years younger than me.

And guess what?

I'm still here.

You cannot think about your mate

in any other way than just:

'This is today! We are in

love and today is our day!

And you go through life

every day that way.

That's it.

Do you run into problems?

Hell yes.

Life isn't a bowl of cherries.

It's got a lot of pits in it too.

You know, he wants to move to Indiana?

- Been there done that kind of thing too.

- Mmhmm.

Can't tell you how many times

Patrick and I moved

in those 12 years

that we were together.

Plenty. Was it all his, all mine?

No. It was ours.

We had to come to an agreement.

As far as Indiana?

I wouldn't move there. I came from

a farm in South Dakota, you know that.

I don't want to move back

to the farm country again.

As much as I love it.

If I go to Indiana, I...

I won't be able to see you.

Do people have.. cars and

trains and airplanes now?

Aha! Yeah. They do.

I could see you, you could see me.

Time is irrelevant, age is irrelevant.

It's two human souls getting together.

You jump at it.

Don't you dare talk your way out of this.

Go.

Hello Indiana.

"We all strive for the perfect life".

It's not about money, or fame.

It's about the kind of person we become.

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