Best Man Down Page #6

[ MAN LAUGHING ] [

WOMAN LAUGHING ] Stop!

[ KISSING SOUNDS ]

[ MAN MOANS ]

Ow. Ow!

My hand's burning.

[ LAUGHING ] Ow!

[ LAUGHING ]

[ WINSTON ]

What'd you do? Oh!

Ramsey. No.

Not in front of her, no.

[ WINSTON ] I'm... Hey!

It's okay, baby.

Not in front of my little girl!

Calm down.

Why... Get out of here!

Get out!

[ MOTHER WHINING ] I don't want her to see.

I don't want her to see.

[ WINSTON ] It's all right.

[ DOOR CLOSES ]

[ EXHALES ]

Where'd you get muffins

in Lutsen?

They're just Hostess cupcakes.

Well, it's still

a pretty good effort.

I'm sorry. I am so sorry

about the honeymoon and the job.

No. No.

I should be apologizing to you.

You did the right thing.

I promise you

we're gonna have a honeymoon.

We're gonna have

a... a great honeymoon.

I know.

I need a ride.

To the funeral.

Can I go with you guys?

Uh, sure.

Yeah, we can drive you to Minneapolis.

But how you gonna get back home?

I don't know. I'd...

take the bus or something?

I think we should

figure that out before...

I'm pregnant.

It's Lumpy's.

I knew it.

I have to go to the funeral.

Lumpy would have wanted me...

I mean, us...

to be there.

Why can't we just leave?

Because that would be kidnapping.

So we're gonna ask your mom.

Remember our deal. I won't say anything

about the pregnancy to your mom.

And I won't mention it

at the funeral.

Perfect.

[ DOOR CLOSES ]

Mom.

Hi again.

They shouldn't be here.

Mom, it's okay.

We just came to ask if we could

take Ramsey to Minneapolis.

What's he talking about?

It's for the funeral.

No one is taking

my daughter anywhere.

It's for Lumpy.

I don't care what it's for.

I don't even know you.

We're friends of...

Friends of

a mutual friend, Lumpy.

Yeah? Lumpy?

You were going, uh...

going out with some Lumpy guy?

Where did you find those?

Doesn't matter.

- You went trough my room and dug through

my stuff. - I'm your mother!

I can go through what the...

the hell I want to!

Who'd you bring in this house?

This about last night?

[ SCOTT ] No, listen,

everything's totally cool.

We just came to ask if we could take

Ramsey to a funeral for our friend Lumpy.

Who?

Let's just... We should go.

No.

- I'm coming with you.

- Yeah, listen.

I'm just trying to respect the

wishes of a friend who passed away.

- I don't care. You'd better get the hell

out of here. - Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!

We gotta go.

Baby, what are you doing?

Social Services.

Is that what this is?

- No! Oh, no, no, no. - He's in real

estate. I'm a third grade teacher.

Yeah.

Wh-Where did you

get that?

I promise you, there's no reason for that.

Okay? E-Everything's fine.

We just...

We have a mutual friend who passed away.

We're just going to a funeral.

That's it.

- I told you to leave!

- Okay.

[ SCOTT ]

Okay. We'll go.

Baby, it's okay.

Maybe they're right.

Maybe Ramsey should be at the funeral.

- Ms. Shirley said that it was okay.

- Ms. Shirley?

Yeah. She said that maybe it's a good

time for you to start traveling.

You know, seeing other pl...

Hold on.

- How long you gonna be gone?

- I don't know.

Um, the funeral is tomorrow,

so we can put her on a bus by Monday night,

Tuesday morning.

Here.

I want you to have it.

I want you to know we're gonna

take really good care of her.

It's only for a couple days.

We'll have her back.

Yeah, we will.

Yeah, we will. We should go.

Okay. I'm sorry again about

all the confusion and, um...

I-I-I didn't

catch your name.

Um, you know what?

I-I'm just gonna leave you

a business card there.

That's me and my cell number,

if you need to get in touch, check in.

Okay.

I love you.

[ CRYING ]

[ DOOR CLOSES ] [

WINSTON ] Jesus.

It's only gonna be two days.

[ DOOR SLAMS ]

# [ GUITAR ]

# [ CONTINUES ]

[ MAN ]

# Brianna, can you hear me?

# [ CONTINUES ] S-So, how often would

Lumpy come and visit you, Ramsey?

Almost every weekend.

Really?

And, um, your mom

never met him?

We hung out

at the motel mostly.

Huh.

So,

you guys just got married four days ago?

Mmm.

Yeah.

Aren't you supposed to be on

your honeymoon or something?

Yeah, supposed to be...

[ SIGHS ]

lying under a palm tree

in a caftan, sipping a mojito.

What's a caftan?

Never mind.

So...

[ SIGHS ]

no honeymoon.

Nope.

Hmm.

Waste of a perfectly

good boob job.

You got a boob job?

No, I did not, Ramsey.

I was just kidding.

I didn't think so.

I need a Xanax.

Again? What do you mean?

"Again"?

What do you mean, "again"?

You took one earlier.

Yeah.

Did I?

You did.

My mom says taking

drugs for fun is okay,

but taking them

for problems is not.

'Cause once the drugs wear off,

you still have the problem.

Yeah.

Why'd you quit your job?

Wh... Huh?

Why'd I qui...

Oh.

It's a long story, Ramsey.

Hmm.

We got two hours

till Minneapolis.

Yeah.

[ KRISTIN ] Pop'll kill you.

We have green tea.

Ever had goji berries?

[ SPITS ] Oh.

Well, they're filled

with antioxidants.

Well, I'm 15.

I don't need antioxidants.

That's Lumpy's

ultimate fighting phase.

Lumpy fought?

Mmm.

Only with Jim Beam.

Hey, is this picture

from the Wisconsin Dells truck?

Yeah.

How'd you know that?

He talked about you guys

all the time.

[ BEEP ]

What's wrong?

That was the coroner.

Uh, apparently Lumpy

didn't bleed to death.

He had a heart failure.

What?

Yeah. It had nothing

to do with the cactus.

He had a heart attack?

He had a heart attack.

The coroner said

it was like, um,

you know, when young athletes

just collapse on the field.

Did you know that Lumpy

had a heart condition?

I don't think Lumpy knew

he had a heart condition.

He knew.

He knew about his heart.

He had I.H.S.S.

How do you know?

He told me.

What's I.H.S.S.?

Uh, idiopathic hyper...

something-something.

It's pretty rare,

probably genetic.

So Lumpy told you

he had a heart defect?

I just said that.

What else did he tell you?

- Lots of things.

- Yeah? Like what?

- Like, why do you care?

- I-I-I'll tell you why.

Because I don't know what he's doing,

where he's working, who he's dating.

- I don't really know anything about

the guy, as it turns out. - Neither do I.

Oh, n... I think you knew him pretty well,

actually.

Did Lumpy know about the baby?

Scott... No, no, no.

Did he?

Did Lumpy know about the baby?

I don't know!

You don't know if you told your

own boyfriend you were pregnant?

I mean, what the hell?

What if she got pregnant on purpose?

She's just a girl.

What if that made his heart thing worse?

It doesn't matter. Of course it matters!

What are you talking about?

He's gone, Scott.

I know that.

I just...

He told a 15-year-old girl he was dying.

He didn't tell me.

I just wish he'd told me.

Oh, I wish he had told me.

You told me you would never

involve her in the drugs.

You promised.

We all make our sacrifices.

Yeah.

You know what I think?

I think she got caught on purpose.

And I'm gonna have a little talk

with her when she gets back.

# [ POP BALLAD ]

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