Blue Valentine Page #3

I'm a paraplegic.

Really?

Hi.

Why do you have to act like

such a freak all the time, huh? Huh?

Come over.

- Come on.

- I can't.

- I can't.

- You know you want it.

I gotta go get Gramma.

I just came to say hi.

- Call you later.

- Yeah. Whatever!

- Oh! I thought you were Dad.

- Just us.

- How was the beauty parlor?

- Oh, lovely, just lovely.

Good.

What did it feel like

when you fell in love?

Ooh...

Oh, dear.

I don't think I found it.

Even with Grandpa?

Maybe a little in the beginning.

Bless us, O Lord, for these, thy gifts

which we are about to receive...

He didn't really have

any regard for me as a person.

You've gotta be careful of that.

You've gotta be careful that

the person that you fall in love...

...is worth it to you.

I don't ever want

to be like my parents.

I know that they must have loved

each other at one time, right?

Did they just get it all out of the way

before they had me?

We're supposed to

eat this garbage?

Huh?!

I'm sorry.

- Do you want me to make you some eggs?

- No!

I want you to enjoy

your goddamned dinner!

How do you trust your feelings

when they can just disappear like that?

I think the only way you can

find out is... to have the feeling.

You're a good person, honey.

I think you have the right to say,

"Yes, I do trust. "

"I trust myself. "

What?

What, what?

- F***!

- Sh*t.

- F***!

- Sorry.

"Somehow, she didn't want to

confess to him that she was still wary

of all those people who'd

seemed to want to care about her.

He touched her cheek gently,

caressing her.

Her heart was beating so loudly

that surely he could hear it.

Arms up.

"He smoothed her hair back,

the touch of his fingers sending

waves of awareness through her.

He was going to kiss her.

That was what she wanted, wasn't it?

So why did she feel as if she trembled

on the edge of a precipice,

ready to topple over in an instant?

Then his lips found hers

and she stopped thinking at all,

only feeling,

feeling the tenderness of his kiss,

the strength of his arms around her...

...the steady beat of his heart under

her hand as she turned into his arms.

There is a precipice,

and she was falling.

Head over heels.

Falling in love with him.

Chapter 11... "

Hi.

- Hi.

- Hi.

- I want a cigarette.

- No, Gramma, it's bedtime.

You're in bed.

You can't have a cigarette now, OK?

Do you want me

to keep reading or are you tired?

I need a cigarette!

Excuse me.

Can I talk to you for a second?

Why?

You think I stole that money, don't you?

- Yeah, you do.

- No.

Look, I've stolen money before, OK?

I know what it's like to get busted.

- That's what it feels like.

- OK.

I didn't steal it. I got a job.

- OK? This is my job.

- All right.

- All right? I make money.

- OK, I got it.

Money I can take girls out

on dates with.

Just so you know.

Good to know. OK.

- What's your name?

- Go away.

- "Go away"?

- Go away.

That's a weird name.

OK, hold on a second.

I wanna give you something.

Look at that. That's my business card.

I don't have a phone...

or a phone number,

but if you call

this number right here...

...and then you ask for me...

- ... they'll tell me you called.

- Great.

Who should I say is calling?

Whoa!

Where are we, huh?

We're inside a robot's vagina.

Was this the only one

that they had?

I told you, you know...

they had Cupid's Cove or this.

You want me to see

if we can get Cupid's Cove?

I'm gonna make a drink.

There's no windows.

Cool bed, huh? Check this out.

Whoa!

The bed turns.

Hey, did you see this?

Hey.

Hey, look at me.

I don't think that there's a fridge.

Hey, that's how they laugh

in the future. Like this...

Oh, God.

I thought the whole point of coming here

was to have a night without kids.

Hello? Yeah, hold on.

Here, sweetheart, it's your mommy.

She wants to talk to you.

- Hi, Mom.

- Hi, sweetie!

Yes.

OK, honey. Don't forget

to go potty before you get into bed, OK?

Bye... Bye, I love you!

Frankie, this is

how they laugh in the future.

Try it.

Huh?

Frankie, are you tooting?

Is that you tooting?

Frankie... I can hear...

I love you like crazy. I gotta go, OK?

Kiss, kiss.

Bye-bye.

What are you doing?

What? What's it look like I'm doing?

Getting all wet and naked.

I'm gonna go order some food.

Do you want some?

You know what I like.

Can you close the door?

Oh.

- What are you doing?

- What does it look like I'm doing?

All right.

Come up.

Come up.

What are you so grumpy about?

Oh, I don't know. I don't know why.

- Do you want a drink?

- Yes, please.

- Hey, how are you?

- Fine, thank you.

You're Gramma.

It's great to meet you.

Cindy, come on.

Could you talk to me

for five minutes, please?

I don't want to talk to you anymore.

Gramma, you know you have

an amazing granddaughter?

- Oh, of course I do.

- She's unbelievable.

I got these for you.

Would you please take them?

Cindy, come on,

would you give me five minutes?

This is ridiculous.

You're not even gonna talk to me?

Come on, Cindy.

I'm trying to say I'm sorry,

and you're acting like a total b*tch!

I don't know, I just

feel like I should just stop...

You know, just stop thinking

about it, but I can't.

Maybe I've seen too many movies,

you know, love at first sight.

- Anyone call?

- No.

Thanks.

What do you think

about love at first sight?

You think you can love somebody

just by looking at 'em?

- By looking at 'em?

- But the thing is, man,

I felt like I knew her. You know?

You ever get that feeling?

Yeah, like, you've seen her

before and you just know her...

- Yeah.

- it's a feeling.

But, actually,

you really don't know her.

- Yeah, I probably... I don't, right?

- That's right.

- I felt like I did, though.

- If you get a little p*ssy...

...I think all the mental-ness

will go away from you.

You think

I'm too much in my head?

Yeah, too much.

You already know

where she live at, right?

No, she was just, like,

visiting her grandmother.

So why don't you go back

to that grandmother...

- ... and ask her where she lives?

- I should go back, right?

Yeah. if you like her; yeah.

She just seems different,

you know? I don't know.

Wait. How different?

I don't know,

I just got a feeling about her.

You know when a song comes on

and you just gotta dance?

- Hi.

- Hi.

Do you know

what happened to Walter?

- Who?

- Walter.

He's the gentlemen that just moved in

across the hall about a month ago.

I don't know anything

or anybody named Walter.

Oh.

OK.

Hey, can I ask you something else?

What's the story with that girl

that was in here like a month ago?

The blonde, the young blonde?

I gave her my card,

but she never called me.

What's her name?

- Cindy.

- Cindy.

- Will you tell her I say hi?

- OK. Why not.

Sh*t.

Do you think I could sit down,

because all these other seats are taken.

- OK.

- Hey, thanks.

You know, I just talked

to your grandmother.

That sounds weird, huh?

- Yeah.

- OK, let me put it into context.

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