Charly Page #5

Is that what this is all about?

It's about shelling peas.

Kisses that mean something.

Lives that do too.

It's about being so sure about

one thing...

...and everything else falls away.

What has fallen away?

Oh.

I see.

I'm sorry.

I'll send a car to pick up the rest.

Look, Charly, I don't know what

happened to you in Salt Lake.

But I'd like to.

Because my feelings for you

haven't changed.

I'll call later.

Back to school already?

Yep, back to the old grind.

Taxi!

Sam!

Charly...

I want you back.

I'm not upset with you anymore.

How nice for you.

We're in the middle of class, Sam.

I probably would have done the

same thing. Not with Mark, but...

Oh, sorry.

She's... she's...

Without clothing? Yes.

You were saying?

The main thing is I forgive you.

You forgive me?

No, of course not. I mean, yes...

No, that's not it at all.

I don't care about that anymore.

What's going on here?

Nosebleed.

Can we go someplace to talk?

Miss Riley?

- I have class.

- Later then?

- I can't.

- Why?

Miss Riley.

That's really none of your business.

Charly, wait.

I want to be a part of your life.

Maybe not this part, but...

Why?

Sam, you couldn't handle just one thing

from my life... my past life.

Life is too short and too hard to

not feel safe with the one you love.

You've given me something

I'll have forever.

I just can't have it with you.

Go home, Sam.

Mark-O.

Polo.

How did you get in?

I told Henry I forgot my key.

You said you wanted to talk.

There'll be plenty of

time to talk... later.

Remember St. Angelos?

Yah, didn't the health department

close that place down?

Horrible miscarriage of justice.

It was one late evening.

I'd come in for a dozen hot wings,

and there she was.

The most extraordinarily

gorgeous woman I'd ever seen...

...sitting in front of an

Angelo's Gargantuan.

Our eyes met. She winked.

I never winked.

Pardon me, Miss, this is my story.

She winked, invitingly.

I sat down beside her.

It was a big pizza.

Then her date arrived.

How inconvenient.

He thought they were getting it to go.

We decided to stay.

Poor fellow.

Cute, but predictable.

Maybe she likes predictable?

Not this girl.

She'd never paint by the numbers.

She might find someone special.

But she'd never settle.

Not for someone like him.

What if she changed?

She wouldn't. Not really.

How do you know?

Because I'm sitting

beside her right now...

...and it's as though she never left.

Hey, you can't be in here.

You'd better go.

I don't have to.

Yes, you do.

But tonight, I got the pizza...

Tonight was all about

how things used to be.

How they could be again.

Not for me.

Get away from her, you,

you New Yorker!

Wow, handsome and witty.

Sam, what are you doing?

You can't marry him.

I know.

You love me. You said so yourself.

Wait, you know?

Get out of here, buddy.

No, I won't leave.

Charly, I love you.

That particular argument doesn't

seem to be working tonight.

Is he supposed to be here?

No.

Hey! Wait!

All my life I've been waiting for

this woman of my dreams...

...and suddenly I find myself

in love with you.

Have you ever had the

wrong dreams?

- What?

- The wrong dreams.

I had the wrong dreams.

- Charly!

- Sorry about that.

Wow.

Where were we?

I remember.

Goodbye.

I am so sorry.

Don't be. We had fun

while it lasted, didn't we?

Luckily, the judge was

sympathetic to my plight.

She promised to forget the whole thing

if I left the city immediately.

Next time she suggested I send

a nice note with a bouquet of roses.

I had what I thought was... Well...

...a far better idea.

I'm so sorry.

You should be.

I know.

I've been discussing

the whole thing with God.

We're very close now, He and I.

Oh, really?

I said, "Father, Sam's being a jerk."

And?

He agreed with me, of course.

Of course.

I told him how you'd broken my heart.

He understood about that.

"But," I said...

..."I still love him."

What did He say?

He said I was probably

a glutton for punishment.

But I suppose I've always known that.

I love you.

You'd better.

Think you can put up with me?

Maybe just...

...forever.

Mama. Ma ma.

Come on, you can say it.

Ma ma.

Da da.

That's my little man.

Not Da da. Ma ma.

Come on, who feeds you?

Who changes all the really

nasty diapers? Mama.

Da da.

That's it, Sam.

You've corrupted our child.

Vola.

What's this?

A commission.

It's going to be a painting of Christ,

but I can't get the face right.

You should give him a smile

or something-he looks depressed.

He's supposed to look depressed.

His friend just died.

Lazarus.

Mary and Martha's brother, Lazarus.

Before he raised him from the dead,

Christ wept.

It's not my fault.

If I had a studio...

I need my office, Charles.

Yeah, well, I'd be willing to share.

Besides, if I had a proper studio,

I'd have more kitchen space...

...to whip up culinary masterpieces the

likes of which you only glimpsed tonight.

You didn't like it?

It was good.

Good?

- Very creative.

- Creative?

Ouch.

What's wrong. You okay?

Yeah.

Sore muscle. Just tired, I guess.

You've been tired a lot lately.

Pardon me, Mr. Roberts,

but have you met your son?

Short little guy, crawls around a lot?

- Oh, is that who that is?

- That's who that is.

I know exactly what you need.

A night out on the town... or...

...at least...

...a night out on the kitchen floor.

Lovely.

We spare no expense.

I've got a thing for the way

You see through me

Your eyes, how they sparkle

Makes the blue sky seem gloomy

I got a thing

A spectacular thing

Yes, I've got a thing for you

You are just trying to

get out of doing the dishes.

Is it working?

Keep dancing and you might get lucky.

Today's lesson is on

home and family relations.

What are things you do with your

husbands to keep you closer together?

Rick and I enjoy gardening together.

What else?

Russ and I like taking walks together.

What a great way to lose

those few extra pounds.

What else?

Well, Sam and I like to make love.

Bishop.

Da da.

Why does he always do that?

Ma ma. Ma ma.

Dada. Dada.

Da da.

You can't leave me. Not now.

Okay.

O W... Out of my way.

I've had enough of you and

your motorcycle gang.

But Bob, what about the baby?

Probably not even mine.

For all I know, could be Freddy's...

...that goofy-eyed dweeb

on checkstand 7.

I admit at one time I did find

Freddy irresistible...

...but that was just a fling.

In my heart I have always loved you.

Liar, I don't even believe you.

You've broken my heart

for the last time...

...Beulah!

We're through.

How can you say such a thing

when I stuck with you through the...

...stock market crash and the

in-grown toenails and that...

...highly contagious

case of swine fever?

You laughed. You laughed.

You laughed first.

- It was a cough.

- You so laughed first.

Nasty stuff, swine fever.

Nice try, Bob. You lose.

Diaper duty for a week.

This is no sore muscle.

Of course it is.

Okay, you might be right.

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