Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood Page #6

That may be another of the many lies

I've told myself along the way.

Vivi, you've made it interesting.

I tried to keep up.

Then I tried to stay out of your way.

But I knew the first time I saw you,

there was no one like you in the world.

When I said "for better or worse"...

...I knew it was a coin toss.

Shep?

Heads or tails?

Your call.

Is that Connor?

- I believe it is.

- Let's stick to the plan.

You're just in time.

I made beignets.

- Hi, Vivi.

- Look who's here.

- Hello, Connor.

- Good morning, ladies.

- Connor, why are you here?

- I've come to get my bride.

- She'll hate it if you call her that.

- It'll be our secret.

- I understand secrets are Ya-Ya forte.

- That's what we came to talk about.

Vivi, I think you know what

we're here for.

We've had this discussion.

- I think I was perfectly clear.

- Perfectly clear and perfectly wrong.

This is violently unfair.

I have not ceded control of my private

life to you or anyone else.

Honey.

There is no shame in what happened.

That was a different time, and you

were different. They're right.

You can trust Sidda, honey.

Come on, honey.

Come with us.

I can't. I can't be the one.

I don't even remember most of it.

I don't want to be the one.

Okay, darling.

You'll be glad, honey,

when this is over.

- I'm coming with you.

- Wait, you can't all go.

I'll stay with you.

Once...

...a long time ago...

...I dropped my basket.

Hey, butterbean.

What's the problem?

Nothing. Connor's just not picking up.

- What?

- Get comfortable. I got a full tank.

When I got back, I quit drinking.

- I tried to be the best mother I could.

- How'd that go?

- Not so hot.

- Willetta!

Get this monster! I can't stand him!

Don't look at me in that tone.

- I wasn't.

- Well, don't!

Hurry up. Get in there!

I saw a priest, who sent

me to a doctor...

...who 's supposed to cure me

of the demon alcohol.

Did it work?

Shut up!

Quit making all that goddamn noise!

Monday.

Wednesday, beggar man, thief.

How many doctors will it...

I'm sure there are things you remember

that you'd rather forget.

We know you bore the brunt of it.

Bear the brunt.

I done a bad thing.

- Heathcliff, I got a surprise for you.

- A surprise, Louie?

Yeah. Close your eyes. Come on.

- I didn't do anything.

- Outside, everybody.

- Get out of those filthy rags!

- It's raining.

I'll clean you up before he has a go.

- I didn't do anything!

- I have to save you!

- Oh, my God, Mama!

- God, help me!

- Mama, wait!

- It's not time yet!

Mama, let me find Daddy!

Stop it!

I see the moon and the moon sees me.

- Get away from her!

- I'm sorry, Mommy.

- Come on, Lulu! Run!

- I'm sorry.

- Please, stop it, Mama!

- Hail Mary, full of face.

No, Miss Vivi!

- They need cleaning!

- They are clean. Clean as angels.

- Get them in the truck, Willetta.

- Chaney, come on!

We gotta try to find Mr. Shep!

She done lost her mind!

Oh, my God, you're bleeding!

Get in the truck!

Vivi, can you hear me? Come on. Vivi.

Do you know what she took?

- How many?

- No idea. She eats them like M&M's.

Dr. Lowell. That man ought to be

run out of town on a rail.

I'll give her a mild tranquilizer.

Shep, Vivi's sick. She has cracked up.

We need to get her some real help.

I can tell you what the problem is.

She doesn't eat.

Shep?

She won't eat now.

She doesn't know where she is.

It's not gonna hurt to have something

in her stomach, now is it?

Hey, baby.

It's a B.L.T.

You got to take a bite, honey.

Good, good. Chew, baby, yeah.

Beau?

Why don't you go on over

and see about the kids.

Oh, baby.

Vivi?

Baby.

Come on.

Come here.

Yeah? So?

She didn't leave you, Siddo.

She was sure as hell gone.

She sure as hell was.

"Dear Mama, I hope you're having a

nice time, wherever you are.

We are being good, and I can

make Baylor be quiet now.

So he won 't get on your nerves.

I promise.

So you can come home any time.

I'm sorry if we made you mad.

I pray for you every night,

and every morning too.

I miss you so very much.

And Daddy does too.

Maybe I could come see you, and we

could go swimming, like old times."

Lulu, don't bite.

"I love you,

and I will write again tomorrow."

Sit down, Daddy.

"Yours truly, Siddalee."

It was six months' involuntary

commitment, Sidda.

And when she got back, we tried to get

her to talk about her breakdown.

She refused and refuses to this day.

Only once she made me tell her

how I found you and the kids.

Every single mark on your bodies.

She was twisted with guilt.

Honey, I think the reason she

stayed distant is...

...she never trusted herself again.

She didn't think she deserved you.

Everything else is an act, bb.

And those pills.

Dexamyl. Half Dexedrine,

half Milltown.

It was supposed to cure drinking.

Nobody knew sh*t.

The thing I regret most...

...is that we didn't talk to you, or

Baylor, or Lulu, or Shep.

It was the belief that you don't

interfere with other people's kids.

I wanted to tell you, honey.

A million times.

She made me swear

I would never tell a soul.

Speak, bb.

I'm just...

...adding up in my head the...

...thousands of dollars I spent on

therapy figuring out what I did wrong.

Shep?

Write her a check.

We'll be cooking. We have your

mother's birthday party to throw.

Bye now, bb.

- Bye, honey.

- Bye-bye, y'all.

- You okay?

- Yeah.

It wasn't always bad, honey.

Do what I do.

Think about the good times.

Let that be what sticks with you.

- What are you, some kind of saint?

- That's me.

Saint Shep of the fields.

Patron saint of sunflowers.

Bye.

- Sit down!

- Sit down!

All right, Sidda honey,

we're gonna need tickets.

Go over there and stand in line.

Get 12 children and two adults.

I need a strong man!

- Necie, you're not going up, right?

- No.

Teensy, you're high enough.

One more.

This little one is staying, and this

one is going. This is safe?

Safe as a baby carriage.

- Don't get saucy. They're my angels.

- Don't worry.

It's your turn, climb on in!

Come on, bb, let's go!

I can't.

- Scared?

- Why don't you hop in?

You go if I go?

All right. Keep your eye on Baylor.

Don't try my patience.

Either tell me what's wrong

or forget it.

- I want to ride in the airplane.

- Why didn't you?

I don't know.

Sidda.

I understand being afraid.

But nobody ever got anywhere

by being frightened all the time.

When I think

of all the stuff I never...

Want to ride in that airplane? And you

can't live with yourself if you don't?

That's exactly it.

All right then.

Who's honking that horn?

Sidda and I are going to see a man

about an airplane.

Hi there.

I know you must be utterly exhausted

after such a long day...

...but could you consider one

more ride, for my daughter?

- No. Sorry.

- Please?

She panicked before, and now

she's dying to go up. I'll pay you.

Ma'am, I have to go to Baton Rouge.

Then fly to Macon, Georgia, in the

morning. I've been here since 7:00 a.m.

But I can pay you a whole $ 1. 18.

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