Ex-Girlfriends Page #3

You can only go forward.

You can't regain the past.

The best thing would be to forget about her

and go forward. Yes.

Don't think about her ever again.

or Facebook her.

Maybe you should defriend her.

No, that's too much.

Maybe just hide her posts.

Of course you're here.

Hi!

Hey!

What are you working on?

Just... writing.

About?

People and places, doing things.

Wow. That sounds interesting.

Yeah, it's fascinating.

Oh, am I interrupting? Are you

deep in writerly contemplation, or...

No, no, no. Um...

Do you wanna sit down?

Do you wanna have a coffee or something?

Yeah.

Yeah. Do you want...

- Sure. No, I'm good.

- You're good.

Yeah, totally.

Um... Okay.

Um... I'm gonna get something.

Okay.

I'll be here.

Okay.

So, I got your e-mail.

Oh.

Okay. Come on. Ben said what?

Well, he said that...

he knows that you and I went out,

and when he asked you long we went out,

you said that we only had a

one-night-stand kind of thing.

What?

Yeah. I don't know.

I mean, that's what he said.

No, I never said that.

Yeah. No, I mean,

I'm sure it's a weird... something.

I may have said something vaguely like that.

But I...

I never said "one-night-stand."

Yeah. No.

I...

Cool.

Okay. Come on. You know

when you start dating somebody

and you sort of tend to, I don't know, downplay certain things?

Yeah. No, I mean, it's natural to lie a little bit.

Lie? It's not lying.

It's downplaying.

Right. Downplaying.

Okay, fine. It's lying.

But, it's...

a noble lie.

you know, just avoiding saying something that someone doesn't necessarily need to know.

Right.

The noble lie. Sure.

Mm-hmm.

Well,

one-night stand or heartbreak, I guess

the truth is somewhere in between.

Heartbreak?

I don't know that I would call it a heartbreak.

I don't know.

That's not what I heard.

Oh, really?

Do tell.

Okay. So my friend Kate is

going out with some guy

that you went out with.

Okay.

And he told her that when you

and I broke up,

you told him that you were heartbroken.

Okay. Who is this guy?

I don't know. I don't remember his name.

Okay. What does he look like?

I never met him.

I don't know.

Carl, maybe?

Mm... no. I don't think so.

Harry Jacobs?

I don't know his name is

what I'm telling you.

Okay. Okay.

Oh, God.

I don't know.

Anyway, um...

Yeah, I guess I was

kind of sad about it,

but that's...

that's natural, don't you think?

Well, but I mean, you're the

one that broke up with me.

Well, I...

there were some things going on in my...

anyway, you weren't putting that

much of an effort in,

so I didn't think you were

really all that interested.

What? Of course

I was interested. I...

I put in effort.

I did stuff.

Are you kidding?

I would call you,

and you would text me back.

Okay, but a text is a totally

valid form of communication.

No, texting is not communicating.

I just... I don't know. I never felt like

I knew what you were thinking and...

you just didn't really open up to me.

See, this is the whole problem.

Girls always wanna know

what guys are thinking,

and the truth is that we're not

thinking anything profound.

We're thinking about what's on TV that night

what we're gonna have for lunch.

You give us way too much credit.

Well, you need to communicate.

I'm working on it.

Paul nateland.

No.

Dan Preston?

No.

I don't even know if they're going out.

She's in New Haven

for the semester, so...

I'm sorry. I'll stop asking. It's annoying.

- It's okay.

- Oh.

Hey, I got your e-mail.

Which?

The apology.

Oh. Last year.

Yeah. It was sweet.

Right.

What made you send it?

Ah, I don't know.

I guess I was just feeling

like I wanted to apologize.

Oh.

Somebody had just broken up

with you, hadn't they?

No.

Yes.

Yes,

but how do you know that?

Because that's the only time that people e-mail their exes that and when they're really drunk.

Yeah. Yeah, that's true.

Well, if you liked it so much,

Why'd you never write back?

Well, I don't know. I...

I've been in this on-again, off-again

thing with this guy, and...

Oh.

- Sounds complicated.

- It's complicated.

Yeah.

So, are you on again or off again?

On again.

Oh.

- Congratulations.

- Thank you.

So, you wrote me that e-mail

'cause a girl broke up with you?

Partly.

Kate?

No, no.

We went out a while ago,

but we're just friends now.

You don't strike me as the type

to be friends with your exes.

Really?

Well, I mean, I guess after the statute

of limitations has expired, sure.

Oh. What, are you just not attracted

to her anymore?

No. I mean it's not that.

I mean, I'm not attracted to Kate anymore.

It's...

We're friends.

That... no.

I don't know. I feel like there's always kind of a bond there with somebody you've gone out with.

Yeah?

Now you're back together with your ex.

Yeah. Um...

It's kind of complicated.

We were together for

a really long time,

and then I found out that

he'd been cheating on me,

and so I broke things off.

But...

I kept just, you know,

thinking about him and...

I don't know, wondering

if he could change.

And, you know, he kept persisting

and wanting to be back together,

but...

I didn't feel like I could trust him

and... or anybody, really,

Not even, you know, um...

But uh...

But yeah, I told him six months,

if he can go six months and

not be with any other girl,

then we can be back together.

And he did it.

He...

He did it. So...

Wow.

That's great.

So you were back together with him

when I saw you at that party.

Yeah.

Yeah, it's funny. I was actually

gonna meet Tom there,

but then...

Tom!

That's the name of the guy.

What?

Yeah. That's him.

That's the guy going out with

my friend Kate.

Not, um...

not Tom Whitman.

Yeah. No.

Maybe. I don't know.

Maybe it's a different Tom.

Um...

Well, how...

how long did you say they were going out?

Two... I...

I don't know.

Maybe it's not Tom.

Maybe it's somebody else.

I'm sorry. I didn't know.

When did they go out?

I don't know.

Are they still together?

I don't know.

Laura, wait.

Wait. Wait, wait, wait.

Are you mad?

Hey, come on. Come on.

Hey, come on.

Talk to me.

I'm sorry. I really don't know anything.

I'm not even sure if this is true.

Could you call her?

Who?

Your friend.

Yeah. Sure.

Kate, hey. It's Graham.

Give me a call when you get this.

Do you think you could text her, too?

Sure.

I can't believe he was lying.

I really believed him.

Well...

maybe it's a complicated situation.

Maybe it's a noble lie.

Yeah.

Yeah, it's still a lie, though.

Um...

Why do I always do this?

Why do I end up with guys

that lie to me?

Do you think that she'll call back soon?

She must be in class or something.

Right.

So, should I just have a mental breakdown?

No.

Don't do that.

Has she called you?

Oh, my God.

No, not yet.

Is life always gonna be like this?

No.

Is every relationship like this?

No.

We weren't like this.

That's true.

We didn't have any major

catastrophes.

Well, we got bored of each other.

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