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MiG's first supersonic fighter.

Tricky because the cockpit was recessed...

JULl:

I tried to give Eddie my full attention.

But it was difficult,

because Bryce was right behind him.

Eddie was saying something

about intake valves...

...when out of nowhere, Bryce stood up

and marched straight towards me.

Hey, Juli, I gotta talk to you.

What are you doing?

JULl:

He was going to kiss me. To kiss me.

All my life I've been waiting for that kiss.

But not like this. Not this way.

I pedaled home so hard,

I thought my lungs would burst.

TRINA:

Julianna?

Julianna.

[KNOCKING ON DOOR]

Honey?

What's wrong?

I can't.

Sweetheart...

...you can tell me.

Bryce tried to kiss me.

He did?

In school.

In front of everybody.

[DOOR BELL RINGS]

Mom, please don't get it.

It's probably him.

Sweetheart...

...maybe you should talk to him.

I can't.

I can't.

[RINGING]

JULl:

Bryce wouldn't leave me alone.

He kept calling on the phone.

And knocking on the door.

He even snuck around the house

and tapped on my window.

BRYCE:

Juli! Please, I gotta see you!

Come on out, just for a minute!

JULl:
Why didn't he understand

that I just wanted to be left alone?

BRYCE:

Please!

JULl:

After two days, Bryce stopped.

And I thought it was finally over.

Then, one afternoon,

I was coming into the front room to read...

...when I heard a noise in the yard.

[SCRAPING]

Hey, what's he doing?

Juli, calm down. I gave him permission.

Permission? Permission for what?

He's digging a hole.

RICHARD:

I told him he could.

JULl:

But why?

RICHARD:

I told him he could.

JULl:
It was torture seeing him

dig up my grass.

How could my father let him do this?

Bryce knew I was there too.

He's gone.

A tree?

He's planting a tree?

Is it a?

JULl:

I didn't really need to ask.

I could tell

from the shape of the leaves...

...and the texture of the trunk.

It was a sycamore tree.

BRYCE:
When she walked out of the door,

I thought back to the first time I saw her.

How could anybody, ever,

have wanted to run away from Juli Baker?

JULl:

He looked at me with those eyes.

Those once again dazzling eyes.

And I knew that Bryce Loski

was still walking around with my first kiss.

But he wouldn't be for long.

As we stood there,

I realized that all these years...

...we never really talked.

Do you need some help?

Yeah.

JULl:

But that day, we started.

BRYCE:

And I knew we'd be talking for a long time.

REINER:

Let's do it from the beginning again.

You ready? And action.

McAULIFFE:

Juli, can we talk?

CARROLL:
What's going on?

REINER:
And...

[McAULIFFE & CARROLL LAUGH]

REINER:

Oh, God.

Oh, God, here we go.

CARROLL:
The scene where we're doing

the Basketboy thing...

...where we almost kiss,

that one was so hard.

Bryce, what are you doing?

Mm...

Stop it. Ha, ha!

And then I leave? Ha, ha.

REINER:

God.

You gotta be serious about this.

You can't be giggling during this.

CARROLL:
Okay. Okay.

McAULIFFE:
Sorry.

Can't be Giggleville.

- Serious.

REINER:
Let's do it again. No giggling.

CARROLL:

It's supposed to be we're talking...

...and he comes up and tries to kiss me.

It was really hard. I had to wait

until he got there and then I'm like:

Oh, it was so embarrassing.

REINER:

And action.

Juli, I gotta talk to you.

McAULIFFE:

We don't actually kiss.

It's a near kiss.

I try to kiss her and then she runs out.

I was kind of confused when I read that.

Because she wanted the kiss

the entire time, then when I try she runs.

CARROLL:

He gets up and, like, walks towards me...

...and says, "Can I talk to you?"

And he grabs me and he goes like:

And then I have to run away.

But we kept laughing.

[BOTH LAUGHING]

CARROLL:

I tripped on the cloth.

It was so funny. Oh, my gosh.

It was so hard to keep a straight face.

It was so embarrassing.

Just turn around.

CARROLL:

That was so weird.

I thought the sniffing hair was weird,

when I had to sniff his hair in one scene...

...but that was really weird.

That was really fun to film

but it was really awkward as well.

Then Madeline was trying to not laugh.

- Why are you smiling?

REINER:
Cut.

- What are you doing?

- I'm sorry. Ha, ha.

CARROLL:

It was so hard not to laugh.

I had to have Callan... He was off camera.

I'm like, "Turn around!"

What are you doing?

Stop.

- Ha, ha.

REINER:
And cut.

McAULIFFE:
One of the kids,

who played Eddie Trulock...

...who ended up being chosen by Juli

at the Basketboy thing...

...he told Madeline and I that my look

when I was trying to kiss her was like:

Show him your face.

[ALL LAUGH]

You see... coming towards you

and you're supposed to be serious.

- It's too funny.

MAN:
Okay, picture's up.

McAULIFFE:
I had to run out after and I'd

stay there for a bit after she'd run away.

And we had all the really nice

extra kids over there...

...and they were saying, like,

"Ooh. Bryce. Bryce."

Bryce, stop.

BOY 1:
Bryce, you didn't even make it

to first base.

GIRL 1:

Hey, Bryce, I'll kiss you.

BOY 2:
Nice job, make-out artist.

GIRL 2:
Hello, lover boy.

REINER:

And cut. Good.

Okay. Good. Very good, Cal.

Sometimes Rob will yell a direction,

like, "Try it like that!"

Because he's in the other room.

I was like, "We're not gonna kiss, right?

We're not, right?"

Then we did the scene and he's like:

"Okay, Callan, this time

I want you to actually kiss her."

REINER:
Cal?

- Yes?

REINER:
On this time,

I want you to really kiss her.

- No, I'm kidding.

MAN:
He's kidding.

- Ha, ha!

MAN:
What?

CARROLL:

My face drained. I'm just like:

And I looked at Callan. I'm like, "What?"

It was so funny.

They got me really good.

- Oh, my gosh. That was scary.

- Ha, ha.

- Good one, Rob.

CARROLL:
Who put you up to that?

But the sad thing was,

my mom and dad put him up to it.

Oh, gosh. That was so embarrassing.

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