Four Friends Page #4

with cards on them.

The same people who sent them

sent condolences.

They're all in the same room,

one on top of the other.

Stay.

Louie...

I always knew it was just a matter of time...

but the time was unexpected.

The excess of all this is a little staggering.

For 30 years, I've been a wife...

and for over 20, I've been a mother.

Now those words are taken away from me.

I'm now...

a woman.

I don't know what to do with that word.

Let's go.

Wait for me. I want to go, too.

Kiddo, you look terrible.

I wake up in the morning loving you.

I get through the day loving you.

I go to sleep loving you.

It's been that way for so long.

It won't stop.

And I don't know what to do

with all this love.

I don't.

I thought maybe you might want some of it.

Oh, kiddo...

I have...

all these dreams.

I have my life...

and it's going somewhere.

And I got to see where.

I don't think we could, you know?

- Not now.

- Not now. No, I know.

I kind of thought as much. I just had to...

You don't know when you might...

Six months?

I don't know.

A year? Two years?

Kid, I don't know.

Please.

You can't keep asking me that

if you're going to stay.

You're right.

And that's just what I would do if I stayed.

Please.

He's stealing my trunk!

Come back with my car!

You son of a b*tch! Stop it.

Stop, you hear me?

Man, you want this car that bad?

You can have it, man.

Man, you're really into possessions,

you know that?

You're weird, man.

You know that, you're weird.

- You coming to watch television tonight?

- What's on?

Anything good, Vera?

Yeah, I'll be there. I just have to go wash up.

I'm gorgeous! Take me.

Hello, kiddo.

I just happened to call your parents...

and they just happened to know

where you were.

And it just happened

I was passing through Pennsylvania.

- You all right?

- Yeah.

No. I don't know.

I'm so tired of being young.

Everybody wants to be young.

They think... I don't know.

- Come here.

- I want you.

Lunchtime.

You want to eat, you don't want to eat?

- You're supposed to go to work, aren't you?

- I told you, I called in sick.

- Then you should see a doctor.

- I'm fine.

- Then you should go to work.

- What's the matter with you?

I have to go back to the city,

and I don't want any goodbyes and stuff.

I left baby Isador with some people,

I'm worried, and I have to get back.

We'll go back together and get him.

Don't you understand anything?

I have my car and I want to leave alone.

- Goodbye.

- You've got to be kidding.

- You come all this way to do this?

- I am not kidding!

- You are kidding!

- Like hell I am!

- Like hell you're not. You're kidding.

- Let go of me!

- I don't like you, you mind?

- You're damn right, I mind!

You're a rotten lover.

And you're great? I've got news for you.

I never had it so bad. Never!

F*** you!

I know why you came back.

You wanted to get me going again.

It's not going to work. I've had it with you.

You're weird! She's weird.

- He's crazy.

- Yeah, I'm crazy.

I wouldn't let him live

in your neighborhood, he's sick.

I'm sick? You want to know who's sick?

She thinks she's Isadora Duncan.

You see this skirt here?

She thinks that's wonderful. She thinks...

You're weird, you know that?

Everything about you is weird.

She says you look very handsome

without your beard.

I'm leaving.

I know.

She says it's like harvest time

in the old country.

- It's an old, old song.

- I know.

It's very beautiful.

It's ridiculous.

- Close the door.

- Staying in a motel.

What are you doing back in East Chicago?

I've got a place.

- Prozor, I'm talking to you.

- David's got a place.

What's with Gergley?

I thought you were shot

or killed or something.

- Why don't you get lost Gergley?

- I thought you was wasted-like.

That's a hell of a lot of thinking

you've been doing.

We didn't think you had it in you.

Congratulations.

I mean, all this time

we thought he was a dumbass...

and it turns out that he's a smart-ass.

Congratulations.

You know what you are?

Gergley, we don't need you here.

You're just a funny-looking Jew boy,

that's what you are.

Tell me, which one of you guys

is f***ing Georgia this year?

Gergley, surely you must realize...

that I'll have to do some kind of damage

to you for that remark.

- No. This one's on me.

- Oh, no!

Really.

Before we fight...

I'd like to make a speech

in honor of my upcoming citizenship.

Sucker!

- End of speech.

- Nice speech.

Let's get out of here.

I'll kill you.

Get up, Danny. Hit him!

Cut it out.

- Come on, Danny, that's enough.

- Let's go. Come on, let's go home.

- Where's your daddy?

- There.

There seems to be no difficulty

in moving around...

as we suspected,

and walking is also very comfortable.

Since when...

They did it.

About two to three,

or maybe four easy paces can bring you...

to a really smooth stop.

Can you hear me, friend?

So-called kangaroo hops.

I promised something to a friend of mine.

Well, well.

I woke up last week...

and there it was.

There it still is.

Everybody thinks it's dyed.

- Come back to stay?

- No.

Not a chance.

- You?

- No.

I may have a job teaching.

Bessie Tift College.

Teaching what?

What else does

a Yugoslavian teach? English.

So, where is this college?

It's far away. That way,

I won't wait for you to show up again.

That way, I won't be tempted

to show up again myself.

If you're near and not close enough,

I'd prefer that we were far from each other.

- That's a good idea!

- No, it's not. It's a lousy idea.

But it's the best one I got.

I don't love Tom.

I saw David.

I don't love him, either.

I wanted to love all three of you...

but I can't.

It's just you. Sh*t.

Just you. Oh, Christ, it's you.

You.

- Me?

- You.

It's not funny.

You want to know the truth?

I wish I had two lives to live.

I wouldn't mind spending one without you.

Man, you're not the only one.

- We know we're not making peace, are we?

- Peace?

Never.

Why does everything take so long?

He think Yugoslavia

is same like when he was young boy.

I tell him it's all different,

but he is stubborn.

Young girls all thought

he was so handsome.

Now he is old.

He will find out, I bet you.

And you?

What do you do now?

What do you want?

I sure would like

to see you happy just once.

You are a very strange person, Son.

Not really. I think most kids

want to see their parents happy.

But I don't think

that's going to happen anymore.

We're both getting older,

and we're both disappointed in each other.

Are we just going to keep this up?

What is it you are suggesting?

I don't know.

I've never even seen you smile.

When you were born, I smiled.

I guess I wasn't paying attention.

That slipped by me.

When you were born...

I took off my hat

and I beat on the table with it.

And I'm almost sure...

I was smiling.

That looks good on you, Papa.

Papa. Goodbye, Papa.

Let me kiss your hand, Papa.

You have funny look in your eye.

I know such look. Is my side family.

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