Love After Love Page #2

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Oh. Oh. Oh.

[sighs]

[breathing heavily]

Hmm..

[both chuckle]

- Good?

- Yeah.

- ...f***ing bed like an animal!

- Just stop, stop for a...

- What happened?

- Just, it's.. Wait.

- What happened?

- She restrained him.

What are you smiling at?

- Just.. Chris, that's enough.

- Chris. Stop that.

- I was only trying to make him comfortable.

- I'm...

- I'm not an idiot!

- Chris!

- Enough!

- I'm not making it up!

- Enough!

- Please!

- I'm sorry.

- No.

- I'm sorry. Okay?

- No, that's okay.

You know, you can go, I mean,

I, I really appreciate it and..

...thank you so much for

everything, and, uh, you know

I'll ta... I'll talk

to him. I'll talk to him.

[rustling]

[rustling continues]

How's the wine?

Anybody want

a little more?

- That white's really good.

- The white is good.

- Isn't that good?

- The red's good too.

Hey, do you want some?

You're inconsolable.

Huh?

- Like an infant.

- Can we not say mean things?

Inconsolable

little infant.

I'm not doing this, Nick.

- You're inconsolable.

- Can you stop?

You have determined

that you're being ignored

so you behave like this,

like an infant?

And so I ignore you.

What am I supposed to do?

- I think we should go to bed.

- No!

You are not the center of

anyone's attention right now.

And you shouldn't be.

Full f***ing stop,

Rebecca.

[breathing heavily]

[indistinct chatter]

[machine whirring]

Ma.

- Hey.

- Hey, we're gonna, um..

Sorry.

- You're off?

- Yeah.

I'm sorry

I can't stay longer.

Oh, stop.

We'll see you soon.

- See you at home.

- Yeah.

Wait.

[breathing heavily]

[exhales]

You'll wanna pick out

some clothing

that Glenn would be

comfortable in wearing.

He may have been

very involved

and already picked out his

clothing, I don't know.

Yes, he was

very involved.

And then lastly, we'll

follow up in a day or two

and see how you're coping

and how you're doing.

- Um..

- Well, thank you.

And if there's any questions,

you know, feel free to ask me.

I don't think so.

[zipping]

[birds chirping]

[crickets chirping]

[creaking]

[church bell tolling]

[tolling continues]

- Hi, hi.

- Hello.

Hello. Hi, I'm Suzanne.

- I'm Lauren. Nice to meet you.

- Yeah.

- Can I take your stuff?

- Oh, thank you.

I'm okay.

Thank you so much.

- Hi, I'm Chris.

- Lauren.

- So nice to meet you.

- Nice to meet you.

Thanks.

- Hey, what's your name?

- Tia.

- Well, hello.

- Come on. Come on in, come on in.

- Hey. You got here.

- Hi. Yeah. Yeah.

- You look great.

- You look beautiful.

- Welcome. Hi.

- Oh, hello. Hi.

- Oh, hi.

- Can I introduce you..

- Hey, it's me, your brother.

- I know who you are.

Uh, mom, this is,

uh, Greg and Margo.

- Oh, hello. So nice to meet you.

- Nice to meet you.

- Suzanne.

- Yeah, it was a pleasure.

That's me. Emilie.

- This is for...

- Oh, I got you these. Oh, sorry.

- Thank you. You shouldn't have.

- Oh, thank you. So nice.

- Hello there.

- Come on in, we'll have some drinks.

Oh, thank you.

[indistinct chatter]

Excuse me.

Could I interrupt

your conversations

for just a moment?

Uh, it might be

timely for me

to propose a toast.

Uh, we're gathered here not

just to celebrate the holidays

but to celebrate

the engagement

of my darling youngest

daughter Emilie and Nick.

And it fills Margo and I both

with a great deal of joy

to have Nick and his family,

Suzanne and Chris here

along with our friends.

Let's raise

our glasses to... marriage

long-lived and fruitful.

Hear, hear.

And to my mother.

- Hear, hear.

- Cheers.

- Cheers, mom.

- Cheers.

- My pleasure, Nick.

- Thanks, dad.

[indistinct chatter]

We moved one step ahead.

[indistinct chatter]

- What.. Oh, sh*t.

- Whoa!

Nice one.

Oh, I'm so sorry.

- It happens.

- It happens.

And what about you,

what do you do?

I work at the college with Suzanne

in the, in the theatre department.

Oh, interesting.

I... I really work

in th... this marketing

for the plays

that they do.

Also a little bit

of consulting for the kids

when they're getting ready to go

out into the, the real world.

- Uh-huh.

- I used to be an actress myself.

- And Chris, what do you do? What kind of work?

- Oh. Me?

I'm, uh..

I write whatever I want that

no one will want to read.

- Like novels or..

- Hmm, uh, yeah.

But, very, very short.

Oh, come on, dad. You were

such a hippie back in the day.

[laughing] It's the shop, it's

like coming up off Craigslist.

We didn't celebrate our weddings

by getting goofy on mushrooms.

It's you.

- No. Really?

- People do this.

[laughing]

I shouldn't be laughing.

- I think it's a good..

- Sorry.

...bonding experience

and to bring the family

together, I don't know.

I don't think

it's funny.

- No, I think it's.. Okay. I get..

- I'm excited.

- You were excited.

- I am excited.

- Okay.

- I get that it's, it's unusual.

But, that's okay.

We're okay with people..

...being confused by it.

I mean, I think the..

[instrumental music]

What are these?

These are Italian

wedding cookies.

- Well, can I have one?

- Yeah.

Do you guys work here?

- Here?

- Like, all the time?

Uh, we work for the catering

company, if that's what you mean.

Yeah.

Good.

Feel so nice

right on..

I haven't even

seen your ring.

There isn't one.

What, you haven't

got a ring?

- No, we got earrings.

- Show 'em off, will you?

That's so pretty.

She told me what she

wanted, we went together.

Oh.

- Doesn't she look pretty?

- Stop.

- Right, mom?

- She's beautiful.

- Great.

- See?

[chuckles]

- I didn't see the earrings.

- Hmm.

- Sweet.

- Yeah.

[music continues]

Feel so nice

right on

Feel..

"'Twas brillig,

and the slithy toves

"did gyre

and gimble in the wabe.

"All mimsy

were the borogoves

"and the mome

raths outgrabe.

"Beware the Jabberwock,

my son.

"The jaws that bite,

the claws that catch!

"Beware the Jubjub bird, and

shun the frumious Bandersnatch.

"He took his vorpal

sword in hand

"Long time the manxome

foe he sought

"so rested he by the Tumtum tree

and stood awhile in thought.

And, as in uffish ..."

- Nicholas.

- Hey, man.

- Hey, man.

- What's up?

I want to tell you that..

...I'm proud of you.

And, I love you.

Okay. Okay, Chris.

And, uh, and I'm just

really proud of you.

I know. I just..

Thanks, man. Thank you.

- I love you.

- Thank you.

You're welcome.

- Jesus Christ!

- Oh!

Ah!

- Are you okay?

- Ow!

[Chris laughs]

- Alright.

- Nicholas has got me.

Okay.

[laughing]

- Oh, wow.

- Take it easy. Okay.

- You had a little fall there.

- Yeah.

You're good.

- Because he's the good one.

- Alright.

- I think we got it.

- You're the good one.

- Uh-huh.

- You can't hear enough of it.

You're the good one.

[chuckles]

- You're good too. Sometimes.

- Aww, I'm okay.

- You wanna sit down?

- I don't wanna sit down.

That's a bad idea.

- You wanna lie down?

- I wanna... pee.

I just wanna pee

and then it's fine.

- I'm gonna go pee.

- You need a hand with that?

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