Love of My Life Page #5

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[Doorbell Ringing]

[Belching]

Maybe that's enough, huh?

- Yeah.

- Yeah.

Tamara:
And so, we meet again.

Grace:
Richard!

I sincerely hope this is an illusion

caused by your brain tumour.

Yes, let's be civilized, shall we?

We'll drink champagne and

deal with this like grownups.

We are grownups.

Do grownups steal

other women's husbands, Gracie?

Yes they do, some of them.

As you should know.

And I don't intend

stealing anyone's husband.

And please, Tamara, don't call me Gracie.

I told you she didn't like that.

Look, alright, I'll handle this, Gracie.

If he loved you he wouldn't

have left you for me.

He did not leave me.

That was in his novel.

In real life, I kicked him out.

You kicked him out

because he was in love with me.

And I knew you'd want your revenge one day.

So now you want him back.

Well, over my dead body.

If it's dead bodies we're talking about,

I think I might just

have the advantage here.

Excuse me.

Could somebody offer me a

glass of champagne, please?

I'm the one who's just got off the plane.

I will, and um,

I'll have one myself.

Tamara:
Thank you, Ted.

Tom:
It's Tom.

I want you to know that none

of this is directed at you.

No, no, no. I didn't think it was, no.

Richard kind of trails chaos after him.

Do you know what he said to

me on the phone last night?

What my husband said to me.

He said that Gracie was

the love of his life.

Do you know how much that hurt me?

I don't need another love of my life.

I already have one.

Who needs two?

He's not the love of your life.

She just said I was.

The point is, Richard is all yours.

Don't try and use reverse psychology on me.

We can all do that.

Richard's yours, go on.

Take him!

Nice champagne, isn't it?

Yeah, it is, isn't it?

I flew economy.

A woman like me should never fly economy.

They offered me water to

drink like I was a peasant.

[Stuttering]

I don't mean to make

this situation any worse

- than it already is

- Then I'll just call a cab.

But I would just like to

clear up a couple of points

that have been made, two points.

Grace:
Yeah, or you

could just leave.

First, I do not trail chaos behind me.

Okay, yes, I used to.

But it's been many years

since I've trailed chaos.

So stop judging me on

the man that I used to be.

And yes, I'm here because I love Gracie.

I'm not ashamed of that.

I'm ashamed of leaving

her for this lunatic.

Oh, go ahead, stab me in the heart,

why don't you, you bastard!

Tom:
Richard, that's

completely uncalled for,

and to your own wife.

You're such a gentleman, Ted.

Right, and that's the second point.

Yes, Tamara is technically speaking

still my legal wife,

but it has been many years

since we have lived under the same roof,

and even longer

since we've slept together.

You swore till death do we part.

Yeah but I made the same vows to Gracie

when we got married,

so I don't think that's a winning point

for your side of the argument.

The last person you said it

to is the one that counts.

No, no, no, no.

Surely, the first is the binding pledge

that seals the deal, right?

No, no, no, she doesn't

get to win by dying first.

That's cheating.

Yeah, I think we're all a

little bit off topic here.

Now, can I book someone a hotel?

How dare you tell me to go to a hotel.

That is not an insult.

I will pay.

No, I'm not going to a hotel

and leaving my husband here

to f*** you.

I will not f*** your husband, I promise.

Whoa, whoa, whoa,

if there's anything like that going on,

as Gracie's husband and the

official love of her life,

I'll be taking care of it.

Oh my god.

I just wish I stayed in the office today.

Why were you at the office?

You told me she was dying.

No, no, no, no, she is dying.

It's the end of my world.

You poor darling man.

No, no, no, you finish the

champagne, darling, it'll help.

Go on.

Yeah, it's probably a good idea.

Please, Tom, no more.

Give it to me.

He wants a glass of champagne!

Listen, I bought the champagne-

[Raucous Arguing]

Tamara.

Zoe, darling!

Come and give your stepmommy a hug.

And Kaitlyn, look at

you, all grown up.

Come on, I want a hug from you, too.

- Come on.

- Uh, oh, okay.

Did you fly all the way from London

to see my mother before she-

What?

Oh yes, yes.

I couldn't let her um,

depart without seeing her one last time.

Your mother and I have

a lot more in common

than you girls realize.

So many memories.

And I'm staying here

right till the very end.

[Bright Playful Music]

Sofa's fine.

Well, I'm not sleeping with her.

I've slept in all kinds of places.

Richard:
Oh, I'm sure

you have, Tamara!

Though not in a hotel, apparently.

I like being right in the middle of things,

where I can see everything,

and hear any noises up above.

Grace:
Maybe I should go to a hotel.

[Sighs]

[Door Creaking]

[Door Creaking]

Oh hi, you're awake.

I was just having a look around.

Nice place.

Do you own it?

Yes.

Well, I see you put

Richard right next door.

It's just because it's Kaitlyn's old room.

[Whispering] Are you really dying?

It's possible.

It's always possible, darling.

I'm not a well women myself.

The doctor said to get ready.

Ready for what?

Oh god.

Oh god to die, sorry.

Yes.

That's not good when they say that, is it?

No.

It's nice.

You happy with whatsisname?

Ted.

Tom.

Of course we're happy.

Well, I don't know what is happy.

Okay, so it's just a marriage like

other people's marriages.

No, I wouldn't say that.

He's a good man.

Is he?

Yeah, well, it can be enough

in a man at our age, can it?

How did you meet?

I really don't want to go

into all that right now.

Oh come on, Grace, please.

I'm interested.

Okay, if you really want to know.

I do.

My husband was shacked

up with another woman.

And I was at a grocery store

and I couldn't stop crying,

'cause I had hardly any money,

and the groceries were

really heavy and my baby

wouldn't stop screaming.

And this really nice

man helped me home.

And the next day he

turned up with his toolbox

to fix a window that I

didn't even know was cracked.

Always love a man with a toolbox.

It was a horrible

winter, as you may recall,

in so many ways.

Ah.

So one night,

you drank too much wine,

slept with a nice toolbox man,

and ended up pregnant.

Now wait-

I didn't know what he was gonna say,

we hardly knew each other.

Yeah, well,

that's always an awkward

situation, isn't it?

Yeah, but he was ecstatic.

Really wanted to be a dad, and to Zoe, too

And Richard-

Yeah, well, Richard was away with you.

Screaming and f***ing and

throwing shoes at each other.

So you know,

maybe you were the lucky one.

Maybe except the brain

tumour thing, you know.

Yeah, maybe even that, Grace.

It's not like getting

old is any fun, is it?

Particularly in the

circles I move in.

Men buzz around you like flies.

Next thing you know,

they're chatting

up some 19-year-old

and you're on the corner drinking alone.

I tell you what.

It's been so nice having Zoe for company

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