Marvin's Room Page #6

been seeing eye to eye.

I don't want us to fight.

I don't think we have been.

I want us to get along.

We do get along.

No, but I mean I don't...

I don't want us to just get along.

I don't want us to be polite.

Well, okay.

I don't have

any problem with that.

I... I want...

I...

Nothing much seems important

to me right now.

I...

We're sisters.

Oh.

Shouldn't we...

No, he just startles himself sometimes,

and then he goes right back to sleep.

Mmm.

Are you seeing anybody now?

Usually.

I hope you have

someone real in your life.

I don't have any trouble with that.

Well, I...

I'm not talking about that.

Well, you should be.

Hey, there's no reason why

you haven't had love in your life.

I had a true love.

You did?

Yes.

Did he know?

Yes.

How could I not have known this?

Oh, he wasn't somebody

that you would know.

Come on. It's not like

I'm gonna tell anybody.

Clarence James.

Who? Well, he was only

around during the summers.

Oh, my... God!

You went with a carny worker.

Well, he was a very nice person.

I, I didn't say anything.

This is why I kept it a secret.

Wow! Which one was he?

He mostly ran

the Ferris wheel.

Oh, yeah, I remember him.

He was cute.

Oh, yes.

And he had the funniest laugh.

He'd open his mouth real wide

and... no sound would come out.

Oh, God!

No sound would come out.

Wow.

So, uh, what happened?

Well, you know how they

used to have that last picnic...

down by the river?

Yeah.

Well, Clarence goes swimming...

Yeah.

And he knows everybody's

watching him and everybody's there.

His family, his friends and...

You.

And me.

And... An... And he's,

uh, laughing.

You know, he's making

that monkey face, that...

And this gets all of us laughing.

Then he dunks under the water...

Yeah.

And he pops up again, and he's...

He's laughing even harder. Then he dives

under again, and he doesn't come up.

And he doesn't come up.

Yeah.

And he doesn't come up.

What?

Yeah.

Laughing and choking

looked the same on Clarence.

He drowned. And...

We...

Oh, God, we were just...

standing there watching him.

Oh, my... God!

I can't believe

you never told me this.

If I couldn't tell people I had a

carny boyfriend I couldn't tell them...

my carny boyfriend drowned.

Yeah, but you should've told me.

We were never that close.

We weren't?

No.

Want me to do somethin'

with that wig?

What?

I don't know. Let me see it.

Well, here.

No. Y... You gotta take it off.

Oh?

I'm not gonna hurt it.

Oh.

Here.

Lee...

It's a good wig, Bessie.

It's nicely wentilated. We can do

something with this. You want me to?

Uh, sure.

Yeah, it's a good weave.

I'm glad that we made this trip.

I wish we could stay longer.

Here.

I'll go get my brush.

I found it.

Okay.

Whoa!

Well, hello!

Bessie!

Wait a minute. Do you like it?

Oui.

Gettin' real hot in this room, huh?

Huh?

Is that too much wind

for you, Hank?

What?

Is that too much wind?

No, it's okay.

Stick your hand

out the window, Charlie.

It's like an airplane.

Whee!

Here we go!

Whee!

Whee... ee!

Excuse me.

Here we go!

Faster!

Ooh, Charlie, faster!

Faster! Ooh!

Beep, beep! Comin' through!

Hold on, Aunt Ruth.

Faster! Faster!

Faster!

Hey, Charlie, slow down.

Slow down.

Okay, we'll meet you

by Pirates of the Caribbean in an hour.

An hour?

Yeah. Right where the line starts.

All right. Bye.

Bye.

Oh, God!

This Swiss Family thing

tree house is huge.

I'm really proud of you, Hank.

For gettin' tested

for Bessie.

You're disgusting.

Charlie, do you want me

to push Aunt Ruth for a while?

I like pushing.

Okay.

He's a good driver.

Well, I'll catch up with you.

I'm just gonna sit in the sun, okay?

All right. Bye, bye.

Bye, bye.

Hold on. Here we go.

So why don't you pick out

something nice for your Aunt Bessie?

How about my bone marrow?

You think she'd like that?

Hey, look!

Love Bug. Remember?

We saw that on TV.

We watched it together.

No. I remember Dad took me

to see Indiana Jones, though.

You know, I think you're

doin' really well on this trip.

Sort of. Stop it.

Tomorrow, when we go back, everybody's

gonna hear about how well you did.

I said, stop it.

I'm not going back.

I'm staying with Aunt Bessie.

Peter pan. Careful.

That was a cute movie.

Yeah, I remember I saw it with Dad.

Yeah. No, you didn't.

Yeah, we went to a drive-in.

No.

I saw it in his old Thunderbird.

No, no, no, no!

Not with your dad. You wanna know somethin'

about your dad? I'll tell you somethin'.

On Saturdays I...

I worked.

Your dad took care of you. And sometimes

on Saturdays you would get hurt.

He said that you roughhoused

too much.

Yeah, so?

So...

I would yell at you and tell you

to stop roughhousing so much.

But you would still get hurt...

every time I left you with him.

So I would yell at you and yell at you, and

I would beg you to stop making him hurt you...

because... he was my husband

and I loved him.

And what was I supposed to do?

Then Charlie was born.

So I packed you kids up and I...

Dad never hit me.

Oh, yeah, he did.

No, I would remember that.

You were four years old.

You're the one that fought

with him and not me, okay?

Yeah, but he hit you.

My feelings for you, Hank,

are like a big bowl of...

fish hooks.

I can't just pick one up

at a time.

I pick one up and they all come,

so I just had to leave'em alone.

You're a liar.

Ohh,

Oh, my God!

Don't touch her.

Somebody should get some help.

What happened?

I fainted.

Yeah.

There was blood in my mouth.

Is your mouth still bleeding?

Uh... uh.

No. Did a doctor look at me?

No. He... He just thought you fainted,

so he carried you in here...

Who's he?

To lie down.

Uh, Goofy.

Goofy?

Yeah.

Goofy carried me to Mickey's house?

Yeah.

Yeah.

He just probably...

he didn't know you were bleeding,

so maybe you... felt faint

because you baven't been eating.

Maybe that's all it is

I fainted 'cause I was scared.

I can't sleep anymore, Lee.

I never sleep.

I'm afraid to close my eyes because...

Oh, Bess.

Oh, if I close my eyes,

Don't, don't.

I'm not gonna wake up.

No, no, no, no.

And so I just jerk myself awake.

I yank myself awake

all night long, and then...

Yeah.

And then I pour myself

a cup of coffee, but...

I. I'm trying to be brave, but I'm so...

Oh, darlin', I know, I know.

I'm scared.

I know. It's all right.

But you're gonna be okay, you know?

You're gonna be okay. You are.

What do you have to be scared about?

Come on. You have...

There's still Hank and Charlie to think

about. You're forgetting about them. Huh?

You're gonna be... You're gonna be okay.

Yeah, you are.

Where are they?

They're sittin' outside.

You're so lucky

to have those boys.

I know I am.

They're good boys,

both of 'em.

We're fooling ourselves, Lee.

Hank and Charlie

aren't gonna match.

I won't pretend any longer. I have too

many decisions to make before you leave.

No, we don't have to make any now. We're

gonna hear about the boy's tests tomorrow.

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