Me Without You Page #4

I just can't believe it.

She always does this to me.

-Oh, God, what if she knows about me?

-Oh, who cares?

Does she?

What--? Did she tell you?

Oh, God, she told you.

She-- I can't--

I can't bear this. I can't bear this.

I can't bear this.

-What about last night, Holl?

-No!

Just forget it, please.

Just forget it.

F***'s sake!

Come in.

Look, you-- You can't feel

any worse about this than I do.

I never knew you were

such close friends.

With her it was never

anything more than just the....

God, you are such an incredible girl.

Woman.

Someday you're gonna meet some guy

your own age who's gonna be able to--

If you see or phone her again, I'm going

to the vice chancellor to report you.

How incredible is that?

Where's Nat?

He's gone.

How many men were you

thinking of collecting?

-What do you mean?

-You know exactly what I mean.

Hello?

Well--

Well, is she all right?

No....

Let me go and try and catch Nat. I'll be

there as soon as I can. All right. Bye.

What?

Mum's taken an overdose.

She's in a hospital.

Oh, God. Oh, wait, Marina! Marina!

Would you fetch me

some ciggies, baby?

Come here, sweetheart.

It's all right now, sweetheart.

Ray.

Piss off!

Holly. Hi.

-This is Meredith.

-It's great meeting all Danny's students.

You've all got such great style,

not like my bunch at Smith.

-I better get going.

-Pleasure to meet you. Happy holidays.

Daniel, it's me. Look, please speak--

Why don't you go back to Paris?

Go on. Go and kiss and make up.

I'll be here when she gets back.

Did you hear from her? From Holly?

-She phoned the hospital. Why?

-Did she say anything?

About what? Like what?

F***ing my bloke?

That's all that's on her mind, Nat.

I'll get the ferry. See you.

Yeah, see you.

Hello? It's only me.

Hi.

Come on.

You can't stay here alone.

Oh, darling.

No, we've been dancing to swing music

a lot and wearing cocktail dresses.

And we go to this club called

Dick Diver's...

-...Iike in Scott Fitzgerald.

-That's The Great Gatsby.

No, darling, it's Tender is the Night.

What fun! Holly never tells us anything.

That was absolutely delicious, Judith.

Thank you.

Today, M and I went to Biba

and nicked a lipstick.

M says it's much more in in Harinaish

than Miss Selfridge's.

N looked at me, and I felt red-hot.

Hi.

She'll be all right.

It's all right.

Come on.

Sleep tight.

Don't worry. I'm going.

I'm glad Linda's okay.

-Marina--

-Your mum's been great. Thanks.

Did you tell Nat I wanted

to speak to him?

Yes, I did, and he's gone

to Paris with lsabel.

Do you know he's married?

-No.

-Oh, for God's sake!

-Can we please just talk about this?

-I knew you liked him at first...

...but didn't think you'd do anything.

-Because I'm so mousy and boring.

-No. Well, yeah, if you say so. Yeah.

Because I'm not a vacuous airhead

who shags the entire campus.

Oh, is daddy's girl unhappy?

I'm going to bed.

Could you get out now?

You'd better change the sheets.

You don't know where I've been.

Holly, don't go over there. Max, we

are not going through the hydrangeas.

We are not going

through the hydrangeas.

-Happy New Year, princess.

-Don't slobber all over me.

Snowballs all around?

Looking good, Lindy.

You gave us all a scare there.

So to the two most beautiful girls

in my life.

Ex-girls.

Ex-women.

Hello.

-Hello, Marina.

-Max, come on.

All right.

Marina?

You're the only person I wasn't

too embarrassed to ask.

My special snowballs. One for you.

Maxie. Gorgeous Maxie.

Come and dance with Linda.

Judith, come along, baby!

Nat! Oh, what a surprise!

-Hi, man.

-Oh, Natty!

What's he doing here?

And I know who you are!

Happy Nouveau Annee, lsabel!

Want a drink?

What a pretty robe. It's like mine.

Happy New Year.

Oh, hi. Thanks. You too.

-So....

-So...

...I'm glad to see you seem

to have-- You've sorted it all out.

Yeah, well, what about you? Did you

sort it out with--? What was his name?

Daniel. Yeah. No, that's great.

It's fine.

Good. That's great.

You-- I'm sorry about the way that l....

-It's just, I mean, I was so--

-Yeah, it's probably for the best.

Of course. Absolutely.

Linda-- Linda seems really good.

She gave us all a real shock.

Isabel was great.

She's so sure.

She really knows what she wants.

That's good.

Isabel, this is Holly.

-Hello.

-Hi. Nice to meet you.

You too.

So are you here in London for long?

Marina told me you're an actress.

No, no. I have an audition

in Paris on Monday.

Well, I shouldn't say, but with a very

brilliant, very known, ltalian director.

-Well, Bertolucci actually.

-That's great.

You know, acting for cinema

is totally different than theater.

In cinema, you must feel it,

not show emotion. Just feel it.

And the camera sees it. It's wonderful.

Which films have you done?

Mostly theater at the moment.

-What time is it? Is it nearly midnight?

-Yeah.

It's absolutely marvelous.

Listen, everyone. Isabel and l

have got something to say.

We're getting married.

You devil!

Isn't that lovely?

Holly, are you all right?

-What's wrong, darling?

-Nothing.

A great deal of champagne

is called for, yeah?

Here, it's bloody freezing. Put this on.

Fine. Marina--

God, she's a nightmare, isn't she?

Married! God!

I mean, who gets married?

That's something out of the Dark Ages.

It's embarrassing. It's pathetic.

I know. It's weird. And she's hilarious!

God, how can he?

It's such a f***ing cliche!

-You still got me.

-Why? Who haven't I got?

Holly, don't be like that.

I can't bear it when we're not us.

I don't know who I am

when we're not us.

I don't know ever.

Come on. Please? For me?

It's nearly time!

Almost that time.

Happy New Year, Holl.

You too.

Come on. Let's go in.

Come on. Smile.

Five. Four. Three. Two. One.

Happy New Year!

Give me that!

-Right.

-No, not yet.

-How are we for vino?

-Thanks, Mum.

Do you prefer rouge, lsabel?

So how are the pop videos, Marina?

Oh, they're great. You know,

superficial and meaningless.

And how did you two meet?

It's all been very mysterious.

-At a bar mitzvah.

-lt was fate.

Yes, it was fate.

Holly Rossman, right?

Your father's sister's married to my

cousin's brother. Something like that.

Leo. Leo Muller.

Eleventh commandment:

Thou shalt dance at bar mitzvahs

and not sit in a corner.

It's me. What are you doing

for lunch tomorrow?

I've met this man who's much too

eligible for me. He's a Jewish doctor.

He's called Leo. Dr. Leo Muller.

Where are you meeting him?

Okay.

If she hadn't walked past the restaurant

at that very minute....

-I can't bear to think about it.

-I know.

How about you two?

I met Paul first, didn't l? It was at work.

Some boring meeting.

Wasn't it?

Then I introduced the two of them.

-It's like something out of Jane Austen.

-Which one?

Emma.

So you're a fight fan then, Carl?

Yeah, and I spar a bit as well.

It's good to work off aggression.

Bit like therapy.

I'm in therapy as well, twice a week.

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