My Girl 2 Page #15

Rose starts to move toward the office

PHIL:

Wait, are you saying that I don't appreciate?

ROSE:

I'm saying he asked me out for coffee, like a

real date, when was the last time you did

that?

PHIL:

Wha...what do you mean? We have a date every

night.

ROSE:

No, that's not a date, a date is when I don't

cook.

Rose shuts the door

PHIL:

I do the dishes.

VADA AND NICK ARE WALKING DOWN A STREET, THEY STOP AND

ENTER A SHOP:

VADA'S THOUGHTS

I'd go to a fortuneteller but they can only

predict the future...I need someone who can

predict the past.

INSIDE SHOP:

LADY:

Hi, can I help you?

VADA:

Are you the Hillary Mitchell who went to

school with Maggie Muldovan?

HILLARY:

Maggie Muldovan? Did you...know her?

NICK:

She's her daughter, Vada.

HILLARY:

Ooh...of course!

(hugs Vada)

Oh, look at you! Oh it's the eyes mostly and

the hair too and now she's gone...she's

gone...she'll never get to see how well you've

turned out. Oh... oh my God...Maggie! You poor

thing!

Hillary begins to sob and hug Vada

VADA:

It's okay really, I was just a baby.

HILLARY:

I'm sorry, it's just...I've been taking all

these seminars to get in touch with my

feelings and...sometimes it gets out of hand.

Nick reaches over and gets a tissue, then hands it to

Hillary

NICK:

Here.

HILLARY:

Oh, thank you, you're very sweet. So how did

you find out where I was?

NICK:

Peter Webb told us.

HILLARY:

Peter? You saw Peter? Oh God...

(begins to cry, and then hugs Nick)

Oh forgive me, I'm making such a scene here.

Why don't you have a seat.

VADA:

Thanks.

HILLARY:

I remember Maggie...and your Dad too, you

know we used to all pile into his old 54 Ford

pickup. "Chuck the Truck" we used to call it.

It was pitch black, with a red leather

interior. Does he still drive that?

VADA:

No, but sometimes he drives a hearse.

NICK:

He's an undertaker.

HILLARY:

You're kidding, Jeffrey Pommeroy's an

undertaker?

Vada and Nick are confused

VADA:

His name's Harry Sultenfuss.

HILLARY:

Oh.

(then it dawns on her)

Ohhh?

VADA:

What're you saying?

HILLARY:

Ummmmm, look, I...I...

VADA:

Are you saying my mother had another husband?

HILLARY:

Oh honey, back then...people did crazy

things.

VADA:

They sure did! They got kicked out of school,

they married truck drivers...these are my

mother's greatest accomplishments? I'm sure

glad I came all the way out here to find them

out.

Vada runs out of store, Nick looks at Hillary and then

follows

OUTSIDE ON SIDEWALK

Vada is running down the sidewalk

NICK:

Vada, wait up!

Vada slows down and Nick catches up

Just because you mother was married before,

it...it doesn't mean anything.

VADA:

(very near tears)

Maybe not...but maybe it does. If no one told

me about this, I mean...maybe they're trying

to hide something.

NICK:

Like what?

VADA:

Maybe this Jeffrey guy is...is my real

father. I mean...look at me, I have the hair

of a dead person and...and my nose, no one in

my family has this nose, it could be the nose

of...a...of a complete stranger,

Vada's voice is getting a little hysterical and she is

starting to cry

I mean...I came out here to...to find out

about my mother and I...and I found...

Vada turns around, covers her face and cries

NICK:

Don't cry...come on...that lady in there

looked pretty flaky to me.

How 'bout Phil, maybe he knows something

about all this. At least you should talk to

him before you get worked up.

VADA:

Before I get worked up? You don't think this

is worked up?

Nick takes Vada by the shoulders and gently turns her

around, he then wipes

a tear from her cheek

NICK:

That thing you said about your nose...it was

a stranger's nose...well it's not...it's...I

mean...it's yours...you know?

VADA:

Nick?

NICK:

Yeah?

VADA:

This has been a real confusing day.

Nick nods

ZSIGMOND DINING ROOM TABLE, VADA, PHIL, NICK AND ROSE ARE

SITTING EATING:

VADA:

How could Dad let me visit here and find out

like this?

Phil shrugs

VADA:

I'm gonna call him...and make him tell me

everything.

Phil knows something that Vada doesn't, and he doesn't want

Vada to phone

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