Not Easily Broken Page #6

- That's my wife.

- I'll talk to her any way I want.

- Don't talk to my mother like that.

Are you crazy?

Have you lost your mind?

I'm out of here.

- Wait a minute, Dave...

- Hey, don't you dare run after him.

Sometimes when you don't know

where to turn...

...you got to turn to what you know.

I knew my chair, my records,

my music.

Only problem is,

when the song is over...

...you're right back

where you started.

I'm telling you, I don't know how much

longer I can put up with all this drama.

Then why don't you just try to sit

Clarice down and talk it all through?

I could talk all day long.

I think her and her mother

are missing the listening gene.

Brock Houseman.

Yes, ma'am,

thanks for calling me back.

Look, I was hoping

we could talk about...

Is that right?

No, no, I understand.

I'm just sorry to hear that.

I will let him know.

Okay, bye.

Darius' mom.

She said Darnell still won't let the boy

back on the team.

What's he trying to do?

Guarantee his son ends up like him?

- What's Julie doing here?

- I never thought they'd show up.

Well, I'm glad she did.

I'm feeling a little leg cramp.

- Maybe she could rub it out.

- See, there you go.

- All right, this is Bryson.

- Hey, Bryson.

- He's gonna be having fun with us.

- Oh, what's cracking, y'all?

Somebody be watching

too much BET.

- All right, come on.

- That's enough. Hit the field, let's go.

- Nice swing.

- That's okay, Bryson.

Keep your eye on the ball, give me

a swing, make contact. You got it.

Here we go.

Yo, coach, my little sister could hit

that pitch and she's blind in one eye.

Oh, come on,

my grandma can hit that.

- Bryson, come here.

- My goodness, you suck.

Get off the field, man.

Listen, it's okay, all right?

I don't want you to listen to any of that.

- You hear me?

- Yeah.

Now, I want you to go back up there.

I want it just to be you and the ball.

- Okay.

- You got that?

- Let's go, buddy, here we go.

- Okay.

- Let's go, come on.

- Here we go.

See that?

Good job, Bryson, good job.

Nice hit, dog.

Good job, Bryson.

Good job.

Hey, Julie, I wanted to give you

my contact info.

You know, just in case Bryson ever

wants to come back to practice again.

- Or when your car breaks down.

- Thanks.

Or dinner.

- Dinner, okay.

- Okay, no.

- Coffee, doesn't have to be dinner.

- No, it's not that.

It's just I probably

should just stop you right there.

I feel like I've dated you before.

No, no, no,

I would have remembered that.

No, not you, your type, and I...

I get it, okay.

You just wanna cut

past the foreplay.

- It's okay.

- Okay, I guess, l...

No, I know what you mean.

No offense, because I really

appreciate you fixing my car.

But I just don't have the time

or the energy.

You know, dating's not my thing.

My kid's my thing.

So if I were to get

into a relationship...

...it would have to be with someone

who could be a potential husband...

...and a father to my son, and

I'm pretty sure that's not your thing.

No, I...

- Well, I could do that.

- You could?

- Sure.

- Okay.

Bryson, grab your bag. We gotta go.

Okay.

You're not gonna stalk me now,

are you?

- Not unless you want me to.

- I think I'll take a pass on that.

I'm really glad

we had this conversation.

Cleared everything up.

Call me, okay?

- Good job out there today.

- Bye, thanks, coach.

She will not leave me alone.

- I'm telling you, she wants me.

- Yeah, I could see it all over her face.

- Can you?

- Yeah.

Really?

I don't know what I'm gonna do.

College boy,

what the hell you want?

Got a beef with me, let's do it. Don't

kill your son's future because of it.

What I do with my son,

that's my business.

I'm making it my business. Knock

that victim chip off your shoulder.

Or Darius is gonna end up

just like you.

Your punk ass would know

all about that too.

When are you gonna stop blaming the

world for punching my college ticket?

Didn't nobody force you

to sling that crack.

What I do with my son,

it's my son, it's my business.

Well, give your son an opportunity.

Hey, and the next time

you come up here...

...you better come up here strapped.

Talking that beef garbage.

Carmen, Ive been looking

for two days for you.

For two days, Carmencita.

I inquired at the factory,

and you were absent.

Why do we have to watch this?

Can't we watch something else?

Girl, shut up, you know

we ain't changing this channel.

Hello?

Yeah, hold on a second.

To the magi... Magistrate.

To the magistrate?

He'll send me to prison.

I can't go to prison.

It's just he died in the prison.

And I had no money to survive...

Coach, hey, can you come

to my swim meet Saturday...

...so I can show you my stuff?

It would have to be in the afternoon.

We have a game in the morning.

Okay, cool, I'll see you at the pool.

Give me that phone.

I'm so sorry, honestly,

and if it's too much pressure...

No, no, look, it's no problem.

Tell him I'll be there.

Oh, I know. Believe me, I know.

- Are you seeing this?

- What?

Since when he gotta go outside

to answer a phone call?

I'm not afraid of hard work.

I'm a good, honest, working girl.

But who would take care of me...?

Honey, I spent too many years

with your raggedy-ass daddy...

...to know when something's wrong.

See this?

These movies had romance.

Good movies, good writing.

I'm ready to go now, soldier.

Please take me away from here.

- This scares me, David.

- What?

This.

The silence between us.

I was thinking,

with our anniversary coming up...

...maybe we should just get away

for the weekend, you know?

Because I know it's been stressful

since the accident, I know.

It's been a lot longer than that.

Okay, that's fair.

I've never felt

some of the feelings I'm feeling...

...and I just don't know

how to deal with them.

I guess what scares me the most

is you pulling away like this...

...because it's not like you, David.

Can we talk

to someone about it, please?

If that's what you want.

Since the accident, I know I've been

a little difficult to get along with.

I know that.

And I've been depressed, you know?

And that should be understandable.

I'm getting over a major injury.

But David's pulling away

and I don't know why.

L... I feel like he's doing it on purpose.

Like I've done something.

Like he's paying me back for

something I don't even know I've done.

And then he spends all of his time with

these boys, this Little League team.

And that's time he could be

spending with me at home.

Working on our marriage.

Dave, what do you wanna say

to Clarice right now?

I mean, what's the point?

You heard her.

She has everything figured out, so...

You see what I mean?

This attitude is...

It makes my skin crawl

because that's not us, bishop.

We used to talk things through.

We talked about everything...

No, no, we never used to

talk about everything, okay?

You used to do all the talking.

I used to sit,

listen to her and her mother cackle.

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