Not Easily Broken Page #8

- Are you sleeping with her?

- What?

I'm not stupid, David.

- Are you sleeping with Julie?

- No, I'm not sleeping with her.

Well, then, what is it? What...?

Since when have you had

to take phone calls outside?

What are all

the phone calls about, anyway?

David, what's happening?

Tell me the truth.

Things haven't been right between us

and I think we both know that.

I know that.

So I'm not gonna lie to you.

I do have some feelings for her.

That's worse.

She's taken your heart from me?

So, what do you want me to do?

I don't know, David.

- Clarice.

- How could you, Julie?

- What?

- How could you betray me like this?

- Betray you, what...?

- I respected you.

I thought we were friends.

Okay, I gotta stop you right there

if this is what I think it's about.

Dave and I are friends.

Just like you and I are friends.

Nothing more, nothing less.

We're just friends.

Girl, as much as I would like

to snatch you right now...

...I'm not gonna do that.

I'm gonna rise above this.

But let me make myself very clear.

Stay the hell away

from my husband.

You wanna blame someone

for your problems?

You didn't need to leave

your doorstep to do it.

And you certainly don't need

to come to mine.

Oh, girl.

In case you didn't hear me

the first time...

...stay away from my man.

Yeah.

- Yeah, come on.

- Here we go.

Take your marks.

- Come on.

- Kick, kick, kick.

Go, Bryson!

Come on, Bryson! Keep pushing!

- Come on, Bryson!

- Go!

Oh, my God!

Oh, my God!

Oh, he's done it! Oh, my God!

Why don't we say it's a draw?

Let me ask you this, man to man.

Ain't nobody in here but me and you.

Who gets that baseball scholarship

if we back in the day?

You do.

But I was a better athlete.

Right.

So you think all the hell

I've been through was my fault.

Man, everybody got problems.

See, you just don't know

how good you got it.

You talking about Darius, right?

I'd trade that scholarship and

everything I had for a son like Darius.

Oh, hell, no.

Yeah, that's right. That's right.

We putting you out of here.

And don't think Clarice

is gonna change her mind.

What you doing, you old woman?

- Old? Oh, no, hell, no.

- Mama, please!

No, no, no, let her talk.

She's always had an equal vote.

Why change it now?

What is wrong with you?

You got this beautiful

black queen right here.

What in your mind

makes you think...

...you gotta go out

and get a white woman?

Shut up

and mind your own business.

- David.

- No.

He been living high on the hog

leeching off your money for years.

It's time you got his black ass

out of here.

She more of a man

than you'll ever be.

So you just gonna stand there

and let her say that to me?

Clarice.

You are just gonna stand there

and let her say that to me?

Well, then you're right.

It is time for me to get out of here.

Because I don't give

a damn about this house...

...your money or this marriage.

I'm done.

Dave.

Hey, where you been?

I've been trying to call your cell.

There was an accident.

- It's Bryson.

- What happened?

I don't know,

he went into the wall too hard.

They rushed him to the hospital.

It's bad, man, really bad.

Come on, I'll drive.

- I should go.

- You ain't going nowhere.

Go on in the house.

Coach.

Please, what are you doing?

No, no, no. Please, no.

No, no.

Oh, please, God.

She's all alone.

I don't think she has anyone

to help her through this.

She has us.

"The Lord is my shepherd.

I shall not want.

He maketh me to lie down

in green pastures.

He leadeth me

beside the still waters.

He restoreth my soul.

He leadeth me in the paths

of righteousness for his name's sake.

Though I walk through

the valley of the shadow of death...

...I will fear no evil,

for thou art with me.

Thy rod and Thy staff,

they comfort me.

Thou preparest a table before me

in the presence of mine enemies.

Thou anointest my head with oil."

"My cup runneth over.

Surely goodness and mercy

shall follow me all the days of my life.

And I will dwell in the house

of the Lord forever." Amen.

Clarice, be honest with me.

In the last meeting

I had with you and Dave...

...I asked you

a very important question.

Yeah.

Has God been

the third strand in that cord...

...I wrapped around

your shoulders all those years ago?

No.

Well, without that third strand...

...you find yourself

sitting here alone.

Your mother is a good woman.

But because you listened to her

in matters of your marriage...

...that acorn hasn't fallen

too far from the tree.

Now, I got to go bury this child.

But, Clarice...

...you're in the right place

at the right time.

When I drive through this city...

...and hear the sounds of sirens

and alarms going off...

...I see the looks of panic

on the faces of people I don't know.

I realize how afraid we all are

in this world.

Life is so unpredictable, fragile.

We're only alive one breath,

one heartbeat at a time.

And so when death comes

to one of us...

...it comes to all of us.

Because it's the one thing

we all have in common.

Sooner or later,

it's the one place we're all headed.

And even though

some of us believe...

...that life doesn't end

on this side of the grave...

...our grief drives us to hunger

for a human touch.

Mama, what's that?

Is that a picture of Daddy?

Let me see that.

Give it here.

- So you still love him?

- No.

That's a piece of him

I keep as a reminder...

...that I made the right decision.

Do you miss him at all?

Do you remember that

cheerleading competition I won?

I remember all your accomplishments,

Clarice. What you want?

That was the same weekend

Daddy left.

But all I remember you saying...

Don't start dredging up all that mess.

That's good riddance to bad rubbish.

All I remember you ever saying to me

was how he cheated on you...

...and how he was

a horrible husband.

Never really got his side.

Finally talked to Daddy, and he said

that he never slept with that woman.

He said you drove him

out of the house, Mama.

He didn't sleep with her until after...

- I'm not having this conversation.

- Why?

Because my bedroom drama with your

daddy ain't none of your business.

Excuse me?

The way you're all up in my marriage?

You convinced me

to put my husband out of my house.

I think it is my business, Mama.

Don't talk to me like that.

Okay, all right.

You wanna know?

Yes.

Your daddy was rotten.

You were too young to understand

what was going on in that house.

He was a nasty bastard.

- Mama...

- Don't "Mama" me.

He hit me...

...in my face.

Now, you listen to me real good.

When they stay,

and they done already left...

...they get mean.

I hated your daddy.

- Mama.

- No, I hated him.

I hated him!

You were right to throw Dave's ass

out of here before he hits you.

No. No, David's not like that.

And that wasn't the way

to handle that.

I shouldn't have listened to you.

I shouldn't have listened to you.

I'm not gonna talk about this.

I'm not.

Black women have to be strong

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