One Winter Weekend Page #8

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an explanation.

No, no.

I gotta take this

for what it is.

It's a sign.

It's a sign that this

wasn't meant to work out.

See you in Seattle.

Cara, you don't have to

be the victim in all this.

What are you talking about?

Let's turn the

tables on this guy.

Make the last dating cleanse

post about Livingston,

how you met the

ultimate toxic bachelor

and threw him back.

(dramatic orchestral music)

I'm not using someone's name

to get a higher click-through.

You don't have to do anything.

I mean, there are

plenty of people

who are perfectly happy

working on the beauty desk.

I didn't think you'd

be one of them,

but maybe I was wrong.

Diane, I--

I'm simply asking you

think about it, okay?

You have two and

a half more hours.

I'm texting you the

headline right now...

Diane?

Great, dead battery.

Ugh.

(sighing)

Hey, sorry.

My call ran a little long.

Yeah, I got a call too.

You know, I'm kinda beat.

I think I'm gonna head

back up to the chalet.

But you know, Shawn and Megan,

I think are gonna

stay for a while.

Maybe you should hang

out and stay with them.

No, I've gotta head back

up anyway to get my truck.

Some stuff came up.

I gotta head back to the city.

Tonight?

Yeah, okay.

Well, you better get going.

Right.

The longer we wait,

the harder it will be.

Best just to get it over with.

Sure.

The drive, I mean.

Okay.

And presenting the trophy

to the newly-crowned queen

of ski-trivia.

(laughing)

Congratulations.

Thank you and to you too.

[Shawn] You deserve

it, yeah, yeah.

How is it I've

never seen you before

and we live three blocks

away from each other.

Maybe I was meant

to run into you here.

Run into you, bump into you.

Oh my...

(laughing)

[Shawn] Too soon?

You know, this is

gonna sound crazy,

but I'm almost, almost

glad that you did.

I mean, I haven't had

this much fun since,

since I started working.

Well, you say that

like it has to end.

Well, I am going

home tomorrow.

Yeah, true, but I was thinking

maybe we could--

(bell ringing)

Guys, sorry to do this,

but we've just been informed

that the roads are closed.

They'll be back up once

the plows get through,

but maybe find a comfy couch.

(light orchestral music)

It'll be a long night.

(dramatic orchestral music)

I guess this is it.

Yep.

Drive safely.

Anyway, I have a lot

of writing to do.

Yeah.

Oh, great.

Let's see how bad it is.

Where's that little radio?

I got it.

(radio squealing)

[Announcer On

Radio] With snowfall

up to two feet expected,

temperatures

dropping to minus 40,

residents are encouraged

to stay inside.

Road closures in Powderbowl,

Wenatchee Peak, and Clara Lake.

(sighing)

Looks like we're stuck here.

[Ben] You ready to try this?

Yeah, hang on my

fingers are numb.

Hurry up, freezing.

I don't get it.

How did you manage to use all

those matches on the firepit?

I had to.

I couldn't use the

easy-light logs.

Why not?

Because then you would've won.

(scoffing)

(light orchestral music)

How could I know we'd have

the only chalet in the world

without a lighter.

Who needs a lighter when

you have a girl scout,

a battery, and steel wool?

Yeah.

[Ben] You're a lot

better at that than me.

You must be good

at some things.

How else would you

become the CEO?

Cara, I was trying to

tell you before the auction.

To be honest, I'm surprised

you didn't figure it out.

What with, you know, being

a journalist and all.

Do you have a

problem with that?

You tell me, I might

be a little biased.

Journalists haven't always

given me a fair shake

or done their fact checking.

So, that story

about you wasn't true?

You read it?

Just so you know, I'm not

that kind of journalist.

I'm more on the romance

and relationship beat.

I write lists about dating.

What, like 10

first-date donts?

It was actually 20, but yeah.

It's funny you

should mention it.

You know what the first one was?

Never leave abruptly.

I guess I deserve that.

Look, my publicist got upset

when the picture

of us went live.

He said it would be

best if I just left.

So, it wasn't your idea?

No, are you kidding?

I didn't want the night to end.

Look, I'm gonna

tell you everything

and let you be the judge.

No matter how this

ends between us,

I don't want it to be

because of secrets.

Will you just hear me out?

(light jazz music)

Indoor camping.

This is quite an end to

the weekend, huh, Shawn?

No complaints here.

I mean,

nothing went the way I

thought it would this weekend,

(laughing)

but, in a way, I think it

was exactly what I needed

to get out of my work vibe.

Don't I know it?

I mean, with my devices

gone and, let's face it,

my boss gone,

I realize how much I'm

missing out on life.

I need to make a change.

I need a long-term plan.

I was more worried about

your short-term plan.

Really?

Why?

Like, I don't know.

Dinner, Monday?

I know this great French

restaurant in our neighborhood.

They serve a mean souffle.

Maybe I can plan

that far ahead.

So, I'm in college in Boulder,

boarding every day

and I just think the boards

could be better, you know?

So, I just start shaping my own,

just clowning around

with fiberglass and epoxy

in my dorm room,

but then my friends

start buying 'em.

One of 'em goes pro and boom,

Cyan was born.

That sounds like a fairy tale.

(light orchestral music)

Yeah, it pretty much was,

until we went public last year.

Huh.

Then the board of

directors took over

and they decided I was the brand

and my life stopped being mine.

All of a sudden, the

people I was with,

the people I dated,

they all affected

the bottom line.

Something tells me

this is where the world

champion skier comes in.

You know, we were only

dating for about a month.

She was training pretty hard,

said I was distracting her,

and so we broke up.

A week later, she

blew out her knee,

tanked at the games, and the

press decided a broken heart

sounded better

than a broken knee.

Of course, it ran just

as we were launching

our women's line.

Board of directors

almost fired me

just to keep up appearances.

Appearances?

But the company's yours.

No, it's the

shareholders' company

and the board reports to them.

They vote Monday on

if I get another term.

So, what now?

Well, they told me to

stay out of the public eye.

Mmm.

You know, Ben, our lives

are pretty different,

but I sorta get it,

not knowing where you

end and your work begins.

That pretty much sums it up.

But I was wrong not to just

tell you all this stuff.

No, I can see why you didn't.

Look, we came up here to reset,

not to meet someone.

The whole dating cleanse was--

Dating cleanse?

Yeah, it's a

series of articles

that I'm writing to...

Oh no, what time is it?

Uh,

11:
45.

Ugh, I was supposed to

get my last post in today

and before midnight.

Well, there's no

one stopping you.

But I can't.

My phone's dead,

my laptop's dead.

Can it wait till

the power's back on?

No, I have to do this now.

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