Pay It Forward Page #5

-No, no, no, no.

Does he want to?

Sometimes I think he does.

He can't really want to

or he would've.

Do you want him to?

I don't know.

It's just taking forever.

You ever gotten to know somebody

before you went to bed with him?

-Is that bad?

-It's pathetic.

Well, good night.

Do you want to come in?

And stay?

Come in.

Trevor's inside the house.

Well, he sleeps Like the dead.

I don't want to make it any

harder for you.

You're supposed to wait a year.

Isn't that what Bonnie said?

Okay.

I can't.

I' m sorry.

No. I don't mean I can't.

It's just....

What?

This is complicated.

I get it. It's okay to say you

don't Like me that way.

Is that what you think it is?

It's okay.

How could you ever think that?

What?

What is it?

-And you're doing this because?

-I need more Links.

You're spending $300 to find

an old Lady...

...so you can sell a story for $300.

It's a news magazine feature. It's

not something you wipe your ass with.

You have a Lovely way of

expressing yourself.

Do me a favor.

Don't change the Locks on me, okay?

Chris? What are you hoping this'll be?

You know, something that clears a check.

Are you sure that's all?

I drank the Last of the coffee.

Please put it on the List.

Bye.

Who's there?

-Do you Look down on me?

-What?

-Do you Look down on me?

-No.

I don't talk Like you. I haven't

read the stuff you read.

That's not pertinent,

and you know it.

Don't talk to me Like that!

I'm sorry, but that's the way I talk.

Words are all I have.

Why?

Why, because you think you Look

Like sh*t?

I don't care about your burns,

if that's what they are.

-Is that what they are?

-Yes.

Okay, well, whatever happened to you,

you Look good to me.

Well, you Look good to me too.

Okay, so?

So I've never been here before.

Okay, so you' re scared.

I' m scared too.

Listen, bad things have happened

to me, okay?

I can't take my shirt off with a guy

without five beers...

...but I want that with you.

More than I' m scared, I want that.

You don't see me.

My Life....

My Life is familiar. My Life is....

It's manageable.

It's manageable. Every day.

I have a thing I do every day.

It's all I've ever known.

And it's a routine and as Long

as I have that...

...as Long as I have that, I' m okay.

If I don't have it, I' m Lost.

So is that all you want?

Your goddamn manageable day?

-It's what I have.

-It isn't.

-Is it what you want?

-Yes!

I don't believe you.

Okay. That's the best I got.

-It's not about you.

-Yes, it is!

Something's been offered to you here

and you don't want it.

Maybe you're scared to get rejected.

I can't reject you.

You' re too quick for me.

You didn't call me a fag, did you?

Look what I found.

Give me that! That's my asthma spray!

-Shut up!

-Stop it!

-Stay still!

-Stop! Help me!

-Hold still!

-Stop!

Hey, McKinney.

Come here.

Let's hang out.

Help me, please.

Screw it. Come on.

Let me go! Let me go!

You cut my class.

It's been four days.

What's been four days?

Why haven't you called my mother?

It's been four days.

I don't know.

Neither does she.

Hey, what's the matter?

Pay it forward didn't work.

I couldn't even do it.

I was gonna help Adam.

Help Adam do what?

Not get beat up.

But I crapped out and I Let him.

I Let him get beat.

No. you didn't.

You didn't Let him get beat.

It happened.

Sometimes there's nothing we can do.

-It's not fair.

-I know--

No. You don't know.

You should call my mother.

You could do something if you wanted.

-Why are you chicken?

-I' m not chicken.

Something's gonna happen,

then it'll be too Late.

What's gonna happen?

What do you mean?

He'll come back.

Who will come back?

Hey, who will come--?

Your dad.

Your dad will come back?

And...

...what will happen when he

comes back, Trevor?

Will he hurt you?

Will he hurt her?

Not if someone's there...

...instead of him.

Trevor, it's...

...complicated for me now.

Is the world just sh*t?

No, it isn't.

You did good work.

Look at me.

I' m proud of you, Trevor.

I'm proud of you.

And anyway, for what it's worth...

... I' m grading you on the effort,

not the result.

I don't care about the grade.

I just wanted to see if the world

would really change.

Come in.

Trevor!

-It worked!

-Oh, God.

-Does he always get up early?

-What?

He just saw me.

-It's okay.

-I' m his teacher.

Now you have to pay it forward too.

Eugene!

You should still call me Mr. Simonet.

You had a sleepover.

-Go back to bed.

-Why?

It's too early and I got to

get to school.

-No, it's a Sunday.

-It's a Sunday?

It's a Sunday?

Stay. Mom will make breakfast.

I have a schedule that you

don't know about every Sunday.

Will you take care of him?

I'll call you Later.

Don't be a stranger!

You Like him?

Lady, come on.

Go away.

I' m not going to hurt you, Lady.

Here, take it.

It's a nice thought

but it's not what I want.

What are you doing?

I'm not going to hurt you!

Oh, my God. Listen to me.

Nothing's this important.

Come down here.

What are you doing?

What do you care anyway?

Because I owe somebody a favor.

Not me.

Why not you?

You know, a minute ago...

...all I could think about

was getting my next fix.

And then I saw you

and I changed my thinking.

Oh, please. Go away.

Trust me. I'm not worth it.

Why is that?

-For God's sake.

-Come on, tell me.

Why are you not worth it?

Trust me. You wouldn't understand.

Are you kidding me?

You think I Live at the Ritz?

Have a cup of coffee with me.

What?

Do me a favor.

Save my Life.

Get him, get him! Off the ropes!

He missed him!

He's dead!

Come on, bleed, dude.

Give him a DDT.

-What?

-It's gonna be a DDT.

Drop him on his ass!

I'm worried about you.

That's the DDT.

-Hear me?

-He's dead!

-He's paralyzed, get out of the ring.

-You can't get out of the ring.

He can. He has to get a chair.

A chair?

Slow motion.

Trevor, when did you become

so violent?

Take me to a match. You get

splattered in the front row.

I don't want to be splattered.

It'll be your

birthday present to me.

You know what you're getting?

A new encyclopedia.

Leather bound.

Thucydides History of

the Peloponnesian War.

No, I'm getting you 51

crackling volumes.

There'll be pop quizzes every day on

the development of cotton farms.

Hi, Arlene.

You can't stay here, Ricky.

I know.

Look, I know what we had was

a nightmare, Arlene.

-But I did it.

-You did what?

I knew I couldn't come back

unless I was sober.

It's the truth.

Five months, two weeks and four days

are the truth.

-Where you been?

-What does it matter?

I knew I had to change.

-Are you sober?

-Yeah, I got sober staying right here.

Well, you' re stronger than me.

Can you just stop for a minute?

Please?

Can we just sit down and talk?

God.

I' m sorry.

What are you doing here?

-I want you to understand.

-No explanation required.

Please don't talk to me Like that.

We had 1 3 years in, Eugene. He's sober

now. We've never been sober together.

I wish you Luck.

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