Remember Sunday Page #3

- And nice. Not dependable, but nice.

You're a hard worker. Well, someday ...

- You're fogging up the mirror.

- You look nice.

Thanks.

- Hi, Jerry.

- So, is she a dud? Do-do-don't give it away!

Just say yes or no.

Huh?

Gus, where the hell are you?

- Home.

- Are you serious?

- I knew it! I Why are you home?

- I live here?!

- Don't you know what tonight is?

- Trash night?

Gus, are you dressed? I want you in date night

clothes when I get there. I'm coming over.

- More bread?

- I'm fine.

Thank you.

- You blew this on purpose!

Tell me you didn't blow this on purpose!

- Jerry, I didn't know!

- That's not an excuse any more!

- No, it's not an excuse, it's a fact.

Well, it's not acceptable any more! Why

do we even bother? Answer me that.

Because you're my best friend, and you

have been since I was six years old.

That's right. I'm just glad you didn't

have to write that down this morning.

Don't call me! Don't write me, don't

email me, text me, smoke signal me!

I do not want to talk to one more man

who's just going to disappoint me!

Goodbye!

What if I'm better off without someone

or maybe they'd be better off.

- Maybe this is just my brain protecting me.

- Or maybe you're just a total wuss.

Go in, look for her, eat, listen to her stories...

- Maybe you'll kiss her!

- Jerry!

Wh... i-if the whole thing goes belly up,

you won't remember anything in the morning.

- Hit to lose!

- Valid point.

- Flowers?

- Oh! Yes! What do we got, here?

- Here, here's $10. Thank you.

- Thanks!

- So, this is it?

- Same address as on her envelope.

- Are you sure about this?

- Be contrite,

say "I'm sorry," hand her the

roses and ask for another chance.

Fourth floor, number 417. Gus?

- What's your stake in all of it?

- One of us should have a love life, right?

- What happened to Brenda?

- Get out of the car!

It's open!

Did you forget your key again?

Ohhhh, gosh, I just got back. So, how did it go...

Hi!... Hi. Uh, these are, these are for you!

- I... am so sorry!

- Oh, OK...

They, they, they probably need some water.

I-I sh... I should put them in, in some water.

There's water! Water! Hey,

ask and ye shall receive, ha.

I'm, I'm, I'm normally more organized than this.

So, again, I'm really sorry.

- I feel terrible, Molly. Truly, truly, terrible.

- O-OK, what is this?

- What's what?

- This. Those. I'm not Molly.

Oh, no! I know!

I mean, I know. I know that! I know that, that you're not...

This is practice! I was, I was practicing.

- For what?

- You know, for... Molly.

I'm... right here.

I, uh, these are for you! The ro-,

the roses, not the sunflowers.

Alhough those are very nice, as well.

Nice touch, uh...

Look, I didn't, I didn't...

You're probably thinking...

I, actually, you know what... I don't know

what you're thinking, I really don't...

I just, want you to accept these,

please, as my... heartfelt apology.

Or, thank you.

OK.

Well...

I really am, really sorry, Molly,

especially because you seem so ...

great.

Wow! He's a keeper.

Molly...

M-Molly, don't you dare!

Try it now.

Oh! How'd you do that?

Uhhh, I gotta nack for mechanical things.

Well, that would really come in handy around me.

I just wanted to say thanks for stopping me.

I haven't really dated, in awhile, you know,

with, uh, my work and... everything...

Sure, I've been busy, too.

- So, your shop's doing great, huh?

- My... shop?

Your jewelry shop. Where you work.

- Where we...

- Oh, no. Uhhhh...

Yeah, I mean, I-I-I work there,

I, it's not, it's not my shop.

The owners lived next door to

my parents, before they died.

I just, I knew them when I

was growing up around there.

Oh.

- Do you want to go someplace else?

- Sure.

Yeah, so I'm just doing the, um... student, waitress,

thing... waiting to get to the next thing.

I moved here, three years ago, from the northeast.

- Ah! Thank you.

- Oh, these are really good!

- I know, right?

- Mm, hm.

Uh, moved out here to do what, exactly?

Mmm, start over. Be who I want to be.

- And, who do you want to be?

- Really?

Well, there is this girl, I see in my mind?

Who's not always worried that

her car's not gonna start, and...

um, you know, not struggling under

the weight of the day to day, and

renting a room out of somebody else's

apartment, who can make something of herself.

That's what I want to be. Her.

Is jewelry your thing?

- Cosmology, actually.

- Hair?

Ah, ha, ha. No, uh, that's very close.

Uhhh, no, the st, uh...

the stars, space, the universe, Cosmos, cosmology.

Actually, you know what, follow me.

Alright, now, just a little more... left.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,

see, right... see the line, in

that constellation, right there?

You mean, like a horoscope?

Ehhh, squint! Sometimes squinting helps,

'cause it kinda like brings the stars...

Eeeeh, yeah, yeah. You see it now? Right there.

Tell me, can you see it? Can you see that?

It 's a... Teapot!

Oh, no, no, it's a baby carriage! I see it, it's

the... the wheels, right there? And the, the...

that part there, that's the...

the buggy! Am I right?

No, but, that's a great try. Uhh, technically,

it's the constellation, Orion, it's...

Umm, right ascension 5 hours, and then

declination 5 degrees... Orion's belt.

That's very technical stuff. Where...

where did you come up with that?

Or it could be a baby carriage! I'm

totally open to that interpretation.

It looks Like a baby carriage!

- I can, yeah, kind of... not really...

- You're making stuff up.

So, OK, if the, if the universe is your thing, how

how come you're at the jewelry store?

Oooh, that's a good question! Ummm...

Well, I used to work at Mount Wilson

Observatory, it's in California. I dunno.

Before that, NASA, got my degree at Caltech.

So, why aren't you doing that?

Well... I, uh....

Science is all around us, right? Like a diamond.

Uh, you look into a diamond and it's, it's like...

its own little galaxy. Like, inside

the way light refracts through

it, in the right setting...

It can be gorgeous. Does this sound idiotic?

I feel like I'm sounding idiotic.

- Not when you say it.

- Huh.

Ho! Look, look, look! See?

- Oh, Whoa! A shooting star!

- Yes! Yes! That's ex... that's right!

Technically, it's meteors. But yes, it's

a shooting star. It's amazing, isn't it?

The way that debris and dust

from space could look so

beautiful as it's burning up

in the Earth's atmosphere.

Yeah.

Hey, listen... I, um...

I should get back. I have a lot

of things I have to do tomorrow.

Oh, uh-huh, yeah, uh...

And, um... well, Sunday, I get up early.

Oh, uh-huh.

Yeah, Sundays... afternoons, I'm wide open.

Are you gonna ask me out again, or not?

- You mean, like, on a real date?

- Yeah. Like when, you show up on time,

and we do something normal, eat, talk... Yeah.

Sure.

"Sure"... You're asking me out?

Sunday.

And I'll remember, this time, Molly. I promise.

Good.

Molly Brandford.

You had a date with Molly

Brandford tonight, and...

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