So This Is Christmas Page #8

You're making it worse.

Stand still.

Get it loose, bill!

Baby, you're gonna make it...

Get it loose!

Why'd you come

get me anyway, huh?

Friends don't let friends

drive drunk.

SHARON:
You can be a real

pain in the butt sometimes.

But I love you, girl.

( GROANS )

I love you... ( MUTTERS )

okay, Sharon...

Oh, oh, it's caught!

( YELLING )

Wait, Sharon...

SHARON:
Amanda, look out!

( HORN HONKING )

( SCREAMING )

Calm down.

I'm here.

( SOBBING ) Oh, baby.

What is the matter?

( SOBBING )

( WHISPERS )

what is the matter?

I was just trying to hug her.

( SNIFFLES )

All my fault.

It was all my fault.

No.

It was an accident.

I forgive you.

You've got to forgive yourself.

( WHIMPERS )

Okay?

I can't.

I loved her so much.

Oh, baby.

We both did.

But that was another life.

You're not leaving? Now?

What about me?

You're off to a good start.

I lost the money for the play,

My best friend and my boyfriend

are cheating on me,

And Angelina and Jason

are in the hospital.

( CHUCKLES )

and now you're leaving.

See you at the shelter.

Won't be the same.

Nothing ever is.

But you've got 17 kids

counting on you.

( SIGHS )

I'm gonna go

see Angelina right now.

I'll catch up with you later.

Mac?

Will you check on Jason for me?

Um, make sure that he's okay?

If he needs anything.

I'll do better than that.

( CHUCKLES )

You think visiting hours

apply to chairs?

Where'd you get that?

From your friends

down at the shop.

It's a piece of trash.

No. Like you,

it's a real piece of work.

And, like you,

it's just not finished yet.

Although, it looks considerably

better than you at the moment.

You think they'll

let me work on it?

At the rehab center?

Sure. They're...

bound to need better chairs

down there.

So what's next?

None of your business.

Who are you, anyway?

A friend of Angelinas.

How is she?

Nobody tells me anything

around here.

They treat me like a criminal.

( CHUCKLES )

What's so funny?

You are a criminal.

I did it for angel.

So she could keep the baby.

They didn't tell you?

She lost the baby.

She said you didn't want it.

Look, uh...

thanks for the rocker.

( SIGHS )

Just, please...

Just leave me alone.

This is between angel and me.

We'll work it out.

Maybe.

Maybe not.

She hasn't

regained consciousness yet.

The doctors don't

expect her to make it.

( SIGHS )

Please! Wait, wait, wait.

Wait.

Just please...

just help me.

Help you do what?

Just gotta see angel.

And please just

talk to somebody.

If you're really her friend,

You know she'll want me

to be there.

She's all alone.

Just please let me see her.

She doesn't

need your guilt right now.

She needs your love,

Your faith,

And your prayers.

Look...

I know that I am not

worth her little finger...

but she's the only person

that I really loved.

( GASPS )

She always wanted me

to say that to her,

But I never did.

I'll see what I can do.

You know you can make a difference

if you're willing to change.

The greatest man in the universe

was a simple carpenter.

And his life...

changed this planet.

( SIGHS )

( DOOR SHUTS )

Another volunteer.

( SIGHS )

Hi, I'm Nicki.

Watch the sticky fingers.

I got a heavy date tonight.

What is this sack

you are wearing?

I'm Mary, the virgin.

And this is my costume.

Well, no wonder.

You're never gonna

get a guy looking like that.

Hey, makeovers are what I do.

Come on.

( SIGHS )

I'd prefer you

didn't bring her here.

Has anyone ever told you how

extremely irritating you can be?

( SIGHS ) It wasn't a date!

In two weeks, Nicole

is going to have to testify

Against her own father

in court.

What does that

have to do with you?

My mom left us

when I was a kid.

My dad turned into a lush.

I used to go by the bars after

school to help work off his bill.

Nicole used to come by

and pick up her old man.

He was usually passed out

in a corner somewhere.

It was kind of

a regular routine.

We never really talked much.

Well,

One day, my old man

started a fight.

I tried stopping him

and ended up getting hammered

Between him and Nicoles dad.

Bartender called the police,

And all of us

were hauled off to jail.

Nicole and I

were given a choice.

Could go back home,

Or we could press charges

And have to live as a ward

of the state.

Nicole was younger,

so she went back home.

I left and...

( CHUCKLES )

I never looked back

When I was old enough,

I left the state home,

And I've been

supporting myself ever since.

Her dad turned

into a mean drunk.

She's been living

on his unemployment,

Getting meals from guys,

Shoplifting, whatever.

Well if it was that bad

for Nicole,

Then why did she

take me to bars?

It's what she knows.

It was way better than staying

at home with her old man.

Can you help her?

Be easier if...

she had a few friends around.

( SIGHS )

I will be.

Sorry.

( FOOTSTEPS )

Look, am I gonna have to fix

all these costumes by myself?

I mean, look at them.

Without me, you would

have no fashion sense.

Zip. Nada.

I mean, really?

Come on...

Oh... Okay.

I get it.

Do you think you could help

With makeup, too?

Duh.

And can we get, like,

little halos or something?

I mean, you can't really

be an angel without them.

Don't see why not.

Just give me tin foil

And lots of glitter.

( GRUNTING )

I'll be right outside.

( VENTILATOR PUMPING )

( GASPING )

I'm so sorry, angel.

( SNIFFLES )

I know... I know

I screwed up big-Time.

Yeah.

( SIGHS )

( SOBBING )

you never did anything

In your entire life

to deserve this.

I-I love you

so much, baby.

( SOBS ) I'd give anything...

Anything to have things

back the way they were.

I would.

( SNIFFLES )

( GASPS ) Angel's god...

( SNIFFLES )

I need to talk to you.

( SNIFFLES )

She would...

She would always talk to you

Like you were her friend.

She told me that

she prayed for me.

It...

It must've worked

because I'm still here, right?

( SOBS )

I never prayed for her.

Never.

And I know that's wrong...

on account that

she's in real trouble now,

And it's all my fault.

( SOBS ) She told me that...

That Jesus...

( SNIFFLES )

Jesus went to hell for me...

to pay for what I did.

( VOICE BREAKING )

to pay for...

To pay for what I did.

He must've been

tough as sh*t, because...

I can't handle

this hell I'm in.

I understand that, uh...

that you rose yourself

from the dead.

I get it.

I believe it. I do.

I believe it.

Believe it.

So it's not like...

It's not like it's a big deal for you

to get her out of this coma, right?

Right?

( SNIFFLES )

I know...

I know that I f***ed up.

She told me

That you forgive everybody.

Even shits like me.

If you can...

If you can do anything,

Anything with my life...

you can have it.

Just, please,

Please,

Don't let angel die.

Don't let her die on me.

( SOBBING ) She's my best friend.

I'm so sorry.

I love you, baby.

I love you.

Thank you. All right.

That's for the animals.

Slow down.

You're going too fast.

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