The Book of Love Page #5

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and I'm not leaving here

until you agree

to talk to someone.

Yes.

Yes?

I...I should talk

to someone.

Yes, absolutely. No,

I...I would actually...

Oh, Henry, I'm so glad

to hear you say that.

It's very important.

I agree. Yeah.

I just... i just want you

to feel better.

Yeah, I'm feeling better

already, actually.

Good. Good.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah.

Who was that?

Nobody.

Come on.

We got a lot of work to do.

Come on.

I'm sure you think

I'm crazy, but I'm not.

I'm fine.

I'm quite well, actually.

And if I'm being honest,

I...I think

Julia's concerns,

I think, are misplaced.

I see.

Why do you believe that

I think you're crazy?

Um...

The whole raft thing

for starters.

I'm sure Julia

told you all about that

and know how that must sound.

How must that sound?

F***ing crazy.

You know, a... a guy

starts building a raft

with a 16-year-old girl to

sail across the Atlantic ocean

a month after his wife passed...

It must sound completely nuts.

Does it?

You tell me!

What would you like me to say?

Like, "you need

to resolve your feelings,"

you know, or...

Or something like,

"you need to come to terms

with the events of your life,"

or "why the hell are you building

a garbage raft, you nut ball?"

I'm not the one building

the raft, Henry. You are.

Okay, we're done here.

Henry?

There's nothing...

There's nothing wrong with me.

I'm fine.

Hey, Henry,

can I ask you something?

Yeah.

I heard about this thing

that happens out past the delta.

Apparently, the river water

from all them farms up north

comes down and heads to the ocean.

You know the place?

Damn it.

Well, that water

is grimy as sh*t

from all them pesticides

and stuff, you know.

None of this stuff's gonna work.

And after all that crud

mixes into the sea,

it sucks the air

out of the water,

and all them ocean

fish, they drown.

They call it phenomena.

They say you could see the

fish jumping in the air

and skipping on the surface,

trying to get the hell

out of the water, you know,

trying to get out,

trying to stay alive.

It's a little out of my way,

but I was thinking

I should go see that.

What do you think?

What do I think about what?

Oh, never mind.

Hey, guys, none of

this wood's gonna work.

Every single piece is rotten.

Swear that dog...

He sail off the edge

of the earth for her.

Henry, don't get me wrong.

I like building this raft.

Yeah, yeah.

Beats the heck out of drywall.

Yeah, yeah.

I was just wondering,

why you doing this?

She goes out on this,

she ain't gonna make it.

Whaah!

See? That's exactly

what I'm talking about.

Hey.

Millie!

Yeah! I'm in here.

Oh.

Listen. This isn't

working, okay?

You're gonna have to let

me buy some wood and...

What are you doing?

What are you doing?

Jesus!

You just don't touch things

that don't belong to you!

I'm sorry.

It's okay.

I'll clean up.

No, it's not okay,

all right?

All you did was give me sh*t

about touching your stuff,

and then you waltz in here...

Why the hell are you even

building this thing, huh?!

You're gonna get yourself

killed! You know that?

You're just a goddamn kid!

Millie?

They didn't have

mint chocolate chip.

Can you believe it?

Anyway, so,

I got chocolate chip,

green food coloring,

and junior mints,

and I figured

we'd do it ourselves.

What do you think of...

Whoo. Who cares

what you think?

The baby's

really happy with that.

I think it's gonna be great.

Heh.

Am I going crazy?

The whole world's crazy.

It's all for sh*t.

Henry, you don't

have to do this.

No, no, it's okay. I'm okay.

This is a good thing.

See?

We got all the wood we need.

Now we just need more help.

Hey, what about your three boys?

Ahh.

Here we go. Here we go.

One more. Coming hot.

What's next?

Um, take all those photos

and put 'em in that

room for me, okay?

Sure.

Hmm?

Yeah.

Looks great.

Now all we need is a mast.

You sure about this?

I have no idea.

Keep going.

Pull.

It's almost there.

It's in.

Good?

Good.

Hey.

You awake?

Nope.

Won't be long now

till you sail off

into the horizon.

That's the plan.

Um...

You know, I...

I just wanted to say

that I'm...

I'm sorry that...

Well, for being a real

a-hole the other day.

It's all right.

We all lose our sh*t sometimes.

Yeah.

Oh, oh, and, uh,

I was thinking, um,

you should go see those leaping

fish you were talking about.

I think that would just

be really something.

All right. Hit it.

C'est bonne.

Not bad.

Yeah.

Henry?

Henry?

Good lord.

Cool if I join you?

Sure. Pull up a plank.

Feels like we should be

celebrating or something.

Hmm. Yeah, it's a shame

Ahab and I ate all the pot.

This is all gonna be

condominiums soon.

My firm, we were hired

to reinvent the city.

I don't know.

I like it the way it is,

all the old boats, the wood.

My pa used to bring me down

here to fish when I was little.

Sometimes, things are better

when they're

not perfect, you know?

I was wrong about you.

How so?

You're not a perv.

I'm glad that's

finally cleared up.

It's just that ain't nobody

really cared about me before...

Since my daddy, anyways.

Is that what...

Is that why you're doing this?

'Cause if it ain't, that's cool.

I...I was just...

I just thought that...

No, I do.

I care about you.

I saw the cube on the shelf.

She in there?

What was she like?

Hmm.

Um...

She was a bunch of things.

She was a photographer,

really bad sculptor,

terrible cook.

Was a clown.

A clown?

Yeah, for children's parties.

Oh.

She used to make up these

stories about how we met.

For years, she had a bunch of

the people in our neighborhood

convinced that we

used to be spies.

She was just always doing...

Little oddball things like that.

Even the day we met,

she fell off her bike,

hit her head

right in front of me.

Then I helped her up,

and I got her to a hospital,

and then she asked the intern

to take a picture of us

in case she got amnesia.

She was, uh...

She was kind of wild, you know.

Like a hurricane.

Yeah, I guess so.

She sounds like

she was the sh*t.

Yeah, she was the sh*t.

You mind if we stay here

just a little longer?

Sure.

You know how

they say just before you die,

your whole life flashes

in front of you?

Well, that's a load of crap.

Most people only have time

to think of, like, a few things.

Penny could only think of one.

Sh*t.

Who is she?

Her name's Millie.

Well...

She's missing.

You know that.

She's not missing.

No, she's in the truck.

What is she doing here?

Where are her parents?

I don't know.

Gone, I think.

How old is she?

She's 16.

Oh, my, god, Henry.

Are you and she...

What? No!

No, of course not!

No, I-I'm helping her.

Helping her with what?

I told you.

We're building a raft.

Oh, my god.

You've lost your mind.

Actually, Julia,

for the first time

in a long time,

I...I feel good.

You feel good?

Yeah.

'Cause you smell like a vagrant,

and the house

looks like a storm hit it,

and you're

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