The Gift Page #5

Where have you been?

Hey.

Dear Robyn and Simon,

I guess I owe you both an apology.

It seems I have

misjudged our situation.

Please know that I would never

do anything to upset you both,

and I really wish I

could start all over again.

However, I will honor your wishes

of leaving you be,

i.e., alone.

You won't hear from me again,

except for this

letter which I hope...

"expresses how sorry I am

that things turned out the way they did.

"Gordo." Sad face.

"P.S.:
I also apologize about the dinner.

"Without going into detail,

"I think I would feel ashamed

to have you see where I really live.

"I am not exactly the success

story that you both are.

"Stupid me."

No, another sad face.

Two sad faces.

Oy.

- Turn it over.

- There's more.

"P.P.S.:
Simon, after

all these years,

"I really was willing

to let bygones be bygones.

"I had nothing but good intentions."

- What does that mean?

- I do not know.

- Really?

- Well, it must mean something.

I mean, "bygones be bygones,"

"after all these years."

Seriously, I have no idea

what he's talking about.

Huh.

Well, you're not forgetting that this

guy's not exactly stable?

But he seems okay, right?

Other than that?

And we're okay, Jangles is okay,

everybody's okay.

So whatever this was,

let's put it behind us.

Get him out of our minds,

and get on with it.

You know, what do you say?

Question mark, smiley face.

Simon?

Whole semester,

I'm still not going to admit that I did it.

You know, and anyway,

I never waffled. Yeah.

Now I know the guys gotta

catch a plane, so...

Thank you very much

for sitting and looking interested,

very nice of you.

I'll catch up with you.

Take care, you guys.

They loved you.

That was...

They loved you.

That felt pretty good.

Thank you very much for the

vote of confidence too, buddy.

Who else am I up against?

I don't want to get my hopes up,

you don't have to give me names,

but I just wanna know...

I don't mind giving you names.

There's only one other guy.

It's Danny McDonald from

Parker and Fitch.

Just the one?

I smell a promotion for you, buddy.

Hello?

Shoot.

Hi.

Hey, baby. Come on.

Hey.

- Hey.

- Morning.

I got coffee over here, honey.

Come sit down.

I want to tell you this funny story.

The brothers, I guess,

they went to my school.

Same school.

Same physics teacher.

This guy, Dr. Elsowet.

And they told me that

he still has the same nickname

that I gave him 10 years ago.

Dr. Smells-a-Bit.

We had a good laugh about it.

Meeting went really, really well.

Kevin is in fact leaving

and they're only

looking at one other guy,

so I got a really good shot at it.

That's great, honey.

Yeah, that is great.

I was very excited to share it

with you last night when I got home.

But you were out like a light.

Anything you want to tell me?

Anything at all?

Yeah?

Yeah. Yeah, I do.

I'm glad you said that, 'cause

this was a real bummer to find.

I thought we were done with all of that.

What's going on with you?

I thought we left all

this back in Chicago.

Robyn, you worked

real fast here.

You got yourself

a doctor too already?

Okay, okay, look.

Simon, I...

I need you to call him.

He made peace with us. I think that

we have to make peace with him.

What's he got to do with that?

'Cause I'm not

feeling good right now.

I feel scared when

I'm here by myself.

And I keep expecting

him to show up.

Why would he?

I don't know. I can't

explain it. But look, I'm...

- It's made me kind of crazy. I...

- Yeah.

- You're probably paranoid from the pills.

- I'm scared. I had a fall.

- A fall.

- I fainted.

Well, that's a shocker, you know,

you're chewing pills.

No, it wasn't

because of the pills.

- I didn't take any.

- Are you sure?

No, I didn't take any.

No, I wasn't.

Are you mixing this

stuff with anything?

This has nothing

to do with pills

and no, I'm not mixing anything.

'Cause if you're

mixing it with something

it's going to get

really dangerous.

Do you want to turn the place

upside down like you did the last one?

Will you please

just listen to me?

If we say sorry to him,

we will make this right

and I will feel better.

Robyn, it's over.

I said it, he said it,

he wrote a letter.

Yeah, what about the letter

suggests that it's over?

The whole thing.

What does "bygones be bygones" mean?

Oh, my God.

And Jangles.

I mean, if you still believe that

he took Jangles, which you do,

then it's not over

for him, is it? Is it?

You asked me if there's something

I want to tell you.

This sh*t, it's over!

Is there something

that you wanna tell me?

The subject is closed.

Look at what he's done to us.

This is his fault.

It's not my fault,

it's not your fault.

That's why we've got to

just put it behind us.

Please.

And time will heal it, okay?

Trust me.

Time's going to

prove that to you.

I want you to just look forward

and be strong.

Time gets rid of a lot of things.

It heals everything.

Let's just get on with doing

what we came here to do.

Let's make a family.

We'll start a new life.

A life of our choosing, without him.

It's really important

to not look back.

I don't know.

If everything's stripes,

probably not good.

No, it's cute. No.

Listen, so don't look now,

but there is a creepy guy

watching you from outside.

- Yeah. Do you see him?

- Right there?

Oh, my God.

It's him. It's the guy from before.

The one I told you about.

Well, Robyn, don't...

That is good for the winter.

It's for the stroller.

- It's great.

- Yeah.

It goes with the stroller.

I'm going to take that too.

Take those ones.

What is this? Is this you?

I don't mean to interrupt.

Look, Mom, sis,

in case you guys are gone

- before I get back.

- Okay, goodbye.

- Goodbye. Have fun, you guys.

- Bye.

- Bye.

- Don't let Mom drink too much.

Okay.

Hey, sure.

You want me to take that?

We'll just write

that it's Joan on there.

This one's from me.

It's just a little something...

There's a bigger present coming.

He's so mean,

and now Henry's a complete tyrant

and Sunny is like

a very sweet law-abiding citizen

who Henry tries to corrupt

at every chance he can get,

which is exactly

what Simon did to me.

Really was a bad influence.

Hey, Joan, do you remember

a guy called Gordon Mosley?

Gordo?

He was at high school

with you and Simon?

Yeah. Yeah, no, Gordo.

He was...

He was the kid

that got sent away.

He got sent away? Why?

Man, it was like

a million years ago,

but they found him getting

molested in a car by this older kid.

It was really just...

It turned into a huge deal.

They pulled him out of school.

I guess he was getting bullied by

the kids for being gay, the poor thing.

So Simon would have

known all about it, right?

Simon was the one that reported it.

Simon and his friend Greg.

They were the ones that found him.

I think they essentially saved him,

you know, if he was in trouble.

Right.

You could ask him more about it. I was 12.

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