The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Page #7

Yeah, she's not really my friend.

Well, you know... I mean, yeah...

Yeah, a little.

But, you know, she's 12.

Your letters, they made her sound like...

She drives you crazy.

We'll be doing interviews, right?

Talking to people...

...and she'll just jump in

and start asking these questions.

She'll ask them anything

she wants about their lives...

...like she's trying

to get to know them or something.

Well, is she gonna be okay?

I don't know.

I don't know.

Lena Kaligaris?

Papou.

I need to say something to you.

You can pretend that you don't

understand me, but I know you do.

People have always said to me

that I take after Yia Yia...

...that I have her face and her smile...

...but what no one ever sees is that...

...there's this whole other part of me

that is just like you.

Quiet and stubborn

and afraid of showing too much.

And then I met someone

who changed everything...

...and he showed me I can take a chance,

even if it's only for a moment.

Lena...

You had that same moment once,

when you met Yia Yia.

And you risked everything for it.

That was your chance, Papou.

And I'm asking now to have mine.

Go.

Kostas!

Kostas!

I thought I'd never see you again.

I love you.

What do you get in this box?

I'll be right back.

Hello?

Hello?

Dad, it's Carmen.

I'm glad you called.

- I just... I want...

- It's all right. You don't...

You don't have to apologize, sweetheart.

You were upset. I know.

No, Dad, you don't know.

That's just it, you've never known...

...because I've never

been able to tell you.

- Tell me what?

- That I'm angry with you, Dad.

This entire thing.

About you, and Lydia and the kids...

It's my fault.

I should have told you

about them before, and I'm sorry.

Yeah, you should've warned me,

but it's more than that.

It's the fact that you've found yourself

this new family...

...and I feel like some outsider

who doesn't even belong to you anymore.

It's like you traded me and Mom in for

something that you thought was better...

...and I wanna know why.

Are you ashamed of me?

Are you embarrassed?

Just tell me, Dad,

what did I do wrong?

Why did you leave?

Why did you have to go?

And then tell me

that we were gonna be closer?

But that never happened.

Dad, why does Paul visit

his alcoholic dad every month...

...but you only visit me twice a year?

And I know... You just seem so happy

about being Paul and Krista's dad...

...but you never even had

the time to be mine.

I'm sorry.

I'm so sorry.

I wish that were enough, Dad.

Where's your little friend these days?

Kind of got used to having her

hanging around.

Couple of weeks ago,

she saw I was having a bad time of it...

...asked me if I wanted to talk.

She's kind of special that way, huh?

Dear Tibby, my heart is too full

to write about it just now.

And you won't believe I'm saying this...

... but I really think the pants

did bring this to me.

We were right all along, Tibby.

The pants are magic.

And I know that if you let them,

they'll bring you some too.

All my love, Lena.

It's about time you showed up.

What's that?

It's "Dragon's Lair. "

Brian came by yesterday

and dropped it off.

He said it wasn't

as good as the real thing...

...but at least it'd keep me practicing.

He helped me get to level 10...

...the one where

the castle's under siege.

That's cool.

He's a pretty decent guy, Brian is.

Yeah, he is.

Oh, man, you were right,

and I was wrong, but I'm...

I'm wrong about most people, so...

The important thing is...

...you always change your mind

about them.

I brought something for you.

The Traveling Pants.

Yeah. I just got them back. From Lena.

- The one in Greece?

- Yeah.

She said that we were right all along,

that they really are magic, and...

Well, I don't know the details,

but I do know Lena...

...and for her to say that means...

...that it must be true.

So I was thinking, you know,

maybe you could have them for a while.

- They didn't fit me, remember?

- Yeah, I know.

I know, but that doesn't really matter.

You know?

None of it really matters.

Listen, you have to take them, Bailey.

Okay? You have to let them help you.

Please.

I know that you're tired, okay,

but you can't give up.

These pants will give you a miracle.

You just... You have to believe.

But, Tibby...

...the pants have already worked

their magic on me.

They brought me to you.

I want you to do something for me.

What?

Finish your movie.

Why?

Because you can.

Hello?

Oh, no.

I'll let her know.

I painted the porch.

Say, what do you say we go to Mario's

to celebrate your homecoming?

Maybe later, Dad.

I'm pretty tired from the trip.

Hey, it's me, Bailey.

You don't have to use this

in your movie or anything.

Although, now that I think of it...

... fainting in Wallmans does

kind of qualify me as a loser.

But then again...

... wearing a price sticker on your forehead

probably makes you one too.

You know, I don't know, Tibby.

Maybe the truth is there's a little bit

of loser in all of us, you know?

Being happy isn't having everything

in your life be perfect.

Maybe it's about stringing together

all the little things...

... like wearing these pants...

... or getting to a new level

of "Dragon's Lair"...

... and making those count

for more than the bad stuff.

Maybe we just get through it...

... and that's all we can ask for.

- Hello?

- Carmen, it's Lena.

I have to talk to you about something.

Don't you answer

your phone anymore?

- Carmen, I really don't have time...

- Tib, Bridget needs us.

- Tib, God. Just open it.

- That's what I'm trying to do.

I told you the smell of junk food

would wake her up.

We have invited ourselves over

for a sleepover.

- But it seems you are already asleep.

- Yeah.

I feel so tired.

Well, then you should talk to us.

So that we...

...can fix this.

This is the perfect pizza.

- It's the bacon.

- I think it's the olives.

- Bacon.

- Honestly, you two.

- Maggie. What...?

- Hey, Maggie.

Maggie, no!

Hey, do you know who would have

loved this P, Bee? Your mom.

Yeah.

I remember this one time she decided

that she'd make one herself.

She always woke up starving

after one of her episodes.

I was just sitting in the kitchen

doing my homework...

...and she just walked in...

...and just started making this thing.

You know, I don't even know

if you could call it a pizza.

It was more like the entire contents

of our refrigerator on a round crust.

Craziest part is we actually ate it.

Of course you did.

We ate every single bit of that pizza

in like 10 minutes.

Yeah.

And we were laughing the whole time.

It was great.

I remember thinking that maybe

there won't be any more bad spells.

Maybe she'll just be

happy like this forever.

It's okay to miss her, Bee.

I mean, as hard as it is

to be sad about it...

...don't you think maybe

it's harder not to be?

You don't understand.

Bridge...

I can't.

It hurts too much.

- I know.

- No, you don't know.

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