The Spectacular Now Page #6

He cheated on her.

Yeah, well, that's her version of it.

And you think it's a lie?

I don't think she's Iying, but I think

there's two sides to every story.

- Think about it.

- Sutter-

She won't let us see him.

She won't even let us know where he is.

Let's talk about something else.

How is your friend Aimee?

You gotta admit it's a little suspicious.

She won't even give me his phone number.

I can't talk to the guy.

Every time that I ask her for his number,

she refuses to give it to me.

Can you please ask her

for his number for me?

Please.

I don't have to ask her.

- I know where he is.

- What?

Thank you. Thanks.

Thanks.

Hey, Sutter?

Come by for lunch sometime, okay?

Okay. I will. Promise.

Hello.

Dad?

You got the wrong number.

No, it's me, Sutter.

Sutter?

Sutter, how you doin'?

Yeah, I'm all right.

You sound like a man from here now.

Well, yeah, you-

Hey, you still playing ball?

What?

I mean, your arm.

You were small for your age,

but you were a hell of a pitcher.

You still playing ball?

Wow. Yeah, I'm surprised

that you remember that, Dad.

What are you talking about?

Of course I remember that.

You still throwing?

No, not really.

Haven't thrown much lately.

It's a shame. You were

a hell of a pitcher. You had a great arm.

So, how-

So how's your-

How's your mom and Holly doin'?

They're good.

Yeah, reaI good.

Good. That's tremendous, Son.

That's good. That's good.

Listen, Dad-

Can I come see you sometime?

Come see me?

Of course you can come see me.

What do you mean,

can you come see me?

You can come see me

any damn time you want to see me.

- Really?

- Of course you can come see me.

You come over like Friday around 3.:00,

maybe we go see a game or something.

Yeah. Wow. Really?

Dad, that would be so great.

I would really like that.

How much further is it?

It's about three hours.

Hey, Aim, thank you.

- For what?

- I wouldn't have done this without you.

All right. Here we are.

I need that shot of whiskey now.

- Knock again?

- Yeah.

Yeah?

Dad, it's Sutter.

Oh, sh*t. Of course.

You- Oh, man. I-

Look at you.

Of course. You-

- You're taller than I am.

- Yeah, I grew a lot last summer.

Yeah. You- I was-

No, I was just-

- I was-

- How are you? Come here.

- Hey.

- Hi.

- Hey. And who-

- Sorry. This is Aimee.

- Hi.

- This is my girlfriend.

- That's my dad.

- How do you do?

- Nice to meet you.

- It's very nice to meet you.

It's very nice to see that Sutter's got

immaculate taste in the ladies.

He gets that

from his old man, you know.

He gets that from his old man.

Look at you.

You caught me at a bad time.

Just headin' out.

I was gonna catch up with some friends.

But since you're here,

if you wanna come along, that'd be great.

- Yeah.

- Would you like to do that?

- Yeah. I would love to, right?

- Yeah. Absolutely.

Is that all right? If you take your car,

you can follow me up there.

It's just up the street.

We'll go get a drink. Sound good?

Yeah, cooI. Let's do it.

Hey, guys.

This is my son, Sutter.

Sutter, this is the guys.

And this is the most beautifuI woman

in the entire state.

This is Roberta.

How you doin'?

Last week you said "the country. "

I meant the entire country.

And this, again,

is the amazing Sutter Keely.

Roberta.

And this is his amazing lady friend-

- Aimee.

- Aimee.

Get your good looks

from your mother, did ya?

She can be touchy sometimes.

Listen, go sit down over there.

I'll get us some drinks. All right?

- The booth?

- Yeah.

Hey, SaI.

Give me two pitchers.

You've never been to Key West?

It's the place to be.

Key West has got sunsets

that are like butterscotch sundaes...

with strawberry swirI mixed in.

And it just melts right into the ocean.

And everybody has got

a drink in their hand...

and a smile on their face.

That's Key West.

- Wow.

- That sounds perfect.

- Yeah.

- It was perfect...

and I wish you could have

been there with me.

So how come you left?

What do you mean, how come I left?

How come you left Key West?

I ran out of money.

That's why I left Key West.

If I could have stayed down there,

I would have, believe me.

Hey, I'm gonna play

a song on that jukebox.

Good. Do that.

You do that, I'll get us a refill.

All right.

Good.

Yes. That's it.

That's the song.

I wanna live fast,

love hard, die young

And leave a beautiful memory

I wanna live fast,

love hard, die young

Fresh pitcher.

All right. Here we go.

- Here you go, buddy.

- Thanks, Dad.

- Miss Aimee.

- Thank you.

It's pretty good, huh?

- Thank you. What's that?

- The song.

You like the song?

This?

Yeah, it's all right.

This was always

your mother's kind of thing.

Mom? What do you-

This is fun. I can't imagine Mom

listening to fun music like this.

What the hell are you talking about?

When I married your mother,

your mother was more fun than anyone I knew.

Your mother was the definition of fun.

There was nobody more fun than-

Don't say anything bad

about your mother here, huh?

So, what happened?

What do you mean, what happened?

Between you and Mom, what happened?

Things didn't work out.

That's what happened.

Yeah, well, she blames you for everything.

I always defend you.

I appreciate that, because you know what?

It wasn't all my fault.

Yeah, exactly.

There's two sides to every story.

- That's right.

- Yeah.

And no matter what happened

between you guys...

she shouldn't have kicked you

out of the house like that.

Your mother

didn't kick me out of the house.

What do you mean?

Your mother didn't kick me

out of the house. I left.

Let me tell you something.

I had to leave. I wanted

to be there for you. I really did.

More than anything in the world,

I wanted to.

You guys meant more to me than anything.

But things between your mother and I,

they were very uncooI.

You could say I wasn't

cut out to be a family man...

not in the traditionaI sense.

I did things that I'm not proud of.

But I don't live in the past.

I live in the now

because that's what it's all about.

Do you understand that?

Yeah. Yeah.

I think that might be a great idea.

- Hey-

- Yeah?

Do me a favor.

Pick up this tab. I'll be right back.

Dad.

I didn't even know you had a son.

Thanks for that info.

- You okay?

- Yeah. Yeah.

- It's okay.

- Gotta pay the tab.

He doesn't have any money.

- Do you have money?

- Yeah.

This isn't enough.

- That's all you got?

- Listen-

Roberta's had too much to drink...

so I'm gonna give her a ride home,

if you know what I mean.

- You want us to follow you?

- No. There's no need for that.

I won't be more than an hour.

Dad, we're not doing anything.

We can totally come.

No, that's not necessary.

You know what'd be best?

Just meet me

back at my place, all right?

Yeah, Dad,

we came all this way to see you.

I know you did, and I'm glad you did.

But I'll meet you back at my place

in about an hour. Is that good?

- Yeah.

- Yeah, that's fine.

- We can do that. Yeah.

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