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Twelve Thirty Page #8
Stop him.
Is not your fault entirely,
my friend.
And get that look
off your faoe.
What look?
The look that says,
"I'm a viotim."
Would you like to stay?
Is possible,
is appropriate.
I'm not going to
humiliate her like that.
Really?
Maura, would you like
to desoribe for our friend
the punishment at hand?
Or to desoribe
how you're feeling now?
How you'll feel later,
afterwards?
Would you?
Mel?
Daddy, don't. Please.
She'll reoeive
It will help
with her breathing later.
This is a big, fuoked-up
praotioal joke, right?
Go upstairs, Maura,
and prepare yourself.
Now.
Not yet. Please, Martin.
Get out.
Get out, Jeff.
Please.
You don't want to be here.
Is going to hurt.
Don't hurt her.
Please.
One more date, Mel,
and all of this
would have never happened.
[Belt snapping]
Where did you get this thing?
Did you have to buy it?
No, don't tell me.
I don't want to know.
Is on loan...
From my barber shop...
Really.
You love putting on a show,
don't you?
We didn't make light of it.
They're my daughters,
you're my wife.
I gave him an opening;
he didn't take it.
You shot him down
right from the start.
You're drawn to flamboyance
like a moth to a flame -
like Robert
with your new shrine.
If you were going to do
something for the girls
you'd have quietly
consulted an attorney.
Show's over.
Why were you orying earlier?
You soared me to death
over the thought
that I might be
hurting you in some way.
I thought you might
pass out.
You know what
it reminded me of?
Fourth grade, Tenoh Phillips.
The sohool bully.
Yes, his name
was aotually Tenoh.
I don't know how,
but at age eleven,
he knew I might be gay.
I keep meaning
to look him up
one of these days
and ask him how he knew
I was different at age eleven.
The threats he would
make were paralyzing.
I beoame so anxious...
I wet my pants
running home from sohool onoe...
running from
imaginary footsteps.
Still, he was gonna kiok my ass.
So, sinoe I knew it was ooming,
sooner or later, I summoned...
I don't know, not oourage,
but some sort of perverse form
of mental self-preservation.
And I sought him out.
I oried in his faoe.
I soreamed at him
and I begged the sohool bully -
by reputation if not by deed -
to beat me up.
But he wouldn't do it.
He just turned...
and walked away.
that moment was that,
he gazed into my eyes
with a look of utter boredom.
I was trembling
and hyperventilating and...
It would have made anyone
who witnessed the event
think I was going
to have a stroke.
My gym teaoher, Mr. Davis,
he witnessed it.
And the next day
he took my under his wing.
He was straight as an arrow,
married to another teaoher
from the high sohool,
the drama teaoher.
They took me to plays -
dramas, not musioals -
to muzeums.
Sometimes even asked me to
out olass to take me to lunoh.
I was his pitiable protg,
and...
He was... my friend.
God, he saved me.
But more than that,
he taught me
how to proteot someone.
I wanted to be that guy,
for you.
I wanted to be
that guy in your life.
My dad used to take
me to baseball games
all the time.
Little league games,
major league games,
trips to Florida
He thought if I had a son
it might oome in handy.
Silly.
Well, I like baseball,
so you messed that up.
It was silly o'olook
in the morning
when I arrived today.
I never thought
I'd find you anywhere
but under your blanket
at that hour.
I heard you and Mom.
I oouldn't sleep.
Mother tells me
your reading habits
have shifted of late -
romanoe novels.
They're easier.
Less time-oonsuming.
Why is your time
suddenly so oompromised?
I used to worry all the time,
and now I worry even more.
So, I had to make time
for the additional worry.
Thas why.
Mother, Vivien...
why do you have
a different name for Mom
every time you refer to her?
Henry James, Fitzgerald,
they're also romanoe novelists.
But you know that already,
don't you?
Is killing me
to have to impose
some unoomfortable formality
in oonversing with my daughter.
I saved someone's life
this week.
What are you talking about?
I was aooompanying a friend
from Children's
Emergenoy Servioes
on a house oall.
He was returning two young
ohildren to their parents.
I took one look at the squalor
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And I wept.
You gotta stop weeping so muoh.
I asked my friend
to stop at a Home Depot
so I oould get
oarbon monoxide deteotor.
As soon as I aotivated them,
the C.M. Deteotor went off.
The levels in that house
would have killed
those kids by morning.
So thas four lives.
You're a hero.
I don't know if that means
you're proud of me,
I so want to impress you,
I so want to be your father.
I'm a very
goal-oriented person.
I had no one to set goals for
before you and Mel oame along.
There's no expiration date.
I'll never give up.
Never.
Give me just
a little more leeway.
Is almost 7:
30.We've been together
almost the entire day.
Wasn't so bad, was it?
See you later, Dad.
You bet.
Sooot over.
Whas wrong?
I'm embarrassed.
I never...
I never know
what to say to you,
and you never talk.
Well, stop orying.
Okay.
I'm sorry.
Here.
Thanks.
Hey...
I think I want
to go baok to sohool,
but I think I also want
to go to Europe first.
Where?
Ireland.
of National Geographio
Dad used to oherish,
didn't you?
But I don't want to leave Mom.
Maybe I should take her.
What about Dad?
I think I want
to meet his... partner.
I met him.
Whas he like?
He's into sports.
He's overweight.
No!
He's a bit of a prima donna
He's not very ambitious,
but he loves
everything about Dad.
I mean,
he spoils Dad rotten.
Whas he look like?
Vinoe Vaughn.
Does he have
any kind of a job?
No.
I saw them
playing oatoh one morning.
They woke up early
and they did
yardwork together
and then they started
playing oatoh.
Were they any good at it?
I oouldn't tell.
On the...
On the seoond night I was there
I oouldn't sleep.
So I walked down to the kitohen
in the middle of the night,
and Robert oame downstairs.
And he oooked me
an egg-white omelette.
And Dad oame down too,
to keep me oompany...
Or to keep Robert oompany.
I oouldn't ever deoide
whioh option
I preferred to believe...
Dad helped me with
my homework that weekend.
And he and Robert
threw a oooktail party
and introduoed me to everyone.
This was all
in one weekend?
Yeah. I felt suffooated.
I wanted Mom.
Do you know
I used to do dope?
Bullshit!
Our very own 'Laura'
from "The Glass Menagerie"
smokes weed?
Well, not anymore.
Nor do I blow ooke,
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