UFO: The Greatest Story Ever Denied II - Moon Rising Page #5

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Sit next to you guys for a second?

I just... I gotta tell you something.

[Sighs]

Dude, I'm on acid.

I'm trippin', y'all.

[Chuckles] That's the way

Britney Spears would say it.

She'd be like,

"I'm trippin', y'all."

[Clears throat]

- We can go somewhere else.

- Yeah.

No, wait, wait.

Dude, wait. Stay.

Say something familiar, man, please.

Just say something familiar.

I'm just seeing too many ghosts.

[Clears throat]

I don't know.

French fries.

Yeah!

- Mr. Bubble.

- Yeah.

Monkeys.

The ones that rip your balls off

for not sharing birthday cake,

or the nice ones?

No. The nice ones.

Yeah!

[Laughs]

[Dance music continues, indistinct]

[Acoustic rock music plays]

What... That's...

[Rose laughing]

"Go, baby, go."

[Laughs]

Yeah!

Let's go.

All right. Let's go.

[Rose laughing]

Bye.

[Chuckles]

What'd you do?

[Chuckles]

People signed my belly.

Oh.

[Laughs]

It seemed sweet at the time.

"Have a great summer.

Good luck with the new kid."

[Laughs]

[Mutters]

I was never into yearbooks.

Do you want to sign?

Um... all right.

Don't you think it might

just be easier

if you talked about it with Grace?

Floodgates.

I don't know what I'd do

if they opened.

I'll talk about someone,

but it'll really be him.

Why would you do that?

Because there are things

I need to tell you.

Okay.

Okay.

I knew this boy.

He was really wonderful to me.

Is that okay?

Yes.

The first time I saw him

was in freshman English.

He wore a baseball hat

on the first day of school,

and our teacher made him

take it off.

And his hair was all pasted

on top of his head.

And he smiled at me

while he tried to fix it.

We watched each other after that.

And I started to feel

like I knew him.

I looked at his

yearbook picture so often,

I knew his face by heart.

Our senior year, I took piano,

and he had soccer,

so we would pass each other

every day after school

in the exact same spot.

And it became something

I looked forward to,

so much so that I could tell you

all the days he was absent,

because those were the days

that I was disappointed.

And sometimes

he would look at me.

Sometimes he would turn away.

And sometimes

it would be so intense

that we would start looking

at each other

from the very beginning

of the steps.

And then on the last day,

he talked to me.

And everything he said was exactly

how I pictured it would be.

And he felt the way he felt

in my dreams,

and I thought everything

was happening

exactly the way

it was supposed to.

And I was the happiest

I've ever been...

happy and scared

all at the same time.

And if he had signed my belly,

he would have written

something comforting.

[Gasps]

That's one of the most

difficult integrals

I've ever solved.

Took me three years to do it.

And I was in love with him.

That's why I'm keeping this baby.

I was in love with him

for four years.

I barely knew him,

but everything

was exactly how I imagined it.

Everything was

just how I pictured it.

And I have to keep this baby.

I think he was the love of my life.

[Sighs]

I'm very tired.

I can't fight it anymore.

I'm so tired.

[Exhales]

[Marker rests on table]

My mom says it's cool.

Yeah.

That was a good story.

Thanks.

No, I mean... I don't...

I don't mean it that way.

I mean, it was good to hear.

Not good for you,

but good for me, I guess.

So what was

your brother's funeral like?

I don't remember.

It's all just a blur?

No, I really don't remember.

I was too f***ed up.

I didn't know you get high.

I don't.

My mom tests me every two weeks.

It's pretty much

the only thing they do

that proves they know I'm alive.

Need a ride home?

Yeah, sure.

DOCTOR:
Baby is head down,

which means

you're getting very close.

How are you feeling,

Mr. Brewer?

You look like

you could use some rest.

Oh, I'm fine.

Thank you.

How's the baby?

Just where we want her

to be right now.

It's a girl?

DOCTOR:
I'm sorry.

I thought you knew.

[Laughs]

It's a girl?

[Laughs]

Oh, congratulations.

Is she healthy?

Doesn't get any stronger

than that heartbeat.

You've taken

really good care of her.

Oh, this is wonderful.

[Both laughing]

This is wonderful.

Wonderful.

Excuse me.

It's wonderful.

[Laughs]

Okay. I'll be right back.

A girl.

A girl. Okay.

[Monitor beeping steadily]

[Footsteps retreating]

What is wrong with you?

I just need a minute.

So, take a minute.

I'm going back in.

No.

I don't want this baby, Allen.

I don't care if I sound horrible.

You sound horrible.

If Bennett were alive,

she never would have kept it.

- I can't be grateful to her.

- You don't have to be.

- I won't.

- Fine.

- I won't do it. I won't.

- Don't. Don't.

Don't do anything.

I don't care anymore.

Don't I have the right

to tell you how I'm feeling?

Not when everything you say

is sounding so ugly.

You're right.

Losing a child is ugly.

You don't have a patent on grief.

You're not the only one

who knows how to do it.

- Other people grieve.

- You don't.

- You haven't shed a tear once.

- I'm gonna go back in.

You used to get misty when

you would go to his sports events.

Listen. Somebody has to

stand strong in this family.

Somebody has to be together.

If I fall apart, everything

goes to hell in a handbasket.

Well, I am so sorry that I can't

handle anything but my grief,

and I don't treat this family

like a goddamn army.

It's not all about you

and your grief, Grace.

There are people in our lives

who need our attention.

Well, you don't give a puppy

to someone who's just lost their dog.

You just don't do that.

So what do we do?

Give her back? Hmm?

Give her 20 bucks?

Wish her luck?

Don't praise her like she's a gift

that was given to us,

like it makes it okay

that our son is gone.

It doesn't soften the blow.

She does for me.

Yeah.

Oh, well, I'm so glad for you.

I'm so glad that the girl that is

the reason our son is dead

softens the blow for you.

ALLEN:
That's unfair.

GRACE:
What was he doing

in the middle of the road?

If he'd been with his friends,

if he'd been with us,

would he have been

in the middle of the road?

Answer me that.

You don't know anything about it.

You haven't made the slightest

effort to get to know this girl.

I don't want to get to know her.

Why can't you understand that?

It should have been her

that died that night.

It should have been her!

[Allen sighs]

[Doorbell rings]

[Sighs]

Hello?

- Hi.

- Can I help you?

Yeah. Ashley left

this scarf in my car.

Um, who are you?

I'm Amy. I live here.

- Amy.

- Yeah.

Ashley's older sister Amy?

[Sighs]

What'd she tell you?

I grabbed a live wire?

Fell overboard

on our family cruise?

What'd you tell him this time,

you freak?

- Ryan...

- I'm telling Mom.

- I hate you!

- Freak.

Ryan! Ryan, please.

Wait. I can explain.

- Ryan, please just listen to me!

- Uh-uh.

Look. They don't pay

any attention to me in there.

- I might as well be dead.

- You have no idea what it's like.

- Yes, I do. I'm sorry. I'm so sorry.

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