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Booker:What’s his name?
Macie:I don’t really want to tell you.
Booker:It’s Huck, isn’t it?
Macie:I couldn’t think of anything else.
Booker:We wanted a boy and girl, a nice yard with room for a vegetable garden, and a big floppy dog named Huckleberry.
Macie:We did. And then you left me in the dark for four fucking years, and I had to find my own damn dog.
Booker:You’re pissed again.
Macie:Ya think?
Booker:I’m going to tell you the whole truth, baby, soon. I promise.
Macie:Maybe it’s too late. Maybe it doesn’t even matter anymore.
Booker:I’ll make it up to you, Macie, I swear on my life I will.
Macie + McCall
Macie:I don’t know if I can keep doing this with him.
McCall:The trips down memory lane starting to chafe your ass?
Macie:Something like that. The moron has always had a way with words, always been such a smooth talker. He lures me in with sweet anecdotes, makes me forget he’s still lying to me, and then BAM, I remember and I want to reach through the phone and strangle him.
McCall:He loves you so damn much.
Macie:Then why didn’t he come for me? After he realized I wasn’t getting his letters, why didn’t he try to come see me? Try to call? He walked away. I wanted the truth, but now I almost feel like he’s left me twice.
McCall:It’s not my story to tell, Macie girl, but I promise everything he did was for you. His heart was in the right place, and your happiness was the most important thing in the world to him.
Macie:I’m so tired of the people in my life thinking they know what’s best for me. My parents pitched a hissy fit when I moved back home. This town was good enough for them, but not me? They wanted me in Dallas at a fancy private school, searching for a wealthy surgeon or lawyer to settle down with. My momma sent my resume to a few headmasters without my consent.
McCall:Your parents have always been your parents, Mace. They’ve always wanted more for you. Hell, they were wary of Booker from the day he asked you out on your first date. Your daddy only tolerated him while he was playing varsity football. The night he tore his rotator cuff was the night they wrote him off for good. He couldn’t give you the future they wanted you to have.
Macie:They didn’t hate him. They didn’t want me to end up pregnant before I graduated. My momma was heartbroken for me when he took off.
McCall:I’m sure her heart did hurt watching you mourn like that.
Macie:We still on for tomorrow night? You can push me around the dance floor, and we can practice our sign language.
McCall:Yes, ma’am.
McCall + Booker
McCall:You need to let me give her the last letter.
Booker:I won’t be home for a while yet.
McCall:You think she’s going to read it and come running straight to your arms? Are you high? What kind of pain meds they have you on?
Booker:Funny.
McCall:She’s going to need a minute, Booker, she’s going to need to absorb those words, figure out how she feels. There are things she’s going to need to process, and people she’ll want to talk to. She still thinks her parents liked you for fuck’s sake.
