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Booker:Dream of me, Macie.
Macie + McCall
Macie:We had phone sex.
McCall:I’m assuming you mean you and Booker. And I’m assuming you meant sexting.
Macie:Semantics.
McCall:How was it?
Macie:Better than I ever imagined it could be.
McCall:That’s good, right?
Macie:Yeah, I think so. I needed to know we still had that edge, that desire between us.
McCall:I’m pretty sure my cousin has been hard for you since the day he left town.
Macie:I needed to know I could still let my guard down. I needed to know I could feel that way about him. I was afraid I’d lost it somewhere between my heartbreak and my anger.
McCall:Now what?
Macie:Now I wait for him to come home, I suppose. And then we’ll see how that goes. One step at a time.
McCall:One healed hurt at a time.
Macie:Exactly. My dad showed up with my mom this evening. It didn’t go well.
McCall:Did he come to apologize?
Macie:Nope. He came to justify his actions. He said Booker and I were too young, too wild, too in love. He said that we were destined to crash and burn and he wanted more for me than that boy in this small town.
McCall:It’s comical how they chose to settle down here, but seem to hate everything about it.
Macie:I threw that in his face among a shit-ton of other things.. He said there was a difference between owning this town and simply waiting to die here.
McCall:Ouch.
Macie:Right? What a pretentious jerk. I kicked him out, I told him he had no say in how I chose to live or die. He can’t take away the degree he paid for. Although I think my car might still be in his name so I’ll need to get that changed.
McCall:I can help with that. We need to go to the bank.
Macie:I keep trying to picture what things would've been like if my parents hadn’t forced Booker to leave. Would we have crashed and burned? Would we be struggling now, with kids and a mortgage?
McCall:You want to know what I think?
Macie:Sure.
McCall:I think that dwelling on what could’ve been is a fool’s errand. Focus on the here and now, focus on what you can be like now, Mace.
Macie:I think you’re right.
McCall:Usually am.
Booker + McCall
Booker:I fly back next week. I finally got my departure date.
