7th Heaven s11e19 Episode Script

- Hi.
- Hi.
What are you doing back there? Movie doesn't start for another hour.
You didn't tell me there was a job opening at the concession stand.
Is there? Yeah, there is.
I just applied for it.
You'd want to work at the concession stand? - Why not? -I don't know.
I mean, it's just it's kind of lonely back there once the movie starts.
I mean, a big rush, and then nothing - for hours.
- Kind of like your job? Well, yeah, but my job, I mean, I'm outdoors.
I can people-watch.
People stop by, they chat.
In there, there's nothing.
Nothing but, uh, Jujus and Sugar Babies and other gigantic boxes of candy, and giant sodas, and the smell of that popcorn I mean, after a while, I don't know.
So what are you saying? You don't want me working at the same place as you, or you think I'd be tempted by all the candy? What? No.
Neither.
None of that.
So talk to your boss.
I need a job.
- So you can get the tattoo removed.
-And our six-month anniversary is coming up in a few weeks.
Six months? Is that a big anniversary? Yeah, it is.
You don't have to get me anything if you don't want to.
You already got me the promise ring.
But I just thought I should get you something.
I want to get you something.
Something nice.
You don't have to do that, you know.
Yeah, I know, but I want to.
Besides, it'll be fun having both of us work at the same place.
You and me.
More time together.
More time away from the house together.
All right.
Well, uh I'll talk to the boss.
Thanks.
Sorry.
I-I-I just left my notebook here last night.
Help me.
You-you have to help me.
- What's wrong? -I don't want Ruthie to work here.
Yeah, all right, I can understand that.
So don't recommend her to the boss.
No, you don't understand.
I want to break up with her.
You're breaking up with Ruthie? Isn't that kind of dangerous, given your living situation? Reverend Camden gave me permission.
- No kidding.
- No kidding.
Just didn't give me any instructions.
Give me your phone.
Don't you know anything about modern technology? 7th Heaven When I see their happy faces Smiling back at me 7th Heaven I know there's no greater feeling Than the love of family Where can you go When the world don't treat you right? The answer is home That's the one place that you'll find 7th Heaven Mmm, 7th Heaven 7th Heaven.
T Bone.
T Bone.
So, if I'm not interrupting Uh, I just have to Sure.
Sure.
Thought any more about that job offer? Dad "M-B-R-eight " "M-B-R-eight-N " "M breightening up with you.
" This is from T Bone.
- To us? -No, he copied us on a message to Ruthie.
He's breaking up with Ruthie on a text message! - Oh, no.
- Oh, no is right.
How can he break up with her?! She has his name tattooed across her butt.
You know, that ungrateful little - Idiot.
- Idiot? That wasn't very nice calling him an idiot.
No, that was more than not nice; it's it's curious.
What do you know about this? Nothing, you know, other than he's an idiot for sending her a message on a cell phone and then sending it to us.
And? And I feel really badly for Ruthie.
- And? - And? And do you have something to do with this? Me? I get the distinct feeling yeah.
- Don't you have some Googling to do? -It can wait.
I thought your friends at Crossroads - needed an answer right away.
- Dad.
- Lucy.
- What? Well, are you and Kevin moving up there or not? I don't know.
But did you have something to do with this breakup or not? I'm not really sure.
Uh boys, would you, uh, grab my phone? Message.
T Bone.
Oh, I-I'll take it later.
I'm a little busy right this minute.
I want to get this cake frosted before Ruthie gets home.
I'm making her a treat because she did what she told me she'd do.
She's been looking for a job every day after school, and I am so proud of her.
Maybe T Bone's calling to tell you she got a job.
Well, why would he do that? Maybe Ruthie can't call.
Maybe she's working.
Maybe she is.
Do you know how to get the message? Here it is.
Okay, let's see.
"M breaking up with slash you.
" What? "I'm breaking up with you.
" T Bone's breaking up with me? Oh, no! I don't think it's you, Mom.
I bet it's Ruthie.
He's breaking up with Ruthie.
Hey, quiet! Savannah's sleeping.
T Bone.
"M-B-R-eight-N, up, W slash U?" She's still in Margaret's Books.
She probably doesn't even have her cell phone on her, or it's out of battery or something.
She's just walking around.
If I'm still alive at the end of my shift, I'm afraid I'm going to have to kill you.
What are you talking about? I did you a favor.
That's not how you break up with a girl! It's one way.
Not a very good way.
- There's no good way.
Believe me.
-Well that was the worst way.
So, I'm really going to have to kill you.
Well, that's going to have to wait.
I have to get to class.
- Now? - A group of students from several different classes have been invited to come together and read our chapters from our novels out loud.
Your novel? Yes.
Are you going to turn in the one you wrote or what Margaret wrote? I don't think that's any of your business, Mr.
Grumpy.
And how do you know that there's a chapter she wrote and a chapter I wrote? 'Cause you left it in here last night your notebook and I read it, and well, uh obviously, you know nothing about women.
Good luck.
- Hi.
- Hi.
Hey.
Where's he off to? Uh plagiarism prison, I imagine.
He looks kind of sad.
Could I see your phone? Yeah, okay.
I just want to see if it's like my phone.
Oh, I-I saw that you left me a message.
That's why I came out here.
That and I just wanted to see you.
- I love you.
- I love you.
I'll, uh I'll always love you.
I I swear.
I know.
Is that the message you left for me? Um not exactly.
The thing is, uh I-I actually didn't leave the message; Mac Mac did.
Mac left me a message? Did he talk to your boss? He did, didn't he? I he, um we You both did? Oh, thank you.
I really appreciate it.
Yeah.
So uh you could just delete that message off your phone now.
Or you know what? I'll do it.
Should I go talk to him? Go talk to him? Yes.
Go talk to him.
Why don't you do that? But you should definitely leave the phone behind 'cause you don't want it beeping while you're trying to get a job.
I love you.
I really do love you.
Me, too.
I really, really do.
That was really low.
No, no, no.
Don't say anything.
Doing something very important here.
Just hold on.
You broke up with her on your cell phone? Did Mac tell you that? - No, I got the message, too.
- Huh? What did you do, send it to everyone on your phone list? What? Margaret got it, too.
- How could that be? - Did you copy your phone list? Copy my phone list? Is Is that possible? Yes, it's totally possible.
Mac.
Did you break up with Ruthie? Hi, Jane.
Hi.
I better go.
He's sick, you know.
Who? Your boyfriend Martin.
Oh.
Yeah.
I know.
That's why I'm having a phone date with him tonight.
So that I don't get sick.
I just came by to pick up my check and to yell at T Bone.
You sent Ruthie a text message to break up with her? No, no, I did not do it.
- Mac did it.
- Why would he do that? Because I wanted to break up with her.
I just I didn't know how to do it.
I got the job! I got the job! Thank you! Thank you! I should just call my mom! Oh, hey, Sandy.
- I just got a job working here.
- Yeah? I've been trying to get something all week.
It's not easy, you know, to get a job.
My dad's picking me up.
I should just tell them in person.
Bye, Sandy.
I'll see you at home, T Bone.
"Margaret has had enough.
"She snaps, 'I don't love you.
"'I did love you, but I don't anymore.
"'I love me, and that's the truth.
"'Me.
"'It's all about me.
You know why? "'Because it's been about you for the past four years.
"'It's been about your major, your plans, your dreams.
"'Well, I've got a dream of my own, "and it doesn't include you anymore.
' "He looked at her, confused.
"This was not the Margaret that he knew.
"This wasn't the Margaret who had paid half their rent "and cooked most of their meals.
"This wasn't the Margaret who had done his research "and drafted his papers.
"This was a new Margaret.
"A grown-up.
"He found himself suddenly wanting her more "than he ever had before.
"He took her hand.
"'Margaret, look, "'I-I know that I've been selfish at times, "'but that's because I want to give you "the best life has to offer.
' "She stepped back and smiled.
"'I don't need you to give me the best that life has to offer, "because I can get whatever I want on my own.
' "And that was the conversation that they both recalled "as they stood in the rain looking at each other, "each on the other side of Second Avenue in Manhattan, "each waiting for a bus, "each headed in the opposite direction again.
"That conversation had taken place ten years ago, "and a lot had happened since then.
"He called to her, "'Margaret.
' She smiled and waved back.
" So, Mac, is that based on personal experience? It's very good.
Usually, when something is very good, it's based on personal experience.
Kind of.
I mean, I have these two friends, and they're breaking up, and I just feel like they'll regret it one day, ten years from now, and it'll be too late to have what they could have if they stayed together.
But people your age rarely stay together a lifetime.
I know, but if they could if you could find real love when you're this young, man, that would be amazing.
Don't you think? And that's what I'm writing about the possibility of love more so than the reality.
I feel that you can't really be in love unless you can imagine being in love first.
You're kidding.
No.
Okay.
I went up to see Simon, and he was with Rose, and Sandy was her friend, and we had some pizza.
Then we went back to her place, and, uh rest is history.
- Just like that? - Yeah, just like that.
So, um, what happened to Meredith, - the girl you were in love with? - She broke up with me.
I don't blame her.
I would have dumped you, too, if I would have known you were sleeping with another woman.
Believe me, I'm never doing that again.
Never doing what again? Telling my girlfriend I got someone else pregnant.
I knew it! He turned in my work! So So I wish I'd had a baby with Meredith instead of Sandy.
I mean, I like Sandy I love her even, in a way but if we hadn't had a baby together, if if she weren't Aaron's mother So, what if I wanted to use that paper?! - Is someone there? - It's just Margaret.
So when's the last time that you saw Meredith? Just? Just Margaret? Is that how you think of me? As "Just Margaret"? Phone date.
Martin.
We passed each other in the hallways a few times, but the last time I really saw her was when I told her about Sandy.
- Hi.
- Hi? Is that all you have to say to me? Hello.
Martin.
What? And who do you know who broke up? T Bone and Ruthie?! You know, he's the one who broke them up.
Mac sent the text message.
Did she say Ruthie and T Bone broke up? - What do you care? - I care because I know Ruthie.
Oh, are you interested in Ruthie? Are you interested in Ruthie?! No.
I just did it as a favor.
- Why did you forward it to everyone? -Yeah, except me.
So they wouldn't have to tell everyone.
Didn't they just get tattoos for each other? Yep.
I can't believe they would both do something that stupid, especially if they're not even really in love with each other.
I mean, they're going to have those tattoos for the rest of their lives.
Isn't that what's that saying? um the pot calling the kettle black? I meant to ask is your divorce final yet? You know, to that guy that you married that you don't even know? You broke up with Ruthie for T Bone with a text message that you copied to everyone?! There's no good way to do it.
You know, I gave up watching a game for this phone call.
Here, let me help you with that.
I actually thought I liked you! I think she still does.
You told him what? That we didn't want him to stay with her out of guilt.
- Why? -Well, because that would be wrong.
But why would you tell him that? Because I could tell that he wanted to break up with her, but he thought he couldn't because she got that stupid tattoo.
I mean, do we really want him to eventually marry her because of a tattoo or because he had no place to live, so he feels he owes it to us to marry her? After Matt and Mary and Simon and Lucy, have you not learned to stay out of these things? This is different.
T Bone has no parents; he lives with us.
He's looking to me to you know, to tell him what to do.
Well, what are you going to tell him to do now? I mean, not now; I mean, whenever Ruthie finally checks her messages and finds out that he has broken up with her? You know how these things change.
They break up, they get back together again.
They break up over and over again, but now you've you've put yourself in the middle of it, so they're going to blame you.
Especially Ruthie.
Your daughter Ruthie.
They can blame me all they want.
They're breaking up because those two really don't want to be with each other.
This week.
But who knows what next week will bring? They're teenagers.
But, you see, now that you've stepped in, uh oh, neither one of them is going to take responsibility for any of this.
And-and it's just it's just all going to be about you.
I just gave him permission to do what he wanted to do, and I thought I thought that if he felt free to move on, that perhaps he might not move on.
- Mmm.
Did you? - Yeah.
I don't really think that's the case.
I-I think you saw T Bone struggling and you you let him off the hook.
Let's eat! We can't take this offer and move to Crossroads, even though we both want to, because T Bone and Ruthie broke up? What's so crazy about that? Oh, I don't know.
We're letting two teenagers and their tattoos dictate what we do with our lives? Okay, fine.
It's not them; it's me.
- I don't want to go.
- Since when? We can't just move away and leave my parents to deal with with all that they have to deal with alone.
Yes, we can.
Your parents can deal with anything, and we can do whatever we think is best for our family.
I don't want to move to the middle of nowhere.
Well, what about what I want, Luce? What if I want to move? If you want to go back to work, you can work out here.
I don't want to go back to work here.
I love the idea of moving away from here.
I love the idea of being the sheriff in a small community that was created for the good of everyone in that community.
I would love to go back to school.
I would love to get a college degree.
I think it would set a good example for Savannah.
And you think raising Savannah around children whose parents are in prison is a good idea? Those children didn't do anything wrong, and you know that.
Kevin, it's not a utopia.
Those children have problems.
You know, I got into law enforcement because I thought I'd be protecting the innocent and upholding the law.
And instead, I found myself protecting the guilty by doing mounds of paperwork to make sure their rights were protected, and I arrested the same guys over and over again.
This job in Crossroads is what I wanted to do.
Not only would I be protecting the innocent, I'd be breaking the cycle of crime by breaking the pattern in the family.
Well, there's got to be somewhere around here where you can do that.
No, there isn't.
I'm going out for a while.
Kevin, don't do that.
I feel like getting out.
Well, what if I feel like getting out? Then get out.
But I'm going out by myself.
Yeah? - Lucy? - Oh, hi, Sandy.
I just wanted to find out how Ruthie is.
I didn't know if I should call her yet.
Yeah, me, neither.
I I don't think she knows.
How could she not know? I don't know, uh, but I talked to my mom, and she said that Ruthie hadn't said anything about it.
- So how are you? - Not that great.
On the other hand On the other hand? Hey, Kevin.
Captain Michaels, good to see you.
You don't have to call me captain; you're a civilian.
It's good to see you, too.
- So how are things? - Good.
Didn't sound good when you called.
Oh, you know how it is.
I know how it is.
That's why I'm divorced.
No one's getting a divorce.
I just felt like getting out.
Because? Eh, Lucy and I had an argument.
Is this about Crossroads? The sheriff's position? How do you know about that? I hear things.
- They called.
- And? They sure would like for you to be their sheriff.
- Yeah? - It's a good job.
Did they tell you what it pays? More than I'm making to look after 27 people.
- No kidding? - You know it's privately funded.
Those two guys you met with are independently wealthy.
I'd consider going up there myself, only - Only? - Let's get some pizza first.
I'm starving.
I don't know what the big deal is.
- She liked you.
- I like her, too.
I said "liked.
" She liked you before you used her.
You don't know anything about her.
I know she can write.
Anyone who writes like that has to be smart and complicated and It's her mouth.
She's got perfect lips and teeth.
You ever notice? - No.
- Yeah.
They're very kissable.
Maybe I should try to kiss her.
I think we both like kissing.
You going to kiss her before or after you apologize for stealing her paper? What am I, stupid? Before.
If she doesn't accept my apology, then she's not going to kiss me.
You know, Margaret was right.
There is no way that you could have written that paper because you know absolutely nothing about relationships.
- Where do you get that? - Oh, I don't know.
The fact that you text-messaged Ruthie that T Bone was breaking up with her.
There is no good way to break up with a woman.
What happened to your phone date with Martin? We didn't have anything else to say.
I think I'm going to take a chance and kiss her.
You know, just two weeks ago, you were trying to kiss me.
I never tried to kiss you.
- You wanted to kiss me.
- But I didn't.
Where are you going? To talk to Margaret.
- About? - Not kissing you.
So if Martin's sick, where's Aaron? With his grandpas.
They came up this afternoon, and so I went and visited some of the teen moms at the home.
Some of them are really close to giving birth, and they're scared.
So, I'm trying to stay close by.
You know, be available if they need me.
Like you and your family were for me.
Well, I see.
And was Dr.
Sanderson around by any chance? Yes, but he had to go back to the hospital.
So that's going well? Yeah, things are going well, and school's going well.
I think I'll probably graduate by this time next year.
I thought you were going to finish this summer.
No, I want to get my master's, and my dad's going to help me out with expenses, so I'm going to go for it.
Oh.
That's okay, right? Yeah! Sure, that's okay.
I mean, it's great.
I'm actually thinking about going back to school myself.
Well, I I was presented with a job offer that would allow me to go back to school and actually use what I'm doing as credits towards my master's.
A job offer? Yeah, there's this place called Crossroads.
It's a group home for children whose parents are in prison, and they need a minister, and they actually need a sheriff, too.
So they offered that to Kevin, but we'd have to move there.
It it's a small town, and there's a restaurant and a bar, and it also is used for the church and the school.
But, you know, the foster parents who are taking care of the children are really nice people.
Do you think you could ever move away from here, though? I mean, away from your dad and his church? Well, it's just that all I really want to do is have another child.
And I'm just so afraid of being in such an isolated area, and if something bad was to happen and Nothing's going to happen.
Why do you say that? I don't know.
I just I got this feeling when you said that.
Really? You know Luce, if you if you wanted to take the job, understanding that you're going to have to take time off to have the baby, I'd come up and help you.
You know, I'd take time off from school and take over for you until you felt like you were able to go back to work.
I'd do whatever you needed me to do.
You would take time off from school? Yeah, I'll finish when I finish.
What about time off from Jonathan? Well, I think the two of us could make it work.
You know, if that's what we wanted at that time, anyway.
I really wasn't expecting that.
I-I just wanted to I know.
I just needed to talk.
You know, I don't even know if I can get pregnant.
What? How's that ice cream? Mom said you wanted to talk to me? I do? Well, I don't know.
Do you? What? I don't I don't think so.
Well, you seemed kind of funny at dinner.
Everyone seemed kind of funny at dinner.
Funny? No.
We're all just excited about your new job.
Well, you seemed more nervous than excited.
What's going on? I, uh Maybe your mother would be the best person to ask.
I asked her, and she told me you wanted to talk to me.
All right.
All right.
Yeah, m-may maybe we should talk.
- Someone's calling you.
- Oh, well, it can wait.
Well, if you don't check your messages, it's going to keep doing that.
No, no.
You know, just turn it off.
Oh, it's T Bone.
Oh.
He's calling Mom, too.
Don't you two ever check your messages? Yes, yes, we Have you checked your messages? I don't have any messages.
I had one, but T Bone erased it.
He was calling to tell me I got the job.
Oh, well uh all right, he was calling us for a different reason.
I picked up my message, and your mom picked up hers, and I guess we just forgot to erase them.
"I'm breaking up with you?" "I'm breaking up with you?" T Bone's breaking up with you? What'd you do? I think he's breaking up with you.
No, he's not.
What? T Bone's breaking up with me in a text message? Yeah.
And he copied you and Mom.
And everyone else on his phone list.
Still hasn't moved.
Do you want us to go down and move her? I you know, I don't think that's possible.
She's waiting for T Bone.
I can't believe he broke up with her.
She has his name on her forever.
Yeah, but just because she made a bad decision doesn't mean Another time.
Maybe you should tell her you told him to break up with her.
I did not.
You gave him permission.
And you know this how? We hear things.
Not from me.
But before Ruthie hears things, you might want to tell her things.
I don't think T Bone will rat me out.
We won't, either.
Well, it's going to come out one way or the other, believe me.
It is.
Can you trust her? I think so.
- I'll get the tip.
- I got it.
No, I got it.
I eat here almost every night.
You're not the biggest tipper, Kinkirk.
It's 15%; if they do a great job, it's 20%.
Like I said, you're not the biggest tipper, Kinkirk.
Ten bucks? What, are you dating the waitress? No.
I'm just trying to generate some positive feelings in the community toward the police.
All right, well, I guess overtipping is one way to do that.
I should get home, but I still don't know what I'm going to tell Lucy.
Let me give you an option.
Why don't you tell her you're coming back to work for me? Oh thanks.
I appreciate that, but that's not really what I want to do right now.
Just think about it, Kinkirk.
I could use your help, and I've always been able to trust you.
Thanks that means a lot to me but I don't really miss it.
But this time, it would be different.
Things are going to change.
What makes you think that? - I'm going to change things.
- How? I'm being named chief of police.
What? No kidding? The official announcement is tomorrow.
Chafin's retiring health concerns and it was the mayor's decision.
- Congratulations, Chief.
- Thank you.
I meant what I said.
Think about it.
They've been in there for hours.
I don't get it.
What's her problem? Jane? She just got a divorce.
She was interested in me before the divorce.
Why wouldn't she be interested in me now? I don't know.
Maybe because you're too clingy.
Girls hate that.
How am I too clingy? I-I hardly even have time to see her.
I only had time to talk to her tonight because I stayed home sick today.
What's wrong with you anyway? I don't know.
Between school, baseball and Sandy and Aaron, I just I-I got stressed out and got a cold or something.
You skipped practice and stayed home for a cold? Yeah.
Look, I got a big psych test tomorrow, and I wanted to watch the game tonight, and I missed half of it because of Jane.
Why don't you get a girlfriend there, at school? Why do you want to drive all the way down here for Jane? Because she's Jane.
She likes baseball, she likes me.
Yeah, well, I'm sure that you can find some girl at your college that likes baseball and would like you.
Hi.
Hi.
We have to see other people.
But we're not even seeing each other.
- Hey.
- Hey.
Look, I know I shouldn't have done that, but I really couldn't turn in my paper, especially not after reading what you wrote.
It was really good.
You're a really good writer.
Okay.
- O-Okay? - Yeah.
She doesn't think I should have anything - to do with you.
- What do you think? Do you really think my lips are perfect? Yeah.
I tried calling him, but he's not answering.
Well, he has to come home sometime.
Yeah, maybe you should just sleep on it.
I don't think I'm going to be getting much sleep tonight.
Ruthie Dad, don't give me the speech about people my age not staying together.
I've heard the speech.
I heard it when you told it to Matt and Mary and Lucy and Simon.
I know.
People my age don't always stay together for life.
But I just thought we would.
T Bone and I.
Then why were you trying to get a job to get the tattoo taken off? Because I don't want the tattoo.
It was a stupid thing to do.
I like it, but I don't think T Bone likes it.
That's why I wanted it off.
I wanted it off because I think that it made him feel pressured, like he had to be with me just because I put his name on me.
And guys don't like to feel pressured or guilty.
The only reason he got me that ring was because he was feeling guilty because I got the tattoo, not because he really wanted to be with me for the rest of my life.
Just that getting that stupid tattoo and latching onto that ring just changed everything.
I fell in love with a guy, and I turned into a stupid, silly girl.
Oh, no.
No, you didn't.
You you're a very wise woman, Ruthie, much wiser than your years.
You know, there's this old saying: "If you love someone, set them free.
"If they come back, they're yours.
If they don't, they never were.
" So, maybe maybe if you can just accept for now that T Bone wants his freedom, then, uh, who knows what could happen? Yeah.
Maybe you're right, Dad.
Sorry.
I guess you got my message somehow.
I didn't mean to do it like that.
I had help.
From Mac.
Not that I don't take responsibility for letting that happen.
No, that's okay.
I understand.
Completely.
And really, there is no good way to break up with someone, is there? Good night.
Good night, Dad.
I don't know if I'm doing the right thing here.
Think she'd take me back? He has to eat five times a day, and you can't.
- Good morning.
- Good morning.
Um Well, you're up pretty early for being out so late.
Invigorated from all the fighting yesterday.
Well, we weren't really fighting, were we? I don't know.
Were we? - I love you, Kevin.
- And I love you.
And I want you to have whatever you want.
And I want you to have whatever you want.
But sometimes we both can't have what we want at the same time.
So, this time, you get what you want.
If you think we should take a shot at going out to Crossroads and trying life out on our own for a while, then that's what we should do.
We should do what you want to do for a change.
I appreciate your changing your mind.
So, you really want to go? Yeah, I do.
I think it would be exciting to make a change, and I think it would be fun.
And I think it would do us good to get away from everyone else and be out on our own for a while.
We can always come back.
What? Oh, nothing.
Just give me a few days before we have to call everyone and tell them that we made our decision.
I think they're waiting on us to call them.
You think we should keep them waiting any longer? Just a few days.
And really, I mean, they're not looking for us to be there until June, you know, when school's out for the summer.
I know, but if we've already decided We've already decided.
It-It's just that I just I just want to be absolutely sure that this is what you really want to do.
It is.
Did you think that if you told me I could have my way, I'd give in and tell you you could have your way? Kevin, you always let me have my way.
Yeah, but this is something I really, really want to do.
Just give me a couple of days to think about it, and-and-and maybe I'll feel differently in a couple of days.
Or maybe I will? Maybe.
All right, couple more days.
Well, isn't this a nice surprise.
Mac, good morning.
- T Bone, good morning.
- Good morning.
-Good morning.
- So, what's going on? - I need to talk to Ruthie.
You sure? I mean, you two might want to give her a little time, let the dust settle from your text message.
Hey, I read your chapter, from your English lit assignment.
That was a nice job, considering how little time you had to write that.
- You read that? - It was on my computer.
Oh.
Didn't realize anybody would be reading that.
Oh, well, Margaret said I could.
I-I'm sorry.
Maybe I shouldn't have assumed that she was speaking for the two of you.
She's a better writer than me.
Yeah, she's a good writer.
She's a a really good writer.
I think Margaret would like to be taking your class herself, your English lit class.
Funny you should say that.
Am I missing something? Has Margaret heard from anyone over at Crawford? Your English lit instructor, anyone like that? No.
I think she might be getting a call.
Uh, I showed her paper to your instructor.
She's an old friend.
Actually, I married her and her husband, and your instructor was quite impressed with Margaret's paper.
Oh, it's from Margaret.
Mmm, what's it say? - "I am breaking up with you.
" - What? I also gave my instructor Margaret's paper, only it had my name on it.
Why would you do that? I don't know.
I I don't know why I do anything.
Good morning.
Good morning.
Good morning.
Uh, we should talk.
Well, we can talk later, can't we? Ruthie, I never, ever would have sent you that text message.
It was Mac.
He did it.
I I did it.
And I'm sorry.
I I know how it feels.
Now I do anyway.
It's okay.
I'm over it.
I was shocked, but I'm over it.
Hey, you got what you wanted.
We're broken up.
No hard feelings.
- I'll see you at work.
- Ruthie.
I don't want to break up.
I never wanted to break up.
And yet you broke up with me.
I changed my mind.
No.
Really.
We should break up.
I mean, you were just feeling guilty, and you shouldn't.
And I know my dad was the one who gave you permission, so I guess we're all fine with it.
Mom.
It's okay, I understand the whole set-them-free philosophy.
I do.
So, you're free, T Bone.
Bye.
Bye, Mac.
Wait.
Let's just take the bus.
I mean, we'll talk.
Oh, I'm not taking the bus.
Martin's picking me up.
I had nothing to do with that one.
I didn't.
Come on, kid.
I'll give you a ride.
I didn't.
You ratted me out.
Oh, it's for the best.
Believe me.
And T Bone asked me to.
He He didn't want to do it himself.
Oh, I see.
I'm breaking up with you.
Mmm.
Never.