16 and Missing Page #2

No. No, we did the right thing. We did.

She just has to learn

to be more understanding.

That's the understatement

of the century.

- Happy birthday.

- Yeah.

Happy birthday.

Let's go clean up.

I hate my life.

I feel really uncomfortable.

I think I should get going.

Do you see what they did?

They gang up on me like that

all of the time.

- What are you doing?

- I need to talk to Gavin.

- He doesn't even know you.

- How can you say that?

I've talked to him every day

for the last two years.

Yeah, by email.

You don't really know him.

Okay, did Romeo and Juliet

really know each other

before they finally got together?

- Well...

- Exactly.

So why haven't you met him yet?

Because he thought

I wasn't old enough yet.

He wanted to wait.

Wait until when?

Until I'm 16.

Why 16?

16 is when I can drive and come see him.

Well, I don't get it. If he's 23,

why can't he come to see you?

Because I'm a minor, you know?

It's illegal.

Well, he can still get arrested

if he comes out here

or you go to... Where is he again?

- He was in Prescott, Arizona.

- Where's that?

It's a farm town west of Phoenix.

You're Internet dating a farmer?

He's not a farmer. He's a cop.

Well, he can still go to jail

for being with a minor.

If I'm emancipated, there's no problem.

Okay, emanci-what?

It means that I'm legally separated

from my mother

and then I'm no longer a minor

in the eyes of the law.

Oh, I bet Gavin figured that one out.

You know what? He did.

So what?

Just it's a lot of work to go through

just to see some guy you don't even know.

Okay, I do know him.

You know, I know everything about him.

I haven't met another guy

like him before.

I don't know.

I think Bobby Evans is pretty cute.

Bobby Evans is 17 years old, okay?

He's a kid.

Gavin's a man.

Gavin's traveled

the entire world already.

Gavin... Gavin knows me.

He understands me.

I don't know.

It just doesn't seem right to me.

That's okay.

Because you haven't experienced

anything like this before.

You know what, when you do,

you'll completely understand.

Abbey, we need to talk.

There's nothing to talk about.

There's a lot to talk about, honey.

Just come out here

and let's have a conversation

face to face.

Like when? To tell me that I'm wrong?

I'm not gonna be happy

until he's out of this house.

He's not going anywhere.

Honey, we're family now.

Just come out here

and let's talk like families do.

- Okay, he is not my family.

- Abbey.

Okay, there's nothing more

to talk about.

- Please leave me alone.

- Fine.

Tonight? They'll take your car away.

Not if I'm in Arizona.

Abbey, please think clearly.

You don't know this guy.

I do know him.

Like, how could you say that?

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