My Best Friend's Wedding Page #4

MICHAEL (V.O.)

I've been calling for days!

JULIANNE:

Yeh, well my old machine kept

eating messages. I tried

constructively ignoring it in

hopes of improvement, but finally...

MICHAEL (V.O., urgent)

Look, I have to ask you something.

She swallows.

MICHAEL (V.O.)

Something so incredibly important,

that if you turn me down, I don't

know what I'll d...

JULIANNE (bright)

I just have to tell you this one

thing first, okay? I mean this

will hand you the biggest laugh

of your adult life...

Silence. Come on girl, suck it up.

JULIANNE:

I was thinking about you, and I

remembered this unbelievably insane

night we spent together in Tucson,

like a thousand years ago?

More silence. Really quiet.

JULIANNE:

I mean, there's no way you could

possibly remember the...

MICHAEL (V.O., soft)

Are you kidding?

Stops her. Like a brick wall. The sweetness in his voice.

MICHAEL (V.O.)

I think about that night all

the time.

She's going to have a heart attack.

MICHAEL (V.O.)

But it's not why I called.

She blinks. It's not. And just as a tsunami of relief begins to

sweep away...

MICHAEL (V.O.)

I called because I met someone.

And her smiles breaks off. Like a spine snapping. Because there is

something in his voice.

JULIANNE:

Well, that's great. You haven't

really had anybody since Dingbat

Jennylee...

MICHAEL (V.O.)

You don't understand. I've never

felt this way about anybody!

Never. She sits down, hard. Right on the floor.

MICHAEL (V.O.)

And she's all wrong for me!

JULIANNE:

Well, somet...

MICHAEL (V.O.)

I mean she's a junior at Chicago

University, she's twenty years

old! Like when I first met you.

Like when. Julianne's mouth is suddenly dry.

MICHAEL (V.O.)

And her dad is like this billionaire

who owns the White Sox and some cable

empire, and you know how I've always

been miserably awkward around those

kinda stuffed suits...

She's finally making her mouth work...

JULIANNE:

Well, sure.

MICHAEL (V.O.)

But they're so down to earth, such

wonderful people...

JULIANNE:

You've met her parents.

MICHAEL (V.O., quiet)

Well. Sure.

Wow.

MICHAEL (V.O.)

See. We're getting married.

This Sunday.

There's a knife in her heart. She can scarcely breathe.

JULIANNE:

Michael, it's Wednesday night,

you can't possibly be getting

married on Su...

MICHAEL (V.O.)

Actually, it all starts tomorrow.

It's one of those four-day weddings,

with all the traditional events, and

ten million people flying in from

Madagascar such.

JULIANNE (incredibly lame)

Aren't you... working this weekend?

I mean, is that responsible?

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