Rachel, Rachel Page #2

I'd come down but I'm busy

trying to get my eagle back in his cage.

CALLA:

Jacob, will you get your ass down here?

[BIRD CHIRPS]

[CALLA MO ANS]

Just ignore him.

Where's my present?

May it watch over you till fall.

RACHEL [SOFTLY]:

Oh.

[CALLA LAUGHS]

It's the one we saw at the flower show.

Naturally.

I can't take that.

That's too much.

I'll borrow it from you.

Oh, shut up.

Look.

When things get glumpy,

you just hold it up to the light.

You get the feeling

you're actually sitting under it.

And everything gets very calm and quiet.

It's too much.

I just wish I had something

to give to you.

What are you planning to do

between now and Labor Day?

Sit on the porch with Mama?

I guess so.

I am going to paint my apartment lilac.

We bought a whole mess of lilac paint

on sale...

...to use at tabernacle.

But nobody liked it but me.

I'm gonna get a good suntan.

No, I'm not.

Every summer, I say that

and I buy oodles of suntan lotion...

...and at the end of the summer,

I'm still just as pale as a mushroom.

Yeah, well, we shouldn't make too much

of vacations.

They're just time like any other time.

A dozen Sunday newspapers.

I'm in the exact middle of my life.

What?

I'm exactly in the middle of my life.

This is my last...

...ascending summer.

Everything else from now on is just...

...rolling downhill into my grave.

My life didn't even begin

until a year ago next week.

The eve of the Fourth of July

was my Dependence Day.

Independence.

Don't correct me. That was the day

I started leaning on the Lord.

Calla, we made a bargain

not to talk about that.

I think friends are more important

than bargains.

I'm not gonna listen.

I'm just gonna whistle.

[WHISTLING]

Don't you wanna open yourself up

to life and loving experiences?

Calla, if I wanna hear people yell

and slobber and make fools of themselves...

...I will go to an insane asylum.

You're certainly an authority...

...for someone who doesn't know

a damn thing about it.

Well, I don't know

whether you're talking about God or LSD.

That's the second time

you've been bitchy today.

"Don't call me 'child,' Calla.

It sounds ridiculous."

RACHEL:
You just made me aware

of how we talk, that's all.

Like Sidony Travis,

have you ever heard her?

"Rachel, dear, would you be a good girl

and pass me one of those yummy cookies?"

Calla, I didn't mean to hurt your feelings.

Well, back to our respective cages.

I just wanna say one thing.

Every time we've ever gone

for an ice cream cone...

...you've ordered vanilla.

That's not the only kind, Rachel.

There are 30 other flavors,

plus a flavor of the month.

And there are more people on this Earth

than just you.

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