The Squid and the Whale Page #2

- What about?

- We'll go over it tonight.

- Can't you give us a hint?

- No, just-- Tonight.

We'll go-- Everything--

We'll go over it tonight.

Just waiting for your mother.

- Mom.

- Sorry.

- Okay.

- Okay. All set?

Yes.

Okay.

Your mom and I....

Okay, yeah. Mom and I are going....

We're going to separate.

You're not gonna be leaving either of us.

We're gonna have joint custody.

Frank, it's okay.

I've got an elegant new house across the park.

Across the park?

- ls that even Brooklyn?

- It's only five stops on the subway.

It's an elegant block.

The fillet of the neighborhood.

- We'll have a Ping-Pong table.

- I don't play Ping-Pong.

- We'll both see you equally.

- How?

- We're splitting up the week.

- Why?

I love you. I wanna see you

as much as your mom does.

- But there's seven days.

- Right.

How will you split evenly with seven days?

I've got you Tuesday, Wednesday and

Saturday and every other Thursday.

- Every other?

- That's how we each have you equally.

That was your father's idea.

- Don't do this.

- How will we get to school?

There's a subway four blocks from the house.

Four or five.

No more than six blocks.

And what about the cat?

- Sh*t, the cat.

- We didn't discuss the cat.

Your father will pick him up on those

days when you switch houses.

I'll drive here two more times a week?

You got a place on the other side of the park.

If it was near here, it wouldn't be a problem.

This neighborhood

got expensive. It's painful...

...for me to stay in this neighborhood.

Don't be difficult. I feel banished.

Oh, Pickle.

- Dad, what will happen with the cat?

- We'll figure something out.

Is it because Dad isn't

as successful as he used to be?

Now that you're publishing

and he isn't, is that it?

- That's not nice to say.

- This is a great family.

Why are you screwing it up?

- If we could avoid it, I would.

- Why now?

- You've been together 1 6 years.

- Seventeen.

I can't imagine living like this.

Don't most of your friends

already have divorced parents?

Yeah, but I don't.

Well, now you do.

- I think you're doing a foolish thing.

- I understand how unhappy you are.

I'm unhappy too.

And I don't want you or Frank...

...to blame yourself for any of this.

It has nothing to do with you.

It's okay. Go back to sleep.

- Are those your books?

- Yes. These are my books.

Why are they going under my bed?

Because I bought them,

and I don't wanna lose them.

We'll put them back on the shelf

when your father leaves.

Until things are certain, we shouldn't

say anything to anyone yet.

- Why?

- Because we never know.

And I don't want people to know our business.

I told Carl.

- Already?

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