Jenny's Wedding Page #4

Didn't you ever wonder

why you never met

any of these boyfriends?

Ah, you always broke up

with them before I could.

No, I didn't.

I just... let you think

what you wanted to think.

I thought you were...

You were waiting. I...

For what?

I thought...

- What did we do wrong?

- Nothing.

You didn't do anything wrong.

This is just... how I am.

But you're...

But you're...

You're like me, you know?

We even like the same things.

I always, I always

thought you were like me.

That hasn't changed.

I am like you.

I'm still the same person, Mom.

No.

You're not.

You've been

lying to me for years.

Your father will have to know

and you should tell him.

I was going to

tell you both at the same time

but everybody was staring at me.

He needs to know before, uh...

Before I tell everybody else.

You're telling other people?

I have to tell Anne and Michael.

I'm going to tell everybody.

Kitty and I want

to get married, Mom.

You're marrying your roommate?

She's not my roommate.

We've been partners

for five years now and...

we want to start a family.

A family?

Yeah. It's what you're

always talking about, isn't it?

And we want a big wedding.

With everybody there.

Friends and family.

We want a wedding like

Anne and Michael had.

I want... I want

you and Dad to give me away.

Do what you're gonna do.

But I'm asking you,

for my sake...

not to tell everybody else.

Not yet.

Why?

'Cause if you do nothing

will ever be the same again.

Nothing is

the same anymore, Mom.

Maybe not for you but...

but your life isn't here anymore

and if you don't like

what happens you can go away.

I can't.

This place, these people,

they're my life

and I have to stay here.

I have to live with them.

Oh, I love you, Jenny.

Nothing could ever change that.

But I have a life too and you

can't just change my life on me.

It's not like

I'm living in the past, I'm not.

I know times have changed,

anything goes these days.

I read the papers, I watch TV.

But...

But I don't know personally,

anybody in this neighborhood

whose children have...

you know...

- Maybe they all left.

- What?

The neighborhood, maybe

they left the neighborhood.

I'm sure they did.

And the lying, all that lying.

Even though I know

why you did it

it's still

a hard pill to swallow.

And now a wedding.

Starting a family.

I mean... we're... we're

ordinary people

not, you know... rebels.

Neither am I.

I just want

what you gave Anne and Michael.

I only did this because of you.

What?

You told me

if you meet the right person

you should go

the distance, and I did.

I met the right person.

Kitty.

That's why I asked her to marry

me and now you're asking me

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