Mothers and Daughters Page #5

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Early birthday present.

What?

Wanna look?

Yes! What is it?

Is that Times Square?

[giggling]

But not just Times Square,

this is gonna be everywhere.

What you did on that

shoot was magical.

You really captured him.

Quinn and his team wants

your images to define him

from now on.

Across the planet.

And Quinn wants

to hire you.

-No.

-Mhm.

Really? Why?

For what?

Well, um, for some more

shoots obviously, but uh,

maybe um, a

sponsorship campaign.

Mmm... great.

Look, um, I don't wanna, you

know, rain on your parade,

but um...

My ex and I we tried to give it

another shot for the boy's sake.

You have a son?

And I thought you

hated your ex.

Hate is a strong word.

You said, I hate my ex.

Well...

I hated the fact that I

had to get married with

her because she

was, you know...

Right.

But Hal is here now, and I

need to be a decent dad.

I'm sorry.

Oh!

The truth is, you

stole my thunder.

I was gonna dump you, but

then you come in here with

this great news and now

I can't be mad at you.

Phew!

Well, I gotta go.

K.

Bye.

Oh.

-Bye.

-K.

[melancholic music]

[sirens]

[phone rings]

[phone rings]

[exhales]

-Hey.

-What are you doing?

Can't sleep.

Me too.

Milk?

No, thanks.

Oh my gosh.

You coming?

I'm gonna watch some

C-Span actually.

Well, better than milk.

[phone rings]

[phone vibrates]

Hey.

Hi, Pete.

Hey.

Thank you for calling.

You okay?

Yeah, I just uh...

I don't know how I'm

supposed to feel right now.

Mad, confused, sad.

Million questions.

Everything I guess.

Yeah, I guess

that sums it up.

Um...

Beth doesn't know I'm

calling you, but--

Oh, please.

I can't.

I can't talk to

her right now.

-I just--

-I know, but...

Do not defend her.

Jesus.

She had thirty-three years

to tell me this and she,

she waits until my

mother's funeral to tell

me that the woman I'm

grieving is not my mother,

who is my grandmother.

And she's not my sister,

she's my mother.

I-I...

It's a lot

to take in, huh?

I can't.

I don't know how to wrap

my head around this.

Well, it's a tough one.

I've wrapped my head

around it for a long time.

Yeah, I was uh, I was

wondering if you knew.

If you knew this whole

time and you just...

Yeah, you just

uh, never told me.

You know what, Becca?

Just hold on a second

cause this is a hard thing.

What? What is hard for you?

Look, you remember I came

back from the war,

I started dating Beth.

Right?

Yeah, you met at the VFW

Christmas dance thing.

Yeah, well...

Yeah, we met at a dance, but

it was a high school dance.

I was 17 and Beth was 15.

And your grandmother

wouldn't let me see Beth

anymore after

she got pregnant.

She blamed me.

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