The Hunger Page #3

- Mr. BIayIock, wait, pIease.

- Wait? I can't wait.

I'm urgentIy required eIsewhere.

Mr. BIayIock, pIease come into my office--

Why don't you take a seat

in the patients' Iounge?

Mr. BIayIock, pIease wait.

You can't Ieave.

You stupid oId f***!

F***! You f***ing cut me!

You cut me!

- Yes?

- Hi.

- What do you want?

- Is Miriam here? Mrs. BIayIock.

There's nobody here.

My name is AIice Cavender.

I Iive across the street.

I do music with the BIayIocks

every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.

- It's Tuesday.

- l know.

l just wanted to tell Miriam

l can't come tomorrow. Mrs. Blaylock.

On account of some dumb Iecture

I got suckered into at schooI.

She's not here.

l told you, there's nobody here.

Maybe I couId Ieave a note.

I'II Ieave it on the piano, okay?

I've got some music she wants back.

Are you a friend of theirs?

You're the first friend of theirs I ever met.

They don't entertain a great deaI.

Wait a minute.

You're not John's father, are you?

What?

- Mr. BIayIock, John's father.

- No.

No, I'm just a friend. Why?

You've got the same eyes.

Strange. I've never noticed.

I've known him aII these years.

ReaIIy?

ReaIIy.

- PIay something.

- Now?

Yes. Miriam teIIs me

you have great promise.

Miriam said that?

I used to pIay a IittIe myseIf

when I was a young man.

- WeII, if you reaIIy want me to.

- PIease.

I've got this LaIo trio I've been working on.

ProbabIy going to make a fooI of myseIf,

but you asked for it.

- C minor.

- That's right.

- A IittIe saccharine.

- That's what John says.

You know, John speaks before he thinks.

Is that what he does?

I can't figure him out.

I've been coming here

for a year practicaIIy.

Miriam's fantastic.

She's my best friend, but John--

You don't Iike John?

I didn't say that. I Iove him.

I Iove them both.

He's just hard to figure out, that's aII.

PIease pIay the LaIo for me...

even if it is a IittIe saccharine.

- Are you sure you're not John's father?

- Quite sure.

Forgive me.

I got caught in the rain.

You said forever.

Never-ending. Do you remember?

Every day.

Forever, you said.

Forever and ever.

Never growing oId.

Do you remember?

Stop it.

Forever young.

Stop it.

A kiss.

Kiss me.

Think of me as I was.

Kiss me Iike that.

Miriam.

I can't.

Give me a IittIe Ionger.

I can't.

Then kiII me.

ReIease me.

I can't.

What have you done?

KiII me.

I can't.

KiII me, Miriam.

ReIease me.

You don't understand.

PIease, Miriam.

There is no reIease, my darIing.

No rest.

No Ietting go.

Humankind die one way, we another.

Their end is finaI. Ours is not.

In the earth, in the rotting wood...

in the eternaI darkness...

we wiII see...

and hear and feeI.

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