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March 2 continue...
Jake: Still feeling a little foggy in there? Greenlee: I mean, why are you being so nice to me? Jake: I didn't realize I was. Guess I'm just a sucker. What can I say? Greenlee: For who? Me? Jake: Gee, you are feeling bad. I think I might have to keep you here for a whole week. Greenlee: No! No, Jake, I'll die. Jake: Ok, all right. Listen, I have a question for you. Do you remember when you got hit in the face by that basketball? Greenlee: Oh. That again? Is my face swollen? Jake: No, not yet. I'll ask you one more time. Do you remember when you got hit in the face with a basketball? Greenlee: I remember smashing the ball against the wall because I was hopping mad. I should have known better because last time I was near a basketball, I got hit in the head with some player's size-14 foot. You don't want to know. I was with Ryan. I was trying to impress him. It wasn't pretty. Neither was I for, like, a week. My face looked like a road map. Jake: Well, you're the one who's into all this holistic stuff. Maybe that should tell you a little something about karma and all that stuff. Greenlee: What are you talking about, Jake? You're making my brain hurt. Jake: Oh. Sorry -- didn't realize you were trying to think. Greenlee: If I had a basketball, I wouldn't be the only one with a concussion. Oh. Jake: Relax. Greenlee: My head really does hurt. Jake: Well, that's normal, considering what all you've been through. So, how old were you when you had your tonsils taken out? Greenlee: What? Jake: Yeah. Greenlee: Are you kidding? Jake: No. Greenlee: I was 6. Am I having tonsil complications? Jake: No, no. Your tonsils are fine. Greenlee: Then how did you know that I had them out? Were you sticking one of those things down my throat when I was out of it? Oh! Jake: You told me. Greenlee: When? Jake: When you were drifting in and out of your consciousness, you told me. Greenlee: What else did I say? Jake: Well -- no, I'm kidding. Nothing embarrassing. Greenlee: Are you sure? Jake: I'm positive. Greenlee: Gosh, my subconscious must have known I was in the hospital or something. Jake: So it must have been a pretty bad experience, this tonsil little thing. Greenlee: I was petrified. Jake: Your parents there? Greenlee: You kidding? My grandmother Millie was. She was nice enough, but s was very old-school. I wasn't allowed to cry or embarrass her. Jake: She's not even your mother. Greenlee: Well, my parents were on safari in Africa or shopping in Milan or who knows what. All I know is that I was sick and I was scared and they were on some other continent somewhere. Jake: That's a pretty traumatic thing for a 6-year-old to go through. Greenlee: It was. I was sick, and I was alone, and -- and I wanted my Mommy and Daddy, and they weren't there for me. Roger: I'm here now.
(Roger came to suck up to Greenlee, but read what he says to Jake)
Outside hospital room: Jake: I just thought you wanted to know, sir, we've run a number of tests on your daughter and everything has come back -- Roger: Typical, isn't it, this kind of prank? Jake: Excuse me? Roger: She's lying in there perfectly healthy, and I'm called out of a crucial business negotiation to hold her hand? I could have lost a fortune on this deal. |
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