(SECILY bends to pick up the ring as headlights swerve, brake sounds)
JEREMY
Secily!
(Scream and blackout)
OLD SECILY
I can’t.
OLD JEREMY
We got through it.
OLD SECILY
You got through it. I…
OLD JEREMY
I thought I would lose you, but I didn’t. We didn’t.
OLD SECILY
I wanted to return to Italy, but this I could not.
OLD JEREMY
I knew if you went, I’d never see you again. I had to see you
through this if there was to be an us.
OLD SECILY
Too hard, Darling, no.
OLD JEREMY
Let’s continue.
(the scene shifts SECILY is in a wheelchair, and JEREMY
ENTERS holding a breakfast tray)
JEREMY
You’re up and in your chair. Going somewhere? You can’t go
anywhere before you’ve had your breakfast!
SECILY
No.
JEREMY
No breakfast? That is the most important meal of the day.
SECILY
No. Go.
JEREMY
Go? Go where, Sweetheart?
SECILY
(words slurred) Sweet…no, no, no. I go.
JEREMY
(puts down tray) We’ve talked about this. You can’t just go.
You have a while yet to heal. You can’t travel in this condition.
SEICILY
I kn…kn…kn…know! I n…n…n…eed m..m..m..y m…m…m…other.
JEREMY
She’ll be here in a couple of days. I made sure of it.
SECILY
N..nooot here. H…h..h…ere not h…h…h…ome.
JEREMY
It isn’t, but it could be. Secily, it was an accident. We’ll
get past this. All of this will be a distant memory someday.
JEREMY
No! Go home! Non
capisci! Non capisci cosa voglio!
JEREMY
See? Better that
you speak in Italian. The doctor said that could help and your mother will be
able to speak with you.
SECILY
Non capisci!’
JEREMY
The “no” I get.
Say the other slowly and I’ll look it up.
SECILY
No capisci. Per
capire.
(JEREMY has
the Italian language dictionary off the side table)
JEREMY
Per “to” and cap..cap..capire.
Oh. Secily. I am doing all I can to understand. When that car hit you, my world
stopped. The woman I love could have died in front of me in that instant, but
you didn’t. You didn’t. You are still here. We are still, I think, in love. You
will heal and we’ll have everything. You and I...
SECILY
No, no. no!
J...j...j... Jeremy go!
JEREMY
No. I can’t. I won’t.
I need you, and you need me.
SECILY
No.
JEREMY
This is what love
is, Secily. Not all the other stuff. We have to hold on.
SECILY
No.
JEREMY
I’ll go for now,
but know I am here and not going anywhere.
(Blackout
on scene)
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