Page 68 of Holly Jolly July

Int. Brewed Awakening Café (Cont’d)

James enters.

Annie turns around to look at him, but when she glances back Kate is gone.

JAMES

Is she here...?

ANNIE

She was, a second ago.

James sits down opposite Annie, where Kate had been.

ANNIE

It seems that your wife has been trying

to set us up this whole time.

JAMES

Sounds like something she’d do.

ANNIE

She’s been worried about you—that’s

why she hasn’t left. She hoped to see you

moving on before she moved on. But you

weren’t. You stayed stuck in the past. You

fell further and further down into a hole of

grief. She couldn’t leave you like that.

She loves you too much.

JAMES

I haven’t been able to see anything good

in the world for a long time. I lost

myself when I lost her.

ANNIE

I can’t imagine that pain. That grief.

But it’s not too late. You can still have

a life. That’s what she wants for you.

JAMES

The pain never goes away, Annie. I’ll never

be the same man I was. I don’t have anything

to offer someone new. I’m sorry.

I never had any closure...

Kate steps out from back room and walks up behind James.