Holding Trevor

Darrell, please!

Open the fucking door!

Darrell!

Open the door, please.

Open the door!

Darrell!

Open the door!

Open the fucking door!

Hey, you've reached Trevor - ... and Andie.

- We're not here right now, so just leave us a message. Or whatever.

I'm sorry. Answering machine, what could you possibly be doing this early? Where's Andie?

Like, since when has she had a life?

Anyway, I'm just calling to let you guys know that I got to New York safely.

Um, there's not a lot going on here.

Oh, and you were right. L.A. guys are so much cuter than the guys here.

Anyway, I guess I better go, so...

I don't know, like, call me or whatever.

Bye.

Everybody's looking... for something... someone... everybody.

What makes it interesting, though, is where they actually find themselves.

I tend to find myself in the spaces inbetween.

I think I found religion in that moment right before really you wake up.

When you're still not sure what's real and what isn't?

Right there.

It's got one fatal flaw, however.

The shitty part... is that you always have to wake up.

Hey.

So, good news. Your, um... well, Darrell, he's stable.

I think he's going to be fine.

- Now, are you a relative? - Not really.

Okay... um...

Oh? Right now he's still a little groggy from...

Yeah, I know the drill.

- Right. Well, if you'd like I could have a nurse show you to where he is.

Technically, you're not allowed into the room... Technically.

It's okay. Thanks.

Um...

- Actually, you'll want to go this way. - No. Actually, I don't.

How long does it take?

A minute... a week... a lifetime?

I know that patience is everything, but... what if people can't really change?

Deep down, what if all we're really capable of doing is distracting everyone...

from what's actually going on underneath?

Go! Go! Go! - Huh?

- It's green, faggot. Go. - Oh fuck, sorry.

- What is your deal? - Wow. Not wasting any time, huh?

- You've been back in town for, what, all of 15 minutes? - More like 45, if you count baggage claim.

- Riiight, and you definitely do have a lot of baggage, so... - Oh, I'm sorry, was that a joke?

because, if you finally made a joke after all these years, I totally wouldn't remember it.

It really has't been the same without you here.

God, I know. I mean, look at what happens when you're left to your own devices.

It was just for a month.

Excuse me?

- Come on. Andie's already filled me in on the whole Darrell situation.

It has been a month, right? Or am I getting my dates wrong?

If she's already filled you in, you should know that everything's fine.

Right.

I mean he's on Methadone, he's in out-patient, and he's been going to meetings ever since.

Oh, wow, cool, 30 days. So it's totally going to be different this time.

God, Jake!

- He's one of my oldest friends, okay? - I don't think that...

losing your virginity to someone at age 16 automatically classifies you as lifelong friends.

- Why are you such an asshole? - Just lucky, I guess.

Hey.

- Where have you been? - Remember I had to pick up Jake?

Oh yeah...

- Did you just wake up? - Mm-hmm. I got some pills to help sleep.

In the clinic, baby.

Ah.

- So, you actually, like, "slept" slept? - Yeah, something like that.

It's cold.

Why don't you go get in the shower?

- Not unless you come with me. - I already took one.

Not with me, you haven't.

No...

- Now you get to make it up to me. - D...

You're coming with me.

Aah, I'm getting in the shower.

God, it's like, move on already. I mean...

if they're really just friends they should be trying to meet other guys, right?

Whatever. It's just so pathetic that he still, like, trusts him.

I mean, I get first love and everything, but, like, I would never put up with some of that shit.

Oh, hey.

Ow! Fuck!

- Goddamn! - Wow, so...

Trev, I'm actually glad you're here. Um, you see the water bottle over there?

Yeah...

Could you get it for me?

- God, I mean, you're so close to it. - You're so lazy!

I don't want it bleeding internally.

We're taking a break.

So what are you guys up to tonight?

The same thing every respectable human being's up to on a Friday night.

- Chinese food and a movie. - Riiight!

- You're not joining us? - Oh, no, Trevor has other plans.

You do.

Yeah, no...

- What movie you guys going to watch? - Oh, something stupid so Andie can understand it.

Oh, shut up!

So, Trevor, weren't you, like, leaving or something?

- I believe I was. - Great! - Yeah.

Oh, but before I go, Andie can I get you anything? I mean...

I've never seen you at such a late hour without a cocktail in your hand. -

Well, now you have.

Yeah, it's not in her hand, 'cause it's actually on the table.

- Mmm. You know what, shouldn't you be leaving so we can watch this?

Fine.

- You two have a lovely evening. - Mm-hmm, you too.

Bye.

- Give you one guess where he's going tonight. - God, at least one of us is having sex tonight.

By "us" I mean, like, out of Trevor and me. God knows you're not having sex.

Hey!

Oh, no, I mean, like, with another person.

Get off me!

- Are you serious? - No.

D, it's okay, we don't have to go out.

Nooo, baby, we can still go.

Just give me a couple minutes, okay?

I'm just so tired.

It's probably... you know, what they have me on.

mixed with my...

Yeah, shouldn't you only be taking those when you're, like, having trouble sleeping?

Baby, I'm fine.

Oh, right... but, you can't even stay awake anymore, so...

I told you... they upped my Methadone.

Why don't just go get in bed?

Come here, baby.

Come on...

Let's go celebrate.

What are we celebrating?

You and me?

Trev, thank-you so much for coming with me. You know how I just hate these parties...

probably even more than you do.

Okay, well, so you hate them more...

You not allowed to help hate me for it, because my label's making me do it.

- Oh, is that so? - For real.

Okay, it's cool...

Really it's... doesn't matter that much.

I'm sure these people are great.

I hate to party, mmm, mmm, mmm-mmm.

- I hate these people. - I hate these people.

- I hate this party. I hate these people... - Shit, it's Mary C.

Tell her I'm going to the bathroom.

- That's what you tell her. - Bathroom. - Bathroom, bathroom...

Hang on.

- Hey, Mary C. - Not you. Whatever!

Where's your friend at? Hey! ... You...

Uh, Jake. Bathroom.

Where?

Oh, bathroom, right. You're an actor, right? Let me get your opinion on something. - No.

So... Wait, did you just say, "No"?

- Well excuse the fuck out of me, Miss Queen of Sheba... - I said "no" to being an actor.

- Ohhh. - I'm not one. What was the question?

About what?

- If I had been an actor, what is it that you would have asked me?

Ohhh.

You wouldn't get it.

Probably not.

Well, shit what the fuck is it that you do? I mean, if you're not an actor...

I'm part of an elite organization of telephonic representatives... Yeah.

- I answer phones, like, for a living. - Wow!

Well, that's great. I mean really.

That's— That's interesting.

Well, good luck with that. Trust me, hard work always pays off in the end.

You look like you're having as bad a time as I am.

That depends.

- Did you see that woman I was just talking to? - Yeah.

- Have you had to talk to her yet? - No.

Okay, then I win. My time, so far, has been worse than yours.

It's like... the whole time she was talking to me... I just kept trying to wish myself back to a happier place.

Like... getting a colonoscopy or something.

It normally takes me a hell of a lot longer to work my colon into the conversation, but...

you just, like, right away, got down to business.

- Mmm, pun intended? - Always.

- I'm Trevor, by the way. - Ephram.

- But actually, we kind of met before. - Kind of?

Yeah, County. I was working the day you brought your friend in, about a month ago.

Oh.. shit.

- I wouldn't expect you to remember me. - No... Yeah.

Actually I do.

- I think I might have been a little short with you that day. - Well, you were sitting down.

A doctor with a sense of humor!

Yeah. Well, I'm still interning, so it'll be awhile before anyone takes me too seriously.

Well, sorry...

for being an asshole.

- Do you want to get out of here? - Like... right now?

Pick a light.

Do what now?

I do this thing with building lights, stars, what happens to be in view.

See, you look out there and there's all these amazing lights.

Just a huge smattering of lights.

It's what you do... So choose one...

and describe what's happening there. Go ahead. Try it.

Okay.

- So that light, right there... - Oh, no-no-no, don't show me...

Just tell me.

Is there a manual? I mean I think this would be a lot easier if there were, like, a guide or something.

I'm your guide. Do it.

I'm looking at this light...

and I see...