A Teacher

Yeah, I'll see you up there.

- Hey, Eric. - Hey! What's up?

Oh, my God!

Hey, Josh.

Hi.

Hey.

Whoo!

Shit!

First day?

And here we...

Oh, my God!

- Huh. Interesting.

- Logan, get out! - Dude.

- Okay, yeah, yeah. We're leaving.

Thank you.

- Mary, you could do so much better, by the way.

- Wait, what did she just say? - Huh?

- Alison. What did she just say?

- Oh. Who cares?

This is so crazy.

You're, like, my brother's best friend.

- Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, I know. Crazy, I know.

Never thought it would happen. Let's go.

- You want a beer or something? Are you good?

- I'm good. - No, no, I got this.

- Mm-mm, mm-mm. - Yeah.

Oh, shit.

Oh, shit.

Cops!

Oh, my God.

- Oh, man. Fuck!

Fuck. Okay.

I can't get this bra on.

- I cannot get caught. Get dressed.

- I'm trying. - Toss me my shirt.

Thank you. - Oh, God, I gotta button this.

All right, don't leave without me.

- Just hurry. Hurry, all right?

Come on.

All right, Josh. This way.

ID, please.

Yo, this is fucked up.

Yeah, no shit.

Can't believe you're back with Alison, by the way.

Okay, well, first of all,

I can't believe you would ask me that right now.

Yeah, whatever.

Young man, step forward.

Your parents gonna be pissed?

My mom's gonna kill me.

She's at a Goop retreat. Not really sure what that is.

- What is a Goop-- - I don't know.

But, you know, my brother got three citations

his senior year, so compared to him,

this is nothing.

Dude, I'm so...

Shit.

Get in there.

Take a seat.

Um, license?

Uh...

Sorry.

All right.

Deep breath. Blow into that.

Wow.

Looks like you've been having a good night.

All right, we're gonna need to call your mommy and daddy

to come pick you up.

Can't do that.

- Sorry, you're just gonna have to wake them up.

- My mom, she works nights, and I can't...

I can't call her.

She can't take the time off work.

- All right, what about your dad?

Not in the picture.

I'm not like these other kids, man.

Like, if I get this citation, I am screwed.

- Should've thought about that before you started drinking.

- Yeah. Yeah, you're right.

Um...

you don't have a sister that teaches at Westerbrook, do you?

Come on.

Don't make this difficult, all right?

No, Ms. Wilson.

She told me about you.

You were in the military, right?

She's my teacher,

and she tutors me on the side sometimes, and...

I know that this is a huge ask,

but is there any way that you could...

call her to come pick me up?

Please.

I don't have anyone else I can call.

- Oh, weird. It's Nate.

Hey, is everything okay?

Yeah.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know him.

What?

Yeah, actually, can you just let...

could you just let it slide, please?

Yeah, I can be right over. Just text me the address.

Okay.

Okay, bye-bye.

Hey, one of my students got in trouble--

What?

- One of my students got in trouble,

so I'm gonna go help him out.

- Y--Now? - Yeah, I'll be back soon.

I'll be quick.

Nice.

- Hey, I'm sorry I left you up there.

It's fine.

Actually, when you left me up there,

I jumped out the window.

I literally fell straight on my ass.

Look. - Oh, my God.

Yeah, it's so bad.

And I still got caught, so, really dumb.

Oh, God.

So how does this work? Do I have to go to court now?

I can't believe you didn't get a citation.

I'm so confused.

Your dad's here. Let's go.

Fuck.

How do you always get so fucking lucky?

Fuck.

- Other than, uh, rescuing this delinquent,

you doing good? - Mm-hmm.

- You're lucky you have such a cool teacher.

- Thank you, again. I'll talk to you tomorrow.

Yeah.

Thank you.

Seriously, thank you so much.

- What you did tonight was really stupid.

I know.

You're smarter than this.

I know.

Put on your seatbelt.

So, listen, what happened tonight,

me picking you up and my brother letting you off,

you can never tell anyone about it, okay?

- I got it. Yeah.

- Seriously. My brother could lose his job.

- I got it. I'm really sorry.

Ms. Wilson?

- Hm? - Are you laughing at me?

Yeah.

- You realize that this is a low point for me.

You know that, right?

I know.

Hey, you don't have to call me Ms. Wilson

when we're not in school.

I mean, I have a first name. It's Claire.

Sorry. Wow, that is so weird to say.

Claire.

- Okay, well, I'll see you tomorrow for tutoring.

- Yep. Yeah, sounds great.

See you at the diner.

Eric! There's a lady at the door.

All right, one sec, Phil.

Oh. - Oh.

Hi. - Hi.

Sorry.

Um, I'm so sorry.

I was calling you and you weren't answering,

so I just showed up.

Oh, okay, yeah.

No, um, I'm sor-- I think my phone was on silent.

Oh, okay.

- Yeah, my bad. Um...

do you--do you want to come in?

Uh...

Yeah, okay. Sure.

Oh. - Uh, say hi, guys.

- Hi. Hey.

Look what I made.

- Oh, that's really good. - Oh, pretty cool.

- I know we were supposed to meet at the diner,

but I just thought we would do something different

than the regular routine.

- Oh, really? - Mm-hmm.

- Okay. So no SAT prep?

Nope, not today.

- All right. Um...

I'm gonna just get these guys across the street.

Okay? - Okay.

I don't want to go. I want to keep drawing.

- You can keep coloring over there,

plus you get soda.

- Soda? - Soda.

- I get soda? - Yeah.

- Okay. - I love soda!

- Me, too! - I know.

Okay, go grab your backpacks.

Come on, come on, come on. Yeah!

All right, come on.

I'll just be right back. All right.

Where are you taking me?

'Cause I kind of feel like you're kidnapping me.

I am taking you to UT