Tori
wants to ease the situation for Mouse and asks her:
Tori:
"Mary, you didn't do your letter yet…." Paulie and Tori are somehow shocked and say that they're sorry. Mouse says it's ok but she doesn't see the point of writing her mother a letter. Paulie says to Mouse that there still might be the chance her mother can hear her. Mouse starts talking out loud what she would write to her mother: "Dear mother, remember you asked me, when you were sick, well… dying. It was fall, October. It was still hot that year, and your room, smelt like sweet, rotten apples… I was holding your head in my arms, and your breathing was so fast, and like, shallow…and you said 'Mary…please, remember me.' The thing is, I do sometimes, forget what you looked like…" Paulie is deeply impressed by Mouse's speech. Paulie: "Brave. That's your new name. Mary B, B for Brave. Mouse is dead!" Tori moves down the bed toward Mary. Tori:
" We're
glad you're our new roommate, Mary. Aren't we, Paulie?" Mouse smiles again. |