"I never said I'd do that." " You mum said you would." " I said I might." "Jessie, I can't plan my entire life around your therapy." "Could you not scream that at the top of your lungs?" " Hi Billie!" " Hey, Billie!" "Fine, whatever." " Was it something I said?" " Yes, it's all your fault." "Oh, look." "What do you think?" "My God, are you kidding?" "It looks great on you!" "I love it, it's so cozy." "I like the word cozy." "To be someone your son can trust and talk to..." "You're gonna have to face who he really is." "It's one of the hardest things about being a parent." "We have to let go of all those preconceived images of how our kids are supposed to be." "And embrace who they really are." " Does that make sense?" " I guess you're right." " Good." " I'm gonna call my son as soon as I hang up this phone." "That's great." "Thanks for telling me that." "Let me know how it goes, OK?" "You got it." "Thanks, Lily." "Thank you, Joseph." "OK, I'll be back tomorrow filling in for Stan the Car Man, so for any of you auto lovers out there who have blended families..." "I'm Lily Sammler." "And I'm no expert." " God, that was so touching." " Les, hang on." "Les, you remember my sister Judy?" "Not really." "Is he always so rude?" "Unless he's not feeling well." "Are we still on for lunch?" " Oh, I can't." " Oh, Jude." "But we'll see each other tomorrow night, right?" "At the book signing?" "You think I'd miss Jonathan Franzen?" "I've got it all arranged." "Grace has agreed to drive Jessie to therapy, so..." "Is that gonna be OK?" "Grace is an excellent driver." "Listen, it's saving my life." "No, I just meant, they don't exactly get along, do they?" "What d'you mean?" "They get along." "I just sense a lot of tension between them." "Maybe at the beginning, but ever since they did that play, they've become a lot closer." "They have." "They're practicly like sisters." "Shut up." "So, for tomorrow, I want you to read the poems of John Donne that I've put on the board." "With one that I forgot, "To His Mistree Going to Bed."." "And speaking of sex..." "I have been blackmailed into..." "I mean I have graciously consented to service as faculty facilitator, I think that's what they call it, for the much maligned Upton Sinclair Gay-Straight Alliance." " They still have that?" " Yes." "The need for tolerance and understanding has not quite yet been eradicated." "We'll be meeting tomorrow evening, I don't know where yet, but I'll keep you posted." "That's cool that you're doing that." "So, what did you mean by "blackmail"?" "I was kidding." "Alright." "Mr Dimitri, I am definitely joining." "Shut up, Tad." "Bisexual girls, right?" "Need I say more?" " You are such an idiot." " You should come with me." " No way, too boring and stupid." " What is?" "Those clubs like the Gay-Straight Alliance." "Where it's just arguing about how to raise money and who makes the stupid posters." "Nothing ever gets done, you know?" "Totally." "Hey, do you have change for the soda machine?" "Have I ever denied you change?" "Dude, I just realized something." "Mr Dimitri just totally outed himself." "What?" "No, he didn't." "Manning, was I even talking to you?" "Tad, he did not out himself, OK?" "He's a faculty advisor." "I mean, you're gonna join." "Does that mean you're gay?" "Look, I think everybody knows why I'm gonna join, OK?" "And Mr Dimitri, he runs drama club, he now runs the Gay-Straight Alliance, he's not married, and he's obsessed with Joni Mitchell." "And he's not gay?" "Yeah, right." "Mr Dimitri!" "I was just wondering..." "This is your car?" "Yeah." "It's nice." "What were you wondering?" "Oh, yeah." "I was wondering... you know, about the Gay-Straight Alliance, maybe part of the reason it's hard to get people joining is that they might feel uncomfortable." "So we should probably figure out some way to make people... you know." " Feel more comfortable?" " Yeah." "So this is one of those hybred cars?" "Hybrid, yes." "That's very..." "That's the kind of car I would want." "Don't you drive?" "I seem to remember." "Oh, yeah." "But I don't have a car of my own." "My mum just lets me drive to school, once in a while." "And of course, drive Jessie places." "I see." "Her mother is in a hospital, so..." "I didn't know." "Yeah." "So everyone is like really worried about her." "Like, even more than usual." "I mean, I think it can be even harder when your mother's not in the hospital." "No, she's just the kind of person that people always worry if she has a ride home." "And I guess I'm just the kind of person that people just assume  who can walk." "Would you like a ride home?" "Like, last year?" "My little sister got so terrified about global warming, you know." "But I mean, she's young." "She barely even understands the implications." "We're here." "So..." "OK." "Thank you, really." "Oh, wait." "What I was trying to say before..." "I just think that if you had the meeting somewhere besides school, like, say, at your house..." "I think it's be less embarrassing for certain people to join." "At my house?" "Teachers do stuff like that all the time." "Well, not all the time." "But Mr Walsh had the film festival at his house last year." "Anyway." "Well, OK." "So..." "Thanks again, really." "How do you..." "You just..." "There." "Thanks again." "Again." "I've never seen that sweater before." "It's Katie's." "She got it for Christmas." "She's nice to lend you her Christmas present." "Yeah, I know." "Where've you been?" "They're reviving the Gay-Straight Alliance at school." "The Gay-Straight what?" "It's just this club, basically." "I was just helping." "To get it re-organized." "You were?" "It happens to be an extremely important organization." "It's to build understanding gay kids and the straight kids." "Like, awareness." "And stuff." "Well, it does seem important." "I didn't know you got so strong feelings about..." "People should be allowed to fall in love for whoever they want." "Otherwise, what's the point of living?" "Hello?" "Oh, good." "I have to ask you a question..." "So, who else was there besides you and Mr Dimitri?" "What's your point?" "I don't know, I was just asking." "Actually, a lot of people who you'd think would join probably won't." "Like your friend, Katie." "What?" "What d'you mean?" "Come on." "Come on what?" "She's gay." "No, she's not." "Jessie, it's no big deal." "I know it's not a big deal, because she isn't." "Excuse me, Katie and Sarah Grasso were like madly in love." "You don't know this?" "Katie completely broke her heart." "I don't think that's what happened." "Yeah, it is." "Ask anyone." "I don't have to ask anybody because I know her." "Are you busy?" "Yeah." "I was wondering if you'd thought about what I said yesterday." "About phone lines." "Oh, that." "I thought you meant that malarkey about accepting your kids for who they are." " Like anybody's gonna do that." " Well I do that." " You do?" " Yes." "I think my children are better people for it." "Oh, yeah?" "Well, I doubt that." "For instance, my daughter, the one that's in high school, joined an organization called the Gay-Straight Alliance." "Which promotes tolerance and understanding..." "And I think she's open to joining an organization like that partly because of the tolerance and understanding I've extended to her." "Les." "What's wrong?" "This is about your daughter, isn't it?" "The one who hasn't returned your calls?" "No, it's not about my crazy daughter or about your gay daughter or anybody else's daughter." "I'll look into that phone-line thing." "My daughter's not actually gay." "I don't wanna know." "It would be OK if she was, but she isn't." "I still don't wanna know." "She's just very principled." "I was ridiculous." "I'm sure I completely flunked." "Jess!" "Your hair is all static-y." "I didn't have time to brush it after gym." "Here, I'll fix it for you." "OK, that's good." "You should go." "I have... forty-five seconds." "Well, I'd better go, 'cause I don't wanna be late." "Oh, OK." "I'll see you later." "Hey, Jess." "Listen, I can't drive you to therapy, there's a G-S Alliance meeting tonight." " But you have to!" " Then come to the meeting." "No way." "I'm not gonna drive all the way home and back." "Fine, fine." "Hello." "I was thinking about doing some teaching." "What d'you say?" "Alright, where were we?" "So the fact that your friend is gay..." "No." "My friend being gay wouldn't bother me." "What bothers me is people saying she's gay if she's not." "There are girls at school who say they're gay and know if are or they aren't." "But at least, it's their choice to say it." "I see." "And with Katie..." "I just don't think that she is because I know her really well." "And if she was, she'd go to that meeting tonight, and she won't." "So she's obviously not gay." "Well, that settles it, then." "Hold on a second." "We're a little early." "So I see." "And we brought chips and stuff." "Great." "Remind me to reimburse you." "The living room is right in here." "OK." "Why don't you put some music, I'll be right back." "So, why did you wanna come to this?" "I told you, I think it's an important issue." "So do I." "I also don't think it's right to label somebody as gay just because you heard it." " I don't that's right either." " But that's what you do to Katie." "That's not labeling, that's just true." "How can you say that when you only heard it somewhere?" "I mean, look at Mr Dimitri." "He has all these musicals in his collection." "Everybody says that he is gay, does that make it true?" "How many musicals?" "Oh, my God." "Jessie, look at this." ""Accidentally on purpose, poems"" "By August Dimitri." "Maybe we shouldn't be snooping through this stuff." "Mr Dimitri?" "Oh, good, food." "Hey, Billie." "Billie, I..." "Wow, nice color scheme." "I thought that you found these stuff stupid." "I do." "I just felt like seeing Dimitri's house." "Hi, everyone." "Try not to make yourself too comfortable." "You're a real poet." "When did you publish these?" "Several lifetimes ago." "Can I look at them?" "They're not really worth looking at." "This is an excellent choice of house." "Alright." "Alright, then, it's settled." "Russell and Savannah will be the co-treasures." "Now, I think we might want to consider what our goals are." "Jessie." " You wanna go?" " Now?" "Yeah, come on." "Let's go." "... sponsoring social events and the like." "What, you mean like a dance or something?" "No good." "They tried a gay-straight dance two years ago, nobody even showed up." "But nobody even knew about it and they had a lame DJ." "We could call it the homo-hetero hop." "OK, first of all, I'm totally offended by the word homo." "But Russell, doesn't matter what we call it." "The point is that it will be a place where people can be who they are." "With whoever they wanna be with, and not be judged." "I'm totally bored." "Are you?" "I'm trying to finish this." "We should plead our case to Ms Gonzalez." "Who wants to help me out?" "I will." "Well, you and I should confer about that at some point." "To hammer out the proposal." "Sure." "OK." "Thanks, everybody." "Come on, let's go." "Shouldn't we all clean the stuff up?" "I'll do it." "Just tell my mother I had to stay late, OK?" "Sure." "Do you need a ride home?" " I don't know..." " Yeah, she does." "Katie..." "Have fun." "Are you ready?" "Hey, how was the book signing?" "Jonathan Franzen is a god." "A snobbish god, but a god." "The girls aren't home yet?" "Not yet." "What's this?" "You see that girl who just coughed?" "She's gonna die soon." "They sent me this memo, some guidelines as to how to go about getting funding for any event." "Now where did I...?" "You don't have to do that." "I don't mind." "Come on." "So..." "I didn't know you wrote poetry." "But there's obviously a lot of things I don't know about you." "Probably." "Like, with the Gay-Straight Alliance," "I didn't know you cared about that." "Hello?" "Hi, Chris." "Shut up." "Nothing." "What are you up to?" "I'll just get my..." "True." "Very true." "Well, I wouldn't go that far." "Well... good night." "Yeah, good night." "I'll try to locate that memo..." "Hi guys!" "Hey." "Hi Tad." "Hey Mr Sammler." "Where were you guys?" "This meeting." "For the Gay-Straight Alliance." "You joined the Gay-Straight Alliance?" "Not exactly." "Grace dragged me there." "Grace joined the Alliance?" "I thought I mentioned that." " Nope." " Not to me!" "Yeah, Grace is like the whole dance committee." "She wasn't even this excited about the play." "Would you like something to eat?" "No, it's pretty late..." " That's OK, honey." " What movie?" "Nobody knows." "But that girl who just coughed?" "She'll be dead soon." "Cool." "Yeah, when they cough like that..." "It's pretty much all over." "So she joined the Gay-Straight Alliance?" "Apparently." "Yup." "What?" "Come on." "This is huge!" "No it's not." "It's not huge." "I never would've predicted this, but..." " Predicted what?" " ... but it does kind of make sense." " It does not!" " Lily!" "So, what are you saying?" "That you think Grace is gay?" "Well, obviously it's possible." "Which is actually not what's shocking me, it's more just... thinking of her as a person with a sex life." "She's not gay." "I can't believe your reaction." "What happened to accepting your kids for who they are?" "I am accepting her for who she is." "She happens to be straight." "It's called the Gay-Straight Alliance." "What?" "Nothing." "How was the meeting?" "Fine." "I have homework." "Did you see that?" "She couldn't even look me in the eye." "Oh, my God, maybe it's true." "What are you reading?" "Just these poems, for English." "Where are they?" "We're gonna be late." "I need you to take Jessie to visit her mother after school." "And then what, wait for her for an hour in the lobby where it smells like death and disinfectant?" "Well, yes." ""Death and Disinfectant"..." "Would be a good title for a poem." "You're right." "If you want the priveledge of using the car you need to accept..." "OK!" "OK." "So, how was the Gay-Straight Alliance meeting?" "Jessie!" "Come on!" "Were there gay people and straight people, or was it mostly gay people or straight people..." "I'm leaving without you!" "So, you're in charge of a committee?" "Is that why you stayed so late?" "A lot of people stayed late." "It's very nice of Mr Dimitri to let people meet at his house." "Lots of teachers do that." "So, is he..." "I mean, I hadn't quite realized that Mr Dimitri was gay." "What?" "Not that is makes any difference..." "You're right, it doesn't make any difference who's gay and who isn't." "If it doesn't make any difference, why do you keep talking about it?" "OK, would you two go to school, please?" "And try not to learn too much." "Jess!" "What's going on?" "What d'you mean?" "Didn't you see me waving to you before?" "On the steps, I was like..." "waving to you." "No, I didn't see you." "Do you wanna come over later?" "I can't I have to visit Mum at the hospital." " I could come with you." " It's not really fun for you, though." "Look, are you mad at me?" "What?" "No." "Well then, why are you being like this?" "I gotta go, I'm gonna be late." "I'll talk to you later." "Jessie, wait!" "Ms Singer?" "Would you care to join us?" "Alright." "John Donne." "Are these poems straightforward?" "Easily grasped?" "Come on, people." "It's a yes or no question." "No." "Thank you." "No, they're aren't." "So, why do we bother to read them?" "OK, let's recap." "John Donne explored the paradox of human existence." "What does that mean?" "What's a paradox?" "Anyone?" "When something just doesn't make sense, but it's still true?" "That's exactly right." "Can I just say something?" "He wrote all these love poems, but he just seems so detached." "Exactly." "That's it meant to be a poet, back then." "It was like being a scientist of the human heart." "And a scientist must remain detached, in order to..." "That's not..." "I mean, I don't think that's what a poem should be." "See, I just read these poems by this other person." "And they just showed you like, his entire life." "How he thought and felt about everything." "And it made you realized how you felt about everything." "It was an interesting point you made." "I guess I just have strong feelings..." "about poetry." "We'll continue this some other time." "Could you do me a favor?" "Could you give this note to Jessie when you see her?" "It's extremely personal." "Hi, honey." "How long've you been sitting there?" "Not too long." "Are you OK?" "Yeah, I'm fine." "Well, I'll be coming home tomorrow, so..." "So, how's your life?" "How's Katie?" "She's fine." "I'm so glad you have such a good friend like her." "When I was in high school, there was so much pretending going on." "I had friends, but..." "I don't think we were ever really honest to each other." "Honey." "This has been really hard on you, hasn't it?" "No..." "It's not that." "There's this person..." "I just want things to stay the way they are, but..." "What they want is... to sort of take that next step." "Jess." "I think I know who you're talking about." "You do?" "Judy was just here." "She told me all about Tad at Lily's last night and how much he seems to care for you." "So..." "What do you do when... somebody really likes you, a lot more than you realized?" "Do you want the person to like you?" "I don't know what I want." "Just because a person has feelings for you, it doesn't mean you have to return those feelings." "Great." "Just what I want, more green jello." "Hey." "What are you..." "I was just..." "God... it's really cold." "I was just kind of... stuck in the neighborhood for a while?" "And I want to tell you something..." " And that's fine, but..." " Please." "Please." "Please just..." "See, in your car, the other day?" "I just felt like there was this... connection." "That I couldn't put into words, and you put it into words, you did it for me." "Look, I did something which I obviously shouldn't have done, but I'm glad I did, because now I know  I'm not alone!" "And that is just such an amazing thing to know, and..." "August?" "Chris, this is Grace, one of my students." "Grace, this is my friend, Christine Kim." "Grace is one of my most enthusiactic students." "She chairs the committee for the Gay-Straight Alliance dance..." "Oh, right, you were telling me." "Oh, the presentation is tomorrow, isn't it?" "Did I ever give you that memo...?" "No." "Hold on, it's in my briefcase..." "Would you like a soda or something?" "No, it's OK." "So do you call him August or Mr Dimitri?" "Mr Dimitri." "I had a teacher in high school." "He let us call him Stacy." "Which is a funny name for a man, but he was so cool we didn't care." "So is Mr Dimitri a good teacher?" "He's OK..." "I just can't picture it!" "I should come by sometime and watch him teach." "Just to freak him out." "I have to go, I have to pick up my stepsister from the hospital..." "Found it." "Try to remember these things during school hours next time, OK?" "I'll see you tomorrow." "Nice meeting you, Grace!" "I don't know what her problem is, but if she's gonna get this upset to pick me up, someone else should do it!" " Hold on, what happened?" " I don't know." " Where's Grace?" " In the car." " What's she doing in the car?" " She just kind of sitting there." "You want me to go and get her?" "Grace, what's going on?" "Mom, please just don't talk to me right now, OK?" "She feels resentful, because we're asking her to chauffeur Jessie." "I mean, that's obviously why she's upset." "Or, she could be gay." "That's what Judy thinks." "Is that what you think?" "Well, she did join that club." "And sometimes, it seems like she's keeping somthing from me." "And I try to talk to her, and she just shuts me out." "So you think it's possible?" "Well, anything's possible." "So you think she is?" "I'm not saying she is or isn't." "Oh my God." "You think she is!" "No!" "I'm just saying, if she is... you'll deal with it." "Well that's easy for you to say, your daughter's heterosexual!" "She has a boyfriend named Tad, you're fine." "True." "Oh God." "No wonder she won't talk to me," "Look at me:" "I'm a bigot!" "I never thought in a million years if I were in this position" "I'd react this way, 'cause I'm actually upset." "I'm upset that she might be a lesbian!" "At least she's not a bigot." "I mean, you have a daughter, and you don't think that she might like women, it never crosses your mind!" "Hello?" "Oh, hi Katie." "Sure, hold on." "Is Jessie in there?" "Yes, and she's taking forever." "Sweetie, it's Katie on the phone." "Can you tell her I'll talk to her tomorrow?" " I'm really tired." " OK, sure." "Katie?" "Jessie's going to bed right now." "She'll call you tomorrow, OK?" "Bye." "Good night, girls!" "Why won't you talk to her?" "What?" "Just talk to her." "You're lucky you can." "This is none of your business." "You don't even realize how easy you have it." "I mean, God, just go for it!" "No one will care!" "At least, you'll have someone." "At least, that's an option." "At least, the person you love..." "I can't believe it." "You read the letter that she wrote me." " I did not!" " Yeah, right." "I didn't need to read anything." "And anyway, I wouldn't do that." "That's exactly that you would do." "You steal things, snoop through other people's private things, and I don't care what you think you know." "I am not in love with anybody." "Just because you picked somebody who'll never love you back." "Shut up." "You think I don't know why you had to go to his house?" "What?" "Shut up!" "Everybody knows, and it's embarrassing!" "The way you look at him and do anything you can to be near him." "And you'll do anything to protect your little image, won't you?" "Perfect Jessie, who couldn't possibly be in love with a girl!" "I can't believe how much I hate you." "I hate you more." "Grace?" "Still in bed?" "Mum, please, just let me lie here." "I can't, unless you're sick." "Are you sick?" "You feel normal." "Not from in here." "So... whatever happened to Spencer Lewicki?" "I mean, why don't you..." "see each other anymore?" "Nothing happened to him, he's gay." "Is he also in the Gay-Straight Alliance?" "No, Mom, because sometimes?" "People don't exactly know that they're gay." "And Spencer Lewicki is one of those people." "If you let me stay home, I could explain it in more detail." "I'd love that, Gracie." "I really would." "After school." "Nice try though." "So if she's not feeling tomorrow, I'll bring her in." " Thanks, doc." " Who?" "Jessie's throat hurts, I'm letting her stay home from school." "Oh, no." "What?" "Never mind." "Just don't mention it to Grace." "So what's Donne up to here?" "Could it be his desire, his desperation to somehow unite two opposing sides within himself?" "Who can think of another poem we've read, that illustrates this desire?" "Grace?" "Which of Donne's poems would you choose?" "Grace, wait." "So, what happened?" "What?" "What do you mean?" "Nothing happened." "You gave her the note, right?" "Thank God, you didn't give it to her." "No." "No, I did give it to her." "Oh, God." "Yeah, so..." "Wait." "Did she say anything?" "Are you ready to face the vice principal?" "Did you have a chance to write up that proposal, for the Alliance?" "Because I could ask Ms Gonzalez to..." "She could probably reschedule." " I don't care when we do it." " OK, fine." "I'll meet you back here then, after eighth period." "Look, Katie, the thing is, she was really upset yesterday." "After visiting her mum." "Like really upset." "She may not even have read it yet." "Really?" "You think that could be true?" "It's definitely possible." "Oh, thank you, I love you!" "That pretty much covers the history of the Gay-Straight Alliance here at Upton Sinclair, what are our purposes, and why I personally think its existence is vital to our community." "So, what else..." "I already gave you our mission statements." "Oh, right." "I've drawn up a budget for the event." "I had to approximate, but it's pretty accurate." "And I'd just like to close with a really sad statistic." "That a gay kid is at least twice as likely to attempt suicide." "I'm not saying that if you don't give us the funding, people are gonna kill themselves." "But I am saying... that if it's within your power to give someone hope, someone who really needs it... and instead you just turn your back on that person..." "I just think that's really horrible." "Thank you." "Thank you, Grace." "That was really quite impressive." "Thank you, Ms Gonzalez." "We appreciate it." "Grace." "She's really quite something, isn't she?" "Yes." "Come in!" "I thought you were my stepmother." "Well, I'm not." "Your brother let me in." "Look, I just want my sweater back, and then I won't bother you again." "You're not bothering me." "Fine." "Can I just have the sweater?" "Sure." "It's gotta be around somewhere." "Oh, look, you missed the trash." "I wasn't gonna throw it away." "Fine, whatever." "Can I just have it back, please?" "You want the letter back?" "Look, I've humiliated myself enough as it is." "How?" "Because..." "I shouldn't have written all that stuff!" " It's OK!" " It's obviously not." " Since you barely even talk to me." " I just wanna be friends!" " That's what I want." " From your letter, it seemed..." "Forget the stupid letter." "I don't want anything you don't want." "I just wanna be friends." "Me too." " I've just been really..." " ... confused, I know." "Exactly, and I didn't know what to do, and you're really important to me." "I am?" "Yes, don't you know that?" "Because you are so important to me." "So, can we just be friends?" "Am I still your friend?" "Yes, of course!" "Oh, my God." "Of course, you're still my friend." "So just throw the stupid letter out, OK?" "I can't." "I can't throw it away." "I wanna keep it forever." "Oh, my God." "What?" "I just..." "I know." "Thanks." "For doing such a great job today." "You were very pursuasive." "I don't even know what I said." "Trust me, because of what you said, the Gay-Straight Alliance will get the funding to have that dance." "I don't care about the stupid dance." "I don't care about the Gay-Straight Alliance." "I know you don't." "What else do you know?" "I know... that you took my book." "It was stupid of me." "Not to just let you borrow it." "But the thing is, Grace... we're not friends." "I know that." "I mean, you can't just drop by my house like that." "I know." "If circumstances were different," "I would like nothing more than to be your friend." "I would want you to drop by my house, and I'd lend you the poems I wrote in my twenties that I'm now embarrassed by, and I'd want you to call me August and not Mr Dimitri," "and we'd sit around and talk for hours." "But we can't do that." "We can't be friends." "OK!" "OK, just stop saying it, please." "So that was your girlfriend?" "Last night?" "You shouldn't be asking me questions like that." "She was my girlfriend..." "a long time ago." "In college." "Now we're just friends." "You'd better get out of the car now." "Why?" "Mr Dimitri, how are you?" "I was just..." "It's cold out, and..." "God, I know, thank you so much." "Grace, would you give me a hand with the groceries?" "That was awfully nice of him." "What?" "Oh, yeah." "To give you a lift." "How did the presentation go?" "Fine." "He was just..." "I happened to mention that I didn't have a ride home, so..." "No, I'm glad." "You are?" "I'm glad the presentation went well." "I'm glad that you're part of a group like that, and that you have someone like Mr Dimitri." "What do you mean?" "Someone who really understands you." "'Cause I..." "'Cause I want you  to be true to who you are no matter what." "'Cause I love you." "No matter what." "Well, I love you too." "I love everyone." "In that case, do you mind take this cough drops up to Jessie?" "Sure." "I mean, no, I don't mind." "Who is it?" "It's Grace." "Can I come up?" "Sure." "Oh, sorry." "No problem." "She was just bringing me some homework." "So... thanks." "Anytime." "See you, Grace." "Oh, yeah, see you." "My mum bought you cough drops." "Thanks." "I'm feeling a lot better." "Me too."