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Marry me.

Excuse me? I have this really annoying work party next Saturday.

Oh, I can't go.

Well, it's compulsory.

For you, maybe.

What would you normally be doing on a Saturday night?

Maybe watching TV with my grandparents.

You all right? Yeah.

Ryan, this is my boss.

Why did I call you David?

Really nervous.

I thought they'd be drinking and mingling by now.

You need a distraction.

No, I'm not drinking. Oh, really?

Well, no, it says cheers.

Oh, no, no.

That's from Antonio.

He says cheers.

You read them perfectly.

Can you read me?

What do I need?

You okay?

I have a boyfriend.

Did you buy this or did I?

You can have it. No, I'd just end up throwing it away.

I'm going to start again as a bachelor.

I don't want this place to smell like a pathetic sex label.

Chuck it then.

I hate incense.

And so do I.

Wait. So I've been betting this for no reason? I thought you liked it.

I thought you liked it.

Wow.

So our apartment smelled like Santa would for two years out of politeness,

Guess we didn't really know each other after all, did we?

I'm so sorry.

Oh, Em, I'm just joking.

Hey,

you know, um, you know Jen from her work?

Yeah? Yeah, little short Jen.

Um, I fucked her.

When? It was once.

At the Christmas party.

There was a couple of times at the break room as well.

More than once?

Yeah, like five or six times.

Six.

You make me feel like absolute shit for the past week. And you've been having a

fucking affair this whole time?

What, having an affair?

No, we weren't sneaking around and meeting up. We just fucked every now and

then, thought it was some scene.

What, and then you just come home and act like everything was fine?

Everything was fine.

I love you.

Listen, me and her, we didn't have any chemistry or anything like that. We

just... I don't know, you know how hectic everything can get at my work

sometimes, right? Sometimes you need a release.

I guess she just really likes to fuck.

Can you please?

Stop saying fucked and fucking.

That's all it was.

I'm doing this to let you off the hook.

See, this is why I didn't tell you, because I knew you'd be hurt.

Well, you could have avoided that by not sticking your dick in some fucking

random nurse six times.

Come on, we haven't had sex in almost a year.

Oh, it's all my fault. I didn't say that. You literally just did.

So you were fucking this nurse because, what, I don't feel like it? I didn't say

that. Don't twist it.

I'm not blaming you.

I just want to give you context, that's all.

Context? You know this isn't a thesis or a dissertation, David. I don't need

footnotes on why you're a cunt.

Hey. Hey, I may have fucked someone. Yes, I did.

But you had an emotional relationship with someone and you fucked them. And

that's a pretty big deal to me.

We both did what we did.

It's not a competition about who's the biggest asshole, is it?

Spoiler alert, it's you.

I didn't tell you to hurt you. I just don't want you to go around hurting

yourself.

You can hate me all you like.

I mean, I don't hate you.

Well, I do hate you!

How long have you been sitting out here for?

About two and a half cigarettes.

I have to finish it. They're really fucking expensive.

You're a great human being.

Am I?

I'm sorry.

I just... I came here to say I'm so sorry for involving you in all this

It's a lot of sorries.

I hardly smoke when I'm stressed.

And I know it's gross, and I'm going to quit.

And the irony is, if I cough up a lung, I'm going to end up in the ER, and then

I'm going to have to see a David again. So, yeah, I really should quit.

So it didn't go well, then?

Well, I've got all my shit in the back of my car, so... As well as expected.

Where are you going?

I don't know.

You know, you could have just told me.

If it makes you feel better, he was fucking some nurse for once.

You came prepared.

I'm gross, but I'm not a complete arsehole.

Yeah, I didn't think that part through.

I should go.

What are you doing out here?

You can't stay out here all day. Come on, sort it out inside.

Come on, she'll be offended if you don't.

Emily, this is my nan, Lorna.

Hello, Emily.

You're much prettier when you're not carrying your shoes up the stairs at

Did he tell you we're having a bit of a party?

No, he did not. Well, it's my 50th, not my birthday, my anniversary.

I'm a little bit older than 50.

I'll tell you who's going to be very excited to see you.

Morgan?

This is Emily.

Oh. This is Morgan.

Nice to meet you, Emily.

Nice to meet you. Happy anniversary.

Oh, thank you.

Look, Emily, help yourself to drinks in the kitchen and a baby boy. Will you get

us some music? Yeah. Come on.

Oh, Ian.

Baby boy, huh? Looks cute.

Yeah.

Wow. We walk all the way back to the 1980s. Yeah.

This is my mum's room.

See, those are good parents.

My mum turned my bedroom into a sewing room while I was still moving my things

out. She any good at it?

Fuck no.

It's been many rooms since then. Think of any white woman hobby and I guarantee

it's been that room at least once.

Scrapbooking, quilting. You know it.

Last time I was there it was an interior design studio. I think she thinks

having kids held her back from her true calling.

What are we working with here?

Ah, see where you get your taste from.

Nothing here past 1992.

Oh, there you are.

You came.

Of course.

Any excuse for a few wines?

Emily, this is Alan. She's my work friend. Hi.

Look for him to listen to. He makes it sound like I'm a 25 -year -old intern or

something.

So how do you know the family?

Lorna and I know each other from the Salvation Army volunteer weekend.

I got Ryan, his interviewer at the firm we work at.

Sorry.

Do you mind? I'll be back. Yeah.

Do you still want these under the couch?

Not mine.

What the fuck?

She seems nice.

Yeah, she is.

But? But it's complicated.

You're a forensic accountant. You deal with complicated every day.

Yeah, but this is different.

Something's only complicated until you understand it. Go put some music on.

Oh, thanks a lot.

No.

Not hers, I swear.

If they're not yours, I don't know whose.

Mate, thanks so much for coming.

Thanks for coming.

Enjoy.

So you've met Uncle Ian?

Great uncle.

Ain't no bad. I wouldn't say great. Makes it sound like he's never said that

before.

You coming tomorrow?

Are you going to be up for it? I'm always up for it. It's my job.

This is Midstreet.

And you can blame this lovely girl.

You should bring her along.

Wouldn't make much of a date.

Where are we going?

Uncle Ian is Reverend Ian at the Uniting Church.

Oh, my gosh.

I have just been swearing at you this whole time. I am so sorry.

He doesn't give a shit. It's true. I don't give a shit.

Don't worry. He's not trying to convert you or anything. No, that's not true.

I try to convert everyone.

I wouldn't be much of a minister if I didn't. Well, lucky for you, there's

nothing to convert me from. I am the daughter of heathens. Excellent. All my

most successful converts have been heathens.

You okay?

Yes.

Yes.

It was lovely to meet you. It was lovely to meet you too.

She's interesting.

She is.

Wait.

Those undies are mine.

I forgot.

You look a little bit lost.

I'm just really not used to these family things.

You don't have family? I do.

Not like this.

It's okay to feel lost.

I mean, it's not comfortable, but, you know, sometimes it clears the path for

new things to happen.

I was with someone else when I met him.

Really? Mm -hmm.

I mean, life rarely gives you what you want when you actually want it.

What happened?

Oh, drama and heartache.

But what's the alternative when you feel something so strongly?

You know one of the best things about getting older?

You realise that the things you worry about now...

aren't going to matter in the future.

On lunch break, can you make up a tea?

She said yes.

Speeches!

Speeches, everybody!

Hey guys, I just want to welcome you to Morgan and Lorna's 50th wedding

anniversary.

I know some of you have come a long way.

Some from Victoria, New South Wales.

Jim and Kate coming down from Townsville, the three -day drive. Thank

All the rest of you drove about five or ten minutes, which is not nearly as

impressive.

But I myself just wandered up from underneath the house.

When I was born, Morgan and Lorna had already been married for 16 years.

And they've been married my whole life.

And I can't imagine it any other way. They do everything together.

Literally.

Pop will go with Nan to the shops and just sit on the couch outside Kmart and

wait for her to do her thing. Has nothing to do.

Hates shopping.

He'll just sit there and wait.

Even before he had a phone to scroll on.

I remember when I was about nine or ten and I was sitting with him on the couch

waiting for what seemed like hours.

And I wanted to go to the bookstore or to the shoe shop. I can't remember.

And he said, no, he wouldn't let me go.

This is where she knows we are.

This is where we're going to wait.

And now he does have a phone, and if he wanted to, he could wander off and do

his own thing and call her or something, but he doesn't. He just sits there and

tags her in a couple of dozen Facebook posts and dirty memes.

And then she gets home later that night and huts every single one of them to let

him know that she's seen them.

When they first met, they'd known each other from around the traps, but never

talked.

And then one day at a working bee, Pop was on lunch and he was making a cup of

tea and he decided to make them one.

She said, thank you, and they started chatting.

And by the end of the chat, he'd asked her out on a date.

And two months later, they were married.

I don't think you've made a cup of tea ever since, have you?

Anyway,

say some words, mate.

Thank you all for coming.

We don't usually celebrate this day, but 50 years is a long time, and we

haven't had one of these since, well, you know, it's been a while.

I don't really know what to say.

I guess I want to thank my beautiful wife for putting up with me.

Thank you, Lorna.

Yeah. thank you for coming it means a lot so

have a drink for us and you can have one for Nora too

yeah yeah alright thank

you

Who wants to cut the cake?

She

looks

so young.

She was young.

Fifteen there, that same together.

Week before her 16th birthday.

It wasn't ideal, of course, but she was good with him.

Very sweet.

She had a beautiful voice, too.

Really? Yeah, she sang in the choir.

Loudest one there.

Not a show -off, nothing like that, but they just knew who it was coming from.

That's what I miss the most.

I used to...

Sit in my chair in the afternoon and hear her singing to him when he was

She's the only one who could put him to sleep.

Nobody else could.

Problem child.

No, no, no, no.

He was just like her. They both picked up on the same things.

Both tuned to the same frequency, I think, but he was better equipped for

though.

She's got lost somewhere.

Don't know what went wrong.

Like I did.

Oh, look, I'm sorry.

This is not a very good introduction to us, is it? What is?

Sorry about your mom.

I had no idea.

Yeah.

She was 19 when she died.

She was in and out of trouble and ended up dying of an overdose.

Did Nan tell you she was 15 when she had me?

She was a baby.

I wouldn't go that far. Most 15 -year -olds aren't out shoplifting and

and doing drugs while their baby is at home with these stressed grandparents.

Do you know what happened?

She escaped rehab, went missing for a couple of weeks.

Not like in the movies.

Just some random teen camp out in the country.

I took her there a couple of times.

At first it was all good.

She was apparently very serious about being responsible for a while.

And obviously that didn't stick.

The second time I guess she just couldn't take it.

Hadn't said she really didn't want to go that time.

And so she jumped a fence and took off one night.

They found her a couple of weeks later in the city in some random house.

Said she probably died a few days earlier.

Yeah, Nan told me once she felt like a sense of relief in the end.

She'd been waiting years for that phone call, years of constant anxiety and

worry, and then it was over.

And she was sad, of course, but relieved.

What about your grandpa?

I don't know.

I think we all just remember her differently.

I should go.

I'd like you to stay.

I just want you to be happy.