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Alright, young man.

You know you're going to stay right where you are, and you're going to talk to me.

Because this is the fifth time this week!

You know I love you.

What is going on?

Well, I'm a teacher there.

I can't be called into the office every time you get in trouble.

You used to be such a good boy!

No, you're not dismissed.

You can't...

No!

You're not going to watch TV or anything else until you tell me what's going on.

Now come on!

You used to talk to me what's on your mind.

It's obvious something's going on.

Is someone bullying you at the school?

Because I can talk to Mr. Lancashire.

And I can...

What is it?

What do you mean you can't tell me?

What if I lose my job?

Because my son keeps causing trouble at the school that I work at.

How would you feel then?

And how am I going to pay for your supper?

You have to tell me.

Because it doesn't just affect you, it affects me as well.

I have a reputation to uphold.

I'm respected.

Yes, everything you do reflects on me.

What was it this time?

Did you try to ask some girl out and she turned you down?

What?

I know your home life is fine, so there's gotta be something else.

And you have to tell me.

Are you really...

Is someone at the school hurting you?

Well then what is it?

My imagination's gonna go over the place.

I'm your mother.

I feel protected.

You've got to...

I'm very protected.

I'm not. I'm not. I'm very protective of you.

And if something's going on, you have to tell me.

So I can take care of it and make it all go away.

Tell your mother what is going on.

And then I can talk to Mr. Lancashire.

I can talk to the principal and we can have a one-on-one discussion.

He respects me.

I can talk you out of it, but you have to tell me what's going on.

I'm gonna count to three.

Well I'm very tired. It's been a very long day.

And my students were especially challenging today.

And I don't need to come home and deal with this as well.

One.

Two.

What is it? Tell me.

What do you mean it's hard for you?

You have to tell me what it is so I can take care of it.

Yes?

Well me being a teacher at your school has never bothered you before.

You've grown up that way.

I thought you thought it was cool.

We can have lunch together and stuff.

What is it?

Of course I have students, but...

Did one of them say something to you? Just, what do they mean?

You mean that time we were having lunch together in a cafeteria?

And one of my students came up, yet...

What? I'm a teacher.

Are you saying you're jealous?

That's what it sounds like.

What? The attention?

I'm your mother.

I mean...

When we come home, it's just the two of us.

We're the ones that watch TV at night and

play games and I help you with your homework.

No one else. None of the other boys in my class.

Yes. I do have students that respect me a great deal.

What do you mean you don't think they do?

Of course they do.

Do you think...

You think...

I'm sorry, honey.

You think they like me in a way that's inappropriate.

I'm an older woman.

I'm a mother.

They don't think of me that way.

Well, thank you, honey.

I don't think my students actually think about my appearance or...

Well, I hope I do make them happy.

I mean, it's my job.

If my students are happy, they're learning and that's the way it works.

Wait a minute. Is that it?

That's all of it?

That's why you've been acting up at school.

For weeks. Months.

Because of my students in my own classroom

that I'm in charge of that I get paid to teach.

Honey, that's just ridiculous.

Why does that...

And so what? You've caused chaos at school just

because you can't talk to your own mother about it?

Do you know how immature that sounds?

What's really the problem, honey?

Did you...

I mean, are you just being protective of me?

You're afraid that the students are just

being inappropriate or disrespectful in some way?

No one has said anything to me that is out of line whatsoever.

I mean, you know I wouldn't put up with that.

That's why they respect me.

I don't think it's fair to me if you have a problem with them.

I mean, I can't...

It's my job.

I do have relationships with my students by being their

teacher and being at the front of the classroom teaching them.

Things that will guide them through all of their lives.

What is it, honey? You'll have to tell me.

Why would it bother you so much?

You think my students are just...

They like like me.

I don't know.

I guess it's possible boyhood crushes and...

You know...

Don't you have things you fantasize about?

But, you know, movie stars and things.

But, you know, it's just natural.

And you don't even know.

If someone actually said to you that they...

Well, then...

You're just imagining it all.

What?

You what?

Honey, of course you're my...

You're my only boy. Of course you're my special one.

I mean, every day I tell you I love you.

Come here.

Why are you being so silly?

What's gotten into you?

You're my only son.

You'll always be my special one. There's no worries about that.

I mean, I've...

I've loved you since the day that I found out I was pregnant.

Forever.

I mean, nothing can replace that or take

the place of that or be stronger than that.

Nothing.

There's nothing like that bond between mother and son.

You know that. You know how close we are.

Honey...

I mean...

What do you want me to do? How can I...

You shouldn't feel jealous of my students.

They're just students.

I mean, I care about them, but at the end of

the day, I'm not responsible when I come home.

It's just you and me.

Honey...

You need to know that...

You need to know that you're my only one.

Just isn't telling you that enough?

I love you.

I don't want you to feel sad or jealous or...

not love the way that you deserve to be.

None of those things you're imagining are true.

I think about you night and day. You're my boy.

We have something special.

Something that I will never have with my students.

So many things.

Such a deep relationship.

No news since you were a little squirt.

It's true.

And that's all that's been bothering you.

Why didn't you tell me?

We could have had this talk so long ago.

Not at the end of a big work day when I'm exhausted.

I'm supposed to be cooking dinner now and you...

It was good that we had this talk.

Now I know what's been bothering you.

I want you to know that none of that is true and you're...

You are my only one.

You. You are my son.

There's no one else.

I don't even have a husband.

I didn't even work.

I want you to know how special you are.

How much I care about you.

How what you and I have, nothing on earth can match.

Nothing can tear us apart.

Do you believe me?

Good.

Because I love you.

More than anything.

And when you tell me that you're hurting,

I hurt too.

Right in here.

Right in the pit of my stomach.

(inhales and exhales)

Those other boys?

I don't think about them.

I love them.

I only love you.

Do you understand?

Do you understand how much I love you?

I need to know that you do.

I love you more than anything else on the planet.

(kiss)

You're the only one for me.

And I think I need to prove to you

that you're me.

But you mean to me.

I need you to feel it

deep inside.

I need to know that you know,

without a doubt,

how much your mother loves you.

(kiss)

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Do you understand?

Do you believe me?

(kiss)

(sigh)

I'll prove it to you.

This isn't for the other boys in my class.

Me?

Oh, me.

It's only for you.

Okay.

Now come here and lay down on Mommy's bed.

Come on.

Come to Mommy.

Mommy loves you.

You're my only boy.

(kiss)

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No one else gets to be this close.

Do you feel that?

That's where you came from.

You.

Only you.

And only you belong there.

Right here.

Feel that.

Feel that inside Mommy.

Because you're my only boy.

(kiss)

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Only you.

I don't want you to ever doubt that.

(kiss)

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You feel that?

It's the bond between a mother and a son.

There's nothing else like it in the world.

Nothing.

No one else can have it.

Do you feel it?

I'll make you feel it.

Hold on.

Not till I'm...not till Mommy says.

Okay. Okay.

(crying)

See?

See how much I love you.

See how natural it is.

How easy it is.

Do you believe me now?

While you're inside me.

The same place you came from.

It's only you.

It will always be only you.

My darling boy.

(kiss)

I love you.