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♪ I can't stop thinking about it ♪

♪ Being on my mind after all these years ♪

♪ Can't stop my thoughts from racing toward you ♪

♪ And time is drawing near ♪

♪ I won on my phone, but I keep jumping the track ♪

♪ I'm trying my best to find the life you'll regret ♪

♪ Scared I won't get there, there's no turning back ♪

♪ Scene fades into black ♪

♪ I can't stop thinking about you ♪

♪ In on my mind after all these years ♪

♪ Can't stop my thoughts from racing toward you ♪

♪ It's all be coming clear ♪

♪ My heart is in motion, the energy flows ♪

♪ Thoughts of yesterday still with me where ever I go ♪

♪ What could'a been, what should'a been ♪

♪ We may never know ♪

♪ I'm just trying my best to stay gold ♪

Class of '98.

class '98 is up in here.

Nope.

Sorry.

Jess?

Yeah.

Jess Castella?

Theater class. - Theater class, junior year.

Oh my god, Sean.

Wow. It's been like.

20 years.

Exactly. You look different.

Not like bad different, good different, you look good.

I got rid of my eyebrow ring

and you know, my hair is not blue anymore, so.

I thought that eyebrow ring was pretty cool back then.

Yeah, it was the late nineties.

We all participated in tragic fashion.

I did make my mom go to RiverGate mall

and buy me a pair of Jincos.

Well?

Okay.

Class of 1998, let me hear you.

What was that play we did junior year?

"The Wind and the Willows."

I was a villager and you were a tree.

I almost forgot about that.

I will never forget standing next to Jason Geegaks

like this for two hours.

Like why didn't we just build trees?

Well then it wouldn't have been the magic

of a living forest on stage.

You sound like Mrs. Herman.

She was one of the better ones we had, junior year.

I remember that year I had fourth block lunch

and I would sit with you and all the kids who smoked clove

and you talk about all these bands I'd never heard of.

Yeah, I recall you visiting the alternative table.

I thought you guys were so cool.

You made me that mix tape.

Yeah, you came up to me during theater class

and you go, "Hey, I made this for you"

and then you just walked off.

You remember that?

Yeah, I wore that tape out

and you didn't put the name

of any of the bands on the liner.

That's 'cause I wanted you to search them out on your own.

Like go to the record store

and listen until you figured out who they were.

♪ Goodbye, goodbye my love, goodbye ♪

♪ Lay the blame on luck ♪

Love spent love.

That's it.

Yeah. - Yeah.

I spent like a whole eight hours,

one Saturday at a media play listening station

trying to figure out what band sang that song.

When you did figure it out,

didn't you feel like you were in a like special club?

You know, only certain people in this suburban wasteland

are in them now.

What?

Nothing.

What is it?

I bet your book club is rad.

It is.

As a matter of fact, we're currently reading

"The Devil in the White City" about H.H Holmes.

While you enjoy a moderately priced Merlot and discuss.

Actually, it is a Pinot Grigio

and it is Trader Joe's brand.

It's amazing. You're married, I see.

Uh, I was, but this is actually the wrong hand.

You?

You know, I've been pretty work focused,

dated around, but nothing really serious.

What do you do for work?

Medical sales.

You look like you sell medical equipment.

What's that supposed to mean?

You just look it, I mean, you look great.

You, you, you look like a sharp dressed man

with something to sell,

but also like, you still hit the bar scene wherever you live

and date women a little too young for you.

Florida.

Excuse me.

I live in Panama City, Florida, mh-hmm,

and I, I, I, I do probably go out

with women a little too young for me.

So I was right.

Yeah, you're like Zoltar.

If I wish for it, can you make us young again?

I can only go forwards, not back, sorry.

That's okay. 16 was pretty awkward anyway.

I was a 16-year-old sandwich artist.

Oh, I remember because I worked at 31 Flavors

and you traded me a foot long cold cut combo

with extra pickles for a pint of bubble gum ice cream

and then they fired me.

Shit, I didn't know that happened. I'm sorry.

It's not your fault.

Listen, when you live a life of danger,

you're bound to get burned or in my case iced.

You were always good at taking one for the team.

So you got kids.

No, not unless you count my dog.

Oh, thank Christ you're not a cat lady.

Cats are creepy.

I know, my mother always said like

a cat will smother a baby with it, with it's paw.

Like Heath Cliff or Garfield would kill your child.

Bye y'all.

What about you?

Well, none that I know of,

but I also travel a lot for work, so you know.

That's a joke, no kids never.

Hey Sean, what's up buddy?

How's it going man?

Oh, can't complain, man.

You know, my insurance company is killing it this year,

so decided to treat myself.

Got a new boat.

Whoa.

Mastercraft X22.

That's awesome, congratulations, man.

Yeah, just grinding man.

Oh, who is this? Is this your girl?

Hi, I'm Scott.

Ye, yeah, I know we went to high school together.

Did we?

We did.

Weird, I do not remember you at all.

Did you used to be like really fat or something?

Scotty, let's go

to the car already. - Oh shit, I gotta bounce.

Hey, it was so good to see you buddy

and good to meet you again or you know,

congrats on your weight loss journey.

Oh my God, I can't wait to do glow.

Do, do you wanna get outta here

and go get a drink somewhere?

So much. Let's go.

If that happened before we went in. What-

What's inside?

Yeah.

I couldn't do it.

It's like, almost like the box in "Hell Raiser."

♪ Ho, ho, ho, ho ♪

♪ Ho, ho, ho, ho ♪

♪ Ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ha ♪

♪ Ho, ho, ho, ho ♪

♪ Ho, ho, ho, ho ♪

♪ Ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho ♪

♪ Give me a thought, I won't care if you were down ♪

♪ On what I think about, how we gotta be free ♪

♪ And if we are gonna be free, it really must be ♪

♪ From the root of our essence ♪

So... I.

Sorry, go ahead.

I forget what I was gonna say.

So what have you been up to since high school?

20 years?

Gimme the greatest hits summary.

I, I went to college, partied a lot

and then I started working.

How did you land in sales?

I sold candy.

So more Willy Wonka than Willy Loman.

Oh well that, that's a, that's a good one.

It's bad, I'm sorry.

I actually sold chocolate bars with and without almonds.

Welcome to Baby Dickies. Are you guys good?

Can I get you anything?

Shots?

Is it that kind of night?

20 years of catching up,

I feel like we could benefit from them.

Two double shots of whiskey and two beers.

Wow.

You got it.

So what about you?

Nothing exceptionally exciting.

I thought you'd do something super cool

like your own artisanal brand of soap

that you sold for $20 a bar.

No, not even close.

Can I get some details?

I took two years of art history classes

at community college and I, I married my boyfriend.

We, we moved away for a few years, got divorced

and I moved back home and now I manage a restaurant.

That's cool.

Just holler if you need anything.

Thank you.

One, two, three.

It burns.

That was a good burn though.

Tastes like Scott Brown's house.

You know the liquor we used to steal

from his parents' liquor cabinet.

That you refilled with tea?

Is there any other way?

I always wondered why didn't parents ever say anything?

I think it's one of those whole, like it's better for them

to party here rather than be driving around.

That was the age of box wine at my mom's house,

I could always get a little bit out of that box

without her noticing.

Oh God, we did drive around drinking, didn't we?

Yep, whoever wasn't drinking

would drive to Denim and Diamonds teen night

and then just slam Everclear in the parking lot.

I never went to Denim and Diamonds.

Nah, you weren't missing much.

Just teenagers chain smoking and line dancing.

Oh, that sounds hilarious.

They just like openly

let a bunch of drunken teenagers just dance.

It was the late nineties, nobody cared.

I guess so.

It's a haunted house now. Denim and Diamonds, I mean.

Really.

It's nationally ranked, top 10 and everything.

It's a big deal. (chuckles) It is.

No, I, I believe you, it's just,

it's funny because it's this place

that in my head was the place from high school

and now it's just like a haunted house.

You don't realize how much things are changing

and then one day you look around and it is all different.

Yeah, well, lucky for me,

I'm leaving before you can destroy

anymore of my adolescent memories.

When do you leave?

Tomorrow morning.

You, you came back for the reunion for one day.

That's some school spirit.

I felt like I needed to be here,

plus we might not have another.

True.

And I haven't been home since my parents moved.

Well, allow me to be your tour guide.

The uh, the Pizza Inn is a hipster coffee shop

and the old grocery store is a trampoline park

and the, oh, the old video rental slash tanning place

has just been sitting empty for years.

What?

No, Captain Video and Tanning.

I don't know, it's like where we grew up

is a ghost of itself.

You know what hasn't changed at all? My bedroom room.

It's like a time capsule.

Even the posters on the wall are the same.

My mom didn't touch a thing.

You wanna see?

Your, your childhood bedroom?

Yeah, my mom lives half mile from here.

Sure.

You ready?

I am down for adventure.

I'm just gonna put this in my pocket.

It's called a roadie.

♪ Oh lover ♪

♪ Where did I lose you ♪

♪ Oh lover ♪

♪ Where did you go ♪

♪ 'Cause, we're all lonelier ♪

Success.

Nice.

Shh, my mom probably fell asleep

on the couch waiting up for me.

♪ We're just trying to get by ♪

♪ Take it a day at a time ♪

♪ 'Cause we're all lonelier ♪

♪ We're all lonelier ♪

♪ We're all lonelier ♪

♪ We're all lonelier ♪

I am gonna have to explain to her

that I didn't even make it inside the reunion.

Just make something up.

Shayna Davis looked great, but she gained a little weight

and also her kids just won the state tournament

for the under 12 soccer team

for the Hendersonville Fever.

That's the real suburban gothic stuff.

Does yours do the same?

Nah, my mom's way into my sister's life.

I think I'm kind of a lost cause at this point

with the whole no marriage, no kids thing.

Yeah, but most people get married

before they even know who they are

and then they end up divorced.

You, you waited it out, so when you do get hitched,

it'll probably be for the long haul.

Hitched.

Tied down, take the plunge, betrothed.

I, I never liked the sling of it all.

What would you prefer?

I don't know, it just all sounds so permanent.

It's supposed to be, by design.

Yeah, but I mean, why does it have to be anything?

Why do we have to have a label?

Because it shows commitment

and most people our age want that kind of commitment.

Otherwise, whenever the other person wants,

they can just leave.

Well, is that what happened to you?

No, we just grew apart,

'cause that happens when you get married too young.

I, I, I, I'm just saying

people get divorced at an alarming rate.

People that seem meant for each other.

Uh, Brad Pitt and Angelina, Johnny Depp and Winona,

Guy Richie and Madonna all divorced.

They don't count.

How's that?

Because it's hard enough being married

as a regular person, much less as a celebrity.

Mm. What about Kurt and Goldie?

What about them?

Well, they've been together forever

and they aren't married.

Mh-mh, exceptions to every rule,

also they made "Overboard" together

so they can never be apart.

Arturo and Katarina.

Exactly, that movie was on TBS, the summer of '92,

just continuously, that and "Saved By The Bell" reruns.

Holy shit, that's a lot of collectibles.

I was really into collecting stuff when I was a kid.

Is there a Beanie Baby graveyard under this bed?

No.

There might be a Little Caesar's pizza pizza finger puppet.

Are those all the California Raisins?

All the ones issued my Hardee's. I was a weird kid.

I was really into figurines and collectible glasses.

I mean it's weird but honestly I'm impressed with you.

Oh, that "Alvin and the Chipmunks" glass,

I got when I was eight on my way to Chicago

to visit my Gigi.

Oh and that "Smurfs" one my dad got me on, on a,

on a work trip to Vermont.

Your dad went to Vermont and all he brought you,

was this amazing "Smurf" glass?

Yeah, something like that.

What's a Gigi?

My grandma. What, what do you call yours?

Memaw.

Oh, that's very southern of you.

Oh.

So when did you go from avid collector

of fast food memorabilia to the clove smoking theater girl

I'm met in high school?

1994, "Reality Bites" came out on VHS

and I watched it all summer on repeat.

"He's so cheesy, I can't watch him without crackers."

That's everybody's favorite line.

What's the best line?

It's all about that soundtrack.

I got that for my birthday

and then that led to clubs and donut shop hangs.

The donut shop.

Yeah, I, I remember that place. Is it still there?

Yeah, but they turned it into a vape shop.

That's the most depressing circle of life I've ever heard.

I know. If you're gonna smoke, just smoke.

I agree.

You wanna know what my favorite one is?

More than anything.

This guy, I found him behind the Hendersonville Eight.

You mean the movie theater where our parents

used to drop us off

but we really just were gonna go behind it

and smoke cigarettes?

It was the first moment where I remember feeling like

I wasn't always gonna be some little kid.

I had my first kiss that night with Mike Pope.

He held my hand until my parents picked me up.

And then what happened?

We dated for two weeks

and then he dumped me for Keely Masters,

because she already had boobs, but the kiss was nice.

I felt special that night, like I was going somewhere

and someone had left this like a souvenir for me.

I have an idea.

What?

You just have to trust me.

I can't believe I saw "The Devil's Advocate"

at a mega church.

Yeah, now it's just a bunch of screens

all broadcasting the word of God.

Huh, should we dare?

What?

Go run back, rip a dart.

A dart?

A cigarette.

I never heard that one before and I would love to,

but I don't smoke anymore so I don't have any.

Well lucky for you, someone thought ahead.

Are you a smoker?

No. No, no, only when I drink,

but I figured with the awkwardness of a reunion,

I might have a few.

I shouldn't.

I hate to peer pressure you,

but we're here and I have these, so.

Okay. Yes. (chuckles) - Yes.

Man, I forgot how fun cigarettes are.

I just got a buzz.

This place was like a club in junior high.

Everyone hung out here.

No matter what clique you were in, on Friday nights,

we all belonged here.

I got in my first fight here.

Eddie Scharf hit a kid from beach with his skateboard.

Whoa, like "Gleaming The Cube"?

And Fran Lawrence drank a beer

that some high school girl gave her, but it was just pee.

It was somebody's pee.

No way, Fran, but wasn't she the dance team captain?

In high school.

In junior high, we were the same. She was always mean to me.

I hung on to her drinking that pee as a solid memory.

Who was that kid who peed her pants during "Candyman"?

Oh, that was my cousin Terry.

Shut up.

I can't, it's true.

I never think about any of this stuff.

Why? They were good times.

They were.

It's just you grow up

and you compartmentalize things I guess.

Well, you're smiling. Maybe you need to remember them.

I couldn't tell you the difference

in any of the last five Christmases I had,

even though they were all so different,

in different cities with different people

I don't even know anymore,

but now I can picture everything that happened here.

We used to not worry about anything

except what movie we lied about seeing.

Yeah, we used to be young, now we gotta worry about dying.

Or our parents dying.

It's so weird watching our parents age.

It's like they're going backwards to little children.

We should get better as we get older, not worse.

The other day outta nowhere, my mom got super cold,

her blood pressure skyrocketed

and her meds didn't kick in for like an hour

and, and all I could think while I was getting her a blanket

and water was that I was just completely helpless.

I, I, I couldn't fix it.

She's okay now though, right?

Yeah, as soon as her meds kicked in,

they, she calmed down.

I, I think I was even more freaked out than she was.

I'm not ready to be the grownup.

Last Christmas for the first time,

I had to help my dad set up the Christmas tree.

I'm sitting here and I'm looking at this guy

who was the biggest, strongest guy I ever knew

and he couldn't, he couldn't set up a 50 pound tree.

That's good that you could help him.

He didn't want me to.

When we got done, he went and he sat down outside

and he just looked like defeated by life.

Like, like I embarrassed him or something.

God, what if we have to put them in homes someday?

No, I can't do it. I, I'll just, I'll just hire someone.

I'll take care of her myself.

She would hate a stranger helping her.

Maybe the whole not having kids thing makes us feel young.

Like if we had kids, we'd feel more adults.

Yeah, that seems to do the trick for most people.

I could still have kids.

I'm over 35. Mine would be a geriatric pregnancy.

Wow, that's dark.

Yeah, I know.

God, it scares the outta me though.

Why?

'Cause one day I'm gonna wake up and I'm gonna be old

and I won't even have anybody to help me set up a tree.

Let's make tonight

one of those go down in the books nights.

Let's do something that we wanted to do

more than anything when we were 14.

I think we might have different definitions on that.

What did you always wanna do?

I wanted to take Jesse Spano to the max. You?

I wanted to host Alternative Nation

and then I interview Gavin Rosdale

and then he falls madly in love with me.

The lead singer of Bush?

Yes, yes he is.

I checked that CD out from the public library

and wore it out.

♪ Glycerin ♪

What about the junior parking lot?

The kids still hang out there?

I don't know, I never did.

Well then we should go.

They might think we're someone's parents.

Yeah, it'll be awesome.

♪ I can see you ♪

♪ Sitting down talking about cross town kids ♪

♪ I can see you ♪

♪ Sitting down talking about ♪

♪ Cross down kids ♪ - Are you excited?

Beyond belief.

It's smaller than I remember.

What do we do?

We just talked and sat on cars

and occasionally someone looked old enough to buy a beer.

Basically dazed and confused.

There was this one guy, he came junior year

and he had like a full mustache and he always had beer

and then one day he was just gone.

He sounds like a narc.

That's what we thought.

I wish we had a tailgate

and then it would be the true junior parking lot experience.

Done.

Now all we're missing is the booze.

You are a full service tonight.

Yeah, well if I learned anything being an Eagle Scout,

it's always be prepared.

You were an Eagle Scout.

I was.

With merit badges and all?

21.

Wow.

Yeah, I mean basically I'm MacGyver.

Could you make me a splint if I broke my arm?

Easy, gimme something hard.

Birdhouse.

I can do that without power tools,

like just my bare hands.

Boating.

I've had my boater's license since I was 15 years old.

I am impressed.

That might be the first time

a female's ever been impressed by my Eagle Scouting.

No way.

It's hard to believe, right?

Are you like, looking for someone?

Like who?

Like your kid.

Why do you ask?

Because you're like old.

How old do you think we are?

Like 40.

This kid's an ass hole. Do we look 40?

Yeah, do we?

Like you got a house and a dog

and then called it adulting?

Yeah, well we are not 40.

Okay, well you certainly fucking look like it.

Are you cops?

Yeah, I'm a detective. She's my partner.

We're on the beat to bust dick hits for smoking vape pens.

Okay, I actually just got back from Wilderness camp

and it was really hard for me to quit

and this is just a momentary thing, it's just a little slip.

What is your name?

Apple.

Like Coldplay kid?

No, like Fiona.

That's, - Okay.

That's pretty cool actually.

If I ever had a kid that smoked out of a weed pen,

I would be embarrassed.

Yeah, why don't you guys smoke weed

like you're supposed to in high school?

Out of an apple or like a can

that you poke too many holes in

and you suck some seeds through.

Pleasure talking to you tonight.

Oh my God.

Why don't you guys go?

Go.

Just get outta here.

Okay. - Go, go, go,

little island of misfit toys.

Hey guys,

fuck you guys.

Fuck that guy, we are not 40.

I still have like two and a half years.

I only have two. Fuck, is that real?

Am I gonna be 40?

It's happening.

I don't feel 38. It feels like it took so long to grow up.

Now it just flies by.

I was gonna be editor of Jane Magazine

or like start a band.

I did not dream of slinging chicken wings.

I don't wanna buy anything,

"I don't wanna sell anything

and I don't wanna, I don't wanna process anything."

What?

"Say Anything."

It's what Lloyd Dabbler says to dad

when he ask him what he wants to be when he grows up.

And look at you now.

Top salesman of insulin pumps and compression socks.

So when are you gonna start that band?

♪ Can't fight this either ♪

♪ I can't see her till I'm foaming at the mouth ♪

Side B, track three.

Baruch of salt. - Baruch of salt, yeah.

Yeah. I, I'd actually pay to see that.

Oh yeah.

$2 on a Tuesday, it'd be great.

What about you?

Oh, I can't sing for shit.

No, dummy, I mean what, what were you gonna be by 38?

I don't think I had any idea

what I wanted to do when I grew up.

Successful sales guy. Could be worse.

True and you, you run like a whole restaurant.

Is it an Applebee's?

Nope, it's local.

I'm a local, working at a local restaurant.

Kind of exactly where I was in high school.

Although the only difference is that now I have made it

to the junior parking lot with the cool kids.

I wish it was an Applebee's,

then we could have all you can eat riblets.

So what's our next stop?

How about your restaurant?

Uh, what time is it?

11:30, 12.

Sorry sir.

We're close for business till Monday morning at 10.

The thing is, I think I know someone who has the keys.

Nope, she left those at the house.

We could go back and get 'em.

I wanna see this chicken shack.

Come on. - I, yeah,

I really don't want you to.

What's this issue?

Um, I don't, I don't go there on my days off, so.

Come on, it'll be fun. We'll have a good time.

It's a restaurant. Wait, why do you wanna go?

What are you like mocking me? I mean, what the fuck?

Oh wait, of course not. I, I, I'm just interested.

I'm sorry.

We could go anywhere else.

I mean anywhere you want in the whole town.

DCAC.

The batting cages?

And putt putt and go-karts and things.

Really? That's, that's where you wanna go?

Yeah. I spent a lot of time there as a kid.

We used to take our bikes from (indistinct) house.

It was really cool.

All right, let's do it.

♪ My oh my, say the brighter days ain’t through ♪

♪ Tell me where's that sunshine in them blue sky ♪

Looks like it hadn't been touched since the nineties.

We should go play.

It's probably locked.

What, what are you doing?

You coming or am I gonna play baseball by myself?

Wait, wait.

Have you ever thrown a baseball?

I played softball when I was 11,

so I think I can handle it.

Okay.

Whoa. - Oh shit.

Little tight there, wild thing.

I was warming up.

Ah, whoa! Still got it.

Don't make me throw the good stuff.

Just easy and down the middle.

Ah!

Walk off Homer.

So you were pretty good.

Ah, I was pretty average.

How so?

Well I was always pretty good at everything.

Ah!

Shit,

but I was never great at anything.

What?

You don't think you're great at anything?

No.

There has to be something.

I'm good enough, I always made the team,

made good enough grades

but I, I, I never hit the home run in the ninth.

Sorry to disappoint.

You're not disappointing.

Thanks.

You're welcome.

Remember when I was 13, we had this pretty big tournament

and we got put out early

and I told my mom to pick me up here.

See my mom hated baseball

so she never came to any of the games.

Even in high school?

She came to the big ones.

I'd run outta all the money I had by 5:00 PM that day.

So I just kind of hung out till they closed at seven

and then I went outside and I sat on the curb

and I waited for her and she was 30 minutes late.

When she picked me up, I got in the car

and she said, "What? Did you win?"

And I said "No" and she said, "You're not great at baseball.

You're okay, but you're not great."

She didn't say that.

She did and a few Christmases ago she said,

"Well I just told you that because I didn't like baseball

and I didn't want have to sit and watch it all the time."

She told me that trying to get me to quit.

But you didn't quit?

Nope. But I never asked for a ride again either.

Rode my bike, well till I saved up enough money,

bagging groceries at HTL's to buy a car.

I just didn't wanna feel like a burden to her, you know.

What do you mean?

After she said that, I um,

I just didn't want to ask for anything from anyone,

you know?

Is that weird?

No, you were just trying to figure it out and you were 13,

which is maybe the most awkward point of adolescence.

She's a good mom. She just didn't like baseball, you know?

My mom was at everything. She made up for your mom.

Every time I started anything new, dance, music, painting,

she was always there, she was front and center.

That's pretty cool.

Yeah, I didn't think so then, but I do now.

You got one more ball.

Bottom of the ninth.

Yep. Bases are full.

Loaded, bases are loaded.

You know what I mean.

I do. I do.

You ready?

Almost.

Oh!

Second base.

Woo. Third base. - Whoo!

Awo!

Yes and he does it, the crowd goes wild.

My hero.

So was that my moment?

I dunno, the night is young.

It's like 11.

The sun's not up, so we still have time.

For what?

Whatever we want.

What do you want?

This.

Us in some rundown batting cages?

Basically.

I still have one place I wanna see.

Now where would that be?

We gotta cut through the woods.

It's the first school I ever attended.

♪ Me and the whiskey ♪

♪ The whiskey is me all the time ♪

♪ Keep with drinking just to ease my mind ♪

♪ This time the whiskey put the paused on right into me ♪

Where are we?

Everything I ever learned,

I learned when I was six years old

doing David Deaton Karate.

Can you break a board?

You making fun of me?

No, not at all karate kid.

You wanna see what this place did for me?

Show me.

Is that you?

That's me when I was six years old.

You are not six in this picture.

I am.

You're the size of a 10-year-old.

How, how much did you weigh?

I don't know, a lot.

It's like you, you stayed the same weight,

you just got a foot taller.

Pretty much.

They trained you so hard, you lost the weight?

I guess when I was a little kid,

I was kind of a pain in the ass.

So to get me to shut up after school,

my mom would take me to fast food

and well after a year of that, I, well, I looked like that.

Wow.

That's my first day in training.

I ended up becoming a brown belt.

How close is that to black?

It's one away.

Why didn't you get the black belt?

I don't know.

You are so close. You should go back and finish.

There's a lot of things I never finished

that I should go back and do.

There's a lot I never started.

This place gave me discipline.

Well that and you can only be called a fat ass so many times

before you do something about it.

All you needed was a strip mall dojo

and people say bullying is bad.

I was a runner.

Were you fast?

The fastest, then the boys caught up to me

and it wasn't so cool to beat them anymore.

Aw that's horse shit.

I felt like I could fly.

I bet you could.

You were fat, I was a gangly kid

and boys love to make fun of the tall girl

but it is hard to make fun of her

if she can outrun you in every race

and I could beat all of them, until one day I couldn't.

Well what happened?

Sixth grade field day, we lined up for the hundred

and for the first time ever I got beat by Joshie Mallard.

What? No rematch.

Never, I just stopped and tried really hard

not to get noticed after that.

Did it work?

Maybe too well.

So you gonna break a board for me or what?

You ready? These hands are lethal.

They are lethal weapons. - Okay.

Okay.

Oh. - I missed it.

Hold on, hold on.

Are you ready?

Yes.

God, I love karate.

That's bad ass.

Why are there so many movies about karate in the eighties?

Aside from the "Karate Kid?"

You kidding me?

No.

Um, "Best Of The Best," "American Ninja,"

"The Last Dragon," All three "Karate Kids."

There's three?

You know part one, part two.

Daniel-san goes with Mr. Miyagi to Okinawa

and fights Chozen.

Part three, a reluctant Daniel LaRusso

fights Karate Bad Boy Mike Barnes in the All Valley.

Wow, you really love "Karate Kid."

It's the first movie I remember seeing,

you know I know like I had seen other movies before that,

but it's the first one I vividly remember.

Mine was "Footloose."

Oh did you ever get like so angry

that you drove your VW Beetle

into like a grand silo blasting moving pictures?

Aw, close.

I had a Volvo station wagon and I was blasting Portishead.

That tracks actually.

You think one day we're gonna like romanticize

all that alt rock and think it's the greatest thing ever,

like our parents did seventies music?

Like the Eagles?

Exactly.

The Eagles suck.

So does Steve Miller Band.

I'll drink to that.

You know who else is overrated? Radiohead.

Shut your mouth.

What?

I'll give you the first three albums

but after that it's just noise.

"Kid A" came out after "OK Computer"

and it is magnificent.

I'm just saying I personally would much rather listen

to Third Eye Blind.

Now I'm annoyed.

I'd said I like the first three album.

I'm done.

Okay, I'll give you the first four.

"Amnesiac" is their fifth album and it is great.

Okay, now I have clearly touched a nerve

and I'm sorry.

Truce?

Should we go?

Sunrise on the football field?

You wanna Instagram it?

I mean, it's a fitting in for the night.

Okay, let's go make a yearbook photo op.

I had to take him back to the dojo.

All this time, there was never a girl that got you?

Well there's one a long time ago I thought did.

What happened?

Did you ever see that movie, "The Mist"?

Never heard of it.

It's this movie, came out in '07

about this mist that comes to this small town

and inside the mist are all these like humongous bugs?

I don't do bugs,

I hate 'em.

Anyway, most of the movie takes place in this supermarket,

where all the townspeople of like held up

and they're waiting for the army to get there and save them,

but eventually they realize they have to fight

and save themselves.

So what? She didn't like bugs either?

I don't know, but she didn't like the movie

and so we're riding home in the car

and she's talking all about this like

bougie new restaurant she wants to go to

and I just like, I jokingly say,

"I know this great place, this like real mom and pop place"

and she asked me, in all earnesty she says,

"Well what is it?"

And I say, "Outback."

No rules, just right.

Yeah and then she pulled the car over

and she looked at me

with this like really disappointed look

and she said "I can't do this"

and I said, "well there's a Chili's."

Good one.

And then she said something

that I just never quite being able to shake.

What did she say?

She said, "it's not your fault, you're simple

and you remind me that I don't wanna be."

Who'd want to be with someone who's simple?

Her loss.

She did like pumpkin spice lattes.

Ugh, I'd take simple over basic any day.

Thanks.

So are you nervous?

To see the school?

Yeah.

I see it every day, you, you, it's been like 20 years.

I saw it today actually when I drove by

and I did get this nervous feeling,

but I think it was just for the reunion.

God I was nervous too.

Yeah?

Yeah. I don't make it.

Don't you see all these people all the time

since you live here?

No, I don't make it a habit of seeing these people.

I don't make it a habit of having nights like this.

Not, not since I moved back.

How come?

What am I gonna talk to people about?

What Netflix show I'm binging

or maybe they can tell me about their kids

latest greatest achievement

or explain loan refinancing to me or,

or talk to me about whatever crap they sell.

Ugh, boring.

You don't get it 'cause you moved away

and stayed away, living that pineapple Willie's life.

When you come back and everyone you knew

has turned into their parents, it sucks.

Yeah, but you aren't one of those people.

How would you know? I-

You, what?

I married the first guy to put a ring on it.

My ex ran off with a photography student,

10 years younger than me.

We didn't grow apart.

He just upgraded to a younger version of who I was

and took off to San Francisco.

Well he sounds like a poser.

No, I'm the poser.

I never did any of the things

that you thought that cool theater girl

would do with her life?

I have a job, not a career,

I'm divorced and I live at home with my mom.

Why would anybody be interested in what I have going on?

I should have told you that was where I live.

I don't sell anything. I'm not a salesman, I.

What?

I'm a painter

and not like anything cool like art,

just like drywall and windows and doors and cabinets

and I never sold anything in my entire life

except chocolate bars to get my little league uniform.

I never even went to college, I don't have any money.

Actually I have $57 to my name,

'cause I spent the rest of to come to this reunion.

I don't even live in Florida.

I live like an hour away, in Bowling Green

and in my head Panama City sounded like really impressive,

but now that I think about it, like not so much.

I shouldn't have lied to you.

I just didn't wanna be me.

I just wanted to seem impressive to you.

Was the rest true?

Karate, baseball, all that?

Scouts honor.

But are you really married with four kids

and a 40 year mortgage?

Never married, no kids, that's all true.

Okay good.

It was worth it to paint all those houses

to have this night with you.

You still wanna see where I work?

More than anything.

You work at a lake bar?

We were there earlier. This is the view from the back.

You work at Moby Dickies.

I'm the manager.

We sat there for like 20 minutes

and you never even let on.

That server's new. She doesn't know me yet.

You got any other secrets you're keeping from me?

That was it. Anything else I should know about you?

I drive the same car I did in high school,

which is an '85 Bronco

and I live in a really shitty one bedroom apartment.

Yeah, but you don't live with your mom.

Living with your mom doesn't bother me.

It's the figurines that are the sign of a serial killer.

Shut up. - Wait, did you bring me

to this park so you could dispose of my remains?

Is that what's happening here?

I would never hurt you.

Well that's good, because I do believe someone owes me

the Moby Dickies equivalent of riblets.

Deal.

I feel like my mom just dropped me off

on the first day of school, don't you?

Yeah, except I just got off the bus

after Todd Healy beat the outta me.

I walked right in that door

and all around me were older kids

and I just put my head down and looked for somebody I knew.

I saw Sarah. I walked as fast as I could towards her.

What happened?

She's still my best friend. She lives in New York.

I just remember it being like a sea of people.

Like the whole first week was a blur,

I mean you couldn't look the juniors in the eye,

'cause they liked to fight and the seniors,

they didn't even care we were there.

I have to go inside.

How am we gonna do that? It's locked up pretty tight.

I have an idea, but it is risky.

Well, what is it?

There's a trick to opening that side shop door.

You push in a little softly

and then you gotta pull really hard.

How do you remember that?

I don't know. It just came to me, I have to go in.

Let's do it. Let's go.

I have to see inside.

Maybe it's another door.

No, the other ones are on camera.

You want me to try?

No, I can do it.

Whoa, whoa.

♪ We were on bikes downtown near the river ♪

♪ We tried to build ourselves a home ♪

♪ Between rusted , in transit stations ♪

♪ And whiskey ginger renovations ♪

♪ 'Cause beggars do nothing ♪

♪ So book all the spread ♪

♪ With the girl trapped in gray scale ♪

♪ And looks back at me and says ♪

I missed this place.

Yeah? ♪ You don't get ♪

♪ To look at me like that ♪

Yeah, I didn't know it then,

but we had it made in high school.

We really did.

Everything was so hopeful,

we could be anything we wanted to be.

Senor Manson's class was right there.

I love that class. It was so cool.

That was Coach Harold's class. He taught geography.

When we studied early America,

he'd just put "Far and Away" on the TV.

"Why can't you say you like me, huh, Shannon?"

That's all we got.

So what are we gonna do now?

I love it in here.

I used to come in here anytime I got overwhelmed

with all the shit that is high school.

You never seem to care about all that stuff.

Are you kidding? I was a teenager.

I, I cared so much what people thought about me.

I felt like everybody could see all my insecurities.

God, me too. I still feel that way sometimes.

It's like, did I dress right for tonight?

Was a whole hour process of me trying to figure out

what a wealthy person would dress like.

Don't thing, I wasn't about to have a,

just a full blown panic attack walking into that reunion.

Why do we sound like scared teenagers?

We're supposed to grow outta that,

instead of just morphed into the adult version.

Yeah, I think at our age that, that's just what wine

and antidepressants are for.

What?

You still take pictures.

Not in a long time.

It's, it's not as cathartic now that everything's digital.

I liked going in the dark room.

It was, it was fun to watch things develop.

You keep albums of your stuff.

No, I ended up getting rid of all of 'em.

You said your mother keeps everything?

Yeah, I got rid of 'em, except for one.

It's really the most basic thing I've ever shot,

but she has it hanging up in the entryway of the house.

Well what is it?

It's a Viewfinder.

Like a red one from the eighties.

Yep.

Why that?

I had one when I was a kid and I just loved it so much

and, and no matter where I was,

I could always be somewhere else, whenever I wanted.

I had this one wheel that I got at the Mountain mall

in Gatlinburg and it had all of these different places

from New York City, like it had the Empire State Building

and, and the Statue of Liberty.

Sounds cool.

Yeah and then, and then when I was five

for my fifth birthday, I got a light bright

and I didn't even care,

'cause I just loved my Viewfinder so much.

I carried it with me everywhere and my mom hid it,

'cause she thought I was codependent on it.

Did you find it?

I didn't, but I saw one, one day at the thrift store,

junior year, it didn't work, it was pretty beat up,

but there was just something about it

that was really beautiful to me, so I took a picture.

Why did you keep that picture out of all of them?

Because I won the photography award at the art fair.

Whoo-hoo.

And then I gave it to her for Mother's Day

and she had to put it up.

Savage.

You ever think about taking pictures again?

Sometimes.

If you're good at something, you should do it.

It doesn't matter about the money.

I think you're right.

Take it from me, I am a painter.

What?

Let's get in.

Now?

Why not?

Okay.

♪ If you've ever felt connected to someone else ♪

♪ So much that you lose ♪

♪ All the pure identity ♪

♪ Hang on to yourself ♪

♪ Don't let anyone else ♪

How do you feel?

We broke into DCAC, the high school, we swam in the pool.

I don't think I could be any more of a rebel if I tried.

Oh that's, that's good.

How do you feel?

Like I had a really good time

and I wish it wasn't going to be over.

Yeah, me too.

It's too bad you don't live here.

We could do this anytime.

I, I would really like that.

You might get sick of hometown hangouts.

Nah, I love parking lots and cheap liquor.

What happens when we run into one of your old buddies

and they wanna know why you're with me?

I mean we were in different circles.

We never really hung out except for in theater class.

We should have.

I'm only like an hour away, we can hang.

I could get you into my book club.

That's worth the drive itself.

I knew the book club would seal it.

One more stop.

Lead the way.

I think I got it.

Where it all began

Like this for two hours.

I can't believe my night ended up here.

God, I haven't been in here since graduation.

It feels like yesterday.

It does tonight.

All of this, everywhere we've been tonight,

this has been perfect.

The only thing that could have made this any better

is if fright night was happening.

I never went to that.

Oh my God, it was the best.

They had T-shirts and everything.

I would literally kill for one of those T-shirts.

Did you dance at fright night?

Well I, you know like dance a little.

I don't think I even danced at prom.

I went to prom with a 23-year-old,

who worked at the donut shop.

Oh, I didn't dance at prom,

'cause my date got so wasted in the parking lot,

she spent the whole night in the bathroom throwing up

and I had her home at 10:30.

A real gentleman, hmm.

So neither one of us even slow danced at prom?

Or the reunion?

Oh wow.

Whoa.

Who is this?

You have to go to Media Player to figure that out.

Should we?

Yeah.

I'm really bad.

Mh-hmm.

Hey!

I'm sorry. Fuck.

I think it's like this.

Okay, come on.

Mh-hmm.

Yeah.

You got it.

I got it.

Mh-hmm, mh-hmm, mh-hmm.

You all can't be in here!

Do you know how many laws you broke tonight?

How many?

A lot.

Brenda, I got this.

I'm being supportive.

Look, we talked about this professionality at work.

I just-

I mean look, we're really, really sorry.

Hmm, well you broke into a public school,

you had booze on school property.

What the hell were you thinking?

How did you even know we were in here?

You set off the silent alarm.

Okay, I don't, I don't remember that being here.

What?

You didn't think that maybe in the last 20 years,

HHS would update their security system?

Pickles.

No one calls me that anymore, Sean.

That's Interim Vice Principal Dewey to you.

Don't you remember this guy?

He wore like big Johnson shirts every day to school

and he tried to break the Guinness World Record

for most pickles eaten in one sitting.

It is you.

Didn't you have to go to the hospital?

Yes, I did have some slight gastrointestinal issues

that required a very brief hospital visit.

Did you win?

Win what?

The pickle contest, the pickle record?

No, I did not and I haven't touched one since.

You think this is funny?

No. - No, no ma'am, no.

Brenda, why don't you go out front

and wait for the police to arrive.

But I'm security, I'm supposed to maintain the perimeter.

I think we'll be okay.

Are you two, uh, like a, a thing?

Do you know how much trouble I can get you both in?

Tonight was our reunion.

I know I was there.

Oh, I mean we didn't actually make it inside.

Yeah, huh.

Ah, you missed a good time.

I totally understand letting the emotions

of a class reunion get to you,

but you can't break into a school with alcohol.

The HPD are sending out a unit

to make sure you didn't vandalize any school property

and if you did, I'm gonna press charges

against the both of you.

We didn't.

Okay, I'm gonna walk around this entire school

so if there's anything you want to tell them,

let's just come clean now, okay.

Miss Quick to Dew Drop, police are on the scene.

Ten four.

Come on Pickles,

aren't we blowing this whole thing out of proportion?

You two kids stay here.

I'm gonna go greet the law enforcement.

What's gonna happen to us?

A fine at most.

Thanks again for tonight.

Are you kidding me? I should be thanking you.

And thank you for not judging me,

for not being who you thought I was going to be.

That's just you, that is always just you,

back then and tonight, I was just too scared to ask you out.

I've been thinking about what might have happened

for 20 years,

I didn't go to that reunion tonight to see anybody else.

I went to see you

and you were exactly who I wanted you to be.

♪ Now I know, I know ♪

I love this song.

Side B, track three.

What?

This song is on side B and it's track three

of that tape he made me junior year.

How do you remember that?

I told you I wore it out.

You are not simple.

I think you're perfect.

♪ Always you ♪

♪ We choose, it was always you ♪

♪ Always you ♪

♪ My brain is wet ♪

♪ I keep calling you ♪

♪ I break a sweat ♪

♪ I've been following you, yeah ♪

♪ My brain is wet ♪

♪ If I had to find someone new ♪

♪ I'd find someone like you ♪

♪ If I had to find someone new ♪

♪ I'd find someone like you ♪

♪ Trying to win the battle ♪

♪ When you're not sure ♪

♪ What the game is ♪

♪ What the game is ♪

♪ Maybe I could just come home ♪

♪ If I had to find someone new ♪

♪ I'd find someone like you ♪

♪ If I had to find someone new ♪

♪ I'd find someone like you ♪

♪ If I had to find someone new ♪

♪ I'd find someone like you ♪

♪ If I had to find someone new ♪

♪ I'd find someone like you ♪

♪ If I had to find someone new ♪

♪ I'd find someone like you ♪