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I never knew this club existed.

Yeah, that's not surprising then.

Ma, what's that cousin's name over there again?

Oh, that's Huia.

And that cousin?

That's Jamie, that's Rongo, and I don't know who that is.

Yeah,

I don't like you.

Because of the taffety thing?

Yeah, yeah. Oh my gosh, that was ages ago.

I'm sorry for being embarrassed.

This is my song.

What song is it?

Good evening, everyone.

If you know the word, sing along.

Staring at the blank page before you open up the dirty window Let the sun

illuminate the words that you cannot find Reaching for something in the

So close you can almost taste it Relieve your inhibition Feel the rain on your -

Where are you going?

Back to my room.

Everyone's going to be awake soon.

So?

So... someone might see.

Does it matter?

Yeah. Well, it'll be a big thing and it's not really a thing.

Oh, so we're just back to doing what we were doing back in the day?

No, back in the day we were like 19 or something and it was just like a drunk

hookup. Well then don't come into my room at 2am drunk with a pie.

Actually, I had the pie with you. No, you didn't. You ate all of the pie.

Just be serious, Ma.

I am serious. Look, we were both sad, and we wanted to fuck away our problems,

and now it's just turned into undercover bedtime buddies.

Undercover bedtime buddies.

It's casual.

That's all it is.

Morena?

Where are your pants?

Nowhere.

Okay.

Get your shit together.

Oh, shit.

I forgot about you.

Get your... What's that?

Well, it was supposed to be a surprise, but... Please, come into my room without

knocking, as always. Yeah, well, what is it?

Huh? This is... Sorry, because I know I can be a bit of a dick sometimes.

Yeah.

No.

No. A cat?

Say sorry for the topity thing.

Hey, baby doll.

I'mma be your new mother.

You done well.

Now, go put on some pants while your ass is out.

Boy, this bitch is fucking crazy.

No one

else,

no one else, no one else.

You are going to be the most cutest, most loveliest cat of all time.

I'm nine days late.

Not even five minutes of stress -free cat time.

What the fuck do I do?

You may be a child.

Silly girl, please tell me it's not Carla Pakehas.

No?

Well, thank God then. At least with Henare, baby will be attractive.

No? Not Henare?

Then whose is it, ma?

Well, it might be Henare's, but it also might be Hep's.

Girl, what the fuck?

You and Hep?

You're younger brother's childhood friend.

Girl.

You know what? When did it happen?

Well, after that dinner with Henare's sister.

Also, you've been fucking for a month. Oh.

No, the whole time. Just a couple of times. And I told him it was casual.

Casual. With a boy who's loved you for as long as he could speak.

So, I didn't think of it in that way?

Yeah, well, of course you didn't, girl. You walk into every single room. Ticket

first. Shit, you can't afford a baby.

And I know I do your finances.

You have no savings, and your mother paid for your props.

Okay, so I guess I could have made some better choices. Better choices?

Put on your fucking shoes.

Let's fucking go to the doctor, all right? I am so stressed out. And look,

have my own baby to take care of.

Oh, you mean the cat? Yeah, the fucking cat. Get up.

So, looking forward to Auntie Bella's party tonight?

It'll be mean.

I mean, they're going to put a hangi down, we're going to eat all the ump

and then sing some waiata.

I don't really know any of the songs.

You don't have to worry about that. I mean, just mumble along.

You wouldn't get it because you're you.

Eh?

Surely you know it's different for me.

Like, there's these unofficial rules that some people in the know just know

I don't know most of the time.

Okay, like what then? What songs you listen to.

What food you like.

Everything.

Like tonight.

I want to be able to get up and sing the right way with my family, but I never

know the right one.

Well, that's an easy fix.

I can teach you one.

Really? Yeah. I mean, they'll be singing loads tonight, so there's at least one

we can learn.

You're going to help me?

Of course.

Why do I feel more anxious than you?

Oh, I am distracting myself because there is no way I can process this.

Hmm.

You think that this is what the rest of our 20s is going to be like?

You, pregnant, and me, stuck in a job I hate.

And you know what's worse?

I'm getting good money, so I should be happy, eh?

Well, why don't you just call them out?

And what?

Look ungrateful and difficult.

No, that's not an option, ma. What happened to you?

This is not the poor I know.

Well, what am I supposed to do?

Yeah, I would have killed her on mortgage repayments. And I love better

half those fucking bitches at work.

And where do they put me?

Diverse communities.

You know what really gets to me, though, is that they didn't even consider me

for the other role.

No moving up for Chinese.

But I'm Michaels.

That's me.

Hello.

You might want to sit down.

What just happened?

Well, bitch, you got chlamydia.

Don't laugh, baby girl, because this is tragic.

You got the clap, and I'm glad that you're without baby, ma. But really?

Who the fuck gave it to me?

Or was it Hex?

No, it wasn't him. Are you a doctor now?

Did you, like, what, give him a medical inspection while you were down on his

dick the last time? No, but I just don't think it was him.

Bitch, don't do it. What?

Are you sure you didn't want Hep's baby?

Are you fucking insane?

I do not want a baby. So you don't want a baby, but you definitely want Hep.

There's no way.

Nice! And where's the titiro?

Nice,

Liz! You're doing really good. You don't know how much it means to me. Hey, all

good. Hey,

what's that?

Nothing.

Liz's top ten list.

No,

don't worry about it, top. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

Number three, eat kinna. Number five, listen to Catchafire. Number seven,

the guitar.

Uh, Liz, what's this?

This is something I do.

Wait, is this the unofficial rules you were talking about?

Like ticking them off is going to make you more Māori once you're finished?

I don't know.

Liz, you fuck a pop of Māori.

You are Māori.

That's it.

You really don't get it.

Hold up, are you crying?

Okay, look, Liz, I'm sorry.

Maybe we are different, but I just think you try way too hard.

Okay, that came out wrong. So you do think I'm not Māori enough?

No, Liz, I'm not trying to attack you. I just think that you're not Māori enough

for you.

Wait, Liz.

Lynn! I don't think that's how we can support it.

Everything about that ministry, things, things... Kia

ora, what's the haps over here with you two whores?

Are you drunk?

Nah, just chilling with my girls.

Okay then. Love that.

Anyways. I need to take a leak.

Hello.

Hello, Amo.

Mariah Bernice Spikles.

That's a horrible

middle name, eh? You can blame your father's people.

It was his grandmother.

She was a horrible woman.

Are you all right now?

How many rums have you had?

Yeah, nine. Not enough to listen to this terrible kōrero, babe.

Remember that time, Aunty, when you saved my life? Well, without you saving

life, I don't think I would have got to the place that I am today.

I know you think we can't be friends as we get older, but I hope we can.

Uh, what do you mean, friends?

Do you think that I like this tension between us?

I don't know why we don't get on. I mean, look at me and Pur, we get on like

house on fire.

Yeah, but you're nicer to Pur.

Maybe just a little bit.

Thank you, Aunty, have an amazing night.

Tēnā koutou, tēnā koutou, tēnā koutou katoa.

I don't know if I told you this, but your dad and me, we almost broke up for

good just after Tawhiti was born. And he felt that he could bring home the money

for the whole whānau and I could just stay at home and look after the two of

you.

But I already had a good job and I was going places fast.

We fought about it for months.

It got to the point that I told him to piss off, though.

One night he did.

He thought I was being hard -nosed, but there was more to it than that.

I just wanted you to look at me and

see someone, you know?

Then I got made redundant.

Don't forget that that's the liquid of the Pākehā. What's that, is that number

six?

Just joking, don't drown me.

We're all good now, eh?

And you, you're a superstar.

So intelligent.

All your teachers, wow, they can't believe a little Māori girl from Wainui

leave all her classmates in the dust.

Which is why you can't let things slip, Ma. You're going to have to pull your

finger out of your nono and embrace your destiny.

That's a bit dramatic, Mum.

Not about just you.

You've got the potential to do great things, more than I ever did.

You are going to be a leader for our people.

You're putting me on this ridiculous pedestal.

I went to a private school in the city because you sent me there. And now you

want me to be a leader for Māori.

I loved Wainui College.

I was a nobody there like everyone else.

No daughter of mine is going to be a nobody.

So stop fucking around, playing being a waitress marae.

Take control of your life.

So, happy birthday, aunt.

I hope you have a lovely birthday.

Um, I need some water.

Hui, get me another drink, K -Pops. Yeah. Tēnā koutou, tēnā koutou. Kia ora

tātou katoa.

Why don't you mind your business?

You know that over -drinking causes liver damage.

Oh, yeah.

Oh,

kia ora te whanau.

I just want to welcome everyone here for Bella's birthday.

Well, I won't be up here for too long because I know you all want to get back

onto the fish.

But back in the day, I'd heard about this beautiful lady from across the

Me and my mate Paura, we got into our flash gears and went down to the dance

hall on the Friday night. When Bella walked into the dance hall, she had on

black sparkly dress that fit around her bum real nice. Oh, where I was in love.

That's what she called it.

I know I might have shut down our convo this morning.

And I just wanted to open it back.

It's all good.

I think you're all right.

You should just leave it.

And that was it. Eh, Bella?

Oh, so you want to shut it down? Yeah, we'll just shut it down, eh?

You know, you pissed me off.

But I'm real happy that we met. We're through together, and I love you very

much.

It had to be you.

It had to be you.

I wandered around till I finally found somebody who

could make me be blue.

It had to be you.

Wonderful you.

It had to be you.

Hey.

Sorry about the way I talk.

I've queued up some Catchafire on the playlist. You know, we could go listen

it if you want.

You don't have to do this. I'm fine.

I needed to get out of the party and then the car came in.

Wait, are you crying?

No.

Are you okay?

I'm fine.

Why are you crying?

I didn't know the right way. I have

chlamydia.

You could get medication for that.

dollars of debt and men have the same thing and he doesn't want to have

to do with me

Yeah, she will.

Are you okay?

No.

I know my dad's dead.

And you can't really get mad at dead people.

But sometimes I get really ticked off that he didn't teach me more of the

stuff.

Now he's gone.

And I don't really have any friends.

I don't really have anybody.

And sometimes I get really lonely.

Staring at the blank page before you open up dirty windows.

Let the sun illuminate the worst that you cannot find. Reaching for something

the distance. So close you can almost taste it. Release your inhibitions. Feel

the rain on your skin.

No one else can feel it for you. Only you can let it in. No one else. No one

else. Oi!

Shut the fuck up.

You're scaring my dog.

Sorry!