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Int. Brewed Awakening Café (Cont’d)
James enters.
Annie turns around to look at him, but when she glances back Kate is gone.
JAMES
Is she here...?
ANNIE
She was, a second ago.
James sits down opposite Annie, where Kate had been.
ANNIE
It seems that your wife has been trying
to set us up this whole time.
JAMES
Sounds like something she’d do.
ANNIE
She’s been worried about you—that’s
why she hasn’t left. She hoped to see you
moving on before she moved on. But you
weren’t. You stayed stuck in the past. You
fell further and further down into a hole of
grief. She couldn’t leave you like that.
She loves you too much.
JAMES
I haven’t been able to see anything good
in the world for a long time. I lost
myself when I lost her.
ANNIE
I can’t imagine that pain. That grief.
But it’s not too late. You can still have
a life. That’s what she wants for you.
JAMES
The pain never goes away, Annie. I’ll never
be the same man I was. I don’t have anything
to offer someone new. I’m sorry.
I never had any closure...
Kate steps out from back room and walks up behind James.