6بخش

No, no, no, no!

Peter!

Hi, Mom.

Mia?

Russell!

Don’t you run away, Russell!

Nothing happened.

Okay, this is not my fault.

Little help?

Anybody?

That’s a pretty good scrape there, Mr. Marino.

Yeah?

You should see the tree.

Thank you.

What?

What?

It’s nothing.

I’ll be all right.

Sure, you’ll be all right.

Dad’s always all right.

Doesn’t need anyone’s help or love.

Oh, Sally, please, come on.

You could’ve been killed, Dad.

Come on.

You’re overdramatizing.

It was an accident.

That’s all.

An accident?

Yeah.

What, you think I don’t know about the war, Dad?

Or should I say “Senior Soldier”?

Oh.

That.

What were you two thinking?

Don’t blame the kid, Sally.

Please.

It’s all on me.

I’m the grown-up here, and I should know better.

Yeah, you should’ve.

I’m sorry.

I just It got out of hand, and.

I have the money to pay for everything.

And I’ll take my crew, and we’ll fix everything the way it was.

It’s not about the house or the money, Dad.

If you hated living with us so much, you just should’ve said it.

I never said I hated living with you.

Exactly.

I just said you never said it.

What I’m saying, I never said that.

We clear that up, hopefully?

No.

Forget about what you never said.

The point is, I just thought when you came home with us, you’d realize that we love you and you’d change your mind about living alone.

But, of course, that didn’t happen.

You’re just so hell-bent onfunning it up.

Are you okay, Grandpa?

Yeah.

Grandpa’s fine.

Listen, sweetheart, I’m really sorry about what happened at your birthday party.

It’s okay.

I brought you something to make you feel better.

That’s very nice, but I gave that to you, remember?

Don’t you want it?

I think you need it more.

We can call it a loan.

That’s very adult of you, sweetheart.

You’ll be able to take him home soon.

The doctor just needs to review the X-rays.

We’ll be in the waiting room.

Can I go see him now?

No.

It’ll be a long time before we leave the two of you alone together again, ever.

Is he gonna be okay?

He’ll be fine.

You and Mia, on the other hand, that’s a different story.

You’re both chor-rounded for the next six months.

Chor-rounded?

What does that even mean?

Chores plus grounded, times six months.

What?

Yeah.

So, that’s a whole lot of both, isn’t it?

Mmm-hmm.

But I didn’t even do half of the stuff that Peter did.

This is so not fair.

Can I be chor-rounded, too?

No, sweetie, you don’t have to be chor-rounded.

Russell.

Don’t you move a muscle.

Wait.

Wait, Mom!

Come on!

Russell!

Dad, can you think rationally about.

Russell!

She said not to move.

Russell!

Get away from me!

Get back here, you coward!

Punk!

Okay, that’s it.

Mom is certifiably insane.

I’m going out there.

Whoa, whoa.

Hold on.

I know your mother.

She can handle this.

You’re not gonna slug me, are you, Mrs. Decker?

No.

What’s happening right now?

What’s happening right now is I’m not gonna lose two years of my daughter, Russell.

Come on, take it before I change my mind.

Come by the house tomorrow.

Really?

Yep.

And bring some work clothes.

I’ve got this giant hole in the second floor, needs fixing.

Okay.

How’d that go?

Thanks a lot, Mom.

I didn’t hurt him.

Mmm-hmm.

Everything’s gonna be all right.

Let’s go get Grandpa and go home.

Excuse me.

Can you check on Mr. Marino, see if he’s ready to go?

Oh, he left already.

I thought you all left.

He said his brother was picking him up.

Brother?

Yeah.

Chuck?

Chuck.

Who’s Chuck?

Dad?

Ed?

Grandpa!

Grandpa!

Grandpa?

Grandpa!

Ed?

Dad?

Grandpa!

Dad?

Mom!

I just got off the phone with Jerry.

He hasn’t seen him.

I shouldn’t have laid into him so hard.

It’s Peter’s fault.

He made Grandpa run away.

Yeah, Peter, but at least you got your room back.

Happy now?

Peter, you still with us?

I think I know where Grandpa went.

I like the fireplace a lot.

They don’t make ‘em like this anymore.

Thanks.

You know, there are secrets inside these walls.

Oh.

Hmm.

Hmm.

Wait.

I started this.

I’d like to be the one to end it.

Hi, Chuck.

Grandpa.

Peter.

Um.

What’s going on?

You moved out of your room.

It’s your room, kiddo.

It always was.

I decided.

I want you to have it.

I don’t want you to leave, Grandpa.

Peter, I think we both know the room will always be between us.

No, it won’t.

Besides, I love the attic.

I don’t know why I got mad about that old, smelly room in the first place.

Honest.

So you’ve got to come back.

It’s not that easy, kiddo.

I’ll do anything.

I’ll get back every marble for you.

I swear.

Oh.

Pete.

Grandpa, please.

I feel so ashamed of how I acted.

I just want to curl up in a ball and die.

It’s all my fault.

No.

Don’t you believe that for one second.

It’s both our faults.

You were just defending what was yours.

Maybe this is how wars get started and just go on and on.

Your enemy does something bad to you, so you do something worse back to him.

And he gets you back, and you get him back.

And the whole thing just gets worse and worse.

And in the end, somebody just drops a bomb.

Isn’t that how it happens?

That’s how it happens.

I don’t ever want to go to war.

I’m very glad to hear you say that, and I hope to God you never have to.

Can I tell you something, though?

I kind of enjoyed matching wits with a fellow crazy man.

Really?

Yeah.

It helped me get over my sadness for your grandmother.

Plus, you got me pretty good a couple times.

Not as good as you got me.

Yeah.

Please come home, Grandpa.

Come here.

All righty, Mr. Decker, if you’ll sign right there.

You know, I was gonna cut this tree down myself.

But my wife, with the whole chain saw thing.

You know, I can use a chain saw any time I want.

Yeah.

I believe that, man.

Here, if you need anything else, just give me a call at the office, all right?

Yeah.

I mean, I can use it any time I want.

Yeah.

Have some dignity.

It’s just a chain saw.

Why?

Did she say something?

Hey, Grandpa.

I’m ready to go fishing.

Oh, Petey, I guess I forgot to tell you, I can’t take you fishing today.

Why?

It’s Saturday.

We always go fishing.

It’s our thing.

I know.

We do, kiddo, and I wish I could, but I made other plans, but we’ll make up for it.

Like what?

Little matinee, maybe hit that new gelato place.

See?

That’s for me.

Got to go.

We’ll make up for it.

Is everything all right?

Yeah, just Peter.

We should go.