Hey, Pacey! I think you've got that one covered. Hurricane won't take it down....you know it might make you feel better if you talk about it.
Talk about what?
About what's bothering you.
There's nothing bothering me.
[Laughs]' Fine
Fine. I'm fine. [Pause] Okay, so I do kind of have a problem.
Yeah, I noticed.
It's that obvious, huh?
Yeah, it's becoming so.
Do you think it would be at all possible to...I don't know, pretend that it wasn't that obvious.
Well, only if we...pretend to have a conversation about it.
You really want to make me do that? [Pause] Okay...Okay...um, lets just say for the sake of argument that I had gotten myself into an impossible situation. That I had...hypothetically speaking, fallen for or was in the process of falling for the worst possible person I could fall for. What would you tell me to do?
I guess I would tell you that...impossible situations are only made better by doing something about them.
So I should just go and declare myself to her so that she can laugh in my face? That's a great idea.
How do you know that's how she would react?
Well I have it on pretty good authority that my rough charms don't really register on her rarefied romantic pallet. I mean lets face it, I've got Ducky written all over me.
Ducky?
Yeah. Ducky, Molly Ringwald's best friend from Pretty in Pink. The guy who definitely doesn't get the girl.
Yes, but he makes the girl feel good about herself. He does...he stands by her through innumerable fashion emergencies, he even humiliates himself by lip syncing in a public place and he takes her to the prom.
Where she promptly dumps him for another guy. [Laughs]
Alright, the question is, Pace, this...girl, that you have developed impossible feelings for, are you going to stand by her in a very Ducky like fashion or are you going to let hurt feelings and pride prevent you from being the friend you so innocently purport yourself to be.
[pause] I guess it just hurts, that's all.
Well that just means that it isn't pretend anymore.
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