back into town?
I'm going to be here
all through Christmas.
We'll see a lot of each other.
Anyway,
I want you to meet Sandra.
- Did you meet Sandra?
- No.
Cod, what a cook.
Japanese is superb.
You'll like her.
Just a minute.
Cive us a minute, please?
Cetting any rest?
You ought to go get
a nice little place...
for you and Mom in the Valley
with some trees around it.
I'll pay for it.
Mom likes where she is.
I'm talking about me.
What a bummer.
Living in a place like that
with all those dead plants.
It's not going to take much.
Just the child support.
I can't mess with that.
Those lawyers would roast me,
wouldn't they?
You need any money for clothes?
No. I'm OK.
Look...
Stick with Mom, eh?
Christ, it's bad enough
having an absentee dad.
I don't mind.
I do.
Look, I tell you what.
At Christmas,
let's go back up onto the ranch.
Come on.
One of these days,
I'll buy out Zak and the guys.
You and me can own the ranch.
We'll get rid of
all those crazies up there.
Just you and I.
And lots of your friends...
and we'll get some horses in,
plenty of horses.
It'd be great, wouldn't it?
Yeah.
Can I stay
with you tonight, Annie?
I'm staying at Jeanie's.
Can I stay with you?
What do you mean?
Can I sleep with you?
Cod, Brad, what if
I meet someone slick?
You really are shitty sometimes.
Because I won't sleep with you?
We've known each other
practically forever.
Can I stay with you?
Me?
I told my dad
I wasn't coming home.
You want to... Jesus, Brad.
It wouldn't be bad.
Jeanie?
- Duke! There's Duke!
- Will you let go?
- Honk the horn!
- Would you quit it?
Annie, what about my party?
Whoa! Hey! How you been?
- Oh, crap.
- Shit.
It's all over with Scott?
Cuess so.
You've been together with him
for three years.
It's too much.
Yeah. You know,
when I first met him...
I was so much
in love with him...
that every time I saw him,
I'd cry.
He couldn't figure it out.
"Hi," he'd say,
and I'd just blubber.
It's really weird.
I bought this necklace...
this bracelet for him
in Laguna.
I never had the guts
to give it to him.
Then finally,
when we got together...
I never gave it to him...
because it reminded me
so much of him...
I didn't want to let it go.
He sure has changed
since he got the van.
Changed since
he got the hairblower.
I guess you don't feel much
like my party, huh?
Yeah, why not?
There's a lot of other guys.
Like who, for instance?
Lots.
Lots of egos.
No.
Out of control egos.
You know about guys.
What's that supposed to mean?
You've slept with guys.
A lot.
I slept with a couple of guys...
in ninth grade
because it was new...
but I'm not some total dingbat
like Deirdre.
OK.
I'm no Suzy Slut,
you know what I mean?
Yeah.
I slept with a guy once.
- What?
- We didn't do anything.
We just slept.
He held me so tight...
my nose was pressed
against his neck...
I thought
I was going to suffocate.
Who is this guy,
the Boston Strangler?
You don't know him.
He's a much older guy.
You been sticking your nose
in somebody's neck...
and I don't know him?
We used to be friends.
Come on.
Hey, sis.
What are you guys doing here?
Mother!
What are these guys doing here?
Col, what a crybaby.
I'm going to get
furious with you.
"I'm going to get
furious with you."
Sissie, put 'em up.
OK, kids!
In the kitchen, quick!
Scoot!
Hi, Jeanie.
- Hi, Mrs. Axman.
- What's the fuss?
I don't want a bunch of kids
at my party.
Your friends
aren't kids anymore, huh?
Mom, I don't expect you
to understand.
Come on. You and I know
that is malarkey, Miss Smart.
- Turn that off, will you?
- Sure.
We'd just as well sit down
and talk out the ground rules...
before your friends get here.
I don't want a lecture now.
- I didn't say lecture.
- In front of Jeanie?
You want a beer?
There's a keg in the kitchen.
No, thanks.
Let's all sit down.
Mom, I'm trying to get my head
into having a good time.
If you're going to