Chapter 2
Crashdown Caf
(Michael goes up to Maria.)
Michael: I need to talk to you.
Maria: I'm busy.
Michael: Please? It's important.
Maria: Fine. Hey Liz, cover for me?
Liz: Sure. (Maria and Michael go to the back room.)
Maria: What was so important that you had to drag me away from my shift?
Michael: Isabel's pregnant.
Maria: Isabel's... wait... what?
Michael: There's more. I've asked her to move in with me.
Maria: You asked her to what?
Michael: Move in with me.
Maria: For how long?
Michael: As long as she wants. (Maria laughs to herself.)
Maria: Well this just keeps getting better and better doesn't it? First you get her pregnant, which by the way I don't even know how, and now you've asked her to move in with you? Michael how could you let this happen?
Michael: I don't know.
Maria: Oh you don't know. You never do, do you? So what are you going to do about the... situation?
Michael: The only thing I can. Be supportive of Isabel and the baby. I can't let her go through this alone.
Maria: Why not?
Michael: Why, because Isabel is completely freaked enough as it is. I'm afraid that any minute she will just completely loose it and I can't let that happen plus I owe it to her.
Maria: Oh you owe it to her, why is that?
Michael: It's complicated.
Maria: I don't care. Why do you owe it to her?
Maria: So in other words you're going to be there for Isabel and the kid instead of being in a relationship with me.
Michael: At the moment that's all I can take. Maybe somewhere down the line there can be a chance...
Maria: Don't even finish that sentence Michael. You do what you have to do and I'll do what I have to do. Goodbye Michael. (Maria walks back into the diner.)
Michael: Well, that went well.
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(Isabel is waiting for Alex.)
Isabel: Thanks for meeting me.
Alex: Sure it sounded important, what's going on?
Isabel: Alex I have to tell you something. You know that situation of mine? Well it's true.
Alex: Wow. I'm not sure if I should freak out or say congratulations.
Isabel: Freaked out would be okay for me right about now. There's just one other thing. Michael asked me to move in with him and I said yes.
Alex: Wait... what, for how long?
Isabel: As long as I need.
Alex: I guess now you want to call things off between us, don't you?
Isabel: Believe me Alex, I don't want to but I have so much to deal with right now and I just don't think it's the right time. Maybe somewhere down the line there can be a chance...
Alex: Isabel, don't. Can I just ask you one question? Did you really sleep with him?
Isabel: I'm not sure.
Alex: You're not sure? Isabel, I need a better answer than that.
Isabel: That's the best answer I can give you.
Alex: Okay, you do what you have to do. Goodbye Isabel. (Alex gives Isabel a kiss on the forehead and then leaves.)
Isabel: Well, that went well.nded important, what'el. (Maria walks back into the diner.) p with me.ed someone she has always been there so I