AFAAOCSAAABAS 3

Parts: 4-6

Part 4: Better Call Sau- oops I mean Lawrence

-~meanwhile at the Maugras lawfirm~-

AW: (sitting at her desk, head in hand, hair a mess, scribbling at some papers) hrrngggg....

LM: (walking by her desk, casting a glance at her before noticing her work and being taken aback by her shoddy penmanship) (scoffs) What do you think you're doing?!

(he snatches up a paper) I can barely read this!!

AW: (infuriated) im SORRY but alot of BAD THINGS ARE HAPPENING TO ME RIGHT NOW!

LM: (he scowls) Well you can at least TRY to write better! This isn't even legible!

AW: if you were going through what i was you would be writing like this!!

LM: (he rolls his eyes) And what exactly *is* this crisis of yours?

AW: (reaching her breaking point) MY HUSBAND LEFT ME, MY SON IS STARVING HIMSELF, WE CAN BARELY LIVE OFF OF MY INCOME, AND THERES STRANGERS LIVING IN MY HOUSE!!

LM: Well that sounds like a you problem, doesn't it? My brother's wife left him, and he's not crying about it. Rewrite this whole mess, will you? Firing such a pretty thing like you.. now that would be shameful. (he walks off)

AW: (she chucks her pencil holder at him) YOU DONT UNDERSTAND YOU (dolphin noise)

LM: (it hits the back of his head) OWW!!! WHAT IS *WRONG* WITH YOU!!

AW: WHATS WRONG WITH ME??? WHATS WRONG WITH YOU?! YOU DONT RESPECT ANYONE EXCEPT YOURSELF!

LM: (his voice is cold and hard) Go home. *Now.* And don't come back until you've cooled down.

AW: (she storms out) FINE IM LEAVING!

LM: (shouting at her) I CAN'T HEAR YOU!!!

AW: I SAID, IM LEAVVVVIIINNNNNGGGGG

LM: IIII CAAAAN'T HEEEAAARRR YOUUU!!!

AW: (she slams the door) URHG! Im- Im going to... im... (she stands there bewildered) i dont know what im going to do...

(after a few moments she burst out into tear and drives home crying)

- she drives home in tears, arriving at the house after a while -

AW: (she walks in and flops down on the couch) WHY DID HE LEAVE! I THOUGHT HE LOVED US WHY WHY!!

AS: (mildly disturbed by his mother's sobbing, he climbs down the stairs, wrapped in blankets, to investigate)

AW: (noticing her son) Im sorry you have to see me like this but i just Cant take much more of this!

AS: no, its okay..

(he hovers around for a bit) could i sit down..?

AW: (still crying) yes, yes you can

AS: (he huddles next to her on the couch, not saying anything else)

AW: (she tightly holds her son) (through tears) I may have lost everything else but i still have you

AS: (he sighs, hugging her back, his frigidity seeping into her warmth)

AW: (as she embraces her son, she feels a strange object on his back) Victor, sweetheart, is there something in your shirt?

AS: (confused, panicked voice) what..? what's there?

AW: turn around real quick and let me check, i swear i felt something weird

AS: Well.. okay, then. (he sheds the blankets and turns around)