DIVE [1; CHRIS EVANS]

LX.

60. TEXTS

MINNIE
I just wanted to drop a quick good luck to you, may the best team win

CHRIS
oh it's fighting talk is it

MINNIE
oh yeah 100%

MINNIE
(but I also just want to remind you to remember that you shouldn't ever feel bad if today is overwhelming; if you need a breather, then that's more than okay. be kind to yourself, and everything will be good)

CHRIS
well may the best man win

CHRIS
(I love and appreciate you so much, thank you for being brilliant)

MINNIE
oh I intend to, Chris

MINNIE
(I love you too, and you're super welcome. I know that press can feel like too much sometimes, it's so much better to accept that than to ignore it and let the day get on top of you)

CHRIS
square up !!

CHRIS
(I'll be fine, I know I'm coming back to you at the end of the day and we can talk it all through, too, if I need to)

MINNIE
oh u know I will

MINNIE
(absolutely!)

CHRIS
anyway, how are you feeling about the premiere?

MINNIE
so so excited

MINNIE
I've never done a big premiere before, not for a film I'm in, anyway

MINNIE
and to get to walk the red carpet with you is gonna be !!!

CHRIS
it's gonna be so cool to have so much control over our first official appearance, too

MINNIE
I can't wait to trash talk you all the way down the interview line

CHRIS
I can't wait for us both to trash talk everyone else all the way down the interview line

MINNIE
yes omg that's ten times better

CHRIS
let's crush them all!!

MINNIE
yes talk dirty to me bby 👅💦

CHRIS
you're ridiculous

MINNIE
I'm wonderful

CHRIS
ridiculously wonderful!

MINNIE
I am, you're right

CHRIS
uUUUuuUuUh I'm always right

MINNIE
sure you are

MINNIE
whatever helps you sleep at night, buddy

CHRIS
not your gross mattress, it feels like a cloud is trying to devour me

MINNIE
oh no how horrible for you

MINNIE
that sounds like a nightmare come to life

CHRIS
a mattress should be firm!

MINNIE
the couch is firm!

CHRIS
but how am I meant to go from a warm bed to a cold sofa

MINNIE
just because you leach off of my body heat

CHRIS
not my fault you're like the personification of a hot water bottle crossed with a clingy starfish

MINNIE
what a disturbing hybrid to imagine

CHRIS
I don't have to, I'm dating it

MINNIE
'it' ohehoihehio oh you're too kind to me!

CHRIS
I'm the boyfriend of every girl's dreams, I'm aware

MINNIE
*sebastian's dreams

CHRIS
you know he kinda did introduce us

MINNIE
oh boy I'm totally aware, I'm not gonna tell him that though

CHRIS
good choice, getting the credit he thinks he deserves will grow his ego beyond a level any of us can control

MINNIE
his head could well explode

CHRIS
but if you think about it, without him we wouldn't have started talking before we got to set, and we wouldn't have that god awful / brilliant gc, and we never would've started the fake dating

MINNIE
he went and unconsciously created another bloody chain, didn't he?

CHRIS
if he wouldn't have, there's no telling whether we'd be together now or not though

MINNIE
that man may be a hidden genius

MINNIE
really hidden, though, way way way WAY down

CHRIS
he can never find out we said any of this

CHRIS
we'll never live it down

MINNIE
I couldn't agree more

CHRIS
ah, I've gotta go, they're gonna get up set up now

MINNIE
have a good day, dude

MINNIE

CHRIS

AUTHOR'S NOTE: epilogue will be posted tomorrow!