Take Me to Euroheaven

SCENE 36

INT. ALI'S ROOM - DAY

TITLE OVER: Saturday. The grand final.

Ali is in bed, not sleeping, just lying in despair.

EXT. OUTSIDE THE PARLIAMENT BUILDING - DAY

Ali, Matt and David are sight-seeing in the city.

MATT

Loukas wrote anything yet?

ALI

No. He must be upset I lied about David being Valerie's fan.

MATT

Did you write anything?

ALI

No. I'm upset I lied about David being Valerie's fan.

DAVID

Do you think he'll sing well?

ALI

I hope so. He's already lost the lead on Valerie at the bets. (exhales) Let's take a selfie.

They take a picture in front of the Parliament Building. None of them exude any joy. Ali looks at the picture.

ALI

It's nice. But you can't see the gun held to our heads.

DAVID

Who knew it would be such a disastrous week?

Matt and Ali look at each other.

ALI

Can you tell us what's going on with Leo? He's been "coming tomorrow" since Sunday.

DAVID

I guess I should... It's not going great. We've been in couples therapy for a few months. And it has come to this point where we have to decide do we go on or not?

MATT

Are you serious?

DAVID

It happened to be this week and he needed some time to think about it. So we were doing the Sex and the City, meeting on the bridge thing, you know?

ALI

Why didn't you say anything?

DAVID

I didn't want you to feel sad or sorry. It's our one week together.

MATT

Oh, babe... So what's gonna happen? If he comes, you go on?

DAVID

And if he doesn't...

David goes quiet.

ALI

(tries to spin it) It's still Saturday morning...

DAVID

It's done. I should move on. Stupid, right? Waiting for a randezvous.

MATT

But it makes sense, you are the Miranda of our group.

David smiles.

ALI

I'm sorry.

DAVID

No, I'm sorry. I can see that you really like Loukas, it might be something special. (looking at Ali's hair) You had happy hair with him.

ALI

(warmly) It's weird when you say that.

They embrace each other.

MATT

Finally! Now it feels like us! David, take a picture of me over there for Instagram.

DAVID

(smiling, to Ali) Now it feels like us.

Matt and David head off to take a picture.

Ali receives a mail from himself. He opens it. It's a video of David, Matt and Ali.

DAVID (VIDEO)

Hey future Ali, this is you and your Eurovision family from last year.

ALI

Wow, it's been a year since we took this.

MATT (VIDEO)

We just wanted to remind you how much fun you had this year and wish you a good time at Eurovision!

ALI (VIDEO)

When you receive this video you'll be 26. But don't freak out. David is still miles ahead!

DAVID (VIDEO)

Enjoy today. It only comes once a year!

The video ends. David and Matt return.

ALI

(smiling) Let's watch the show together.