A Simple Love Story

24-IT SNOWS ON DANIEL

DANIEL I saw this woman today. She was like you but..she was maybe forty-five, fifty, somewhere in there. And.. You know how time has a tendency to wear us down? This woman..it was like she had somehow resisted that. Some people, even when they smile, there's this..sadness in their eyes. But then there's this rare example, every ten-thousand people you cross paths with, who have..a spark..of some sort..an elegance, an ease about them. I used to think only some people had it, but now I think that everyone is born with that spark. What's rare is to find someone who over all those years would never let it be taken away.

America is there.

AMERICA Keep talking.

America is there with him, walking in the snow.

DANIEL What about?

AMERICA Anything you want.

DANIEL Do you have any regrets?

AMERICA I'm too young to have regrets.

DANIEL Even an eight-year-old has regrets.

AMERICA Like, I wish I hadn't traded my PBJ for that cupcake?

DANIEL I'm sure there's something you wish you hadn't done.

AMERICA Yeah, there is.

DANIEL You don't have to tell me.

AMERICA This wasn't something recent.

DANIEL No?

AMERICA This was long ago, in college.

DANIEL Wha'd you miss?

AMERICA A kiss.

DANIEL Describe it for me.

AMERICA There was this guy. I should have kissed him, but..I didn't.

DANIEL Why didn't you?

AMERICA I was scared.

DANIEL You should have kissed him anyway.

AMERICA I know.

DANIEL And, since then, have you made that same mistake?

AMERICA No I haven't.

She kisses Daniel.