Six days later, Jacey is jogging along the Lakeshore Path in Chicago when her phone alerts with a text.
She stops to see who it is.
TY
I haven’t heard from you.
TY
I’m trying to respect the distance.
TY
But did you honestly mean goodbye for good?
TY
I’d love a chance to change your mind.
TY
I’m fishing with my brother this morning.
TY
But I’d like to see you later.
TY
I have an idea I want to bounce off you. So…call me?
Jacey sits down on a bench.
A few minutes later she replies.
JACEY
Never pegged you for a fisherman.
TY
It doesn’t have to be.
JACEY
But I can’t stop thinking about you.
JACEY
Not for lack of trying.
TY
I need to see you again.
JACEY
But every time we get together, we do things we can’t undo.
JACEY
And every time, it gets harder and harder to leave.
JACEY
It gets harder to do the right thing.
TY
Then we can just talk. Whatever you’re comfortable with.
TY
We’ll have to be good.
JACEY
Um, hello? The fire escape?
JACEY
Being outside hasn’t exactly deterred us.
JACEY
Outside of the neighborhood.
TY
Can you make the 12:30 train?
TY
Get off at Barrington.
JACEY
Not the ends of the earth.
Four hours later, the 12:30 from Ogilvie arrives in Barrington.
Ty meets Jacey on the platform with a bouquet of daisies.
They embrace for a long time.
JACEY
It’s good to see you.
TY
I know this great winery, very private, where we can buy a bottle of pinot.
TY
And I brought some sandwiches.
Ten minutes later, they’re sitting on a blanket on a hill overlooking acres of grape vines.
JACEY
So this is life in the burbs.
TY
This is life on the OUTSKIRTS of the ’burbs.
JACEY
I can’t imagine living here. So pretty and quiet.
TY
You’ve never lived out of the city?
JACEY
I grew up in a two-flat on Peoria.
JACEY
I don’t think I even saw grass until I was six.
JACEY
And speaking of my childhood…
JACEY
I want to apologize.
JACEY
I feel like I told you too much…about my mom, and my dad…
JACEY
It’s a problem. Sometimes I don’t know when to shut up.
JACEY
And I’m sure it made you uncomfortable—
TY
And I’m happy you’re here.
They clink glasses and sip their wine.
JACEY
Did Kim call you by any chance?
JACEY
She said she misses you.
TY
She didn’t, but it wouldn’t matter anyway.
TY
I want THIS. I want you and me.
There’s a long, silent pause.
JACEY
If I’m being honest…
JACEY
You’re all I think about.
TY
I thought I was in this alone.
TY
But you feel the same way.
JACEY
I one-hundred percent feel like every direction I turn, you’re there at the end of the road.
TY
You can’t imagine how relieved I am.
TY
This whole week, I’ve been torturing myself.
TY
I started thinking about the times the three of us would go out.
TY
You, me, and Kim — and you’d be sort of cold.
TY
You’d leave after a drink or two.
TY
I thought you hated me for a while.
TY
And then…the fire escape sort of killed that theory.
TY
But this week, not talking to you…I thought maybe…
JACEY
Ty, those times when we were out with Kim…
JACEY
You made me nervous.
JACEY
I’d never been attracted to one of Kim’s boyfriends before.
JACEY
I didn’t know how to act around you because all I wanted to do was…
JACEY
Well, I wanted the fire escape.
TY
God, that was a great night.
JACEY
I can’t figure out how to tell Kim.
JACEY
But I realize that that’s what I have to do.
JACEY
I have to tell her.
JACEY
Because I can’t turn my back on this.
JACEY
I’ve tried, and it doesn’t work.
TY
Tell her you’re happy.
TY
That you didn’t plan it, or you would’ve talked to her before it happened.
JACEY
I’m having brunch tomorrow with Kim and her mom.
JACEY
You think I should just come out and…say it? Afterwards?
JACEY
Even though she said she misses you and was going to call you?
TY
She obviously changed her mind.
JACEY
I’ve been avoiding her. I’ve hardly seen her.
JACEY
I told her it was a busy week at work.
TY
I started thinking after you shared your Styles by Jacey dreams.
JACEY
It’s a pipe dream, I know. But I’ve plateaued at Marnie’s.
TY
Sometimes the view from a plateau is incredible.
Jacey points to the vines in front of them.
JACEY
Well, judging by this view, you make an excellent point.
TY
I think you’re amazing.
TY
Your sense of style…you have a lot to share with the world.
TY
What if you start with a vlog? A YouTube channel to showcase your ideas?
JACEY
I wouldn’t have the first clue as to how to put all that together.
JACEY
And it would take so much time.
JACEY
I’d have no time to design, or make the prototypes.
JACEY
I’d be too busy trying to upload and launch videos.
Ty reaches for his phone and starts scrolling.
TY
Well, I can do all that.
TY
And then you’d have time to do what you do best, right?
JACEY
But how do I even start?
TY
You start with a logo.
Jacey takes the offered phone and sees that Ty has created a few logo options for Styles by Jacey.
Jacey looks up from the screen.
JACEY
I think I just fell for you all over again.
JACEY
You did this for me?
TY
I’d do anything for you. Don’t you know that?
