MARSHALL APARTMENT
"Don! What a pleasant surprise!"
Sally beams as she stands in the open doorway.
"I'm here to see
Alex," Don says,
trying to ignore her excessive affection. "Is he here?"
"He's in his room." Sally sounds
a little wounded. "It really is good to see you, Don. It's been too long."
"I hadn't noticed," he says curtly.
She closes the door. "You don't need
to be so--so rude with me."
"You make it difficult not to be,
Sally."
She can tell that she's not getting
anywhere with this line of conversation. "Why do you need to see Alex?"
"I just need to have a little talk
with him," Don says, moving for Alex's bedroom.
Sally springs forward, landing right
behind Don, who pauses.
"Is something the matter?" she asks.
"I don't know. Courtney said she
and Lauren were a little concerned about him and she asked me to come see
if everything's all right."
"Oh. I hope nothing's wrong ..."
"Wouldn't kill you to have a real
conversation with your son every once in a while and find out, would it?"
he snaps.
The hurt expression returns.
"I'm going in to talk to Alex," he
says, cutting her off before she can steer things in a direction more to
her liking.
"Fine." She snatches her purse up
off the couch, and he notices for the first time that she is dressed up
in her special tacky, Sally way. "I'm meeting a friend for brunch," she
says as if he should care.
"Oh, a friend?" Don's voice is hard.
"A gentleman," she says with a wink.
"Ta-ta."
He doesn't say anything as she opens
the door and slips out. Didn't even say goodbye to Alex, Don thinks
with annoyance as he raises a hand to knock on the young man's door.
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