ARCHIE
I have no clue how to write the music --
the actual notes -- down. And you only
heard a couple, but all my songs sound
basically the same.
MS. GRUNDY
You need to learn Composition, Variation.
ARCHIE
Everything. Including, maybe, some
different instruments. Billie Joe
Armstrong? From Green Day? Plays the
guitar, the drums, the piano, the
mandolin, the saxophone, the harmonica --
MS. GRUNDY
Archie --
ARCHIE
-- you went to Juilliard, Ms.
Grundy. Last year, you did a
private tutorial with Tomoko
Yoshida and now -- now, she’s at
Carnegie Mellon.
MS. GRUNDY
Tomoko was a senior, and she’d been
studying violin all her life --
ARCHIE
-- which is why I need your help even
more. Look, there’s no one else I can
take lessons from -- believe me, I’ve
looked -- even if there were, I couldn’t
afford them -- it’s you or nobody.
MS. GRUNDY
I don’t...think that would be a good
idea, Archie. I don’t think...we should
be alone -- I mean, do you?
(Archie churns, silent)
If this is about you wanting us to restart something that never should’ve
started in the first (place) --
ARCHIE
-- it’s not, it is about music, but it’s
also... Please, Ms. Grundy -- I need to
be able to talk about what happened with
someone.
MS. GRUNDY
(carefully)
We have -- we did -- all summer long.
ARCHIE
Yeah, but what we heard --
MS. GRUNDY
(definitively)
-- we heard fireworks, Archie,
it was the Fourth of July --
28.
A