"Cupid has lost my address, I'm sure."
"Oh, cheer up. Bad enough that you were all 'bah humbug' at Christmas time. Now it's about to be Valentine's Day. You know that your biggest problem is loneliness. This is the perfect time to do something about it."
"Or just accept the fact that I'm unlovable."
"A big teddy bear like you? Of course you are lovable..."
"...yeah, sure, I know, I 'just need to find the right woman'. Well, I'm no misogynist, I respect women, but I'm pretty sure that I've had my innings in that game."
"Not only do you respect women, but you are the biggest, sloppiest, romantic guy I know."
"Assuming you are right, then it is only in rom coms that women really end up with that sort of guy. In real life, they seem to end up with real jerks, or those "bro" guys who end up after the wedding going back spending all their time with their buddies and ignoring them. Guys like me end up in the 'friend zone'. I'm so tired of being told 'I love you like a brother.' Fuck, forgive my cynicism. I don't want to rain on your parade if you like roses and chocolate and all that shit that's all great. Just no longer for me."
"I get why you feel that way. Even Hollywood doesn't do rom coms like they used to. But since when is real life like the movies?"
"Gee, thanks for the sort of pep talk."
"I give up! It is impossible to help you if you refuse to open your mind and your heart."
"If this was a rom com, you would leave and I would suddenly realize that you were trying to tell me that you love me, and the solution to my being love lorn has been right in front of my nose all the time, I'm just too dumb to see it. I would spend the rest of the movie trying to get together with you, as various obstacles get in our way."
"Ending in you racing through an airport, no doubt."
"On Valentine's Day. Except that's been done to death."
"No doubt someone said that about Shakespeare's stolen plots too. Like him you just need to add the poetry."
"Roses, chocolate AND poetry - you don't ask for much, do you?"
"Maybe you just have a lot to give. To the right woman."
"Now we get back to the core of it - the 'right woman'- meaning, not to you."
"Now who's sending mixed messages? What would you do if I suddenly suggested that I think I AM the right woman for you, that I may have secretly loved you from the day that we met, or maybe I've just been in denial of my true feelings all these years. That my dozen boyfriends, two failed marriages, and uncountable random one night stands have all just been searching for what has been right in front of me the whole time?"
"I'd think that you were parroting bad lines from a thousand rom coms. That no matter how much you might want it to be true, because for some strange reason you want me to be happy, it isn't real. But I'm not enough of an asshat to actually say that. Or to act on it. I know you love me like a brother, and brothers don't do that to sisters. Pull their pigtails, sure, but not ruin their lives."
"You've never even seen me with pigtails, asshat."
"There you are - the real you. Not some fake rom com imitation."
"And the real me still believes in cupid and his arrows."
"After all your misadventures in love?"
"More like looking for love."
"I think that lyric ends with 'in all the wrong places'."
"Don't you know it. Heck, you were there for me through all of them. My shoulder to cry on. My holder of hands. My bringer of tea and sympathy. Not once did you laugh at me or tell me 'told you so'. But each of them served a specific purpose, even though I didn't realize it at the time. Like if I hadn't married Harry, I would never have become preggers with Hannah, the real light of my life. And Ralph was the world's greatest stepdad. Too bad he lost interest in sex so fast. Though of course that was mostly because he lost interest in me. I think he should just have admitted that it was Hannah he truly loved - not in a creepy incest way, but like a kind gentle Dad."
"You are awfully generous talking about him like that -- he left you for a grad student who was Hannah's babysitter."
"And didn't even fight me for custody. Even though I was her bio mom, and he was just the stepdad, he was by far the better parent. Especially when I went off the deep end, started fucking every guy in sight, like somehow that would make us even."
"You still never fucked me, even then. I think that tells us all we need to know about whether you find me attractive or not."
"You were my rock, my anchor. I couldn't afford to fuck that part up."
"I was right there, if you had wanted me."
"Oh, so you admit that you would like to fuck me?"
"Pigtails or not, you have always been the hottest woman I have ever known."
"I'm waiting for the but..."
"The butt? You want me to fuck you in the ass?"
"No, silly, I mean the part where you say 'but it would be too much like fucking my sister'."
"Hey, you're the one who loves me like a brother. I would never compare you to my sister. You are way nicer."
"Also hotter I hope?"
"A deep freeze is hotter than MY sister."
"Not much of a compliment there. Anyway, I don't have a brother to compare you to."
"Which is why you treasure me as a surrogate? The brother you never had?"
"Maybe I've come to realize that you are the lover I've never had. And Lord knows, I've had a few." She giggled. "More than a few."
"So, I'd just be another notch in your bedpost?"
"No one has bedposts anymore, silly. Unless you're thinking that you'd like to tie me to them."