303. A Thousand Ways to Say I Love You - Leslie

• FADE IN:


• INT. ARI AND MICA'S BEDROOM - MORNING


• MICA lies on her back, bed sheets pulled to her waist.


• ARI is flipped the other way, in loose, plaid pjs and a white undershirt.


• He traces the large blue tattoo that swirls around Mica's bellybutton.


• MICA
• Mmm, that feels nice - what does your day look like?


• ARI
• Still working on the story.


• MICA
• Wow, that's going to be some article.


• ARI
• Woohoo for investigative journalism.


• He flicks her bellybutton ring and it clinks metallically.


• She giggles.


• MICA
• Well, lucky me, I'm meeting this new artist, I'd love to get her work in the gallery, just have to sell bossman on the idea.


• ARI
• Eh, good luck on that.


• MICA
• What's that quote about work you like?


• ARI
• The heights by great men reached and kept / Were not attained by sudden flight, / But they, while their companions slept, / Were toiling upward in the night. Longfellow.


• MICA
• Longfellow, right. Gosh, you are extraordinarily well-read darling.


• ARI
• Nah, I just liked surfing quote websites.


• MICA
• Ah, so you're an empty shell with a beautifully deceptive veneer?


• You, my dear, have pierced me to the core.


• Hand on her belly, he looks up at her and they smile.


• MICA
• Yes, yes I know dear. I do too. Now, stop distracting me, my artist won't wait.


• He rolls over and she crawls out of bed, pulling sheets with her.


• She stumbles over to him, kisses him on the forehead, then heads to the bathroom, tripping hard on the way.


• She recovers and does an awkward plie, then attempts an arabesque.


• He laughs and blows her a kiss.


• She winks and disappears into the bathroom.


• FADE TO BLACK.