Love in Fairhope (2023) s01e03 Episode Script

1
Ready For It by J. Pollock
and Manwell playing ♪
NARRATOR:
The next chapter of our love story
is about the road to romance.
Because just like in love,
in Fairhope, every path is
either a magical journey,
or leads to a dead end.
Take Mya Jo for example.
When Mya Jo was in middle school,
she and Nick discovered a shortcut,
a road that led from her house to his.
Better believe I'll be ready ♪
It's a straight road they've been
down a thousand times before.
But this summer,
this path has a whole new twist.
♪
[Nick exhales sharply]
- What's up, dude?
NICK: What's up?
- What's happenin'?
NICK: Did you just run down here?
- I did.
- For real?
- Yeah, I just did
a Zumba hip-hop class
and wanted to finish off
with some cardio.
- Oh, my gosh.
So, uh, what'd you think about last night,
the bonfire and everything?
- I think it was fun It was fun.
- Yeah, I think it was a, a good time.
Think.
It was just a little bit odd.
[grunts]
I don't know.
[grunts]
- What was?
- I just didn't know that
you and Kirk were, like,
in a relationship at one point.
- Yeah.
- Don't know how I missed that.
- Yeah, you definitely missed that.
- I don't know what I was doin'.
Like, was I travelin' or?
- I don't know what you were doin'.
- I noticed it last night,
so I was, like, you know?
KAI:
Look who's back for the summer.
♪
- It was a little obvious.
- A little obvious?
- Mm-hm.
I mean, that's good though, you know?
Do your thing.
- Yeah?
- Mm-hm.
Yeah, but Kirk, you know,
he's a musician,
so he could just hit the road at any time.
- Yeah, but I'm fine bein' single.
I'm enjoying my time.
But you know what's crazy?
- Hm?
- You tryin' to act like
you and Baylee aren't a thing.
- What do you mean?
- I feel like y'all are pretty serious.
KAI: I haven't seen Nick
with a girlfriend in a minute.
- Did he hide her from you, too,
or was it just me?
KAI: Yes.
[inaudible dialogue]
♪
- Three months, yeah.
- She's very pretty.
Very pretty.
I don't know how you did that one,
but somehow you did.
light music playing ♪
♪
[weights clink]
All right, dude, I'm gonna leave.
I'm gonna go take my little run back.
Bye.
- I'll see you later.
Be safe.
NARRATOR: We all grow up
wondering who will be the one?
Will our love lives be wild and reckless,
or sweet and safe?
Will we choose our silly
best friend from childhood
or a handsome stranger who
sweeps us off our feet?
Will we get it right?
When it comes to picking
the path towards our forever love,
how do we ever know
which road to go down?
upbeat music playing ♪
It's always been you ♪
hip-hop music playing ♪
W. I. P. ♪
Workin' on me, yeah ♪
Abby and Trevor have
been seeing each other
for about three months.
In a normal relationship,
this would be the time
when you start talking about commitment.
In a Trevor relationship, however,
well, this is when he likes to disappear.
This road looks very familiar.
Doesn't it, Abby?
Huh?
Gettin' it right from the get-go ♪
It's a new vibe, it's a new flow ♪
Let's go, ayy ♪
ABBY: I'm so glad to get away
from work for a minute.
We have a new client that,
um, like, I'm handling all
of their influencer marketing.
It's a lot of fun, but it's just busy
and all over the place.
KALA:
So, what are you doin' this weekend?
- Um, so I mean,
Trevor and I have plans.
He says he wants to hang out.
We'll see. Um--
- Do you really have plans?
- Um, I mean, they're, like,
semi-solid, [chuckles]
which makes zero sense
when I say it out loud.
- Abby, no.
I have this party
that I've been invited to.
You should come.
Brit's gonna be there.
Let's not sit by the phone
and wait for him to call.
- Yeah.
No, I know you're right.
And I just am trying to--
[sharp inhale]
I don't know, it's tough
because I feel like we've,
kind of, [sighs]
made some strides in our friendship,
and I don't wanna, like, blow him off.
- Uh-oh. [chuckles]
NARRATOR:
Great, Abby.
So, you're just gonna
keep going down this road
even though everyone
around you is telling you
it's going nowhere.
- But we'll see.
NARRATOR:
Which means this weekend could go
one of two ways:
Trevor rides in on a white horse
professing his undying love,
or she throws on a revenge dress
and she takes the high road.
- We'll see.
- M'kay, sounds good.
- Have a good day.
- Love you.
- All right. Bye, babe.
NARRATOR: What a gift to know
undeniably in your bones
that you chose the right road,
that you chose the right man,
that you chose the right life.
How can you reimagine
anything after that?
Well, if anyone can do it,
it's Claiborne.
Happiness starts with a smile ♪
CLAIBORNE: I lived
with my mother until I got married.
So, I've never been alone.
Never!
So, when Johnny died,
Aleen stepped up and was
my absolute rock and salvation.
We are best friends
and we are mother and daughter.
So, we're both at the same time.
[Claiborne laughs]
[emphatically]
Don't move.
- [emphatically]
Okay.
- Well, you've been movin'.
Don't move anymore.
You just moved.
- What? I can't move my head?
- No, you cannot move your head,
goober. [laughs]
- I'm just lookin' around.
Bein' still's never really been my forte.
- Uh, yes, I noticed
the minute you were born.
You see that palm tree right there?
ALEEN: Yes.
CLAIBORNE: I want you
to look at that palm tree.
I want that palm tree to be
your bestest friend ever.
- Okay.
- And you think he's gorgeous.
- Got it.
'Cause happiness starts ♪
- It's great.
- Okay, I'm trying.
I'm trying really hard to be still.
- All right. I think I'm about
done with that.
- Are you done?
Do I look gorgeous?
- I think you're gorgeous.
[Aleen laughs]
- You have to say that, you're my mother.
You got those mom goggles on.
- I don't have to say it.
If you were an ugly child, I would say,
"Oh, you're so nice."
- You would tell me.
Oh, thank you.
I-I appreciate that.
[Aleen laughs]
- Whether you know it or not,
I have drawn you at every stage.
- Yeah.
- I've drawn you
when you were
a snaggle-toothed hamburglar child.
- Thank you.
- I drew you when you were
in the juvenile court, Mardi Gras court.
It's kind of like havin' your life
- In pictures?
- in paintings,
not pictures.
- In paintings. Thank you.
- Photos are easy.
Paintings are difficult.
- I know I know.
[birds chirping]
- Now you can talk, and move, and wiggle--
- Oh, good.
- Yes.
- Yay!
- Like you--
- Yay!
- Like you've been doing all along.
[Aleen laughs]
So, I have a date Friday night.
I'm ready to get out there
and get goin' again.
- Oh, that's good.
- You know how I am.
I'm determined.
I'm determined that there's
gotta be somebody out there,
that is like a soulmate or a best friend.
- Yeah.
- I don't like the aloneness
of, of this single life.
It just kind of sucks.
- You know, you and dad,
kind of was a rare thing, and--
- Well, you know, I was debatin'
maybe takin' his a-- his ashes down,
or some of his ashes down
to the bay, and--
- Mm-hm.
I think he would like that.
- I just don't know if I'm ready yet.
I still have him--
Dad in the box at home.
- I know.
- I knock on the box
and go, "It's all right?"
He goes, "It's all right."
- I'm sure he appreciates that.
- Oh, I'm sure.
- Yeah. Well, he might like--
- A man of a few words.
- I know.
[Claiborne laughs]
He's like, "Lord, even in death,
she-- I can't get rid of her."
- That's it.
[both laughing]
Always Be My Home
by Bleeding Fingers playing ♪
This will always be my home ♪
Do What We Want
by Spirit City playing ♪
We're gonna make our own way ♪
Anyway ♪
We're already out the door ♪
We gotta be free when we wanna be ♪
We'll do what we want ♪
MYA JO: Kirk and I,
we dated in high school,
but in a lotta ways,
we were really different.
Uh, I was always worried
about havin' good grades
and where I was goin' to go to college.
And Kirk was the opposite.
He was a free spirit.
He didn't care as long
as he was havin' fun.
He just made me feel like
everything was gonna be okay
and I don't have to figure it out,
at least for right now.
Do what we want ♪
I forgot how much
I miss that about him.
♪
Remember that time we all came
out here and it was a tropical storm,
and you and all
your friends were surfing,
and I was having
a heart attack
'cause I thought y'all were
literally gonna die? God.
- Well, we gotta catch
the big waves somehow.
- Yeah, but in a tropical storm?
Oh, my gosh, I couldn't see anything.
I couldn't even see y'all.
[Kirk chuckles]
It was so scary.
- Well, today wasn't bad like that.
- No, today was beautiful.
- It was.
- I appreciate you teaching me.
It was a lot of fun.
- Of course.
Anytime.
Did you meet anybody in college?
- A couple of people,
but no one that I'm still with, so.
- Yeah.
Not as good as me.
- [laughs] Think so?
[both laugh]
Kirk and I broke up because we
were in two different stages of life.
But in college, I always
found myself thinking about him.
But did you meet anyone?
- No.
I wasn't looking, though.
[Mya Jo giggles]
Hard 2 Reach by Elliot Jones playing ♪
NARRATOR: Some trips down
memory lane are really sweet
and they give you all the feels.
Others just give you that
awful pit in your stomach.
ABBY:
I still have not heard from Trevor,
which is pretty typical.
As soon as we start getting close,
he tends to ghost me.
So, random party it is!
Gets so hard to reach you ♪
So easy to need you ♪
Wanna be there with you ♪
Baby, that's the issue ♪
Gets so hard to reach you ♪
Yeah, you know I need you ♪
Wanna be there with you ♪
Baby, that's the issue ♪
Wanna be with you ♪
BRIT:
This is, like, a bro fest.
ABBY:
Okay.
- Are you nervous?
- Yeah.
- Like, to meet anyone?
Seems like there's some--
- I haven't even looked around
to see who's here yet.
- It seems like there's some
good lookin' people here.
There's some.
ABBY: There's a dog.
- [gasps] I know.
Wanna be there with you ♪
Baby, that's the issue ♪
That's the issue for me ♪
ABBY:
He's cute.
- No way.
- What?
[Brit clears throat]
What?
[indistinct chatter]
- You see them?
- Yeah.
♪
NARRATOR:
That's the thing about Fairhope,
even on a small backyard
on a Friday night,
there's a shitshow waiting to happen.
♪
Rise Up by Alula playing ♪
- Don't even look.
Don't even act like you care.
NARRATOR:
While Abby was laser-focused
on what was right in front of her
- Like, does that look like
"just friends" to you?
NARRATOR:
and by that I mean,
Trevor canoodling with Beth
from The Magnolia Ball
- Like, he asked you to hang out
and now he's here with another girl?
This is the second time, Abby.
- I know. I know.
NARRATOR:
Lashoundra was just down the road
trying to find the right words
to put her marriage behind her.
melancholic music playing ♪
LASHOUNDRA:
"Dear Kendell,
"I will always look back over our lives,
"our marriage,
"and cherish those moments
that we've shared.
♪
"The ups,
"the downs,
"but most importantly,
"the beautiful son that we share together.
♪
"And those things,
I will never forget, Kendell.
♪
"I remember when you
asked me to marry you.
"I was so overjoyed.
"And I've been trying to figure out
"how to get back
"to that joy.
♪
"I've tried.
"I've tried, Kendell.
♪
"My heart is broken right now,
"and writing this letter,
it seems surreal,
"but it's reality.
♪
"It has to be done.
♪
"And I pray that God
continues to bless you, Kendell.
Love, Lashoundra."
Tell Me What to Feel
by Ellipsis playing ♪
I threw it away ♪
[indistinct chatter]
And scraped it off the bottom ♪
- What are we doin' tomorrow?
- Um, you can come over.
We can make dinner.
I muted the pain ♪
- We're not gonna let this ruin our night.
Starin' down the bottle ♪
KALA:
Hello!
- [chuckles] Hey, babe.
- Hi. How are y'all?
ABBY: Oh. [chuckles]
KALA: What's goin' on?
- Trevor's here with Beth.
KALA:
Really?
- Yeah, on the couch.
- Yeah. [sniffles]
- Oh, I'm so sorry.
- Yeah, yeah.
- Oh, my gosh.
[people chattering]
- I'm gonna run to the restroom.
- Okay.
- I'll be back.
ABBY: I'm just gonna go talk to him.
- Do it. Do it.
ABBY: Any guy that
I've seriously dated in the past,
I was always the one that
would stand up for myself.
I'm not just some pushover
that I'm gonna let you treat
me any way you want to.
Um, hi.
TREVOR:
Good to see ya.
- Is it?
- [laughing] Yeah.
♪
soft music playing ♪
[indistinct chatter]
[laughter]
- Is there somethin' goin' on?
TREVOR:
What are you talkin' about?
ABBY:
You said y'all were just friends.
- We are just friends.
We were just hangin' out on the couch.
- So, you just, like,
lay on top of your friends?
[Trevor sighs]
Tell me the truth.
- You're so annoying.
We're literally just
at a party hanging out.
If I would've known
you we're gonna walk up--
- What? You wouldn't have been,
like, pretzeled up with her?
[Trevor sighs]
I don't know.
I just, um, I don't know.
I'm not giving my time to other people,
so I just kind of thought
you weren't either, but--
- I'm sorry, I didn't--
- It's okay.
I think the thing is,
is that, like, I'm the person
that you hang out with in private,
and she's the one that
you take out in public.
- Well, we had some dates set up
before you got back in town,
and I wasn't gonna cancel on her.
- That's fine.
- So, I followed through.
- But you could've said that.
Like, when I brought up
The Magnolia Ball,
you could've said that
you were taking somebody.
- Maybe I wasn't clear enough.
And if I wasn't, I'm sorry,
but we're not together.
♪
- I'm aware.
- I didn't know I had any rules to follow.
- You have no rules to follow.
- So, what-what's the issue?
- I don't know. I just felt like us
spending time together--
I'm not entertaining anything else,
so I just kind of, like
- I didn't know that.
- expected the same.
- I didn't ask you to do that.
- And I know we've had, like--
I know you haven't,
but we've had certain
conversations about
whether or not people
are just friends or not,
and you've said they're
just friends, and--
- Yeah, she is just a friend.
♪
- Yeah.
In the same way that we're just friends,
and I don't wanna be just
another friend of yours.
- That's all I got room for right now.
- Then I will remove myself.
- If that's what you want.
- I don't wanna feel like this.
[people chattering]
- But, look, we're at a party.
Everybody's hangin' out.
We're just havin' a good time, right?
- Yeah.
- That's what we do at parties.
- [deep inhale] I suppose.
I guess, um, [deep breath]
have a good night.
- All right.
NARRATOR:
When it comes to love,
no matter how many turns we take,
are we just destined to end up
back on the same path?
Are we just fooling ourselves
when we decide to pick a new one
thinking it will lead to something better?
Because the truth is,
there is no roadmap,
especially when it comes
to finding the one.
solemn music playing ♪
I see your hurt and your pain ♪
NARRATOR:
And even if you do find the one--
I wish I had the words to say ♪
NARRATOR:
you still might have to say goodbye.
I see you drifting away ♪
NARRATOR:
Because not even love can stop time.
CLAIBORNE: Here we are
where we both grew up along the bay.
I thought I might bring you
back here for one more time.
[deep inhale, deep exhale]
It's hard with you
bein' gone and I miss you,
but I'm really thinking seriously
about moving on.
I think that's probably
what you might want.
Or if you don't want it,
I'm probably gonna do it anyway
'cause you know I didn't
always listen to you.
And I guess I'll just see you
when I get up there, won't I?
♪
My story is a love
that I'll never let go of.
Ooh, ooh, ooh ♪
I'll see you in my dreams ♪
But I'll keep moving forward.
We'll meet again it seems ♪
Because the best way to honor
the loves we've lost,
is to keep on living
and to keep on loving.
♪
I'll never let you go ♪
So don't ever be afraid ♪
I'll always find my way ♪
Back to you ♪
I'll never let you go ♪
No matter what might change ♪
I'll always find my way ♪
Back to you ♪
♪