Tibby:
Hey, do you know who would have loved this P, Bee? Your mom.
Bridget:
Yeah. I remember this one time she decided that she'd make one herself. She always woke up starving after one of her episodes. I was just sitting in the kitchen doing my homework and she just walked in and just started making this thing. You know, I don't even know if you could call it a pizza. It was more like the entire contents of our refrigerator on a round crust.
[They all laugh]
Bridget:
Craziest part is we actually ate it.
Carmen:
Of course you did.
[Tibby laughs]
Bridget:
We ate every single bit of that pizza in like 10 minutes.
Tibby:
Yeah.
Bridget:
And we were laughing the whole time. It was great. I remember thinking that maybe there won't be any more bad spells. Maybe she'll just be happy like this forever.
Carmen:
It's okay to miss her, Bee. I mean, as hard as it is to be sad about it don't you think maybe it's harder not to be?
Bridget:
[Crying]
You don't understand.
Tibby:
[long pause]
Bridge...
Bridget:
I can't. It hurts too much.
Carmen:
I know.
Bridget:
No, you don't know. I just want to feel good and happy and alive. Because if I feel alive then it doesn't seem like she's dead. And if I'm not sad then it proves that I'm not like her.
Carmen:
Bee, you don't have to prove that to anybody. I mean, you have a strength in you that your mom never had. As much as she wanted to, she couldn't find it.
Tibby:
Yeah, and you have something else too.
Bridget:
What?
Tibby:
You have us. And we're not gonna let you go anywhere, okay?
Bridget:
Thank you.
Carmen:
Come here.
[Carmen hugs Bridget and Tibby holds her hand]
