Character info: Tsai is a girl and Yun is her boyfriend.
[dial tone]
[dialing 10-digit phone number]
[phone ringing]
TSAI: Hello?
YUN: Hey Tsai
TSAI: Hi
YUN: Called you a bit earlier.
TSAI: Yeah... I was out with my family.
YUN: So what's up? I was just thinking of you.
TSAI: Yun...
YUN: Yeah?
TSAI: I have something to tell you.
YUN: Ok.
YUN: What is it?
TSAI: ...It's too much.
TSAI: We have to stop seeing each other.
YUN: Tsai... what are you talking about?
TSAI: It's over.
TSAI: It's my parents! I can't face them!
YUN: You're kidding me, Tsai, we've been through this before.
TSAI: They don't like you.
YUN: They barely even know me.
TSAI: They're never gonna change.
YUN: I think you're over-reacting here.
TSAI: No, I've made up my mind. I'm sick of lying to them,
TSAI: I'm sick of feeling guilty all the time.
YUN: Wait, how long have we been together? And you do this over the phone?
TSAI: It's just easier that way.
YUN: Don't you owe it to me to tell me in person?
TSAI: Mmm, I once dumped someone over email, so I guess this is a step up.
YUN: Typical. You always take the easy way out.
TSAI: Trust me, this isn't EASY for me.
YUN: Well, I'm not going to give up on us just like that.
TSAI: Yes! You have to!
TSAI: Just... give up.
YUN: Man, you're parents are really old-school!
TSAI: I know.
YUN: Not even my grandmother is as old-school as your parents!
TSAI: Yeah, eh?
YUN: You and me, we have everything in common.
YUN: Same jokes, same languages, same culture.
YUN: I mean, why do your parents have such a problem with me?
TSAI: You're an artist.
YUN: Yeah! And so are you.
TSAI: Exactly! Two artists can't be together. We'll be poor.
YUN: That's not true. I'm actually doing really well these days.
TSAI: Well, it's more than a money thing, it's a respect thing.
YUN: Wait a second. Artists used to get tons of respect in the old days.
YUN: They were up there with the scholars in ancient Chinese society.
TSAI: Maybe, but that's not the way it is now, so what's the point?
YUN: I...
YUN: I just...
YUN: things were going so well between us...
TSAI: Yun,
TSAI: there's someone else.
YUN: What?!?
TSAI: My parents made me meet him.
YUN: No one makes you do anything, Tsai.
TSAI: He's a doctor, rich guy. He's 3 years older. They like him a lot.
YUN: God! What is your parent's obsession with the number 3?
TSAI: Umm... I guess it's luckier than 4?
YUN: Yeah, that makes sense.
TSAI: Hmm.
YUN: And a doctor? I mean, how predictable is that?
YUN: It's always either a doctor or a lawyer.
TSAI: Actually, my parents think lawyers are mean.
YUN: So... this is really happening?
TSAI: Yeah.
YUN: Tsai...
TSAI: Yeah?
YUN: Remember how we met?
TSAI: Mmmhmmm.
YUN: Well, if that wasn't meant to be, then I don't know what is...I mean,
YUN: ...our lives crossed paths before we ever met in person.
YUN: That's gotta count for something.
TSAI: It was really special, but...
TSAI: it wasn't meant to be.
YUN: You know, this situation, really doesn't make sense to me.
YUN: We're two people who are right for each other.
YUN: So, it should be simple;
YUN: should be a happy ending.
YUN: I don't know why this has to be so...
YUN: difficult.
TSAI: Life doesn't always have a happy ending.
YUN: Come on, you gotta stop watching those Korean dramas;
YUN: they've brainwashed you.
TSAI: Hey, I like those Korean dramas.
YUN: Aww, man, it's always about impossible love. So depressing.
YUN: And they always use Pachelbel's Canon for everything.
TSAI: You're such a geek. Kung Fu movies are exactly the same.
YUN: No way, at least they're willing to stand up and fight.
TSAI: Yun, please,
TSAI: You have to stop.
TSAI: You have to let me go.
YUN: ...Ok
YUN: Hey Tsai?
TSAI: Yeah...
YUN: You think we can just, maybe talk,
YUN: I mean, the way we used to?
YUN: I really just called you 'cause I wanted to hear how your day was...
TSAI: Yeah
TSAI: Ok.
TSAI: So...
TSAI: What are you doing right now?
YUN: I've just been laying here the whole time.
TSAI: Do you want me to just stay on the line?
YUN: Yeah,
YUN: that would be nice.
[soft music fades in]