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]