Joe: [wants to respond, but finds himself smiling broadly and his words get lost somewhere in his throat. Somewhere he finds them] Honestly Sugar... I didn't know that. I didn't know you even liked me. [curls up closer under his blankets] But, I'm glad you did, even though I couldn't remember it. [chuckles] But I have like so many more kisses to remember now so... I'm good. I can actually, hold up. [kisses the phone with a loud 'mwah'] Did you feel that? Because I definitely just kissed your blush.
Joe: [listens to her and wishes he could hold her. He wants her to know that she's nothing like her parents and hopes that she'll see herself for the amazing person she is] Can I ask you something then? You said they chose money over you and then you chose money over them, but have you ever chose yourself over them? I mean... I dunno, I just think your own happiness is really important. [a pause] Are you happy?
Joe: [chuckles] Yeah I think her name is Mary Jane. Not Emma Stone though I think... yeah... yeah she dies in the end, but she wasn't Mary Jane. She was someone else. If you want to be Emma Stone you can, but in my version I save you.
Joe: If I could shout intensely I would. You're gonna LOVE hiking, okay? You can even go barefoot!! The dirt in between your toes, the sounds of crickets and birds, it's paradise.
Sugar: [may or may not be kind of totally definitely SWOONING over the fact that Joe just attempted to kiss her through the phone, falling back against the pillows and smiling even though she knows he can't see it] I definitely heard that. And I'm going to make sure that there are, like, tooons of kisses in the future so that you'll always have something to remember me by.
Sugar: [is sort of taken aback by the serious turn of the conversation, and she knows that's due, in large part, to the fact that Sugar isn't exactly the sort of person who people ever really have serious conversations with in the first place - she's Sugar, so that should sort of mean that everything's as light and airy as cotton candy at all times, right?] I... I don't know, actually. I mean, I went to Paris and all and that was MY choice but a big reason why I'm here now is just because I don't really have anywhere else to go, you know? I mean, I think I'm starting to get to the point where I can, like, make my own money and stuff and not HAVE to worry about them or worry about what's going on with them. I can just leave, and I can be Sugar Motta in all her awesomeness all on my own. [A beat] I am happy, though. I mean, I'm sort of still bummed about how some stuff is going, maybe, but I'm actually, like, happy where I am. And I know you're kind of starting to be a sort of mega part of that, so I hope it doesn't freak you out.
Sugar: [lets out a sigh that she knows probably sounds more like those dreamy ones from cartoons than anything else] I'm glad that you'd totally be my own knight in shining dreadlocks and save me at the end of the story, though.
Sugar: You realize that me hiking is probably going to be a lot of me COMPLAINING right? But, I mean, if you needed anything to totally tell you that I'm into you, I'm pretty sure this is it. Because I've never hiked before, and I definitely wouldn't hike for just ANYONE. We totally have different ideas of paradise, but I still want to see what you think it is.