Before...something

I love the Before Sunrise and Sunset movies, Linklater is a genius! Both movies are rich in good dialogue and we get to know the characters so well that we can sometimes identify with them in small ways as fellow humans. Eventhough I think it's good how the last one ends, at the same time I'm left desiring more good conversation, more witty insights derived from everyday life and wanting true closure from a seemingly open ended, never ending book of the relationship between these two characters. So I have written a scene or two that picks up where we were left hanging last, I will share it with you here:

scene: Jesse is sitting on the couch in Celine's apartment as Nina Simone plays in the background from her stereo system. The song ends and there is a silence before the next song (He was too good to me) starts. Jesse sips his tea and Celine starts talking as he puts it back down on the coffee table.

Celine: "Do you think your driver is still here?"
Jesse: "I don't know, how long do French cabbies ussualy wait? If this was New York, he probally already picked up and dropped off two people".
Celine: "Yeah, so what time is your flight"
Jesse: " I know it's soon"
Celine: "I'll walk you back to your "cabbie" she says in a sacasticly funny tone."
Jesse: "yeah that's probally better" -he walks back to the kitchen and puts his half-ful tea cup on the counter top-Celine goes to open the door as Jesse shuts it with his hand.

Jesse: "O.K. wait, is this how it ends this time? You know, I mean it was so short and it's never how you expect it to go, and since you don't know how it ought to go, you're always wanting more right?"
Celine: "I don't know, what else do you expect to happen?"
Jesse: "It's just that I have waited nine years to meet you again and it's over in one afternoon. I want to know you more, I believe that there's more to you after all this time."
Celine:"It's just like life, it's over before we know it, but we're preparing for it our whole lives like were expecting more than just our day to day living. (she looks away at the window for a short pause and starts talking again) It's sad to think that maybe we're not preparing for some great unknown but we're just preparing for death, no? Or just the afterlife, whatever that means to us."
Jesse: Maybe you're right, but for now I'm caught in that thrill of excitement that there IS more to it.
Celine: "We can't get caught up in all that stuff , at some point today we have to except reality, the reality that you have to leave and I have to keep on living here in Paris with...
Jesse: "Your photographer boy friend you never see?"
Celine:"...my cat. Isn't that easier to except than a scenario you have to make up?"Let's go" she said soft and quick
-as she opens the door her cat runs back out. Jesse and Celine walk back down the stairs of her apartment building. Arriving outside they are greeted by her neighbors who are in the middle of a festive cookout.
Neighbor: (in french)"Celine, why don't you and your friend join us for a while?"
Celine:"I'll be right back, he has to catch a plane"
Jesse: "Merci boquo" he said in his best French accent
-Celine and Jesse walk back to the tunnel where the driver had dropped them off, only to find it empty.
Celine: "Mondjeu"
Jesse: "O.K. this is awkward"
Celine: "I don't think he'll be back"
Jesse: "No, he may have just gone for some coffe and croisants"
Celine: "Come, you can call him from my place, you still have the number?"
-Jesse searches his pockets and retrieves the piece of paper with the number on it
Jesse: "Here it is, it's weird for me not to think this was supossed to go this way"
Celine: "No,no,no, don't give me that fate crap, cuz then I could say that you kept talking to me long enough to make the driver leave, which means that you were actually in charge of orchestrating this whole MEANT TO HAPPEN moment".
JESSE: "C'mon I'm too old for that stuff, why would he just up and leave when he said he'd wait, he seemed sincere enough at the time right?"
-Jesse and Celine walk back to her apartment as the sun starts to set.

That's about it for now, I wish I had more time for writting like this.