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Guiding Light
Let Me Call You Sweetheart
Buzz & Jenna:  The Proposal
(September 1997)




Scene:  Jenna and Buzz walking into Company, his arm around her shoulder

Jenna:  OK, we’re here now.  What’s this all about?

Buzz: Uh, not yet.

Jenna: Oh, did you find out something from the police that you didn’t want Nola or little Coop to hear? (getting anxious) Buzz,  tell me what it is?

J. Chamberlain: (comes up to them)  Food, gone down hill at the Diner?

Buzz:  No, we’re slumming J.  Could I have a table (motioning toward the table near the fireplace, mumbling)  something not the booth but close...

J. Chamberlain: (motions toward a very unromantic booth) Sure right here...

Buzz: (flustered) Oh hell, OK... (he takes Jenna’s hand and they sit on opposite sides of the booth)

J. Chamberlain:  Special occassion is it?

Buzz:  (still holding Jenna’s hand) It’s always a special occassion when I have the most beautiful woman in the world holding my hand.  I want some champagne. 

Jenna: (confused) Champagne?  It’s barely mid morning?

Buzz:  I know, I know, but I want some champagne.  Do you have caviar? 

J. Chamberlain:  Caviar, toast and eggs.

Buzz:  Caviar, toast and eggs, and champagne!

Jenna:  I’d like a nice cup of tea please

J. Chamberlain:  Tea coming up (leaves)

Jenna:  What’s got into you?  Champagne first thing in the morning, have you popped your cork?  What is it?

Buzz: (smiling)  No, my cork is just fine, thank you.

Jenna: (leaning into him intently) Buzz stop this.  I can’t take much more, what’s going on?

Buzz:  You....

Jenna: (stammering)  Me?  What? What? What about me?

Buzz:  I, uh... (reaches out and takes her hands again)... I am so much in love with you (Jenna lets out a sigh of relief) and I wanted to be alone together, away from the Firehouse, away from the cloud that’s hanging over our heads...

Jenna:  Uh... huh??  You mean, this is not about the crazy woman that broke into the Firehouse?

Buzz:  No, it’s about the crazy woman sitting across the table from me that I’m crazy madly in love with 

Jenna:  (laughing and relieved)  So, you dragged me out of the hosue this morning before I’d even had my first cup of tea, to...

Buzz:  To tell you I love you (reaches into his pocket)

Jenna: (smiling)  Well, that’s very romantic... so this isn’t about the stalker?

Buzz:  Well it is, in a round about way...

J. Chamberlain:  (interrupting)  Here we go (uncorks the champagne, sets the glasses on the table.  Buzz and Jenna now both nervous for different reasons and anxious for him to leave)  Would you like to taste it?  I hear September is a very good month.

Buzz:  I’m sure September is a fine month (J. pours the champagne)  Here you go  Pour Monsuier... and for the lady...  Enjoy (leaves)

Jenna: (anxiously) So you’ve said now that it is about the stalker?

Buzz:  Yeah, I guess I did

Jenna: (even more anxious) Yes, you did say that.  Will you please tell me, because you’re driving me crazy.

Buzz:  (nervous) It’s... (Jenna nodding her head encouragingly)... the stalker... uh... made me think... uh realize... I love you so much... and (voice shaking) I want so much to protect you... and I want to be there for you and Coop.

Jenna: (sighing)  Well, you are there for us

Buzz:  But uh... sometimes I need to be reminded of that and uh... I couldnn’t sleep last night.

Jenna:  I... I know.  Are you all right?

Buzz:  So I went down to the cellar and I .. ah.. started cleaning up things, and I ran across some things, and mostly they were all Pops’, and I uh...  (takes a piece of paper from his pocket and opens it)  found this....  It’s a song, that Pops used to sing for Mom alot.  It’s corny, and it’s old, like Pops (Jenna laughs)... like me too... because (Buzz’s hands are shaking) this is just how I feel about you... (voice trembling Buzz sings)
 

 Let me call you sweetheart, 
 I’m in love with you
 Let me hear you whisper
 That you love me too...
 Keep the love light glowing
 In your eyes so true 
 Let me call you sweetheart, 
 I’m in love with you


(Buzz’s voice now cracking with emotion)

Jenna: (tears in her eyes) You are my sweetheart...

Buzz:  Uh, that wasn’t even the toughest part... there’s a question I’ve never asked because I’ve wanted to...  you know, I mean with Deenie she was pregnant, with Reva, it was just a favor... but I want you to know that you’re the first person that I’ve ever asked this because, because I...I loved them...

Jenna: (breathlessly and rather obtusely) What?  What’s the question, what?

Buzz:  (blurts it out)  Will you marry me?

Jenna: (squealing in shock and delight) What? (leaps over the table, glasses crashing, into Buzz’s lap and his arms, showering him with kisses)  Yes! Oh Yes! Oh Yes!!! 

Buzz: (to the room, laughing)  I think it’s yes! (laughing and kissing....fade to black.)

 





 
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