1 day later
Max: Naomi, I need to listen to this lecture, please, it's the first one and I need to proof to everybody that I wasn't just madly in love with you but that I am still able to follow my studies.
Naomi: Ok, but this is so boring, I mean...
Max: For you not for me. Just relax, I promise I will be with you in a second and then we can continue our conversation how you
He looks at her and his heart melts away.
Naomi: You
Max: I can get the notes from Gilbert but I still need to get things from CalTech, ok? I need to go there so
Naomi: Ok, so why don't you have a look into the garage and see what I bought you. This will help getting your sexy and nerdy body to CalTech in style.
Max: A car?
Naomi: Maybe, here a key chain for you with my name so you never forget me even if nerdy girls are surrounding you.
Max: I wouldn't, never, you are ingrained into my brain, you are it, I wasn't able to forget you on the other side of the country, I won't when you are just minutes away.
Naomi: Thank you, me too.
Max: But this is wonderful but you shouldn't have, I
Naomi: This is LA and you needed a car, have a look.
Max storms into the garage and sees a red Prius convertible.
Max: You are crazy, this car is great. It's a hybrid and you shouldn't have
Naomi: I just thought you needed some style and my car is next to you but you are not there yet.
She points to her Mercedes Convertible
Max: No but, I love you but you
Naomi: I saw your little black book and the ideas you scribbled down, you will earn money in no time and this is just my way, you need a car and you are my other half, I couldn't let you drive around in something ugly and old.
Max: True, I am Mr Naomi Clarke, wanna take it for a spin?
Naomi laughs: You are such a guy, thank god and yes you are!
Max: Yes, lets go.
Naomi: Shopping? Hey you said you wanted to go and take her for a spin.
Max: Yes, I need clothes and I give in, I can't run around in these shirts all the time. Tell me where to
Naomi: I already programmed today's route into the navigation system.
Max: You, programmed
Naomi: Yes, ok means I know where you are, big deal.
Max: No, you just, never say you aren't brainy because you are.
Naomi: Like you said, if you can have it all, I can have it all!
Max opens the garage and puts the car in gear!
At the house
Alana: Hi Gilbert, where are
Gilbert: Shopping, Naomi just updated her facebook page to, wow in a relationship
Alana: She never really changed that but I bet it will soon say engaged.
Gilbert: Why do you think that?
Alana: Really?
Gilbert: Ok, we can help, how are you so sure?
Alana: Because you and me we both don't want to admit it and I can tell you the makeover, it was tough but here, look at this picture
Gilbert: That
Alana: Last semester
Gilbert grins
Alana: Look at yourself, didn't you feel that looking like you now is not MIT style anymore?
Gilbert: Well
Alana: See
Gilbert: Did you ever tell anybody that you applied to other universities but declined people like Brown and Yale because you wanted to
Alana: Change? No, I was about to quite but after meeting Naomi
Gilbert: She is it, so is Max. The superficial mean girl discovered her brain and heart and the nerd suddenly realised that it's ok to be intelligent and cool.
They both laugh
Alana: Yes.
On rodeo drive
Naomi: Yes, my male pretty woman. Yes we take those as well and the black shirts and of course, yep these jeans and those are great and yes we take those as well.
Max: I
Naomi: Max
Max: I need a break, I mean I am not used trying that much on.
Naomi: You get a break when we are finished shopping for you and we haven't even started. Shirts great, T-Shirts oh yeah, pants in different colours, we needs trunks and of course some cool ones for swimming Villequebren is just what you need and here Boss T-Shirt, classic cool.
Max: What about you?
Naomi: Not today! Today is all about you.
Max grins while he scribbles an idea down while changing into one of the tuxedos Naomi put in his dressing room.
Max: I really don't think I need this one!
Naomi: Really? After going to our school you think you don't need a tux?
Max: Ok but
Naomi: The season is coming up, summer is over but we have a pool so
Max: I get it, can't wear things that are so last year. I hope this car
Naomi: They will deliver everything later, don't worry.
Max laughs, this is his girl. Naomi, with a big heart that starts to discover herself.
Naomi: Max?
Max: What?
Naomi: Here, credit card with your name on it!
Max: What? How did you
Naomi: Use it and use it like I would. I have seen you and Gilbert, I have, this will be great, I see great things for us so use it, this is LA!
Max grins: Normally that would be my job to give you one and say those things...
Naomi: Well, it will be in a few years and you better make it unlimited.
Max: Thank you!
3 hours later
Max: Are you up for a little detour? Because I finished trying things on, I need a break.
Naomi: Max
Max: Are you in for a little detour along the ocean?
Naomi: Well drive away, I love the beach.
Max: Good, you look great by the way!
Naomi: Thank you, I bought a few things for myself, I was watching every second thou!
Max smiles he is doing it, this will be great.
At the house
Gilbert: Oh why did you have to be right?
Alana: What?
Gilbert: Max just texted me to tell you girls that he is proposing to Naomi with the ring he, oh I didn't, he bought her a ring, he bought her ring before he went to MIT and he never, I
Alana: Ok where is he?
Gilbert: At the Wayfarers Chapel
Alana: I call the girls, this means
Gilbert: Great!
Alana: Do you think she is saying yes?
Gilbert: Wouldn't you? There will be candles everywhere and they are, why wouldn't she?
Alana: When did he
Gilbert: While he was changing into all the different outfits Naomi gave him. She just assumed he needed longer.
Alana laughs: Well, she normally does herself.
Gilbert shows Alana a picture
Gilbert: She already looks like a bride.
Alana: She does
Gilbert: This will be great, if they are engaged and later married all we need to do is keep negativity away and we can do that. His parents are idiots but maybe if he proofs what he can do
Alana: You are already
Gilbert: He sent me the macros for an app that guys will love and girls will
Alana: What app?
Gilbert: An app where your girlfriends puts you in millions of virtual outfits according to your body, just takes minutes to put all the measurements in but you avoid having to be a male pretty woman and spend hours on rodeo drive.
Alana: I don't
Gilbert: Woman takes phone, scans the barcode, software put it on guy, girls sends picture to guy and guy texts yes or no or woman just buys it. You will also be able to do it online.
Alana: Sounds
Gilbert: Great, we also do a female version for people who don't like department stores and don't need the experience of successful shopping.
At the Wayfarers Chapel
Max drives up the little hill
Naomi: What are we doing here?
Max: Patience Naomi
He parks the car, takes her hand
Max: Come with me, please.
There are candles around the grounds and he escorts to the altar
Max: Just stand here for a moment ok?
Naomi: What are you doing? I mean, did you, are we intruding?
Max smiles, he goes down on one knee
Max: Naomi Clarke, I bought this ring after I decided to go to CalTech the first time and I am sorry I messed it all up but will you please do me the incredible honour to become my wife?
Naomi is speechless
Max holds the box with the diamond, the light of the candles reflecting the light, the waves of the oceans rolling ashore, from afar you can hear the grass whistling and the call of an owl.
Max is getting nervous, he has never seen her speechless
Max: Are you
Tears are starting to roll down her face. Max is still there with the ring in his hands.
Naomi: When did you organise all that, I mean
Max: When I was changing into all these wonderful things we just bought. But I had the ring for a long time, I never gave up hope. But you haven't given me an answer and I am not, I am kneeling so
Naomi hugs him: Yes, yes of course yes.
Max puts the ring on her finger
Naomi: Oh my god I am engaged, we are engaged. You and me, we are getting married in
Max: In this chapel and you can plan the wedding.
Naomi: When?
Max: Whenever you
Max is nervous, he doesn't want to force her, she just said yes but he doesn't want to wait and let daily life ruin everything so
Naomi: How does Christmas sound?
Max: That is 9 weeks from now
Naomi: Yes, after we took our exams, its tight but hey I have organised things in less time or do you think we should wait?
Max: No, no absolutely, I would, I thought you
Naomi: You would marry me right now, right here.
Max nods
Naomi: Me too.
Max: So how does next weekend sound?
Naomi: You don't know
Max: They are
Naomi: Next weekend it is.
Max: I hope you have a dress.
Naomi: I bought the dress after that night at the telescope.
Max: You mean you bought the dress the same day I bought the ring.
Naomi nods and now Max knows that this is fate and everything s going to be ok. They are made for each other, this is reality.
They kiss each other.
Naomi: The wedding will be Saturday afternoon, we rent the beach club, I, this is perfect, it will be classic and just let me
Max: All I want for you is to be happy.
Naomi: I am, I am when you are.
Max: So who
Naomi: Alana, Margene, Alexis, Gilbert, Jane, Annie, Raj, Silver of course. Ade, Liam if he turns up, oh wait he owns this bar at the beach, Naveed, Dixon. I think we don't need a lot of distractions, just our friends, what do you think?
Max: Perfect.
Naomi smiles: I ask the girls to follow me into the church, we are all going to stand and now stupid bridesmaids dresses that nobody wears after the event, my rules if
Max: It will be great! As long as a week from now your name will be Naomi Miller
Naomi shakes her head: No, no my name will be Naomi Miller Clarke and yours will be Max Miller Clarke.
Max: Really?
Naomi: You and me
She kisses him
Max: Accepted!
Both laugh and drive off.
At the house
Gilbert: They are here in an hour, the wedding is in a week and she said yes.
Alana: Wow that is
Annie: What is
Alana: Annie, take a seat!
Gilbert: Hi
Annie: Hi, what did I miss?
Alana: A lot, listen. Max is back, he just proposed to Naomi and the wedding is in a week.
Annie: What?
Alana: He came back two days ago, she forgave him and
Annie looks at her phone: Be my maid of honour
Annie starts crying: I am going to kill her
Alana: Why?
Annie: Because she didn't tell me he was back and
Gilbert: Are you happy for them?
Annie: Happy? I begged her to read that letter, I tried to read it to her, I put it somewhere where she would see it every day, but she was all, he left me and oh gosh and
Alana: I contacted Gilbert, he didn't tell Max. But
Gilbert: It's not a coincidence that I dragged Max to the desk where he saw the events calendar, I just made him see things but
Annie: Thank you, thank you so much! He, she was really, do you know how tough it was and Austin is Holly s ex-boyfriend, did you know that? Imagine what would have happened if
Annie hugs him
Gilbert: Welcome, now call everybody.
Annie: When are they here?
Alana: Half an hour, the girls are getting the rose petals, Anna is making cocktails already and we lit the grill and bought all the bridal magazines we could.
Annie: Perfect!
Alana: I learned a lot and afterall if the wedding is in a week, we need to perform a miracle.
Annie: I know a great caterer and hey didn't Naomi plan Raj and Ivy s wedding in a few days? She will pull one off for herself and we will throw her the most amazing bachelorette party.
Alana: Are you ok renting the Offshore?
Annie: For Max, yes not for the girls.
Alana: I see
Annie: He went away, its over.
Alana looks at her: Are you really over him?
Annie: Yes, why?
Alana: Would you go on a date with somebody that I know?
Annie looks at her: You mean with a nerd?
Alana laughs: No, he is not technically a nerd but he also doesn't run in the cool crowd, he helps street kids.
Annie: That is what I want to do later, work with kids or help other people. You haven't met my brother Dixon yet, have you?
Alana: Your brother?
Gilbert: I think Max said something along the lines that Dixon was adopted
Annie: Yes and he is black, best baby brother you can imagine. I always wanted to give more people like him the opportunity to grow up with big sisters like me. But no seriously, I might not be that great but kids deserve a good home and a loving family.
Alana: Wow and I thought you wanted to be an actress.
Annie: I did, but after Marla died and I didn't get the money and saw her life, like everybody seemed to have forgotten her, everything she had achieved, all the stories lost, I rather do something with meaning, help people, I haven't decided what I want to do exactly but I thought in Marla s case, why not write down her stories, but it was too late and so, there are millions of actors from the 50s out there who still could tell a thing or two so that is what I am focusing on at the moment, but it's not the glamour aspect, it's that I don't think anybody should die alone…
Alana: So the cool crowd discovers their conscious and nerds discover the glamour, what a crazy world.
She laughs and Gilbert looks at the time.
Gilbert: Girls, we need to get people going!
Annie: I ll call around!
1 hour later
Max and Naomi are chatting how they will tell everybody when they open the door and they hear a big
SURPRISE, CONGRATULATIONS!
Naomi: Ahhahah, I
Max: I told Gilbert
Naomi: I texted Annie but I
Max: Well
Alana: We are so happy for you.
Naomi: Thank you, I hope you think we are doing the right thing.
Gilbert: Of course, Max you really want to start fighting over a woman like this when you can seal the deal now?
Naomi laughs: Wow, that was so macho, who is rubbing off on you?
Gilbert: You, but seriously, we were like 2 seconds on the East Coast and coming back here means, look around
Naomi: Thank you.