Intermission: Ms. Norah’s side.

Norah wakes up calmly, taking in her surroundings. However, she’s quick to remember her dream. She jolts up, sitting in her bed with a straight back. Her eyes wide in shock, she takes a hand to her mouth in disbelief.

As amazing as that dream was, as good as it felt, as much as she wished it was somehow reality, she couldn’t think it was anything but a nightmare. She remembers this feeling, even though she wanted to forget it. This time, however, the source is different.

This is love. Norah Gray is in love with her daughter’s boyfriend.

She feels pathetic and helpless. Just because the young man has been so helpful and kind, she’s been thinking about him more and more. Then… last night happened. Was that what settled it? That sweet, romantic, amazing kiss…

NO! NO! She’s aware this is a bad thing in more ways than one. Not only is John her daughter’s boyfriend, but for Norah, falling in love in and of itself is dangerous. The first and last time she did, the heartbreak was too much.

Now, she’s fallen in love with yet another man she knows she can’t be with. What’s more, she’s terrified that this will put the final nail in the coffin of her relationship with Vivian, just as they were starting to fix it.

She cries, wishing those feelings away.

Yet this wish doesn’t come true.