Scene 2

Front 1

I have to talk to you.

Back 1

About what?

Front 2

Stuff.

Back 2

Okay, but I'm unpacking.

Front 3

Can I help?

Back 3

No, that's okay

Front 4

Why not?

Back 4

There's, you know, girl stuff.

Front 5

Tampons?

Back 5

Anthony.

Front 6

Underwear?

Back 6

What did you want to talk to me about?

Front 7

Where did you meet Marty?

Back 7

At a party.

Front 8

What kind of party?

Back 8

Like a party someone has in their house, you know. Apartment.

Front 9

What did he say and what did you say?

Back 9

Well there were no chairs. There were two chairs. Boat chairs, like those chairs they have on boats. So Marty was sitting in one. And then he got up. You know. To give me the chair. I knew he wasn't from new York.

Front 10

So you fell in love with him.

Back 10

No. I thought he was gay.

Front 11

You did? Why?

Back 11

Well everyone is. In New York. I mean not me. But everyone. Men. And he was so beautiful, you know.

Front 12

Do you think I am? Beautiful.

Back 12

Well you look like Marty.

Front 13

I do?

Back 13

Uh-huh.

Front 14

Cause we're not exactly sure we had the same father. I mean my mother always had the same husband. But she was kind of a free spirit. You know. Like that.

Back 14

Doesnt that bother you?

Front 15

Well I mean if it did it wouldn't change anything. I mean I don't mean to be buddhistic or anything.

Back 15

Be what?

Front 16

Buddhistic.

Back 16

Oh, that's okay.

Front 17

How old are you?

Back 17

Twenty-three.

Front 18

Me too.

Back 18

Oh. I thought you were younger.

Front 19

Well. I am. What do you think about sex?

Back 19

Well I mean, sex is good with the right man. But you have to be careful, you know. Especially in New York.

Front 20

Careful?

Back 20

Diseases. Like that.

Front 21

Mental diseases?

Back 21

No.

Front 22

But you should be careful of mental diseases too.

Back 22

I guess.

Front 23

If somebody else fell in love with you now, what would you do?

Back 23

Tell them I was engaged.

Front 24

You wouldn't, you wouldn't maybe check it out, see if maybe he's got something to offer or... Like that.

Back 24

No.

Front 25

Are you sure?

Back 25

I'm pretty sure.

Front 26

Can you check again?

Back 26

Well you're warm, but not like a fever. More like... Warm.

Front 27

It's because I'm sitting next to you. I'm warm because I'm sitting next to you.

Back 27

Anthony.

Front 28

What?

Back 28

You know. Like I said.

Front 29

Lesly. Can I hold your hand? Just hold your hand?

Back 29

Okay.

Front 30

What's that?

Back 30

A scar.

Front 31

From what?

Back 31

A cheese knife. I was cutting cheese.

Front 32

That's it? That's the story?

Back 32

Uh huh.

Front 33

I have a scar. Here. Marty and Jackie were playing French revolution and they made me play Marie Antoinette. I probably have mental scars too. Mental scar tissue.

Back 33

Marty's probably gonna be coming up pretty soon.

Front 34

I don't think so. He's with Jackie-O.

Back 34

So?

Front 35

Can I hold something else now?

Back 35

Anthony.

Front 36

Can I see your knees?

Back 36

No.

Front 37

I like that expression "bees knees." Like "I think you're the bees knees."

Back 37

Bees don't have knees.

Front 38

Tell me about when you lost your virginity.

Back 38

No.

Front 39

Tell me something.

Back 39

I don't know what to tell you.

Front 40

Anything.

Back 40

In fourth grade, Cindy McKinney, she was this girl, she always wore a purple bra with a white shirt, you know?

Front 41

No. What?

Back 41

Like she was showing off that she had a bra, you know.

Front 42

Oh.

Back 42

I hate people like that.

Front 43

Me too. Cindy McKinney, huh?

Back 43

Yeah.

Front 44

Whatever happened to old Cindy McKinney?

Back 44

I don't know.

Front 45

Purple. I hate that.

Back 45

Me too.

Front 46

Do I have a fever?

Back 46

I already checked. Before. Twice.

Front 47

I know but this time I think I really have one.

Back 47

You're warm. But not like burning up.

Front 48

I think I have a brain tumour.

Back 48

You do?

Front 49

And you know what the big tragedy of that is?

Back 49

You'll die?

Front 50

Yeah, but I'll die without ever having... You know...

Back 50

You've never...?

Front 51

No.

Back 51

I thought you went to Princeton.

Front 52

Only for two months.

Back 52

It's not that big a tragedy. I mean unless you're with exactly the right person its not that great.

Front 53

It's not that great?

Back 53

No. Like if they smoke they taste like ashes. Like that. Or they stick their tongue in your ear so much you get chapped ears.

Front 54

Wow.

Back 54

Or like they start and you have to go to the bathroom.

Front 55

Lesly.

Back 55

Huh?

Front 56

I don't smoke. I won't stick my tongue in your ear and if you have to go we'll just stop and then when you come back we'll start again.

Back 56

Anthony, its too weird. Doing it with two brothers is like incest.

Front 57

Lesly. About incest. I have two words to say to you. Jackie-O and Marty. Jackie-O and Marty.

Back 57

How do you know that?

Front 58

They told me.

Back 58

Who told you?

Front 59

Jackie.

Back 59

Ha.

Front 60

Then Marty. Marty too. Are you okay?

Back 60

No.

Front 61

Sweetie?

Back 61

Why'd you call me that?

Front 62

I don't know. It just came out.

Back 62

My dad used to call me that. Before.

Front 63

Before what?

Back 63

Before he died.

Front 64

I could call you that again.

Back 64

That's okay. I don't know what to do.

Front 65

I could stay with you.

Back 65

Stay with me how?

Front 66

Any way you want me to stay with you.

Back 66

With your clothes on?

Front 67

Or off.

Back 67

You look like Marty.

Front 68

You look like Lesly. Lesly? I love you, Lesly.

Back 68

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