FADE IN:
INT. TABLE AT A LOCAL CHAIN RESTAURANT NIGHT
Bee and Kay are seated on one side of the booth at the table. Jay is seated on the other side. A large ice cream sundae, a coke, a basket of fries, 2 large beers, and mozzarella sticks are on the table.
KAY
(confidently)
I'm done. I stopped talking to him.
BEE
When?
She sips her beer.
KAY
Today. After he basically said he has
to accept to want nothing from me
because of the physical distance.
Because I wanted to hear him say "I
want nothing from you."
She searches their faces for a reaction and takes a gulp of her beer.
He wouldn't say it, but I just want
to hear it. Because I can't move on
unless he lets go.
The waitress approaches the table. Kay's face is adorned with a scowl that makes the waitress back away. She sips her beer.
JAY
Yeah, but I mean...I never thought I
could love someone as much as I loved
MAN X and look at me now. I'm living with
the person I love and I didn't think I
would ever be able to live with someone.
She pauses and then eats a scoop of her
ice cream.
KAY
(agitated)
I don't even want that! I'm just tired
of shaving my legs!
Kay reaches for her beer again. The table mumbles in agreement that shaving your legs is a torturous but necessary aspect at some point or another. The waitress returns with two fresh beers.
BEE
(turning in the
booth)
You can't think that way. I'm sure that
when you were with him you didn't miss
out on meeting the right person.
KAY
(making wild hand motions
and talking loudly)
Yes, but my resume relationship is
complete. I don't need any more
relationships. I've had tons of bad
ones, learned from 'em and I'm better
because of it. But I just wasted my time.
He wasted my time.
The people at the next table turn to look. Jay looks up from her phone and chuckles.
BEE
But you knew he was leaving from the
beginning.
KAY
(aggressively loud)
Yeah, but I was expecting ANYTHING,
anything at all, and I got NOTHING. I got
"it will be alright when it's alright."
EFF THAT. It will never be alright. He
packed up his life and left on a whim.
She reaches for her beer again.
JAY
(frowning)
This is true that he did leave you for
really no solid reason.
BEE
(casting a disapproving
glance)
Despite how he feels about you. And he
knows what he wants. He's 30, after all.
She sips her beer and bites into a mozzarella stick.
KAY
(popping french fries
into her mouth)
35.
BEE
(concerned)
WHAT?! Every time I talk to you he gets
older!
She sips her beer.
JAY
(looking up from
her iPhone)
No, she told us he was 35.
BEE
(clutching her beer)
Wait, he should want something then? It's
just sad that he's that age and giving up
on a relationship so easily.
KAY
(hands waving wildly)
Well, I told him that he's making a big
mistake. And that when he comes back in
3 years or 6 months or whenever, I either
won't be in New York or I'll be in love
and serious with someone else.
JAY
This is true.
She sips from the straw in her coke.
BEE
(pointing)
Um, you're wearing an "A" necklace.
JAY
(leaning forward)
I didn't even notice that until now!
Bee chuckles and Jay smiles.
KAY
(looking down
into her beer)
Yeah, it's the second chain for it.
