Monday, June 27, 2005

Unfinished Scene From Teaching Shakespeare...I've been writing too much lately

ANGELA
Please give me a second chance

WILLIAM
You don’t deserve one

ANGELA
Yes I do, please just give me another chance

WILLIAM
When did you earn your chance, when you slept with Eric?

ANGELA
I was drunk

WILLIAM
That’s a bullshit excuse

ANGELA
I don’t love him

WILLIAM
You don’t love anyone

ANGELA
I love you

WILLIAM
I don’t even know you

ANGELA
Yes you do

WILLIAM
Let me rephrase that, I don’t want to know you

ANGELA
WILLIAM wait

WILLIAM
What ready to feed me more lies?

ANGELA
No I want to tell you the truth

WILLIAM
Oh this’ll be good

ANGELA
WILLIAM I love you

WILLIAM
That’s it?

ANGELA
Yeah

WILLIAM
Well how about you go feed that bullshit to somebody who’ll believe it

ANGELA
Why are you acting like this?

WILLIAM
You think I don’t have a right to?

ANGELA
I said I was sorry about Eric

WILLIAM
Sorry doesn’t cut it ANGELA, you slept with him, god knows why, but you slept with him

ANGELA
It didn’t mean anything to mean

WILLIAM
Keep telling yourself that, maybe it’ll be true one day

ANGELA
I was frustrated because you wouldn’t even touch me

WILLIAM
So that gives you the right to sleep with another guy

ANGELA
No, nothing gives me that right; I am telling you point blank the honest to god truth about what I did

WILLIAM
And what do you want me to do?

ANGELA
Just listen, and realize that I am truly sorry

WILLIAM
I don’t think I can do that

ANGELA
Do you know how many guys I’ve dated?

WILLIAM
God only knows, 500

ANGELA
52

WILLIAM
I was close

ANGELA
Out of all those guys, all 52 of ‘em it took my 53rd to realize what I was missing

WILLIAM
If at first you don’t succeed I guess

ANGELA
I think I told every single one of them that I was in love with them, but it was a lie

WILLIAM
Seems common with you

ANGELA
It took me a while to realize what I was missing, why I didn’t feel like I was even committed to any of these guys

WILLIAM
And what was that?

ANGELA
It was a who

WILLIAM
Who was that?

ANGELA
You, I was missing you

WILLIAM
That’s heartfelt and all, a real tear jerker, but I'm sick of playing this game. You can’t lie like this, saying that I was your first love or some bullshit like that

ANGELA
It isn’t bullshit

WILLIAM
How can I believe that?

ANGELA
Why did you kiss me?

WILLIAM
Because it felt right?

ANGELA
Because it felt like love

WILLIAM
Because I was duped into thinking it was love

ANGELA
I would never dupe you

WILLIAM
How can I be so sure of that?

ANGELA
You just have to trust me

WILLIAM
Ha, as if I could trust you ever again

ANGELA
How can I earn back your trust?

WILLIAM
You can’t, you lost it once

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