Bright Half Life Lines Part 9

VICKY: I’m floating

(Science Project)

It isn’t a planet anymore

VICKY: Pluto?

Yeah

VICKY: Next time you plan to dump homework on me, could you at least, never mind

(long pause)

Okay, so?

So…

The papers?

(Beat)

VICKY: I haven’t had/

You’ve had/ [time]

VICKY: I haven’t had time

To sign the papers?

VICKY: I haven’t had time to see a lawyer

[oh] Are you contesting?

VICKY: No, I don’t know

[Okay]

So?

VICKY: So, I’ll sign the papers after I see a lawyer.

(beat)

I’m thinking about moving.

Moving?

VICKY: (Now’s not exactly the time to buy,/ but)

Move where?

VICKY: Being in the same … city, it’s hard

You can’t/

VICKY: I know/

What about the girls

VICKY: I know

You can’t just take the girls

VICKY: I said I was thinking of moving,

somewhere close, (Jersey, I don’t know?)

I’m just daydreaming of being someplace else

You can’t take the girls

VICKY: I know

That’s all I’m saying

so

VICKY: I’ll sign them..

I’ll sign them now

Erica

I’ll sign them

(beat)

It’s legal.

It’s over.

(It’s…Over…)

(bedroom)

Oh my god

VICKY: Fuck

You’re so fucking beautiful

VICKY: I’m floating

(beat)

I like that mole

And when your eyelashes kiss my cheek

VICKY: I like your…mouth

I like your eyes

Your hands

Your stomach

I like your everything

( A street near a school)

So she’s doing well, that’s what Mrs.—

VICKY: Kittredge/

—said, Lex’s doing okay

VICKY: Mr. Irvington said Chloe gets a little nervous during the tests

Who wouldn’t

I mean, we should work with her

VICKY: Okay

You. Or me. I can work with her

Lex, it’s a no brainer, but Chloe

Also, homework —

VICKY: Maybe you should work with her

Sometimes I confuse her she said, I make it too complicated

VICKY: Do you want me to work with her

No I can do it

VICKY: Because if you want me to/

/No no I can

VICKY: Just say so

With work, with your job/

VICKY: I’ll do it

We can both

Hopefully that won’t be confusing

VICKY: I want to take them to Disney World

/Okay

VICKY: This weekend

Cuz of work

It’s my weekend

I was gonna take them to my mom’s

VICKY: Oh

She’s looking forward

VICKY: Of course

They’d love Disney World, you could go another

VICKY: Uh-huh

Because the Ferris wheel, I’m not into rides(as you know), do you remember the Ferris wheel, you knew how to make it [special]

VICKY: The girls’ve ridden Ferris wheels many times

[Of course]

You should take them to see the fireflies

Remember when we chased

VICKY: No

You don’t remember

VICKY: Fireflies?

No

When we rented that car and you took me to the country

and it was June

VICKY: And it rained

And it rained

VICKY: And you complained the whole time

I didn’t complain the whole time

VICKY: The rain, the B&B

I loved it, but it wasn’t/ a real B&B

VICKY: It wasn’t a real B&B and it was damp

The air, I didn’t say

VICKY: You said, it was like camping

Indoor camping

I didn’t/ say

VICKY: Which you’ve never done, / camping

Because I grew up in the city

VICKY: And then, the rafting, when you fell in, you complained

I hit a rock

What’re you trying to prove

(beat)

Chasing fireflies was

VICKY: You wanted to keep them in a jar

Not such a bad thing/ (Which proves I liked it)

VICKY: And I said no

You said they’d be dead/ in the morning

VICKY: They’d be dead in the morning

You should take the girls to see the flies

VICKY: I doubt they’d really

Because I remember, it was really special — and I think even a ten-year- old would — I remember

VICKY: Erica

I miss you

(beat)

VICKY: I’m trying to forget

Forget what

VICKY: You

So it’s not really helpful for me to walk down memory lane

So?

You can take them

VICKY: [Okay]

(home)

VICKY: I think it’s time

I just put them in the oven/

VICKY: It’s time

A few more minutes, Dad’s recipe

Time

Now?

VICKY: Call the taxi

You really think it’s/ time

VICKY: Call the taxi

Okay okay okay, I’m calling taxi, (hospital bag?), I’m calling/ the taxi

VICKY: Closet, bedroom, in front of the box of/ give-away

Right

Hello

I need a car, right away

I’m

No I need

Now

My, my girlfriend’s having babies, twins

We need to go/ to the hospital

VICKY: It’s time, it’s time/

Now