Bright Half Life Lines Part 6

VICKY: Yes

(Kite Store)

This one

VICKY: You think?

Classic, dynamic

but …

VICKY: But, what?

Not much lift in low winds

VICKY: Maybe something more flashy

Flashy?

VICKY: Yeah

Okay…

This one

VICKY: That one?

I mean it’s a kite, but

It’s more than a kite

it’s an expression of promise

It’s the future

It’s dreams

It’s you on the inside,

This is what I want for my birthday

Us to fly kites

VICKY: And that’s exactly what I want to do for your birthday

I’ll buy a hundred kites, but that one looks like a nine-year-old boy’s kite…

lightning bolts?

So

This one?

VICKY: Maybe

This one?

VICKY: (no)

This is a perfect kite, large turning circle, lots of lift

VICKY: Maybe

Vicky

VICKY: Yes

I’m picking the kite

VICKY: Okay

You have absolutely no say in the matter

VICKY: But

You’ll fly the kite I want you to fly

And you’ll do it the way I tell you to fly it

VICKY: Okay

Great

Close your eyes

VICKY: Close my

Close

your

eyes

VICKY: Why

Trust/

VICKY: /But

Me

Okay open your eyes

VICKY: Where are we

This one

VICKY: Erica

What

VICKY: No

Why

VICKY: That’s a super gay kite

And?

VICKY: It’s very “we’re here, we’re queer.”

We are queer

VICKY: Well, I’m not going to parade around

with a pink triangle

Rainbow fringed kite

Okay.

I’m gonna get this kite

If you wanna fly it, let me know

If not, I’ll fly it myself

(beat)

VICKY: Okay…

Lets get the kite.

(Job offer)

/Guess what

VICKY: I don’t like this dress anymore

(do I look fat?)

I got a job offer

VICKY: What

You did?

Oh my god

That’s/great

I’m so/excited

VICKY: That’s great!

Oh my god Oh my god you got a job

We should celebrate

I wanna take you out

VICKY: Tomorrow will be just for us

Fancy clothes, mojitos, drink ourselves silly

VICKY: Completely silly

Loud music

VICKY: We could go dancing

We dould go to, like, a club

like back in the day

We never went to clubs back in the day

VICKY: We did so, we went to Pyramid

Once

VICKY: We could go again

The point is

I feel great I haven’t felt this/ great

VICKY: /Great

—about myself in so

VICKY: It’s great

I know I know I know, isn’t it

VICKY: I can totally see you at the blackboard holding your chalk talking about Yeats

Someone really impressive and seminal

I have to figure out my syllabus so that when I get there/

I’m not reading a million books, getting ready

VICKY: Get there?

Which job is this?

The out of town one

VICKY: I thought you weren’t going to apply to that one

I wasn’t but

(beat)

VICKY: It’s great, it’s great, it’s still great

Where’s the pay, it’s not what

VICKY: You really have to negotiate

(Where’s the floss.)

I’m happy for you

You are?

VICKY: I really am

(But, I don’t know where the floss?)

What

VICKY: Speaking of [Floss]

you really have to tie up your used floss

/Okay…

VICKY: I’m sorry but it’s true, and/

You left your/hair in the drain

VICKY: I did?

(I cleaned it, I cleaned the hair/)

VICKY: Thanks

You’re happy for me

VICKY: I am

Because you suddenly seem really distracted

VICKY: No I’m happy for you

For me?

VICKY: Yeah

Happy for me

VICKY: Wait wait wait that’s not what I meant, don’t twist my

Tone

VICKY: Don’t twist my tone

Tonight’s a big deal to my parents

and I’m just —I’m happy for you I really am

Okay

VICKY: What are you going to wear

I was gonna wear the new, the, you know/ the

VICKY: I love you in that one

Except

It’s sorta butch

It’s not butch

VICKY: Sort of soft butch, androgynous, I don’t know

It’s a blazer, you bought it

VICKY: And I love you in that one

Tomorrow wear that one

(beat)

Happy for me

What about/ us

VICKY: We can’t be late/

Of course, your mom’ll freak/if we’re late

VICKY: When you applied to this one/ was that about us

You’re the one that always said

VICKY: Yes, forever, I’ve been saying but I never said to apply to that one, we didn’t, I mean we didn’t talk about us

What about the other ones?

I didn’t get any of the other ones

VICKY: [Okay]

You’re gonna wear that?

(Nobody will notice what I wear)

Maybe I shouldn’t

VICKY: My mom will totally notice

Okay you don’t have/ to go

No, no, I love being your “special” friend

VICKY: My parents aren’t progressive, I’m sorry, but I love them and

You know what

I won’t go, it stresses you out

VICKY: She’ll ask about you

Say I’m sick

VICKY: My mom adores you

Then why don’t you tell her

VICKY: (Where’s the fucking floss)

Who needs to floss before a party at their parents’

VICKY: Their fortieth anniversary

I don’t like to walk around with chunks of food in my teeth, call me criminal

(beat)

I thought we’d both go

to the

If i take the job

You, you’re employable anywhere

And this is a big, big job

It has teh potential to change everything

VICKY: Okay…

And really I am so happy for you

I thought that was a given, you told me to apply

VICKY: Not to that one but

It’s a great opportunity

I can’t work for you forever

Cuz you’re totally over-qualified, I’m the one that said

And I’m not good at it

VICKY: /Right

Punching numbers into a computer/

VICKY: Which is why I told you to apply for lots of

I did

and I only got this one

VICKY: It’s great, it is, it’s just out of town and right now we’re late so

You don’t sound like it’s great

VICKY: Can we [stop]

(beat)

I just thought you might

Want to write high school science textbooks?

VICKY: /No

It’s not like I’m gonna make you — like I make you do everything, I’m responsible? Like, I don’t know, when you volunteered, when you quit

/I didn’t quit we lost our funding

VICKY: It’s not like

Look

I want you to have this job and I want you to be happy, I do

You say that/ but

VICKY: We also have a great life here

You have a great job, you have your own office,/ and I, I don’t have

VICKY: I thought we/ had a great

You have a great/

VICKY: We

This’s your life

VICKY: Mine? It’s our life

I don’t have/ anything

VICKY: You’ve got us

I

I think

I think I’m gonna take it

VICKY: Oh.

Okay.

And you?

If I do, will you come?

VICKY: Can I think about it

Yeah yeah okay

Okay

So let’s go to the party

(Hallway)

The thing is: soulmates

(Hallway)

VICKY: Spare me the poetics

(bedroom)

Oh my god

VICKY: Fuck

Who’s late, wow, who’s late to their own wedding

VICKY: I’m sure it happens all the time

This is why you’re not s’posed to see the bride the day of

VICKY: Oops

What

VICKY: You messed up my hair

Uh-oh

Do you think your mom will like the flowers?

VICKY: Who cares if she likes the

(she can barely deal with the wedding)

Chloe and Lex love the flowers

Your mom and dad must be freaked, we’re late

VICKY: Dad called, he’s not coming

[Oh…]

But he said he’d give you away

VICKY: He changed his mind

Your dad isn’t coming?

VICKY: Does my dress look wrinkled or ruffled

Are you okay

VICKY: My hair’s slightly post-sex

Vicky are you okay

VICKY: Am I okay?

Yeah Vicky

VICKY: You know what?

Fuck ‘em

Who? Your parents?

VICKY: This is it, this moment right here we’re about to get married and I am way too happy to care about wheter or not they can deal with the wedding

You are?

VICKY: I want to marry you so/badly

(Matress Store)

I’m not going to take it

I have to call the job-guy

VICKY: No, look, before when I tried to/make you say no

I’m gonna say no

VICKY: You want the job

But, I don’t want to dismantle your life

VICKY: You’re my life/

(Fight)

Half my life

My entire adult life

Would you please tell me what the fuck you’re talking about

If we do this, it’ll be hard for me/ too