Bright Half Life Lines Part 5

VICKY: Am I doing it?/

(chasing toddlers)

Chloe, Chlo Chlo, Chlo

You want a treat

You want a treat

VICKY: Don’t give her a treat

She’s not coming

VICKY: Don’t give her a treat You give a treat, you send the wrong message. Chloe, Chlo Come here, Chlo (this is how two year olds are). Come, come, come here COme, CHloe. Baby, come here, come to Mommy

(beat)

Okay give me a cookie

(A Street)

It’s gonna rain

You like the show?

We should get [home]

You have money for the sitter?/

Will you marry me

VICKY: Oh my god

O my god oh my god oh my god

oh my god

Will you/

VICKY: Oh my god

(beat)

Wait

We’re on the street/

This is the route we, remember we walked/

VICKY: A quiet street, but a street

When we first, our third date, when we felt it, [the connection]

After you know the Ferris wheel, the we went to dinner right before teh restaurant closed and this’s where we walked

VICKY: When you had heartburn?

I had heartburn later, but before we walked here and it was this street, we looked in this window

VICKY: The Ferris wheel, that was

And look look there, same apartment

VICKY: Right

They still don’t have curtains, the rocking chair, we said “who sits in a rocking chair in this day and age”

VICKY: That’s right, you’re right

“In this day and age”

And then the old lady came out and wound the clock on the mantle and sat in the chair

VICKY: Like a story book

There’s the clock

VICKY: I totally forgot about that

That was…

(yeah)

So…wanna take a trip to Massachusetts?

VICKY: /(I can’t believe it’s legal)

It won’t be a City Hall wedding — It’ll be like with flowers and rehearsal and not a wedding about property rights and the historical implications of marriage or the deconstruction of what it means Now or what this means for Us, nothing political or religious or in defense of anything

VICKY: Erica

Yeah?/

VICKY: Could we

Yeah

VICKY: Could we just

Could we

VICKY: Just go back to the dinner, the walk, the rocking chair, before you started deconstructing marriage

Right

this isn’t how I

VICKY: Start over?

Cuz the last time you asked me to marry you, you were grief-stricken

And it should be romantic, (or at least persuasive), cuz when you talked about that clock on the mantle you were so cute, but then

Okay so I think we should get married, right?

(long pause)

Then you say

VICKY: I

Well

Then you say

VICKY: That’s how you’re gonna ask it

Then you say

VICKY: Can you say it again

Again?

VICKY: Like you mean it

I do mean it

VICKY: I know but

Vicky

VICKY: /Yes

Is this a criticism

VICKY: No

So then

VICKY: /Yes

You’re criticizing me

VICKY: No

/Yes

Yes you are

VICKY: I’m not critizing/you

I’m asking you to marry me and you’re telling me how to do it

VICKY: I’m not

You don’t want to

VICKY: Of course I want / to marry you

Then why don’t you just say yes

VICKY: You’ve asked me to marry you —

This will be twice

VICKY: And neither time have you actually sounded like you actually mean it

I mean it

VICKY: Both times it’s like some random thought like maybe I’ll go to a movie, maybe I’ll go to the museum, maybe I’ll go get married

No

VICKY: It’s a big deal

This isn’t spontaneous

VICKY: Getting married for us is — should be a big deal

Being with you, that’s the big deal

VICKY: For me, it’s/ a big deal

It’s a big deal

Marry me

(beat)

VICKY: What about my parents?

I know

Is this your life or is it your parents’

VICKY: Getting married, weddings are for the parents

Getting married is for the relationship

VICKY: It’s for legal/status

You’re the one that wants

VICKY: I mean why do gay people even need

You’re the one that cares so much about marriage

VICKY: I do I do

Then fuck your / parents

VICKY: We have kids, it’s not liek my mom hasn’t/figured it out

Our kids deserve married parents

VICKY: I just don’t want to throw it in their face, my mom and dad,

Call them, call them right now and tell them I’m not your roommate that helps you raise your kids

They’re our kids

VICKY: Maybe when we get home (do you have money/for the sitter)

Use my cell phone

VICKY: (why do you carry that thing)

(Everyone has a cell/ nowadays except you)

VICKY: I’m not going to call them on a street corner, / it’s starting to drizzle

You’re not going to call them at all,/. are you

VICKY: I am

Are we getting married or not?

VICKY: Of/ course

Because I. Love. You.

VICKY: I know

No you don’t know, you know it’s been years, you know we’ve got kids, we’ve got date night, we barely have a moment to breathe but

VICKY: I love you too

(beat)

Victoria Diana Garcia

Will you marry me